Remember going to work and punching in your timecard? It never failed, every couple of weeks you would forget to punch in or out and your manager would need to question you about the strange number of hours listed on your time report. That timecard may have listed the number of hours you worked but it never listed exactly what you were doing. Timecards are not utilized as often as they used to be in the office.

For the majority of the workforce, the timecards were replaced by the timesheet. Timesheets had one advantage over the timecards - you could list the number of hours you worked on a specific project or for a specific customer. If you were lucky, you had an electronic timesheet that you could email to your payroll department. However, many people had to keep paper copies of timesheets and hand deliver or fax the information to the payroll department. Of course, someone was always late with the information or the fax machine did not print someone's timesheet. Many workers still use timesheets.

Today, if you search the Internet for "employee time tracking" you will receive countless results for web-based time tracking products. Web-based products have an advantage over even electronic timesheets because the data entered is immediately available for payroll departments. If you bill customers for time-based projects, you can also use the time information to create customer invoices immediately. Web-based time tracking products makes time entry available to all employees, regardless of where they are located.

To accurate track employee time, take advantage of the newest time tracking solutions available. The Timekeeper module for Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 has been able to evolve with the ever-changing time tracking needs of customers. Your company can enter time through Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 directly through the Timekeeper module. Your sales staff can use Timekeeper Remote on their laptops when out at a customer location and download time entries when they return to the office. Your service representatives can enter time through their Palm OS or Pocket PC devices when on the road and download their time data when back at the office. Plus, with version 4.0 of Timekeeper you can install .timekeeper - the web-based version of the Timekeeper application. .timekeeper allows your employees to enter time for payroll and for billable projects no matter where they are.

Time will bring even more changes - don't let your company fall behind!