Tracking Employee Time

[blueheronbags]

Hello All,

First time poster and new to Sugar. A fellow co-worker of mine just stopped by as he overheard the conversation I was having about my business and having employees enter time into an Excel spreadsheet. Obviously this is pretty sad given the number of tools out there to track employee time. He suggested I check out SugarCRM and well here I am! I have searched around and see that Sugar can do a ton of things (all of which we will/do need so that is fantastic), but I was wondering if Sugar can provide a web interface for employees of my company to go in and enter their time (so we can get rid of that horrible Excel method)? If not, does anyone have a strong opinion about another php/mysql-based application that will fit my needs? Thanks again for your time and I am really hoping that Sugar is my solution...looks like a FANTASTIC product.

Cheers,
Travis

[Ram Kumar]

Hi Travis:

SugarCRM Open Source does not provide any module for Time Sheet Management. However there is an extension available on SugarExhcnage called SugarTime. It does provide the feature you are looking for.

However if your only need at this moment is Employee Management and Time Sheet Application, you can look at another Open Source Application called Achievo at www.achievo.org . This is also LAMP based like SugarCRM (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP). It does have good functionality on employee management like holiday / leave management, Time Sheet and Project Mangement.

SugarCRM is basically aimed for Sales Force Automation and Marketing Management. But this also provides other features but they are all secondary.
Whereas Achievo is aimed at Project Management, Employee Management etc. So you should be able to find it as a better product for your requiremnet.

Ram Kumar

Rhea Knowledge Technologies (P) Ltd
www.rheakt.com

[blueheronbags]

Ram,

Yes, and many thanks! It looks like that might be the way to go, but WOW is SugarCRM just fantastic. I have been poking around the last few days and it is just loaded with some fabulous features...thank you very much!

Cheers,

Travis

[Deuce]

Or, try SugarTime: http://www.sugarforge.org/projects/sugartime/

[blueheronbags]

Or, try SugarTime: http://www.sugarforge.org/projects/sugartime/

Deuce, yes, I just installed and played around with SugarTime...WOW!!! Just what we are looking for and thank you to all who replied...this is a very interesting product with a ton of possibility!!!

Cheers,
Travis

[tfitzgerald]

Yes this may fit my company's needs as well with slight modfication. We track time by case so I have to add a one-to-many relationship btw the cases module and the time tracking module...hopefully i can figure it out...if I do i will post my results and the modifications i made

[TimeDoctor]

There are lots of software for tracking employee time. However, some are flawed.
Here's an article about it:
Reasons why most time tracking software is flawed!

[kennvc]

Best web-based time tracking software, IMO: Replicon. We use their Web TimeSheet Project & Billing, Time & Attendance, and Expense modules. They work together so you think they're all one unit. People can enter their work hours, managers can track project team members, do project costing and get data for client billing, and everyone's expenses are easy to submit and approve. Great user interface and support. Web-based all the way. Very good product.

[leeyn]

Just what we are looking for and thank you to all who replied...this is a very interesting product with a ton of possibility!!!..

[lerrygibson]

Hi

Three Reasons to Track Time

There are three basic reasons to track employee time.

* Time and attendance: For payroll purposes
* Billing: When an employee’s time is directly billed to a customer
* Costing: When an employee’s time is directly related to the cost of a product

These three reason are very necessary when creating time tracking tool or a software and other then this, In IT sector how it will be created and what are such things that are needed to look.