Clocking: general, workshop and project time

Turbo clocks three different kinds of time, and keeps them apart so job costing stays honest.

The three kinds

Under Apps → Turbo Inventory Mobile App → Clocking Options, Clocking onto offers:

• General Clocking — attendance. On site, off site.
• Work Shop Clocking — time against a repair card
• Project Clocking — time against a project

The same person can clock general attendance in the morning and workshop time on a specific job an hour later, and the job carries the hours that were actually spent on it.

Supervisor clocking

Allow Supervisors to clock time for anyone who has a supervisor assigned against them lets a foreman clock the crew rather than eight people each doing it themselves.

Other clocking settings

Stopping forgotten clock-ons

Two settings in Work Shop settings, and one in Projects:

• Automatically clock everyone off at this hour (Lunch)
• Automatically clock everyone off after this hour (Evening)

Both take a time in 24-hour format; leave at 0 to disable. Without these, one person forgetting to clock off on Friday might put sixty hours on a job.

Travel time

Do not allow clocking of Travel Time — untick to let technicians clock travel separately from time on the job, so you can see what travel is really costing.

Manual entry

Allow manual TimeSheets in Work Shop settings permits hours to be entered by hand where clocking wasn't used.

Seeing the time

• Refresh Currently Clock On Report every X seconds keeps a live view of who's clocked on
• Currently Clocked On reports exist for Work Shop, Hire Contracts and Projects
• Employee Hours reports exist in System, Work Shop, Hire Contracts and Projects groups
• On a project, View clocked time shows the hours booked to that job