BuyerZone users' time and attendance system requirements

We ask users of our quote request service to describe their time and attendance system purchasing requirements in detail so the vendors we match them to can provide customized information in response. Now we're sharing these buyer requirements with you.

We hope these user comments help you get a sense of what types of time and attendance systems other users are choosing and what considerations are important to the average buyer. Take a look and you'll probably see some responses that are relevant to your business.

BuyerZone user comments: time and attendance system purchasing requirements

"Training of supervisors and employees necessary. will use voice over IP system. Training of payroll personnel."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Non-Profit, Saint Paul, MN

"One person will need to manually to input most of the hours"
-- Accounting/Finance, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Grand Rapids, MI

"Needs to be able to update job status within our "Visual" ERP software and export to our payroll service."
-- Facilities/Operations, Manufacturing, Highland, MI

"Need to be able track eligible time, accrued time, time used and time left."
-- Human Resources, Other Business Services, Cleveland, OH

"We just need an old fashioned time clock using cards where the clock punches the employee in and out."
-- Buyer, Other Business Services, Howell, MI

"It is for construction with different jobsites and different job desriptions daily, so a dept, job desc, time in and out daily. it will be different daily, so one that can be handwritten in by a foreman."
-- Office Manager, Construction/General Contracting, Riverbank, CA

"We want to upgrade our manual payroll system to an automated software, and want to start using timeclocks for our hourly employees to make the software process even quicker. We have hourly employees at 12 different locations in three states (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois). We are very interested in either a PC-based system or a "hand print" required system."
-- Human Resources, Financial Services, Akron, OH

"We need a time clock to put into our company trucks. Do you offer a portable time clock?"
-- Office Manager, Construction/General Contracting, Winston Salem, NC

"I need it password protect to second party they to view but not alter data. They to have password to view data.More than one person will be inputing date from this site."
-- Buyer, Education, Marietta, GA

"Fidelity is our payroll vendor. Have hourly and salaried employees with 3 start times. would like T&A automatically calcualted, approval by supervisor and uploaded into payroll. Track PTO, history of lateness and abscenes. ability for supervisors to run reports. Very serious in replacing current old time card swipe method and manual cal."
-- Human Resources, Health Care, Florham Park, NJ

"System needs to be simple and withstand manufacturing environment. We would like to stamp directly onto our paper production orders."
-- Buyer, Manufacturing, Oak Creek, WI

"I need a simple time clock that uses a punch card. Nothing fancy."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Construction/General Contracting, Trinidad, CO

"Management often not on site to supervise to need fool proof system so employee time is accurate. A system that allows clocking in off site for some employees might be desireable."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Legal, Chicago, IL

"We will require training, using a VOIP, and definitely a contract. There are other particulars that I am not sure of at this point."
-- Human Resources, Health Care, Indianapolis, IN

"I need a reliable timeclock that can operate by batteries so in case the power goes out it will keep the same time. I need a timeclock where the information is not lost if a power failure occurs."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Wholesale, Irvington, NJ

"Should be able to export time in to quick books for payroll processing."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Telecom/Utilities, Houston, TX

"I would like a gps time card that would give me the time and location of the employee when they start and stop work, job name and travel time."
-- Human Resources, Construction/General Contracting, Lindenhurst, NY

"Trying to track contractors on our site, not actual employees. We will need to have new cards regularly so would hope not to have to generate any sort of photo id."
-- MIS/IT, Manufacturing, Toledo, OR

"1)I work in a law enforcement agency and we need to be able to track time on a 28 day day cycle. From Sunday to Sunday 4 weeks later.2)Need to show employee's days off and if they do work on a day off, it should be in BOLD."
-- Accounting/Finance, Other Business Services, Lawton, OK

"We just need timeclocks for the employees to sign in and generate a weekly report.Nothing else."
-- Accounting/Finance, Construction/General Contracting, Santa Barbara, CA

"We need a bell ringer system to notify employees of when breaks, lunches, etc. begin and end. We already have a punch clock system. We may desifre to integrate the two."
-- Facilities/Operations, Non-Profit, Bay City, MI

"This is an alternative educational program and we are trying to prepare the students for the work force. We also want them to learn punctuality and how important regular attendance is. Having a report generated would be a positive. Educational pricing or donations would be GREAT as we have limited funds."
-- Educator, Education, Warrensburg, MO

"We would like to track productivity of our piece rate employees."
-- General Manager, Other Business Services, Mckees Rocks, PA

"I am looking for a very easy system where 5 - 150 employees may swipe a card and the device will make reports (either a paper report, or an electronic spreadsheet report) of their hours worked for the week. This will be used at one site, but in the future may extend to 2 buildings on the same site."
-- R&D, Agriculture, Thomasboro, IL

"I need something for keepimg time with capabilities to accumulate annual and sick time given each payperiod."
-- Accounting/Finance, Government, Birmingham, AL

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