When using the Standard Time® timesheet you can choose to see the overtime hours worked. You can also choose the pay type, there are three options available.
Project Task Warnings
This feature can help stop employees from spending too much time on a task. This will motivate them to move along and get the job done!
Here’s how it works:
Employees get a popup when their tasks are about 75% complete. (You set the warning percentages.) This reminds them that they should finish up and move on to the next task. If they don’t, the task may close and no more time can be entered.
This has huge psychological effects on employees who sometimes like to camp out on tasks they are comfortable with. They know the task will close, so they hurry up and finish. You save money and finish projects sooner.
Timesheet and Time Log Pages
Ever wonder what the differences were between the timesheet and time log views? They are close relatives but have differences. (Scroll down for the video.)
The information is actually the same. Both are displaying time segments from the time tracking process. But they display them differently. That’s especially the only difference.
The timesheet displays hours in a Monday – Friday format. The Time Log displays time records in a top-down record format. But it’s the same data. Just formatted and displayed differently for different purposes.
Hope that helps!
Time Tracking with Quick Tasks
Quickly track time or billable hours. Using Standard Time® has never been easier! You can start and stop the timer with a click of the mouse.
Client Invoices
Using this technique, you can customize the client invoices you send to your customer.
The video below describes client invoice templates, which are really just RTF documents. Because you can open RTF docs in Word, you can put your own logo in, or rearrange the template to look any way you like.
Tags in the document are replaced with actual data when the invoice is run.
Declutter Your Timesheet With Favorites
If your company has many employees the timesheet can get a lot of projects on it. You can choose your favorites and only see those!
How To Integrate MS Project with Timesheet
Follow these steps to integrate Microsoft Project with Standard Time®. (scroll down for the video)
- Start by choosing File, Projects.
- Right-click on a project and choose Microsoft Project Integration Wizard
- Navigate to your MPP file
- Finish the Wizard
MS Project will open the MPP file and pull down your tasks into Standard Time®. You won’t see them in the timesheet right away. There is one step you must take first.
Click the Project Tasks tab to see the new tasks from the MPP file. At the far right, you will see a columns labeled Timesheet. Check the boxes for each task you wish to see in the timesheet. Any task without this checked will not show up in the timesheet.
Now that you have integrated the timesheet with MSP, you can send your ‘Actual’ hours back.
Choose View, Refresh Project Tasks. That will open a dialog that lets you send your timesheet hours to MSP.
Benefits of using Standard Time®
The three biggest benefits of using Standard Time® are keeping track of billable vs non-billable hours, keeping priorities in-line and keeping on budget.
Best and Easiest Timesheet
Of course there are a lot of timesheets on the market. But most are either borderline shareware, or those ‘million-dollar’ implementations that vex you and your budget for years. Finding a good timesheet in the middle is hard.
So what is the best and easiest timesheet on the market?
Click the video to find out!
Time Off Accruals
Human resource managers should take a look at this. Send this video link to them and tell them you liked it.
This system automatically accrues hours for PTO, vacation, sick, and other reasons. You just set the rules and let it alone. As weeks go by, the system is adding new hours to everyone’s bank of PTO time. Users can then request time off and have it approved.
Watch the video for more info.