How did people survive without a washing machine, dishwasher, or vacuum cleaner? We all love something that makes our lives easier and saves us time, don't we?
Read on to find out how time-tracking software is right up there with the dishwasher and vacuum cleaner when it comes to managing your hotel. It may even be better than the Roomba! You be the judge.
Like the phones with the long cords, these time clocks are now in the kids' history books. Say g'bye.
Time tracking software originated to meet the needs of businesses that billed by the hour. The premise was to track time spent on various tasks and then to bill proportionately. Accountants and lawyers benefitted in a great way, and as with all software, the evolution has steadily increased.
More recently, those in the hotel and hospitality sector are finding that time tracking software makes event planning and management downright easy. And for the employee who “forgets to punch in”—or out—no worries. That employee can use his or her phone or computer for easy data entry. No more cards, punches, or time-clocks that need repair.
The programs are incredibly user-friendly, and the vote is in: Employees, management, and payroll departments are all thrilled to be spending less time on tracking hours and managing the data of payroll. That means all parties involved can concentrate more on what matters most: growing the hotel and keeping the guests coming back for more.
Hotel group coordinators are especially pleased because all information regarding employee and group status is available in real time. As a result, hotel and event planners can also follow, track, and merge both billing and costs. The outcomes are fantastic: The software drastically reduces status-update calls while increasing productivity, clarity, efficiencies, and success.
See the benefit?
It's all about data entry being easier so that exporting is simply seamless.
Easy. It's as simple as that. So which software is best?
TSheets
These guys are frontrunners. Known for their webinar trainings, excellent customer service, technical support, and intuitive applications, TSheets comes out on top.
No longer do employees have to punch the time clock; workers are working from home, on the road, and on site. To adjust to these changing work locations, employees can check in and out via the cloud. They can log their live-time hours and locations via cell phone, smartphone apps, dial in, texting, or from a laptop or tablet. On-the-go has never been easier to track or record. TSheets even has easy GPS tracking and admin interface.
Kronos
It's a pretty good vote of confidence when a company can tout that they are in "thousands of companies, have millions of users," and that more than half of the Fortune 1000 organizations use their time-tracking system.
Kronos is appreciated by its users for excellent usability and customer support, as well as for its superior intuitive interfacing. The bottom line is that employees who are held to higher standards of accountability with be stronger producers and better workers. With this in mind, Kronos's more salient features include tracking history of employee attendance and having excellent functionality of their time clocks.
Harvest
This is another great choice that wins accolades for ease and functionality. There's no need to be repetitive here; this one has the same great functionality and other features as the others, but what's truly notable about Harvest is the ease in which your team can be up and running. User-Friendly-Extraordinaire should be Harvest's nickname.
It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of some of the other time trackers — but sometimes that’s a good thing, isn't it?
Time Is Money
No aggression here; managing payroll is much, much easier with no time clocks to punch.
It's great to start with the simpler facets of the software that will empower easier payroll management, but once you see how much time is saved in that facet of your hotel, you're likely to start using the many other offerings from this efficient software as well.
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About the Author:
Valerie J. Wilson is an avid traveler and loves to research various places in which to write, read, explore, snorkel, and study the architecture of European cities. She currently teaches at Syracuse University and has enjoyed the profession for 25 years. Valerie is a freelance writer for many companies, organizations and individuals.
Photo credits: TSheets
