Time & Expenses. We would use this product to keep track of our employee's time and expenses for individual projects. Identifying time as billable and non-billable for different clients.
Pros
Time & Attedance
Expenses
Cons
Project Scope
Large Companies
Data Organization
Likelihood to Recommend
The Replicon platform was great for us when our customer base was small, we weren't a large company, and didn't have complex projects. As we grew, it was hard for Replicon to keep up, it seemed as if the platform would crash a lot. Replicon was great for us for our business until we experienced rapid growth. We needed more functionality, direct data access, and a wider range of project features that allowed us to track different types of metrics, such as unit-based pricing. We didn't feel the solutions that were offered to us met our needs.
Replicon TimeAttend is being used across the entire organization. Corporate handles all updates and any issues that may arise while users operate the program.
Pros
It is very user-friendly. From a user aspect, it is hard to mess up any entries.
It is flexible, so it allows users to go back and adjust any issues before submitting timecards for approval.
It is easy for managers to approve and add comments once the time card has been submitted.
Cons
I think that the backend setup could be a bit more user-friendly. It can be a very manual process to add employees in.
If there could be a an easier way to mass import a group of employees with the same set up, that would be amazing.
Likelihood to Recommend
This program is an easy program to roll out to employees as it is very user friendly. If you are a larger company, this will definitely eliminate questions or concern from employees who fear they may not be able to use the program.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Human Resources (201-500 employees)
I had to use this tool at my previous company which was my first job. Since this was the first time using such a tool, I had no previous context. Now when I look back, I feel like it was okay and did its job, nothing more. I mainly used it to track my hours worked, book time off, and of course fill reimbursement forms. Company-wide this tool was being used for the same 3 things (as far as I know).
The basic business problem it addresses is to share a common platform within a company to track time and expenditure. Had such a tool not existed, we would have to use probably Excel or other spreadsheets to track all of this manually. It is not so fun but is a critical tool to have.
Pros
It allowed me to fill my work time sheet. Every week I had to fill this. Based on the numbers the company keeps track of which days I worked.
It reminded me to fill the time sheets constantly and also notifies me when it gets approved. So I never really forgot to fill it.
It allowed me to see my vacation days left, and plan ahead.
It had a list of holiday dates which was very handy to plan my trips or vacation.
It had categorization by department and my view of time sheets was only limited to me. I could not see others time sheets, and except for my manager, nobody else could look into mine.
It had internet access, which meant I could fill my sheets anywhere. It came in handy while working from home where a VPN connection may not be present. I also guess that this service being online meant no extra effort from IT department side.
Cons
The UI in my opinion was too simple. Calendar views were pretty stale.
I don't believe there was a mobile app for this, or this site worked nicely when opened on small devices.
A better view of my time could have been shown. At the time I could only see small excel like boxes filled with numbers. Graphs, or some other visualization of remaining days would have been lucrative.
Very stupid login page. We had to fill "company name" at the login page and this name had to match exactly to what was set in the database. It was frustrating and I always had to refer my notes to get that right.
There wasn't any preselection option which made it hard to do it fast. If I can only set a few fields (because we had long list of dropdowns to choose from) then this process could be much smoother.
A major issue was not being able to see my team-mates schedule or calendar. E.g. when are they taking vacations. So I had to pester them offline to get this information. Many times due to inter-team miscommunication we didn't know about others vacation days during planning. A central place where I could see this information would have helped me a lot.
Likelihood to Recommend
I believe it is well suited for a small sized company, like my previous one, that does not want any IT overhead to onboard a new tool. This tool is available online and can be accessed via the internet. It has all the necessary components to help you record your activity.
But the solution in its current form is not scalable. [I've] Given few of my reasons I feel this is not well suited for a large company (like the one I currently work at).
