Hey,
We are sucessfully using Xora and Method, but there are a couple areas of functionality that we are still looking to work out. These relate to Overtime and Lunch.
For Overtime, it's fairly simple: I want all time above 8 hours a day to count as OT. There is an option under the Method Xora Connector Preferences that lets you set some OT settings, but it doesn't appear to function. I've imported time from Xora where there were 9 or 10 hours worked per day, but it all shows up as Hourly Regular Rate in QuickBooks. One explanation may be that Method is looking at Shift Times rather than Job Time. This would make sense, because we've decided not to use Shift Times in Xora (we only have employees start and end jobs, not start and end shifts, to ensure that all time is allocated to a specific job). Any ideas?
The second questions is regarding our lunch policy. Our worker's take a 1 hour lunch every day, but the company only pays for 30 minutes of it. In other words, we need a way to automatically deduct 30 minutes from a worker's time punches every day (or alternatively allocate 30 minutes of paid lunch among the day's jobs). I know that the easy way to do this would be to have the employees track their Lunch hours in Xora, but I'm looking for a workaround, since this would involve them having to make another punch midway through their lunch break to account for the 30 minutes we don't want on our payroll records. I'm wondering if there is a way to program the following into Method:
1. Count all the jobs completed in a given day by an employee (let's call this number A).
2. Divide 30 / A to get the number of Lunch minutes that need to be allocated per job completed that day (let's call this new number B).
3. Add B to every job completed that day. For example, if an employee completed 3 jobs that day, then each job would get 10 additional minutes.
This way, I can have the employees clock out of their jobs during the entire one hour Lunch Break, and Xora will allocate their 30 minutes of paid lunch to whatever jobs they completed.
Is this too complex to implement?