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Public Service Announcement: Be wary of products that advertise that they will break the law for you

I was recently surveying our competitors and saw something new – one of them was advertising a new feature that will add employee breaks automatically. This sounds great because we all know that employees prefer not to mark their breaks but… is this actually great for you? Let’s start

From our CEO

“Hi John, Well it appears that the grass is always greener!”

It’s a sad fact that not every client we’ve ever had is still with us. I review the details of EVERY client who leaves us so that we can learn how to keep SYNCrew better than the competition. Recently, a client left to try our Quickbooks Time based on

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New features to make it easier to manage breaks

Since the start of SYNCrew, we have seen that employees are reluctant to mark their breaks in the app. We’re not entirely sure why but it likely falls into some blend of these ideas: They are busy and forget to click the button when they start their break They

From our CEO

Ok, some people don’t care about clock in photos… but they should!

This is sort of a funny thing to me. SYNCrew has a patent on the concept of system with required photo clock in and it’s really been out signature feature over the years. It’s almost always mentioned as a top reason why our clients love SYNCrew. So I was

From our CEO

Anybody can create a SYNCrew account now!

This isn’t something that would get put in any new feature update since it doesn’t impact our current customers. But I want to take a moment to reflect on this for our SYNCrew team. Until today, 100% of SYNCrew clients signed up by speaking to us on the phone,

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New feature: Faster Time Review and Manager Approvals

Worker Time Review was released almost 4 years ago. It was well designed and has stayed mostly the same, with hundreds of thousands of work weeks reviewed as quickly and efficiently as possible. Today, we are adding a few new features so that Worker Time Review will allow managers

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Lock the hours to prevent changes that bypass HR and payroll

Today’s release includes a small new feature that will really help some of our larger clients. Most hours in SYNCrew are added by workers with their app and then never modified. Sometimes, however, a manager needs to make edits and they can do that through the SYNCrew admin portal.

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Replace ANY paper form directly in SYNCrew

Our mission at SYNCrew has always been to help companies operate efficiently to reduce stress and increase profitability. The foundation of that mission is always collecting complex data from the field in a very simple way. From the start, clients have always wanted to customize things to match their

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“We’re fine with paper” – is that right?

For decades small businesses have been using paper timesheets, not only because they are easy to implement but also because they were basically the only option around for workers that don’t come into the same office every day. There is a reason why centralized workplaces have never used them,

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New Feature: Worker Time Review

Since we started building SYNCrew, our goal has been to bring the activity in the field into the office so that everybody is on the same page. Our dashboard and reports are a great way to see that activity but a new client shared that, while they love the