Standard Time® lets you see revenue estimates for your projects. Project revenue estimates are like Win/Loss charts. Another analogy is the traditional sales funnel. You win some projects, you lose others. And when predicting, you set a percentage of likely win. This chart shows the possible outcome over the next 12 months.
Project Management
Manage the projects and tasks that show up in the timesheet. Employees only see tasks that are assigned to them. That makes collecting time for tasks easier. Employees aren’t so barraged with projects and tasks that they can’t find the ones they are working on.
Pay Periods in Timesheet
See the time entered on a project by the week or pay period. This allows employees to inspect time before submitting for approval. You can see a whole week, or a whole payperiod
Creating a New Project
Use these steps to create a new project, and then assign it to users. The project can contain tasks. It can be assigned by a client. And the project, tasks, and client will show up in the timesheet.
Graphical Timesheet
Did you know there is a graphical timesheet in Standard Time®? There is! (In the Windows Edition, that is.) Just click the little gray icon at the top of the timesheet and choose ‘Daily Hours’. This mode displays time graphically on a daily schedule. Watch the video below to learn more.
The graphical mode lets you see each time entry as a colored block on the screen. You can easily spot overlapping time entries and correct them.
Filtering the Timesheet
Use filtering in the Standard Time® timesheet to show employee hours, or a single project, or client. The filtering tree at the left side of the timesheet can be used to find certain information or to edit an employee timesheet.
Changing User Rights
Need to set the rights for each user of your timesheet? Make some users admins? And other users with limited rights, and limited timesheet access? Here’s how.
Each timesheet user has rights that dictate what they can see and do. Some users may only need to see the timesheet itself — no tasks, no expenses, no PTO, no time off, no invoicing. Others may see all those things, or some. You decide each user experience with these rights.
Approving Timesheets
In a single view; review and approve multiple timesheets.
Submitting and approving timesheets is optional. But it’s still a valuable feature, and necessary for some organizations where supervisors, managers, and executives need to approve employee timesheets.
Customizing Invoice Templates
Rich Text Format (RTF) can be used in Standard Time® invoice templates. This video will show you how to customize invoices for client billing.
You need a flexible client billing invoice. A Rich Text document that can be opened in MS Word does it! It seems old-school, but it really works well. Here’s why: you can use MS Word to put anything anywhere. Then Standard Time fills in the invoice and opens it in Word. You can then use Word to save as PDF and send it to your client.
Timesheet Approvals
Standard Time® makes approving timesheets submitted by employees easy! This will make supervisors, managers, engineers, and consultants happy!
First off, submitting timesheets is totally optional… but here’s how it works: Employees click the ‘Submit for Approval’ button at the bottom of their timesheet. They only do this once for the week (or pay period). A message is sent to their manager. The manager sees a list of employees who have submitted their timesheets. He approves, and a message is sent to his manager. And that higher-manager approves. Timesheet approvals are really that simple.
But again, timesheet approvals are optional in the app. You don’t need to use them unless your company policies demand it. They can be a really nice way to check up on the status of projects and tasks. In other words, this aspect of the timesheet becomes a communication tool.
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