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Stopping the employee camp-out syndrome. This video show you how! This is an important way Standard Time can keep you on budget and your project on task.

Here’s the issue: sometimes employees camp out on tasks they feel comfortable with.  They may be scared of upcoming tasks they don’t know the details of.  Or they may not know how to perform those upcoming tasks.  They may not know that your project must move forward to make a profit.  After all, few employees truly understand profit and loss.  So stay where it’s comfortable — right there on the comfy tasks.

This Standard Time feature give you a way to move employees through project tasks quickly.  How?  Employees get a popup when their task is nearly complete.  They get an error when it’s fully complete.  Little messages like this are usually enough to ensure that tasks are completed quickly, and employees move onto new tasks right away.

Want something else just as cool?  There are project task rollups in Standard Time.  That means you can see at-a-glance how many hours have been charged to each task.  And those values roll up to the project level, so you see that too.  Getting project status is easy.

The Quick Task Window makes keeping track of your time easy! All you have to do is click to start a task, and then click to stop.  This starts and stops the timer. The time between clicks is automatically put into the timesheet. This is then sent to your manager automatically. This keeps your projects on task and keeps you on budget!

Any time you can collect employee hours close to the actual job, you will be ahead.  The closer the better.  That eliminates human error and gives you exact times.  Of course, this feature is optional.  You’ll have to decide if using the timer fits your corporate culture.  In other words, will it spark an uprising?  Will employees hate it?  Sure, that can happen.  But a timesheet timer is sometimes a welcomed convenience.  Give it a try and see how it works for you!

You’re going to like Timesheet Favorites! You can select your favorite projects, or just the ones you are working on now.  Only those will show up in the timesheet. If your company has 499 projects, you don’t have to see all those in your Timesheet.  That’s a lot to scroll through.  Just pick your favorites from the Favorites Menu and you’re good to go!

Project rollups in Standard Time are a welcomed feature for project managers. The Duration and Actual values show at the project level, just like MS Project. When time is added to the timesheet, values roll up and managers can see employee hours at a glance!

Standard Time will track PTO and other time off accruals.  E.g. vacation, sick, personal, etc. An employee can request hours that have been accrued in Standard Time. Email notifications are sent to managers and an email comes back when approval occurs. Its that easy!

Standard Time® helps you win by increasing your sales! It can keep track of project proposals and task lists for your clients. Your employees can download an app for their Android or iOS phones.

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This project revenue chart is like a sales funnel.  You can set the percentage of possible win, and the chart will forecast how much revenue you are likely to get from all the deals.  So let’s say you set the percentage to 50%.  the chart will show half the expected revenue.  If you set the win percentage to 100%, it will show the full amount.  The fact is, you will either win the proposal or not.  There is no such thing as winning 50% of a proposal.  But the chart is trying to forecast the probably income from all the project proposals combined.  You probably won’t win all of them, so the revenue shown is your probable results.

Standard Time does a lot more than project project revenue.  It’s got a full task list for each employee.  There is time and expense tracking.  And PTO time off accruals.  You can run your whole consulting or engineering organization from it.  Not bad for a timesheet app!

This video will show you how Standard Time uses rates for client invoicing. Different rates for different employees. Once Standard Time is set up you won’t need to fuss with it.   Just set each project rate for each employee and you’re done.

You have several models to choose from:

1. User rates (Default.  Each user has their own rates for each project)
2. Role rates (each role a person plays on a project has it’s own rates)
3. Category rates (each kind of work has it’s own rate)
4. Project rates (each project has it’s rate, regardless of user or kind of work.  Least flexible)
5. Option Year rates (for government contracting)

Check stdtime.com for more details.

Here’s a graph of employee availability in Standard Time®.  It shows when employees are available for work.  This is a lot like a resource allocation graph, but inverted.  The bars show when employees are available, unlike a resource allocation chart where the bars show hours the employee has work assigned.

You’ll need this if you are a consulting, engineering, or manufacturing organization.  It’s important to see when employees have projects assigned.  Standard Time provides that.

This video shows how the Standard Time timesheet displays project tasks.  Each timesheet is different for each employee.  That makes things pretty handy!