Optimize Your Construction Time Tracking with Penta.

Eliminate manual and dual-entry of timecard data across your entire company with Penta’s fully integrated web and mobile applications. Our construction time tracking software ensures accurate and efficient time entry, reducing administrative overhead and payroll errors.

eTime

Simplify employee time tracking and management with Penta’s mobile and web-based eTime application.

TEP (Time Equipment Production)

Make your field reporting more efficient and accurate with Penta’s TEP application.

MFS (Mobile Field Service)

Collect real-time data from field technicians with Penta’s MFS application to streamline payroll.

Integrated Time Tracking for Construction

eTime – Self-Service Time Entry

Penta’s eTime web application offers an intuitive self-service time-tracking solution with a fully integrated approval process, ensuring accurate payroll and job costing. The eTime app offers several powerful capabilities to establish efficient time tracking and payroll processing:

  • Seamless integration of labor hours and payroll comments with job costing.
  • Variety of reporting dashboards to track unsubmitted, unapproved, approved, and distributed timecards.
  • Full transparency and confidence that all time has been collected for the period.
Time Equipment Production (TEP)

Penta’s Time Equipment Production (TEP) module allows your crews to accurately capture labor hours, equipment usage, productivity, and job site reimbursements directly from the field. The TEP module provides several advantages that help construction companies efficiently manage labor hours and productivity while improving payroll accuracy and getting job cost updated daily.

  • Accurate Cost Allocation: Optionally use the punch in/punch out system to track actual time worked by crew members. Crew leaders can quickly and accurately allocate clock hours to cost codes ensuring the costs always align with your estimates on projects.
  • Reduced Payroll Errors: Eliminate double entry and provide precise payroll processing using actual hours worked via the time clock system.
  • Improved Profit Margins: Daily job cost and cost projections means project managers can act on job cost variances, pivoting in real time to ensure projects stay on time, and under budget.
  • Real-Time Reporting: Simple productivity tracking with instant access to reports in the field and back office. Full transparency across the payroll solution to confirm all time is in for the day/week/reporting period eliminating any missing time.
Mobile Field Service

For field service technicians, Penta’s Mobile Field Service iPad app provides a robust solution to receive dispatched work order details, capture technician and equipment time, and transmit real-time status updates. The Mobile Field Service app helps construction companies improve operations and profitability with:

  • Faster Billing Cycles: Reduce the time from service completion to invoicing.
  • Improved Client Relationships: Enhance communication and transparency.
  • Cost Savings: Eliminate paperwork and redundant data entry.
  • Increased Efficiency: Automate processes and reduce inaccuracies.
  • Higher Profitability: Optimize resource allocation and labor tracking.

Key Features of the Mobile Field Service App:

  • Live technician work status updates.
  • Contracts and warranty visibility.
  • Labor, materials, parts, and equipment tracking.
  • Customer sign-off directly in the field.
  • Comprehensive service history access.
  • Barcoding and inventory management.
  • Preventative maintenance checklists.
  • User authentication and security.
  • Works with or without data connection, providing functionality even in areas with weak cell service.

What Our Customers are Saying

“The payroll system in Penta’s ERP has handled all the complexities we’ve thrown at it, no matter how challenging. Their knowledgeable and helpful customer support team is always quick to assist, making it easy to manage even the most intricate payroll demands.”

Jordan Feller, CAO
CDM Service Group

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Optimize your payroll processes with Penta’s powerful time tracking for construction solutions. Contact us today to learn more.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Construction time tracking software is a tool that helps construction companies accurately record, manage, and analyze labor hours and productivity in the field, reducing manual data entry and payroll errors.

Penta’s solutions eliminate manual entry errors by integrating time tracking with payroll and job costing, ensuring accurate cost allocation and compliance.

Yes, Penta’s Mobile Field Service app allows technicians to log work hours, equipment usage, and materials from the field using a mobile device, providing real-time updates to the back office.

Penta’s eTime application provides a self-service portal for employees to enter hours, track payroll comments, and go through an approval process seamlessly integrated with payroll and job costing.

Yes, Penta’s software is designed to support construction companies operating across multiple locations, providing consistent and accurate data collection company-wide.

Penta’s eTime app offers reporting dashboards to monitor the status of timecards, providing full visibility into unsubmitted, unapproved, approved, and distributed entries.

Yes, Penta’s construction time tracking software captures and transmits data in real time, ensuring quick adjustments and improved decision-making.

The TEP module helps construction companies by accurately capturing labor hours, reducing payroll errors, and providing real-time reporting to protect profit margins.