Employee Time Card FAQ's

If you hate to add employee time cards, you absolutely should be using Employee Time Card. Once you see how easy it is to use Employee Time Card, you will never go back to pencils and calculators again.

By eliminating the task of adding time cards. Also by eliminating the task of recreating a lost time card.

As much time as it takes you to add your time cards and write the results on paper to send to the payroll department or processing company.

Simply start Employee Time Card and enter his employee number (assigned by 'Employee Time Card'). Employee Time Card will automatically clock the employee in or out as necessary and display an un-edit-able copy of the employees current time card. After the employee views his time card, he simply hits the enter key and Employee Time Card shuts down.

You don't, Employee Time Card does it for you. All you have to do is type in the name of any new employees and tell them their Employee number that is automatically assigned by Employee Time Card.

Nothing, Employee Time Card will only show current employees on the payroll report. If an employee does not work, he/she will not appear on the report.

Simply click the password setup button and type in a password. Then only you (or anyone you give the password to) will have access to the editing functions.

You can decide whether you want Employee Time Card to completely shut down after each use or simply return to the 'Clock In/Out' Screen.

Yes, Employee Time Card calculates both daily and weekly, you can actually specify the number of hours an employee must work daily and/or weekly before overtime is calculated. You can even specify certain days that overtime is always paid (example- Sundays)

Yes, you can assign your own or let Employee Time Card assign the pin numbers for you.

Yes, you can both import and export data with Employee Time Card.

Don't take our word for it, you be the judge, try Employee Time Card. It's free to try, we are sure you will like it. For a free download of Employee Time Card, please go to our web site at www.espSoftware.com/timecard and click on free download. If you decide you like the software, you don't have to do anything, you will automatically be billed in two weeks. If for any reason you decide Employee Time Card is not right for you, simply send us an e-mail at canceletc@espSoftware.com telling us you wish to cancel you order.

Etc will operate for 30 days without a registration number. You will be sent your registration number approximately 2 weeks after you downloaded the software.

To register a copy of Employee Time Card or Employee Schedule Partner purchased from a reseller, click here and enter your company name, address, phone, email address and key code located on enclosed form labeled IMPORTANT. The registration number is usually emailed within 24 hours.

Backup Instructions: If you do not have a copy of your registration information, go to the about screen (Help/About) and note the exact company name, address and registration number (Capitalization Matters). Backup your data using the backup feature (File/Backup). After you install the new version of etc, enter your registration information and use the restore function (File/Restore) to return your data

Employee Time Card uses the Window's internal time clock. If you are running Windows NT or 2000, you can secure the clock using the operating system. To the best of my knowledge, Windows 95/98 has no method of locking the internal time clock. Users that are aware of this will be able to change the clock and 'fool etc'. If this is a concern, you will need to put the computer in a supervised area or use the old fashioned time clock.

Overtime is averaged for a 2 week period. To view overtime on a weekly basis, please change the pay period to weekly. Print the payroll report for the first week of the 2 week pay period, then change the pay period to the next week and print the report again. This will break the overtime down by week.

The password is set by the user and unfortunately we do not have access to it. At this time you have 2 options.
1> Reinstall Employee Time Card. If you do regular backups, you can restore your data and only have to reenter your activity since your last backup.
2> Email us the file called 'Timecard.mdb'. We will have our tech support remove the password and email the file back to you. You can then copy your existing 'timecard.mdb' file with the new one, then set a new password. If you choose this option, please note that there is a $100.00 service charge which must be paid by credit card at the time the file is emailed (include your credit card number and expiration date with the email). Also note that our tech support guys will have access to all of your payroll information that is contained in Employee Time Card. If this is a concern, then please do not choose option 2.

It sounds like something may have been corrupted with your original install. Please reinstall the software. If possible, backup your data using the backup feature. After you reinstall, use the restore feature to get your data back into etc. If you are still experiencing problems, please let us know.

Employees can not be removed from Employee Time Card as they are needed when you reference previous schedules. You can move them out of your way, to the bottom of the list by simply adding a 'zzz' before there name. To do this, go to the administration menu and choose add/edit time cards. Then type 'zzz' in the employee name box just in front of the employee name. For example, change the employees name from 'John Doe' to 'zzz John Doe'. The name are sorted by alphabetical order. This causes the unwanted name to appear at the bottom of the list.

When the administration button is clicked, Employee Time Card looks in the c:\Windows directory for a file called esp_etc.txt . If the file exists, Employee Time Card will read this file and add any names that it does not already have to its employee list. This file is created automatically if you are a user of Employee Schedule Partner by espSoftware. If you would like to import names from another application, using the data you export from the other application, you must create a file (all values must be in quotes and separated by commas) and name it esp_etc.txt This file must be located in the c:\Windows directory. This file should only contain one field which is the employee name (first and last name in one field).

To uninstall Employee Time Card, simply delete the directory that Employee Time Card was installed in and the shortcuts that links to it. There are no registry entries that need to be removed. Thank You for your interest in etc.