Please forgive the novel like message below. I'm sometimes a little wordy.
I am looking for some time tracking program that can be used to track time on multiple jobs. I have looked high and low, but can't find one that will work for me. I was hoping that someone here may know of one.
We work "mean and lean" and very fast paced around here. Therefore I am constantly jumping from one job to another, to another, to yet another, and back and forth between them till jobs are done and more are added. I may touch on 10-20 or more totally different quoted jobs in one day. My boss wants me to track my time on each job for obvious reasons. Currently, I estimate how much time was spent on each job every day. As fast paced as we work, this is not even close to accurate. I would like to find a program that would run separate from SW that could help me out.
The way I foresee that it should work, that would be ideal for me, would be one that:
- Takes place of the main time clock I punch when I clock in and out of work every day. Basically, when I clock in on the software, it is also starting the tracking process for whatever job I select to start on (see #2).
- Have the ability let me enter our job numbers in a list-like format, with a "in/out" button beside each job. When I come in in the mornings, I simply click "in" on whatever job I start on. This does 2 things. It clocks me in for the day and starts tracking time for that job. Having the ability to link to our main job list in an Excel or Access format would be a bonus, but not necessary. I don't mind manually entering our job numbers in.
- These buttons should act kind-of like a chess clock in that when I click "in" on one job, it automatically clocks me "out" of the previous job I was working on, while always keeping a running total on each job. That way I can quickly jump from job to job with little intervention without even a second being un-accounted for.
- To clock "out" of work for the day, I would simply click "out" for whatever job I am working on at the time.
- Have the ability to edit the times for missed punches.
- Have the ability to print an itemized daily totals list of any day at any given time and an itemized weekly total for any given date range. The weekly total would also show my total work hours for the week from which payroll would be drawn from.
I don't truly expect to find a program that works exactly like I want it to unless I contract someone for code. That is not what I am after here. But I would like to find one that at least resembles this that already exists and is inexpensive. The ones I have looked at a too complicated and/or time consuming to setup and use. I am just looking for something simple here. Heck, shareware would be fine even.
Anyone seen anything like this?