TimeSheet Professional Features

TimeSheet Professional offers time and activity tracking for project-oriented workgroups of any size. You can enter data directly into the database from any of the three time entry views.

Track a virtually unlimited number of employees, clients, projects, activities, tasks, and notes.
Track time with the stopwatch timer as you perform tasks.
Track each project's details with notes.
Track tasks with start and stop dates.
Track tasks with Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) codes.
Track expenses by department and cost center with expense codes.
Ability to display entries in multiple views including Time Sheet (spread sheet), day (daily log) and Time Card views.
Display tasks with Gantt bars in the Time Sheet Views.
Summarize employee or component information with the Roll-up feature in the Time Sheet View.

Time-Saving Workflow Approval Process

Customizable to include multiple approval steps as the pertain to a company's workflow structure.
Flexible workflow approval process is user-defined
Automatic notification of managers and employees at specified in the approval process
Email notification via SMTP server for approval process steps, payroll exceptions and un-submitted time sheets can be managed through Microsoft Outlook.

Fully customisable to meet complex business requirements

TimeSheet Professional is fully customisable to suit your organisation's needs and offers secure administration of the setup and maintenance of the database.

Scaleable for virtually unlimited employee capacity
Maintain names, groups, dependency rules, security profiles, and pay rules in the Administration View.
Customise task and component terminology to suit your organisation's structure.
Define custom security profiles for entering time and creating tasks to make data entry easier, less error-prone, and secure.
Limit a task's availability and lock entries outside of a date range with task dates and security profiles.
Organise employees and task components into groups to provide increased security.
Define up to 10 custom fields to track data for each component level.

Client/Server features

TimeSheet Professional's Client/server database connectivity allows you to maintain your TimeSheet Professional database using familiar client/server tools.

Supports Oracle, Informix, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, InterBase, and Microsoft ODBC for Oracle.
Scalable to grow with your organisation.
Access TimeSheet Professional's database with any ODBC-compliant application.
Create custom application links using the optional Application Programming Interface (API).
Database system benchmarking allows administrators to get standardised speed ratings to compare with other systems and analyse changes.

TimeSheet browser module

The Java-based browser module provides increased interactivity allowing you to access and manage your database through the Internet or an Intranet using a web browser.

Eliminates the need to install additional applications on all workstations.
Accesses the database from anywhere in the world.
Familiar interface allows access to the three time entry views and the expense entry view.
Allows access to multiple databases to view and enter time, expenses, and notes.
Remove and move time entries using familiar cut/copy/paste techniques.
Print all time entry views to a printer directly from the browser.
Use familiar double-click to open dialogs according to user preferences.
Select list items using a double click.
Incremental search on list boxes.
A separate notes dialog can be opened directly, without opening the associated time entry dialog.
Load, calculate, export and print summary and detail reports, as well as modify their select views.
Maintain employee and component lists from within the browser.
Maintain custom field list selection values from within the browser.
Use relative dates from within the browser.
Option to remove list of employee names from login page for increased security.
Client and server system benchmarking.
Browser module performance monitor.
Apple Macintosh compatible with Internet Explorer v4.5.
Perfect for consultants, on-site technicians, and others who work away from the main office.

Summary reports

You can easily create Summary Reports using the Summary Reports wizard or you can create customisable, hierarchical reports in a spreadsheet format using relational operators and mathematical formulas.

Consolidate activities from multiple projects or employees.
Compare actual amounts versus budgeted amounts on a month-to-month and year-to-year basis.
Show a project's percentage of completion.
Estimate a project's completion costs.
New Summary Report Calculation Method allows for multiple-function columns on a per entry basis.
Can be saved in .csv format for use with Microsoft Excel.

Detail reports

TimeSheet Professional includes pre-defined reports and invoices in five categories: Employees, Components, Time and Expense Entries, Payroll and Custom.

Export reports and invoices to a variety of formats including Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, HTML, WordPerfect, dBase, and others.
Create your own detail reports and invoices using the optional Crystal Reports report-writing program and make them available in TimeSheet Professional.
Include any time entry or expense entry field on reports including notes and expense codes when creating reports and invoices with Crystal Reports.
View sample report.

Data exchange

TimeSheet Professional can exchange data with popular payroll, project management, and time and billing packages.

Optionally links with Microsoft Project 2000 and 98 (SR1) enabling you to import tasks and resources and then export time entries back to Microsoft Project to keep your project plan up-to-date.
Links with Timeslips allowing you to enter time, expenses, and notes in TimeSheet Professional and then export these events to Timeslips for direct billing.
Interface with other popular payroll accounting and billing solutions such as Abra Payroll, MAS 500, MAS 90, Oracle, SAP, Peachtree and Quickbooks
Links with your payroll package through an ASCII delimited payroll link, eliminating costly and error-prone retyping of payroll data.
Automates data exchange with job scheduling between the main TimeSheet Professional installation, Remote sites, and any linked programs.
Custom data exchange links can modify specific task and component fields rather than overwriting an entire record.
Custom data exchange links can also merge new groups into the existing list of groups rather than overwriting all the groups a component is already in.

Payroll

TimeSheet Professional can calculate overtime, sick leave, vacation, and holiday time for precise and automatic payroll and job costing information.

Create an unlimited number of user-definable pay rules.
Automatically send e-mail notification to employees with incomplete time sheets
comprehensive payroll reports identify missing time and payroll exceptions.

Mobile Solutions for Those on the Move

TimeSheet Remote allows you to enter data when you are away from a networked computer.

Access time sheets via the Web, remote and palm OS
Synchronise data with notebook PC's or other computers not connected to the network and the main TimeSheet Professional installation.
Use MAPI-compliant e-mail systems to transfer data between Remote stations and the main TimeSheet Professional installation.

Administration

Log users out of the database for database management tasks.
Quickly update status to approve individual or rolled-up time sheets.
Mass update rates and statuses for time entries, tasks and expenses.
Prevent users from accidentally upgrading a database. When prompted to upgrade, the installation password is required.
Prevent users from seeing potentially sensitive information such as the database connection information in the About dialog box.

Audit trail

Use the audit trail to provide a complete history of all time and expense entries added, deleted, and edited.

TIMESHEET FOR THE PALM

SUCCESS STORIES:

"I didn't want to work with someone else's view of the universe. I liked the flexibility of TimeSheet Professional, which has a very open and extendible interface. Other systems were too proprietary or required a complex export process."
Mark Scansen
Matsushita Avionics Systems Corporation

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