@nathantrauscht it might be beneficial to set up a meeting with Product Management (me) for Manufacturing to understand why the current offering does not work for you. We are making some enhancements to Clock In/Clock Out with 22 R2 - but we are always looking to improve. 

If you are interested, send me an email. (or private message me and we can set up a call)

I would be interested in what you came up with. We ended up creating our own time solution that then is a batch labor import the following day.  Not perfect but like you we just cant have employees on the floor constantly logging in and out.

@cmoreland sorry a little late on my response - but we did create our own solution without needing major customizations other than reports and an inquiry screen for managers/supervisors.

Requirements:

• PC Workstation with Monitor Display
  • We set it up as simple user with access only to a browser
  • Gave PW access to production supervisors to ensure the workstation is always available for shop employees to scan their badge and production tickets
• Scanner
  • We are using a simple USB tethered symbol scanner
• User Role for Clock Entry only
  • Created a user and user role with access only to the Clock Entry screen
• Clock Entry Screen
  • Employees can scan their badge barcode
    • We used a brother printer to print the employee barcodes and stuck them to employee badges we are using for payroll (Paychex) not connected to Acumatica.
    • You’ll need the latest brother driver software to print barcodes
    • Simply copy past the employee ID and it will create a barcode
  • We modified the screen slightly by removing the “Current User” button for two reasons:
    • It will never be used - shop employees don’t need to be inconvenienced with need to remember a username and password. That’s why we made a “Clock Entry” user and role
    • If you remove this button, each scan will go the appropriate field for the next scan. With the button there, it would require them to use a mouse to select the next field, minor inconvenience
  • The user must click “Clock In” and “Clock Out” with a mouse
• Production Ticket
  • We made a custom production ticket that only prints barcodes, no materials because our warehouse picks the materials. We found the materials list to be distracting for our shop employees.
  • We modified it to print the following barcodes:
    • Order Type
    • Production Number
    • Operations

Note: We also created a custom GI for Manager to see who is currently clocked in and on what production order, what operation, date, start time, etc.

 

I am happy to share the screen customization, custom production ticket rpx file and custom GI. But, it’s a good idea to consult your VAR if you don’t have someone internal who knows how to properly implement.

 

I hope you find this helpful until Acumatica can address and make labor collection more user friendly out of the box. It took a lot of thinking and some customization to make this work around efficient. But, we now have (4) clock entry work stations and they are working great.