Great Time Sheet Plugin!

I was looking for a time sheet plugin, and this one is excellent for what my team needs!

Pros of Dynamic Time:

• Define your time/pay period, such as biweekly, monthly, etc. My team uses the monthly option.
• Users can edit their own time sheets. This is perfect for teams that trust their workers to correctly edit their hours, such as trusted contractors.
• Users submit their time sheets for approval.
• Most importantly, users can only edit their own hours, not other users’ hours.
• Workers and supervisors can print out time sheets.

My Reasons to Choose Dynamic Time instead of All-In-One Time Clock:
Workers only being able to edit their own hours seems like it should be obvious, but I encountered an issue when I previously tried the All-In-One Time Clock Lite plugin. The issue was that my team’s workers all have the capability of editing posts, so that we use our WordPress posts as a company wiki. (This was accomplished using the Members plugin to create a Wiki Author role that can edit posts but not pages). So, the issue with All-In-One Time Clock Lite was that it gives access to editing user shifts to any user who can edit posts, which resulted in our users being able to edit each other’s shifts. This was a deal breaker for my company being able to use the All-In-One Time Clock plugin.

I was pleased that Dynamic Time offers such excellent features to be able to see the hours throughout the pay period very clearly for both the worker and the supervisor. This is much better for our company.

Cons:

• At the time of this writing, the plugin does not appear to have been tested with the latest version of WordPress. I hope the developer will fix this in the near future.
• User interface/user experience feels a bit clunky. It only takes maybe 5-15 minutes to get used to the interface, but that can seem like a long time for potential customers examining the plugin. (I recommend the developer check out the TeamTime app for Basecamp for ideas of how to improve user interface/user experience.) I think the 1-star “poor punch in punch out for employee” review was due to the UI/UX turning a customer away; also, though Dynamic Time now offers a punch-in/punch-out only feature, it does not look as nice as competitor punch-in/punch-out time clocks; this can turn customers away from the greater functionality of Dynamic Time.
• Style. Similar to user experience, I recommend some improvements to the style of the plugin’s time sheets so that they look more appealing. (I used the Code Snippets plugin to add CSS that removes the dropdown option for PTO, since my small hobby business doesn’t use paid time off, and the dropdown containing PTO just occupies space and makes the time sheet look more clunky without offering any useful feature for our company at this time. Fortunately, CSS did the trick. I might try using CSS to improve the appearance of other portions of the time sheet, as well, at some point.)
• Printout shows the site brand/favicon much too large. This is because my site used a large favicon size (so that it looks good on all displays). The printout fails to reduce the favicon size for the purpose of printing. This results in the favicon occupying nearly a whole page of the printout. This is a small nitpick, because it is a great feature just to allow such easy printing of the timesheet.

These cons are all pretty small concerns, overall. I write these as opportunities for improvement, for the developer to consider. Since these are small concerns, I still give this plugin a perfect score rating for solving my team’s needs.

• This topic was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by Scott Tyrus Washburn. Reason: Improved appearance of pros and cons lists