Frequently Asked Questions

Standard Time® is $8.99 per user per month — billed monthly with no long-term contract required. A license is needed for every employee who uses the software, including shop floor workers and administrators. View full pricing details.

Standard Time® uses a monthly recurring subscription billed to your credit card. You are charged per user per month. You can add or remove users at any time and your bill adjusts accordingly.

Yes. Download the installer from the Downloads page for a fully functional 30-day trial — no credit card required. You can also request a cloud test site to evaluate the web edition before subscribing.

Yes. Standard Time® is a month-to-month subscription. You can cancel at any time and your access continues through the end of your current billing period.

Yes. Enterprise customers with large user counts qualify for volume pricing. Call 719-488-8697 or contact our sales team to discuss your organization's needs.

Workers scan their employee barcode and a work order barcode to start a job timer. The clock runs until they scan again to stop. All time entries flow into Time Logs where managers can review, approve, and report on actual hours per job.

Yes. Standard Time® is designed for hands-free shop floor operation. Workers can clock in and out using a barcode scanner, RFID tap, phone camera, or voice recognition — no typing required at any step.

The Work-In-Progress (WIP) dashboard gives managers a live view of every active job — showing which employees are clocked in, what they are working on, elapsed time, and estimated completion. It can be displayed on a shop floor TV for the entire team to see at a glance.

Yes. Standard Time® includes granular employee rights that let administrators control which projects and tasks each user can view and edit. You can also designate project managers for specific projects, giving them oversight without full admin access. See the User Setup Guide for a full walkthrough of workgroups, admin rights, and the Rights popup.

Standard Time® supports human resources (employees and contractors), machine resources (equipment and tools), and materials resources (inventory and consumables). Each type can be assigned to any project task with a utilization percentage or hourly rate.

Yes. Standard Time® uses Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling with a full forward and backward pass. Critical tasks appear in red on the Gantt chart, and each task's float is visible as a float bar alongside its task bar. See the Gantt chart guide for details.

Standard Time® supports all four standard dependency types: Finish-to-Start (FS), Start-to-Start (SS), Finish-to-Finish (FF), and Start-to-Finish (SF). Dependency link lines are drawn graphically on the Gantt chart with lag days supported for each link.

Yes. Standard Time® can export schedules to Microsoft Excel, CSV, HTML, Word, and Microsoft Project (MPP) format. You can also import tasks and resource data from Excel and CSV files to migrate existing schedules into Standard Time®.

No. There is no limit on project duration, task count, or date range. Standard Time® handles projects of any scale — from a single-phase job to multi-year programs with hundreds of tasks across nested subprojects and folders.

Uncheck the Active property in the project's Properties panel (Home > Projects, click the project row). This immediately prevents employees from scanning that work order on the shop floor while preserving all historical time logs, task records, and expenses. Move the project to an Inactive folder to keep your active views clean. You can also deactivate directly from the scan station by scanning your username, the work order, then DEACTIVATEJOB. See the full How to Deactivate Projects guide.

Open Home > Users to see the user tree. Users live inside workgroups — right-click any workgroup and choose New User, or select the workgroup and click the green + button in the toolbar. Fill in the username and display name in the Properties panel on the right. See the User Setup Guide for the complete walkthrough.

A workgroup is a container for users that represents a department, team, or shift — for example, Production, Engineering, or Night Shift. Users must belong to a workgroup; they cannot be added directly to the enterprise root. Workgroups can be nested inside other workgroups to mirror your company's org chart as closely as you need.

Check the Admin checkbox in the Users grid to give an employee full administrative access. For finer control, open the employee's Properties panel, scroll to User Experience, and click Rights to open a popup checkbox list of individual feature permissions. The Superuser right lets an admin see all projects even when not assigned to them — useful for plant managers who need visibility across every job.

Uncheck the Active checkbox in the employee's Properties panel. This prevents login and blocks barcode scanning immediately while preserving all historical time log records — so past job costing, payroll, and reporting data remains fully intact. Move the user to an Inactive workgroup to keep active views clean. Do not delete the account; deletion can orphan historical records.