Although a simple notion we created, time is a valuable resource that helps up synchronize activities. Businesses also depend on tight schedules to bring constant efficiency. Employees are tracked as well, since they keep a business running and applications like Virtual TimeClock Basic help you record check ins and outs for multiple individuals.

In order to keep security tight, one of the first steps is to create an administrator account. It's the only way to add and manage individuals, so you'd best keep the password safe. Before anything is put in motion, you need to spend a little time in the configuration menu to set up all details, such as employees and payroll settings.

Not too many details are put at your disposal when it comes to employees. Name and address are amongst the common details, with additional ones for different contacts or even social security number. On the other hand, several post-process options are accessed via the dashboard to add even more employee related data, such as hire date, work and pay type, as well as extra notes.

Once all details are filled in, the application is mostly used to monitor times when employees check in and out. So besides individuals, you also need to create custom working hours. This is easily done by specifying active days and hours, with the possibility to take overtime into consideration as well.

Money is another important aspect and this is where the payroll configuration screen comes in handy. Not too abundant, but you can set frequency to one of the preset intervals or define your own, as well as amount, which is also the case for employees.

The application puts a different window at your disposal when all data is in. It displays all created individuals in a list and they, or the administrator account can manually start and end work sessions. There's not a lot of flexibility, not even options to generate reports, but there's an option to export time cards either for directly printing or under the PDF format.

On an ending note, Virtual TimeClock Basic is a neat and simple solution to manage working hours a little better for more efficiency in your business. Creation screens are intuitive and although a bit shallow, these keep you from feeling overwhelmed while managing to provide enough flexibility and details to make the whole effort and experience worthwhile.