Low-Budget Network-Based Time Tracking Software?

0verkill asks: "I have been charged with the task of finding time tracking software to replace our current manual punch card method of tracking our employees time spent on the job. I would appreciate any feeedback/suggestions from anyone who has experience implementing and/or maintaing this software. Here are the criteria that I'm working with currently: I have a spending range of up to $400-$500; the software should support clocking in/out from more than one network attached workstation; basic report generation -- nothing too fancy but something that covers all the basics; and finally something that is resistant to time tampering (maybe software that could obtain an official time from our servers)."

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Timeclock Plus

[cornice]

No this is not a troll. If you have Windows then try TimeClock Plus. I was about to take some time and write a time tracker system when my boss just purchased this. I was pissed because I thought the project would be fun. It turns out that this software works really well for us and has saved my _lots_ of time. We only have version 3 but it will run in a client server mode and will get time from the server.

Question is What's Good? not What is there?

[extra88]

Google and Freshmeat searches can tell you what exists *if* people describe their software with descriptive terms. The search *won't* tell you if its any good.

Ask Slashdot is a chance to ask a relatively informed population for their advice and experience related to a topic. I think that's exactly what Ask Slashdot is for. Sure, they could ask in other forums like a newsgroup but people go with what they know.

ibutton

[cloudmaster]

www.ibutton.com

Use perl to read from serial/write to network, some more perl to set up a daemon. Everyone gets a button (with guaranteed unique serial number), and blue dots get installed on networked nodes. The buttons are pretty cheap, and the readers are also pretty cheap. You could get 100 people and 100 workstations all running this stuff with hardware costs well below your budget, and have some cashleft over to write the daemons (which would be really simple). You could use the rest of the budget to pay me to write the stuff for you - I'm pretty cheap. :)