HCSS Plans and HeavyJob Monthly Webinar July 2024

Alright. Thanks, everyone. It is ten o one, so we'll go ahead and kick off. We'll do introductions. I think we've forgotten to do that the last few not months. So my name is Reid Brentford. I'm a product marketing manager here for heavy job at HCSS. We have a number of items on heavy new heavy job updates, some plans updates. So I'm gonna kick it over first to John Knutson. You're gonna hear a lot from him today. Have him introduce himself. Hey, guys. I'm John Knutson. I'm one of the technical product managers for HeavyJob. I typically work with HeavyJob web and helping get customers converted over to our web software from the the desktop version. Andrew? Thank you. Andrew Fowler, senior product manager for HeavyJob. Just more or less overseeing all these brilliant minds as they, actually, do the work and show off what we're gonna see today. Thanks, Andrew. Britney? Good morning, everybody. My name is Britney Closterman, a technical product manager, working alongside the team for some new features in heavy job web, things like potential change orders, exports to accounting, and a couple other things that you might hear in the next couple months. Cassie. Hey, everyone. I'm Cassie. I am the technical product manager over field Android and also my field. Adam. Hi, everyone. Another member of the product team here, Adam Black. Been with the company for a little bit. My lawn does not look as good as Matt Fiddler's, because mine has a large pile of trees and other decaying debris right now, which is still not yet been picked up. Matt, we can go to you. My lawn looks very good aside from the giant stack of, bamboo and the, broken fence, but, we're we're making it work. I'm Matt Fiddler. I'm part of the consulting team, usually working with these fine people as well as y'all to help you get the most out of your software, figure out the best way to do things, whether it's, pressing more buttons, pressing different buttons, or figuring out a, better process outside of the buttons. And last but not least, John. Hi, folks. I'm John Bradshaw. I'm the technical product manager for, HCSS plans. We'll go ahead and get started today. Quick run through on the agenda. The number of updates on heavy job around plans, photos, and the time card daily die digest, labor rate setups and exports to Excel, adding and editing library materials. We have a great new toggle summary in the totals row. Britney is gonna go through some of the latest, PCO updates. John's gonna take us through, how we can edit exported sheets and plans. And then finally, we have a a poll on some my field, kiosk login modes. So lots of exciting topics. And with that, we'll go ahead and start with heavy job, and we'll start with export to Excel. Alright. I'll take it from here. So with the export export to Excel functionality, this is something that you might have noticed we've been kind of rolling out, one page at a time. For those that are familiar with the rate set grids within heavy job web, we've got one for employees, equipment, and then also for T and M employees and T and M equipment for those of you that are, charging jobs at a time and material rate. So, a a big part of this workflow is just that, you know, hey. Sometimes we have rates change throughout the course of the year, throughout the course of a job. We need to have a way to update those. So, we're just looking for more ways to make that a more streamlined process. And what we realized is that a lot of folks are are wanting to get those rates out into Excel format, update those quickly in kind of a grid or just, you know, they've got a new set of rate sheets, that they they brought in. They wanna import those. So, we wanted to make that export import functionality really streamlined. So, what you'll notice now in the employee rate sets, that's the last one. So every single one has the ability to export now. So as you go into the different rates at grids, you'll notice a, an export button. And let's take a look here real quick. I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen if that's okay. Let's see. And, John, while that's coming up, looks like we do have a your first question about, whether it's available web only or hybrid. As a reminder, hit those questions up in the q and a section down at the bottom, and we'll be able to answer them hopefully live. Alright. All yours. Great question. So, one big distinction, between the hybrid system, which is kind of the desktop version that also has, some web access. It is all the setups for hybrid are still on the desktop system. So any of your rates, any changes like that to your setups would happen on the desktop system. Whereas in web only, all of our setups occur in that web system. So the short answer is is you'll only see this in the web only system here. Alright. So I've got my labor rates set here. You'll notice as I get into my different shifts, that's where where I'll actually see the export to Excel option. I can pump those out, modify changes, and then reimport those. And you'll notice that each page has, an option for export to Excel. So as you're going through and maybe you're just updating one section. Maybe you're updating all of them, one by one, but that will give you the option to do that there. I'm gonna hop over to a different screen here real quick and show you another option here. Are you guys seeing my screen okay? We're still seeing the minimum base rates. Oh, there we go. Okay. So I wanted to hop over. I've got some different datasets. So, this was the one that had the different rates. But, another cool addition that you guys may have noticed, this has been released for a little while, but within my t and m rate sets, I actually have an option to view previous rates. So we noticed that that some folks are actually creating a new rate set because they want to kinda have an archive of the rates they started with. So this gives you the option now to go ahead and just update the same rate set, and you'll still have the the ability to go back and view past rates. If you're viewing those past rates, we we mark it as red to make sure you know that these aren't the current ones. But if you've updated this same rate set, you will see this drop down, with the different options there. So, lots of functionality going into these rate sets. We just wanna make that workflow as smooth as possible for you guys. So please, let us know how that's working out for you as you're updating rates on your job. Alright. So moving right along, we also have some work on the library materials. So, for those folks that have been using the web only system, again, this is kind of a a setup option. So this is something that you would only see in the web only version. Hybrid folks are still managing the material library on the desktop system. So we had a a library materials list that kinda showed you everything that existed within that business unit, and we heard a lot of feedback from you guys that, like, hey. We'd like to make changes at this business unit level. We'd like to be able to have, more bulk options, more sweeping changes. You know? Say, for example, you know, somebody just put in the description of a material wrong, and now it's popping up up on my jobs in a weird way. It's confusing for me, and, I don't wanna have to go to each job's material setup and change that. So while it is very important to have job level overrides for different types of jobs, we also wanted you guys to be able to make some of those quick changes. So, in in this slide and I'm gonna do a live demo of this as well, but you can see the option to edit material codes. This is one, that we really wanted to make sure had some good confirmation there. So you won't be able to just go frame to frame to frame to frame. You know, this is at the business unit level, so we wanted to make sure that each change was confirmed. But you you know, once you change the code there, it will show up with a new code on your jobs and on any existing transactions. That's kind of a business unit level, change. Alright. And if you could hop over to the next slide there, Reid. Thank you much. We also wanted to give you the the ability to add new materials. So pretty straightforward with this one. You're gonna put in the code, description, cost type, heavy bid code. These are the four things that we are handling at the at the business unit level right now. Let us know if there's other things. We've heard different feedback, about what you guys would wanna see at the business unit level. And so any of those that that really make sense, to change for the whole business unit, we'll definitely consider adding in. I wanna hop into another demo here. So let me make sure I've got the right down. Okay. Okay. Share my screen. Okay. So you can see here I've got my library materials list. I can add a material like we just saw. So, you know, this will show my existing cost types. If you wanna add new ones, that's in a different part of the setup, but we can pipe in a new material there. I'm gonna cancel out for now and just kinda show you what I can do with my existing materials. So similar to the rate set, we've got import and export functionality. Check out this import. We're looking at some new options to make that a little bit more streamlined, to have some previews as you're as you're importing data. So, some some new changes there with the workflow. Obviously, filters, you can search for materials, search by, cost type. So if you're looking for just a specific cost type to make changes, you can do that, filter those down. And then once I have the filters the way I like them, I can select these to see more options. So, you'll notice as I click the checkbox here, it shows me the number of items I have selected and gives me some new options here. So from this, I can change the cost type of this or multiple, materials. I can if I made description, description changes, I can sync those to the job level. I can also delete materials. So you'll see some information pop up, you know, obviously, some confirmations when you do this, but it will, you know, let you know how that's gonna work when you delete those. Obviously, if you've used those on transactions, those will not be affected. We want your your transaction data to still be available regardless of the changes that you make here, and then I can clear those as well. Just select in the field to make changes. Same thing with the heavy bid code. We can just type those in. One really interesting one that we made here is our description sync. So I'm gonna change this description here just slightly. Hit enter to save the change, and what's going to happen is it's going to highlight that row, and you will see some information about that. So this is a really important part of this process. We wanna make sure that the descriptions, are accurate, and these might be different for the same code on different jobs. Sometimes you might just want be wanting to change the description for, you know, this material being used from there on out. In that case, you can x out of here. But if you want to have specific jobs that you're syncing to, you can also do that here as well. It will just show you a list of the jobs that the material is available on. As you can see on this one, the only job that it's present for is the Buffalo Bayou flood prevention improvement. So, obviously, if this were a real job, they would be doing a lot of work right now in in Houston if you're familiar with the Buffalo Bayou. So after some of the storms we've had. But that's the the gist of it. I'm gonna share one more thing and then then pass the torch along here. So one other, change that we've made, we're working on using plans, photos more throughout heavy job. This is a part of our bigger integration story. We're just trying to make it easier to see all of your data in one place. Regardless of which piece of software you're in, we want you to have as much, interaction with your HCSS software as possible. So plans photos included. You've probably seen that we've added those to our, daily digest. There's also a small daily digest on the time card. So you can see I've hopped into the time card. Let me open this one from Kaye. As I scroll down, you see the time card data. Here's your material and subcontract items. There's a smaller daily digest here in the time card, which hopefully you guys are using. You can see my diary notes, my weather if I've added it, any any different job tags, things like that. And now I've got some photos that come from plans, that are also showing here, in my daily digest. So photos coming from HTSS field, photos coming from plans, anything associated with that time card, will, show up there in the daily digest on the actual time card as well as the daily digest report. So, just a small change, but, again, something that's really gonna help you see the big picture across your HCSS software. For those of you, you know, that are that are also using plans, we've got some really cool things coming up for those of you that are using telematics, helping you keep track of your equipment in relation to your heavy job data as well. So just be keeping an eye out for more changes like that. We're doing a lot to, expand your view across the HCSS platform. Oh, and I lied. I do have one more thing. So in in, the same idea of of report usability, we've also been adding some more changes. You've probably been seeing, some changes to the employee and equipment detail reports. These reports are completely customizable. You can group. You can add columns. You can remove them. You can save templates. So, hopefully, you know, this is something that's available for both the hybrid and the web users. So if you're not familiar with this process, give us a call at support. We can walk you through how to best use the employee detail or equipment detail report to make custom reports for yourself. But one of the other customization options that we've added is to have the ability to see totals, at the bottom of the report. So those of you that are familiar with this, you can group the report by code, by job. You know, there's all kinds of different factors there, kinda like a pivot table would work in Excel. So you've got really handy subtotals for each group. And now you can toggle on the overall totals, which will take all those subtotals, add them up, kinda help you get the big picture of whatever you're looking for, whether that's hours, whether that's, you know, equipment, labor, different things like that. Anything that's numeric will now be able to total. Okay. And I'm pretty sure that's all I have to say. I'm tired of hearing my own voice, so I'm sure you guys are too. So I'm gonna hand it back over to Reid. Perfect. Thanks. Thanks, John. I know we've had a number of questions come in. So we wanna, Adam, I think you and and Andrew both have a few questions to answer before we move on to PCOs with Britney. Andrew, I think there's a a a big one that we're getting from a couple of people is how come I can't see the stuff that's there? Like, my section ends at reporting, in the left hand navigation. Yep. And and so that's one of them. The the first way to answer that is around whether you have a, desktop system or a web system. So some of the setups that you saw today from John was around material material setups. And so there's really only one brain is the best way of describing it. So the brain is either, back with your server or it's with our server. And so that is what determines, how the all the information propagates all throughout heavy job, all throughout safety, all throughout all all the apps, really. So there's one brain. And so in this case, the the brain that Knudson was showing was on our, website. And so, depending on what you have, if you do have a, a desktop version, you would not have seen those setup functions to get in there. Now that being said, there are permissions as well, for what you have access to and what you do not. We can definitely cover what would all be included within a hybrid company as well. If you only see reports, I'll say that you are shy of few functions. So you have things like the ability to, see daily digests. That's one of our most commonly used features by those desktop companies is daily digest and time card review as well. The reporting up there is excellent as well. You will not have your, exporting to payroll. You will not have a, the setups option, and the one or two others, like a quantities adjustment because you have that tool back inside of your desktop system as well. But if only if there's literally only reporting, there are some other things that you can get added on, and feel free to reach out to our support to figure that out. Sounds good. There let's see. Looking at the screen that we're staring at right now, this question goes out to John. Can we get this total on all reports? So it kinda depends on the formatting of the report. This works really well on the grid format reports. So this was kind of our first test, but it's I'm glad to hear that you guys like it. We'll definitely take a look at at some other reports that this would work well for and get that turned on for you. Always the trouble when you deliver a good feature is they now wanna see it everywhere. As always, though, guys, it definitely helps us to prioritize the reports. You have to do them individually. So if you have some particular ones in mind, you can help us prioritize by sending those emails to me at john dot knudson at h t s s dot com. Alright. We did get a couple of questions about photos, about full sizing photos, about getting them time stamped. So that may be something, that we'll be looking at in the future, and I see people writing in the reports they want right now. So I think we'll be good for now. There are several questions that we are gonna cover later on once we get to the next set of demos. Britney. Alright. Before I jump into PCOs, because we had some questions on my previous feature I worked on, for export to accounting, I wanted to answer this one live. So Sarah asked about how she would like to no longer see zero hours in her export. Sarah, I've heard this request from a lot of folks, and I I know originally we're, like, we we're doing this on purpose because a zero is a valid entry. But understanding that there are some scenarios when you copy your time cards and you're bringing over that information that you really you're doing that to help remind your foreman of what information is on the time card. And so you really would like some ease to make sure that those zero hours don't cause errors in your accounting system when you actually export to accounting. So I hear that. We're currently looking at some request for export to accounting improvements we could make, and that is on the list. So, thanks for your feedback. Really appreciate your, your testing and trialing with our new features to help make them better. And then I think you asked another question, Sarah, about, t and m. So two questions. One question was about organizing your t and m bills, by maybe date or some other options. We are looking into improving t and m progress or sorry, t and m billing in the near future, and that is another improvement we are strongly considering. And I don't know if we wanna jump the gun and talk about that t and m marking all things as t and m and run that poll real quick before, we can check the PCOs. Let's do it. It is very fresh and newly created based off the question that was asked, but we're we're interested. We wanna know. Yeah. So this question is, hey. I really don't wanna hit every single cost code to mark them as T and M. I wanna be able to make the whole jobs cost codes T and M in one easy way, one easy click maybe. So we're curious how often you guys might run into a T and M a fully T and M job. I'd like to know, Adam, what the difference between sometimes and occasionally is. Occasionally is like, I mean, like, maybe once in a while. Okay. Sometimes it's twice in a while. Okay. Got it. Kinda like the difference between y'all and all y'all. Yeah. Right here. I I keep forgetting that we're not all Texas here on the polls. Some of us are from the great up north. North meaning north of Texas. Like, John's from Oklahoma. I think it's it's north. What was the north? Don't tell him that. I already get enough crap from Andrew about being from Oklahoma. K. Looks like we've had half the participants. Alright. I think I think we're good there. So it looks like we we have a we have a lot of people doing this. I think I think this is more than I was expecting, to be honest. So good to know. Right. So we're gonna dive into potential change orders now. Totally changing gears. So, as you guys know, we've been working on this feature for a while, and it is now available to everybody. So, if you were not a beta customer, you could see it now. And we have added new features, since we've released it a couple weeks ago. So I'm actually gonna go ahead and share my screen to show off this new feature we're talking about. Let's see how well this goes. Alright. Hope you all see my screen. It appears you can. Can I move this guy? Oh, yeah. There we go. Alright. So where I am right now is I'm not in the potential change order log, but I'm actually in my setups. So I'm in jobs, job lists, and I've navigated to my cost code tab. What we realized is a lot of times when potential change orders become relevant is when you're maybe adding a new cost code for your foreman to track. So what we wanted to do was make it really easy for any potential change orders you might be logging to be directly linked to the cost code that you might be adding. And to do that, what we did was we improved this add cost code button. So when I click on that, you will now see, so maybe this is some extra work. So I have my e w o o one code, and I'm gonna call it extra work zero zero one. Everything is normal except for there is this new option right here, link potential change order, where I can actually go and say, hey. This extra work code is specifically related to our migratory bird nest removal. Everybody I show, at HTSS thinks that this is, like, a joke, but I actually, when I worked in construction, this was a serious problem. If you had migratory birds on your project site, that really caused significant delays, since they're protected. So we're gonna go ahead and select that. And now I have already, made simplified my potential change order process by directly linking this cost code to this potential change order. What you'll see in the near future is the ability to actually add a potential change order while you're in the screen, so that you can go ahead and, you know, stub in, a PCO that you might add more details with some scope clarification in down the road. So, we're we're stepping forward into a future where we better connect our budgets with our, changes in scope. So I'm gonna go ahead and stop sharing. And then, Reid, if you wanna take it back over. And then on the next slide, we'll talk about a couple, things we also did. So we, added some small improvements such as adding chats to that page. So whenever you're talking about a scope change and creating your potential change orders, it is really easy for you to now communicate vital information to maybe the foremen that are gonna be impacted by those PCUs, via chats. Anil and his team is working on actually bringing potential change orders to project controls, so that's an exciting feature you'll see in the near future. And then we made the potential change order column widths customizable so that they're not all stuck to one size. We improved our history audit trail by, allowing you to see anybody that's added or deleted an attachment to your potential change order. What we're gonna continue doing is, allowing you to create and link potential change orders while you update budgets. So you just saw that add cost code. We know that's not the only way you update your budgets. You might be importing from HeavyBid or from Excel. So that same functionality will exist in those imports where you can directly link or create a PCO in the process of doing that budget update. And then we're also going to bring linked potential change orders to your cost code reports so that you can directly see, hey. This is my cost code, and this is how we're doing. And then maybe if you wanna go and dig in a little deeper, you can open the PCO associated with that cost code to see how that scope might have grew or contracted over time. Similarly, we're gonna add linked cost or linked potential change orders to your cost code setup list. So we're, wrapping up our potential change order effort. I know that a lot of you guys might have thoughts on how we can improve the feature already. Love to hear that. I think we're gonna take some time to work on some other things, but we want to continue hearing your feedback as you use this on ways we could improve the fee. So Well PCOs. You you did get a question from Greg here. Can we link the PCO to a current cost code that we bring in through DAS? So Great question. So you can link the PCO from a cost code through DIS. But today, the way you would do that is going to the PCO log and then finding that cost code and then linking it. Greg, I'm really interested. This is something we talked about. We are curious if if DIS is bringing in cost code information, should every single one of those changes be associated with the PCO? How often is it a actual scope change, or how often is it accounting consistent debate here is is how often when making changes to Costco in the middle of a job, are they change orders, and how often did somebody make a mistake earlier? Which is technically in theory also probably a change order too. But Then we do have a link that should be showing up that is a link to our, our our PCO Academy course. So you can get some more information, send it out to any of your users on the academy. So click on that link, or just go into the academy and look for their PCO course, and it has a lot of great information on how to get PCOs up and running and how how your users should utilize it. Thanks, Reid. Right. Moving on to Andrew. Jesse. Hey. Okay. So I'm going to be talking about some improvements that we're hoping to do for my field kiosk mode. And if we have some users on here who do use the kiosk mode and would love to give us feedback, please feel free to email me at cassandra dot may at h c s s dot com. We would love to hear your feedback. But for now, for those of you who do use kiosk mode, I'm sure y'all are aware of this workflow. But this is the initial screen that you see when you are in kiosk mode. And whenever you hit this clock in, clock out button, Reid, if you don't mind going to the next slide, it will take you to the foreman screen where you can enter in your job and your foreman information, and then you have to clock or to sign in whether this is by username and password or your, phone number. And you have to do this every single time you went to clock in and clock out in the kiosk mode. And I know some of y'all have a long line of employees, in kiosk mode. So one of the features that we are considering adding is utilizing a skills QR that you that the employee has, and adding a QR scanner to the identity, sign in options that we have here. So, basically, we would have the username and password. We would have the phone number sign in, and we would also have the QR sign in for your employees that have the QR code. So, Adam, would you mind pulling up the poll? I can do that. We have a couple of different options here. So for those of you who use kiosk mode, which of these workflows make the most sense for y'all and your company? Right now, we have numbers one and two, which is username and password and also your phone number in a one time code. What we're wanting to add is the QR code plus a PIN or a QR code plus a picture just so we have some sort of verification of the employee. Another option we are considering is for the employees to have a list of the, who is selected on that job and that is assigned to that foreman. So the employees can go up to that list, select their name. It'll take their picture to verify that that is them, and then all they have to do is hit the clock in button. So if y'all don't mind selecting an answer that y'all think would work best for your company, this would be a great feedback for us so we know which solutions would be the best for those of you who use kiosk mode. This is a this is a really tricky one for us because we're trying to to compete. We have on one side, we wanna be secure. People logging in, clocking into this, we we want we don't want anybody just to be able to clock in their entire team, and then, you know, everybody's able to take a break. And so we we've heard from you that you want some sort of security on there to prevent people from being able to just clock everybody in or clock in their buddy, who who's sick or or doing something else, hanging out by the lake, right now. But we also understand that you can't have a line of people just waiting to log in because it takes thirty seconds to a minute for them to get their username and password, which and who remembers those things, and figure that out just to be able to hit one clock and button. And so we're trying to develop some additional options to you beyond the, let's say, very secure methods that we have right now that are also very slow. So if you're if you if you care about this, if you're passionate about this, about making this process faster, definitely interested. I don't think we're gonna take away the secure options that we have right now, but I think we wanna provide you with something that's less secure, but also faster in case that's something that you're interested in. So Exactly. Thank you, Adam. And I think we oh, there we go. Cool. Y'all can see the results, and it looks like Looks like we got some good stuff there. Awesome. Well, thank you everybody who answered the poll. And like I said, if y'all have any more feedback as it relates to the story that are coming out for these, feel free to email me because I'd love to hear your feedback, and see if we can make these solutions work better for y'all. So Thank you, Cassie. Alright. Now we're gonna shift gears, for plans, and I'm gonna turn it over to John. Hey, folks. So this was a, this one came to us, through a combination of requests on the community site, and, someone actually just reached out to me on my LinkedIn and, asked about wanting to, love using plans for the field. But when it gets to, when it gets to the office and when they have to send these, when they have to send, like, the exported sheets up to the project owner, they wanted to use some other application to edit the, markups from the to edit the markups from the field and asked if it was possible for us to go in and unflatten the, the sheet export so that another PDF editor could be used to make some changes to the annotations on the, on the sheet. And was like, yeah. That's actually a pretty, pretty simple request. So we went on ahead and, we went on ahead and added the feature. So now for your project editors, when you are porting a sheet, you'll have an option down there at the bottom where it is allow edits to the export. And if you check this, those sheets will be exported in an unflattened, in an unflattened version, and that will allow you to open that p the PDF of the sheets up in another, in another PDF editor and be able to make changes to the to the annotations. So if you if the if the drawings aren't quite where you want them to be or if there are, let's say, annotation badges that you don't wanna see on that, on that export, you can go and remove them in in another PDF editor. So that's, just kind of a quality of life thing that, we wanted to we we wanted to address for y'all. And that's what we got for plans. So back to you, Reid. Thank you, John. We will I think we have a few more questions that have come in. Are there any other questions we want to answer before we wrap up? Well, I I think that there definitely were some, some interest from a, a login sorry, for some some some improvements. We're definitely seeing some interest come through there via the questions. But there there were a few earlier ones that we did want to, did want to tackle. Andrew, did you want to handle your thing right now before we get into some stuff? Or With the amount of questions, I will just go ahead and pitch this to all of our listeners as an additional resource to go and check out later. So the templates inside of our different reports is something that is very powerful. So I'll go ahead and link a blog article to those, with some common uses, for those templates, whether it is doing things like, your equipment detail report using that for your cash for clunkers equivalent in your state, for tracking your hours, to to doing employee detail reporting, what you can do in cost summary and cost details, because we do have, quite a few reports and and want to make sure that the details and information in each one of those is understood. So, we put together that blog article. Feel free to visit it and, see if any of those if you're not using something like that already, see if those would work for you. We can get into the questions that we have because there are quite a few. I'm gonna hand it over to Matt to handle a question that came in very early in the webinar from, I believe it was Daryl, to talk about equipment daily costing. Oh, so this is an interesting one. Trying to, to capture daily costs for a piece of equipment, especially if we're doing a, a t and m job. As far as heavy job is concerned, everything is an hourly cost. So heavy job philosophically sees every piece of equipment, with an hourly rate. Now that doesn't mean that you, as a human, that could make decisions on your own, at least until the robots could do that as well, can't make a, enter information as a daily rate. I would say most of the time, I'll encourage customers if we're gonna charge something as a, a daily rate, We just put eight hours, and we just say that that's our standard. So that way it's easy. Everything is hourly in terms of what we're putting into the system. So that way I don't have some equipment that's a little bit different. And now I, as a human, have to remember another thing, which is not my favorite thing to do, that this is a daily rate and this is an hourly rate. So most of the time, if I have, somebody that's trying to keep track of a daily rate on a piece of equipment, we just figure out what that rate is divided by eight, and then I put eight in my time card. Both our desktop and our web users have a, an underutilized feature, for the oh, and now I'm spacing on attendance codes. Attendance codes will give you a way to maybe more clearly, write that down. So I could have a probably not d for day rate because usually for equipment, I'll see d for down. But whatever other letter you wanna use, maybe y can be your day rate. So that way I can say y one, and then I, as the foreman, know that, this is just my day rate for this piece of equipment that's on standby. It's just hanging out. If you wanna use, s for standby and say it's, s one or s eight, a lot of my customers that really wanna keep track of what's my run time versus what's my part time for a piece of equipment, maybe I have a rate attached to that. Maybe that goes over to accounting. Maybe it doesn't. I can decide how I wanna handle that. But the more you write down, the more you can make decisions later on how you want to handle those hours. So if I worked a machine for six hours and it was on standby for two hours, I could say six s two, and I can either charge just those six hours that it worked, because it's always worked hours, paid hours for employees first, and then my letter code and then my letter code hours. So six s two means that I ran it for six hours, and then it was on standby for two hours or was d for down for two hours. So you can keep track of those hours. A really useful way for your equipment managers to be able to run a report in heavy job and say, show me the total run time for the last month, three months as long as I want, and then let me see my totals for all these other hours and see that that backhoe I already know kinda has passed its, prime, really does have a ton of down hours, and gives me a different, data point to be able to say it's time to send that down the road. So I'd say, usually, that's the way I'll handle it. So if you wanna do, y for your day rate, you can go and set those up through some you can go to help dot h c s s dot com to look up setting up attendance codes and be able to see where to do that in, in desktop or web. But handy, easy way to be able to keep track of weird situations or weird hours. You can do the same for employees as well if you wanna keep track of, tardy time, jury duty, sick leave, anything like that. Now there's a there's a related question that came in from Nicole. Wanted to keep track of the hours accurately for equipment, but needed charge the minimum. And I think in her case, if I'm looking here, a four hour minimum charge. Do we typically do we wanna set the time card warning for that and then use, use the ownership rate? Or how how do you recommend handling that? So I love equipment because it's all philosophy. And so it's whatever you believe in, and there are many right answers. And you just have to decide what is the rightest one for you. I personally would generally try not to charge, regular hours at a minimum for a piece of equipment because it's then it's difficult at the end of the year to see how many hours I actually ran that machine and get my actual utilization versus what were we charging, just to make sure we're covering our ownership cost. So I I would a hundred percent without having a further discussion, which we could talk for hours about that. But, generally, I would suggest using those letter codes so that way if I'm getting my minimum hours, I I wanna make sure I I can I can pay for the, the note on this machine, or I can pay, to start building up my stack of money so I can buy a new one when this one needs to go down the road? I would set up a letter code for minimum hours maybe, and so that's your m code, or m for Matt, either way. So if I didn't use it at all today, I can just say m four, and that way I know that this is to pay my minimum hours. The neat thing for all these letter code hours is we can configure them individually for your payroll system. So when it goes over to payroll, those m hours could go over, and my accounting system just sees it as a regular hour like anything else. So I'd be able to get that detailed information about my utilization from heavy job, how many hours did I actually run or charge this machine, and how many hours were I paying just to, to make sure that, I'm not parking everything on my job site and give me a little penalty, a little incentive to send that back to the shop. So I'd say, generally, I'd start with a a letter code, but I'd be happy to, to chat about that if you need to. Now there is a request that just came in from our good friend, mister Lacks, asking mobile to actually prevent time cards from being sent if the format is not allocated those minimum hours somewhere for each piece of equipment. So I know in the past, we've definitely talked about putting in a time card or we have a time card warning right now today that prevents the time card from being sent, or at least it warns the foreman if the time card, when they're attempting to send it, if a piece of equipment or an employee has less than x number of hours, and you get to set the x. Unfortunately, though, it is not broken up between employees and equipment. And I think that has been a a a big request from people in the past of separating those two out. So you can set a minimum hours for equipment and leave employees at anything. Right now, though, you can set one, and let's say you set it for eight. You just have to make sure that you're accounting for eight hours. Somebody leaves work halfway through, they you know, not feeling good sick, then you're putting four regular hours and the s four for sick four s four. For equipment, you can do something similar, using that for from a ownership standpoint or a minimum standpoint. It worked two hours today, but I still gotta charge, two m and then however much. But we we can look at at as we've looked at in the past about separating those out and making it easier for you to define a different minimum for employees versus equipment on rentals. Thank you, Mike. I I I see your additional addition there. Did get a question here from Tiffany. If you copy a time card because it was on the wrong day, how do you bring over the pictures to a new time card, or to the new day, basically? Short answer is you can't. There is no ability to do that. We kind of lock things down, especially from the standpoint of time cards, diaries, photos. Once it's sent in, it's pretty much locked in place. With time cards and diaries, you do have the ability to make a change, to revise it, but that initial version is always there, which means when you're doing a time card that's been sent in on the wrong day, you are literally having to go and, a, copy it into place in on the correct day and then revise the existing one and zero it out. With photos, we have no such option. There is no revisions. There is no moving it. There's nothing like that. From an auto perspective, we like locking things in place. We just, have no ability to revise these things for you. And that is the way it is. Nothing in life is permanent. So if you get some friends, on the call that, wanna wanna strongly encourage us to make some changes, it is not a small change, unfortunately. It's a rather large change, on the back end for us, and would likely not be able to work with our desktop system just the way it is set up, and we know how it's been set up for the last twenty six years now. Wow. But it is something potentially a large change that we can make to the web just depending on whether y'all think it's worthwhile or not. So See, I generally will talk about that like touching a hot oven. You I you only need to learn that lesson once. And so I I encourage, whenever we're doing a foreman training, it's like I always wanna make sure I'm on the right job and I'm on the, the right date. That job is gonna show up pretty quickly when I go to pick Costcos. It's like, what the heck's all oh, crap. This is this is the wrong job. I'm gonna go flip over. But the date, sometimes it's easy to fill everything out and then, crap. That was for yesterday, not for today. So always good to encourage everybody to fill your information out the day of. We default to today to try to to be a good steward and lead you to best practice. So if I'm filling it out today, it's all fresh. I'll remember it. I'll give better information. I'll take fresher pictures. I'll put, good information in, and that way you can see it first thing tomorrow when you're sipping your coffee. So the closer you get to daily entry, the better, and then encouraging, reminding everybody that if you're not doing it today, the first thing you should be looking at is changing the date. You can do that from the home screen. I I wake up I was busy last night. I had an emergency. I ran home. So the first thing I do this morning, I could open up my iPad from the main screen. I can flip back to yesterday, and then I can start filling everything out. But just like touching a hot stove, you only do that once. You know? I don't wanna do that again. I don't wanna have to redo everything I just, I just did. If I haven't hit send, I can move my time card pretty easily. But the other because we know there's a lot to fill out there. But the others, that's a hot stove by design to encourage you to do it right the first time for better or worse. We do have one question that came in. Britney, if you wanted to answer on, tracking LOA cost adjustments. Yes. So, and I'm gonna I used to know what LOA stood for, but I think it's often, our Canadian friends use it, and it's kinda like pretty m. Right? So you got you got a day where your employee is not working, and they still get some kind of allowance for that day because maybe they're out of town, whatever. There's lots of reasons that they could get some money, and usually, we track that with a cost adjustment. So I am fully aware of this problem. It's in the web export to accounting. If you got zero hours, but you've got a cost adjustment on that day, we don't export it. And that's a problem. Totally agree. Something that we have on, the road map for improvements for export to accounting. So, woo hoo. It'll be a little bit of time, but, glad that you're, following up on this. I really hate that you're putting in point zero one hours. That sounds annoying, so we should fix that. So yeah. Got a question from James about safety stuff showing up on the daily report in heavy job. And so I think it was, John that was showing off the daily digest earlier this morning. And you'll notice that we actually do put safety meetings and inspections on there, at the bottom of the daily digest. You can also see that the PDFs for these things do appear there as well, that they'll automatically be added in, if sent in from the field. You can see the thumbnail for the PDF on the daily report. However, it doesn't actually open up the way it does on daily digest. So if you wanna look at it live, daily digest time code review with the little miniature daily digest section under there is the best way of doing it. Otherwise, if you need something that's actually printable, like, you're actually going to send it off to somebody, then the photos and docs tool is probably your best bet there. You are able to actually, you know, check the the boxes of PDFs and photos that you want and hit a button, and it just sort of smooshes it all together into a single PDF, that you can then send off to whoever needs it. And, yes, that is a technical term. It smooshes. This is how things work. Combined would also probably not be a bad term either. So that works as well. We already talked about this last month or the month before, but I'm just doubling down on the daily report for those of you that haven't seen it yet. We had a lot of feedback at UGM on photo sizes. So we now have that option to toggle those for those, like, that are sending off PDFs to outside the company where you need, like, a full size image or maybe a medium size, small size. You have a lot more control over that with all of that that fun daily digest information included. So lots of options there, like Adam mentioned. Right. Well, hey. Thanks everyone for joining today. We we had a lot of great questions. We hope you got a value out of the new updates. We look forward to seeing you next month, and everyone have a great rest of your Thursday.