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Pacific Timesheet Features

Everything Your Organization Needs

Pacific Timesheet provides a wide array of features to suit virtually any business requirement. Whether you need automated approvals, payroll integration, custom reports, balances and more, Pacific Timesheet can fit your need.

System Ease of Use and User Friendly Interface

Elegant Easy-to-Use: Allowing the User to Manage Their Interface
  • User acceptance of any new system is important to any timesheet system rollout. Pacific Timesheet's interfaces, both for the common user timesheet to the supervisor, reporters, or system administrators, is intuitive, elegant and user friendly.
  • User home pages provide dashboards with key information on the status of timesheets, paid time off requests, leave balances and other key information.
  • User's can control their own navigation preferences: establishing a home page tab, customizing their own reports, ordering items on timesheets, or accessing their favorite timesheet view, are all examples of our award winning user interfaces.
  • Supervisors and other managers can control the number of list items returned, advanced searching features, the order any system items, and can have access to custom reporting features, or even particular imports and exports.
  • Users can also control their data entry preferences in hours or HH:MM
Unlimited and Highly Configurable Timesheet Templates
  • Work or other timesheet items and data can be organized in any order using timesheet templates.
  • Allowing users to enter their bill rate, or edit the billable status of their work on the timesheet.
  • Allow time entry in any time format you wish, decimal or HH:MM
  • Private label Pacific Timesheet with your own company logo or system name.
Numerous Data Entry Options
  • Standard weekview interfaces allow project-oriented workers to quickly enter data on tasks in a summary or detailed form.
  • Daily view interfaces allow users with many different tasks from day to day.
  • Time features allow task-oriented workers to click a stop watch when they begin and end a task.
  • Punch in/Punch out interfaces allow hourly workers to clock in and out on their PC.
  • IVR and other time clock devices allow users to clock in and out on site or from remote locations. Caller ID and GPS data can be included with the date/time stamp data to authenticate a user's location at the time of a punch.
Timesheet Custom Fields
  • Create an unlimited number of timesheet custom fields that can track work and task related data for an unlimited number of timesheet templates.
  • You can make these fields required.
Display Timesheet Totals for Any Values
  • Create and display any number of totals on a timesheet for hours, overtime, double time, comp time, flex time, paid time off, or any pay code.
  • Display numeric totals for any timesheet custom fields.
DCAA Compliance
  • Audit trail of all system administration changes.
  • Tracks changes to timesheet data.
Comments and Timesheet Details
  • Users can make individual comments on any number of hours entries.
  • Users can make comments for the entire week or time period.
Policies and Rules Validation
  • Various time entry policies and rules can be enforced before timesheet submission.
  • Supports any overtime, comp time, flex time, banked time and other special rules, including California overtime rules.
  • Support paid time off and leave balance policies and rules, not allowing timesheet submission if user violates balance rules.
Holiday Schedule Support
  • Holiday schedules supported for various shift differentials and overtime rules.

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Automated E-mail Notifications and Reminders

User and Manager automated reminders enforce submission and approval schedules.
  • Easily configure automated notifications for scheduled delivery.
  • Reminder and late notifications automatically followup with users to enforce deadlines.
Customizable Notification Messages
  • All notification messages can be customized.
Login Messaging
  • Announcement messages and notices can be configured for the employee login page.

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Time Off Requests and Approvals

Time-off Balances Enforced
  • Users can see how much time-off is entitled and request time-off accordingly.
  • Approvers can approve time-off based on how much is entitled and how much has been requested.
Time-off Balance Tracking Audit Trail
  • Time-off balance changes (accruals and usage) can be tracked with comments and synchronized with payroll systems.
  • Unlimited numbers of balances can associated with an unlimited number of pay codes.
Balances Accruals and policies
  • Balance accruals can be updated automatically by pay period.
  • Users and managers can view all balances and accrual history real time.

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Implementation Tools for Fast Deployment

Implementation Checklist Tools
  • Depending upon the complexity of your configuration, Pacific Timesheet can be setup in a matter of hours or days, not weeks or months.
  • Our implementation tools provide detailed checklists of any and all steps to your setup and configuration
Setup Services
  • Our implementation specialists will guide you through the setup process so their is need for only minimal admin training. Our organizational types allow you to use previous setups as a starting template to complete your own.
  • Our consulting and technical services team is available to assist in custom configurations that might be required for more demanding requirements.
No Thin Client Installation - 100% Web Based
  • No thin client installation means your users are ready to go using a common browser, including Apple Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox.
  • Not thin client installation means no costs to update and rollout changed configurations or software updates
Online ASP Services Allow for Rapid Launch
  • Pacific Timesheet Online ASP Services allow your company to deploy a system without servers, network administration or any help from your own IT department
  • Online ASP Services allow you to amortize the cost of using Pacific Timesheet over time, turning a capital expenditure into a monthly cost

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Pay Code Support

Unlimited Number of Pay Codes
  • Configure an unlimited number of pay codes for overtime, double time, paid time off, leave or any other exception time attributes.
Pay Code Attributes
  • Type pay codes as work, paid time off or other categories to facilitate the application of special rules or policies
  • Pay Codes can have individual balances enabled to track paid time off or other balances for employees
  • Pay Codes can be associated with with no balances for tracking and reporting on work related pay codes such as regular, overtime, double time, or paid time off related pay codes such as jury duty, bereavement, etc.
Assigning Pay Codes to Groups or Employees
  • You can have different pay codes for different groups or divisions within your organization.
  • Assign different pay codes to groups or employees.
Unlimited Custom Fields for Pay Codes
  • You can create an unlimited number of pay code custom fields with up to 12 data types.

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Multiple Approvals and Backup Approvals Support

Multiple Approval Plans Easy to Setup
  • Assign multiple approvers and approval path in the employee profile.
  • Approval plans can also easily setup backup approvers for one or all approval levels assigned.
Group Approvers
  • Assign group approvers in group profiles.
  • You can configure approver groups whose members have the right to approve any timesheets or paid time off requests within another assigned group.

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Project and Task Tracking and Management

Manage and Track Multiple Level Projects
  • Configure multiple levels of projects, including client, project portfolio, projects, phases, or tasks.
  • Each work item has its own detailed profile to track budgets, estimated hours, or an unlimited number of other data.
  • Advanced search features allow you to sort and search for work items by name, ID, status, or description.
  • You can clone work items and all their properties when creating them.
Assign Projects to Groups or Employees
  • You can assign projects or any work item to project manager with various permissions.
  • You can assign a group of tasks, projects or phases to a group of project managers with various assigned permissions.
Independent Tasks and Activities
  • You can create and assign independent tasks or activities that can be accessed and managed by any resource in the organization. This is typically used for organizations with standard task management methodologies.
Track Actual Versus Estimate Hours and Costs
  • Track actual hours against estimated hours for projects.
  • Track and report on actual costs against budgets.
Revenue and Profit Analysis
  • Track billings revenue by project.
  • Track net profit by project.

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Client Approvals, Billings and Chargebacks

Client Profiles
  • Create detailed client profiles with contact and other important client data.
Client Approvals
  • Setup client approvers who can approve client project hours.
Billing Rates
  • Variable bill rates can be assigned by resource or project.
  • Bill rates can by applied by resources or project managers on the timesheet.

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Users and Groups

Create employee types for policies and reporting
  • Create an unlimited number of employee or resource types.
  • Apply differing policies and rules by employee or resource types.
Employee Profiles as Management Tool
  • Set "First Day" and "Last Day" to control employee access to timesheets.
  • Include employee headshot in profile for reporting and controls.
  • Assign reporting group, other group memberships, scheduled hours, policy or rules, locale, time zone, and other key characteristics of the employee.
Reporting Groups
  • Create an unlimited number of reporting groups to track special roles or resources in your organization: engineers, QA, etc.
Employee and Group Permissions
  • All system users and groups can be assigned various permissions to view, create, manage, or report on any system data.
  • System users can be restricted to access limited or all data in the system. Limited access is governed by their other assignments.
  • Standard permissions can be created as system roles or positions such as: Admin, Manager, Supervisor, Project Manager, Project Portfolio Manager, Client Manager, Employee, Resource, Contractor, Timekeeper, Payroll Manager, Billing Manager, and many others.

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Security

Strong Password Support
  • Standard enterprise strength security settings ensure that user account security is maintained.
  • Configurable idle session expiration
  • Maximum invalid login attempts before lockout
  • Maximum password age
  • Maximum password history
  • Minimum password length
  • Minimum lower case characters
  • Minimum upper case characters
  • Minimum numeric characters
  • Minimum special characters

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Custom Reporting

Web-based Reports in Any Format
  • With web-based access managers can access key system data real time, with no delays.
  • All reports can be generated in HTML, pdf, Excel, or .csv formats.
Report Templates
  • We make it easy for employees and managers by them starting report templates to customize.
  • With pull down menus, the ability to rename data fields, reporting column names, the ordering of data, and custom date ranges, custom reports are easy to create and simple to use.
Creating and Publishing Custom Reports
  • Modify a template or create a custom report from scratch.
  • Publish any report to designated employees and resources with different system permissions. For example, you can create custom supervisor reports and publish them so they appear in their list of personalized reports.
Report Permissions and Access
  • Employees, managers and other permission levels in the system can be restricted to viewing only certain reports.
  • Employees and managers can be restricted to see only their individual or group data.

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Web Services Integration, Importing and Exporting Data

Web Services
  • You can use various web services to synchronize or transfer data from and to you Pacific Timesheet system.
  • Standard web services integrations include employee, group assignment, or supervisor assignments with HR or Payroll systems, or project and task data with accounting or project/resource management systems.
Integration
  • Integration with ADP, Peoplesoft, Oracle and more than 250 other payroll and accounting systems.
  • We provide identical support for Online ASP Services integration and web services as our hosted software support.
  • Contact our professional services group about additional information on integrations.
Standard Imports and Exports
  • You can import or export: employees, groups, balances, projects/tasks, assignments, timesheet data, paid time off data, paid time off schedules, billing rates or pay rates.
Technical Support
  • We provide 24/7/365 support services.
  • Access our automated online trainings anywhere anytime.
  • Live admin trainings are available every week free of charge.
  • We publish updates four times per year.

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