Set Minimum Travel Time

Set Minimum Travel Time

This feature will allow the company to set the portion of time spend traveling between jobs that is considered "unpaid time."  This can be useful in case limits for driving time are enforced within the company.  Example: if the first 30 minutes of driving are not paid, you can use this feature.

The next screen allows you to set the minimum unpaid driving time:

To finish click the "Set Minimum Travel Time" button.

It is very important to have a task called "Travel" for all of the employees whom this feature applies.  This task must be used when traveling or the "Minimum Travel Time" will not be recognized.  The name must be "Travel" with no spaces or other words for this feature to work correctly.

When an employee clocks into the task bar - there will be a task/job called "Travel" for the employee to clock into:

If you attach an address in the sub-task and this address is selected it will open the "turn-by-turn- direction" functionality. Or you may skip the sub-task and the screen will revert to the log-in screen:

ADMINISTRATORS:  When this feature is activated, the configured "Minimum Travel Time" determines how long a field worker must be traveling before any "Travel" time" is counted on payroll.  Hence any "Travel" time less than the configured "Minimum Travel Time" will be deducted from the total hours worked. You will see this effect on reports that give you the total hours per day worked (e.g. like the Timecard Detail Report).

Other reports that give you details of each task done, will still show full details on the "Travel" task so you can see how much actual traveling was done by each field worker (e.g. like the Timecard Task Detail Report).

Runtime Report

Runtime Report

Whenever employees enable or disable the GPS tracking on the phone settings, it will generate an entry in the GPS Runtime Report:

 

This report is incredibly useful because there can be times where for some reason the  GPS tracking is not ideal on one of the employees, or there are empty spots in-between the breadcrumb train.  You can generate this report and confirm if the GPS was enabled or disabled at that point during the day

GPS-Google Traffic Timecard Map

GPS -Google Traffic on Timecard Map

First log into the Web Portal the first thing you see is "Home Lists" screen (where the map is located.)  If the map is not showing, click on the "Show Map" tab to the left and you will see something like this:

Next, click on "Filters" on the top right of the map and it will open a drop-down menu with different options to give you control of what you can see displayed.

 Finally, tick the "Traffic" checkbox and all the streets show colored lines according to the traffic statistics provided by Google: