MIP Ideas Portal
Let us know how we can improve MIP. When submitting a request, please be sure to include why the enhancement is useful to you and specifics on how you would use it. Please add screenshots wherever possible. Our MIP team will be reviewing new requests weekly, but please note that it may take more than a week for comments to be moderated depending on the volume of requests. We look forward to your feedback!
Can you make Abila's EWS employee's "Reg" Rates be displayed automatically like you do for "Rate 2"
Abila's EWS does not displays employee's "Reg" Rates. This causes confusion for the employees because they sometimes forget what their normal hourly rate is. I want ...
Request Type EWS Leave Request - Add Add'l Criteria to this HR Code
For the HR Code "Request Type EWS Leave Request" instead of defining this Code with only the Code Name, Title and Status, add additional criteria to select which Job ...
EWS Electronic Timesheet Edit Request
We utilize EWS for timekeeping. Our employees are not allowed to edit their timesheet. When they require an edit due to missed punch, wrong cost ctr, couldn't clock ...
EWS Password reset
Employees should have a "Forgot Password" so that they can manage their passwords when they are forgotten. We spend way too much time re-setting accounts to change ...
Consistent code naming throughout
Instead of using "code" (Employee Info>Earnings Tab>”Code”); "earning code" (maintain>timesheet setup>employee time sheet settings); and "wage code" (EWS Action>time ...
HR Staff should have the ability to reset a EWS user's password
Customers are requesting the ability for HR Staff to reset an EWS user's password in HR or once logged into EWS without entering the information needed to utilize the ...
Make W-4 change requests in EWS IRS compliant.
Form W-4 change requests need to be on an actual Form W-4 or a substitute Form W-4 per the IRS. A substitute Form W-4 must provide the tables, instructions, and ...
Ability to Add Specific Time Stamps/Punches to EWS After The Fact
It would be great if there was the ability to add time worked with specific times referenced (rather than total hours worked) and the system automatically calculate ...
Improvements to Time Entry in EWS
1. When doing time entry in EWS it would be beneficial to have a total for each row, or cost center. This would help easily identify how many hours have been ...
EWS-Manager not able to remove submitted time
Management doesn't want to be able to delete an employees time on timesheet after the time is submitted. Would like the ability to turn this feature on and off.
EWS- Approval toggle
Managers when approving time would like a toggle so that way the can toggle it so they only see time that has not been approved yet.
EWS-Manager Timesheet Approval Form
In the second pane, in order to display a week, each date has to be selected during the period and repeated for each employee. A common date range is needed on this ...
EWS leave request date range
When creating a leave request for vacation it would be nice to be able to do a date range. Currently once vacation leave type is selected the end leave date ...
EWS leave request descriptions carry over into View timesheet
It would be nice if any description from the employee for their leave request gets carried over onto their timesheet after management approval. Right now the ...
Hyperlink from message board in EWS
Would like to see when a message to approve a leave request hits the message board that there is a button to push that sends the manager directly to the employee ...
EWS leave time calculation
Would be a huge benefit if when requesting vacation that is 6 months away to have EWS automatically calculate the leave balance that an employee would have at the ...
Comment section for Timesheet VI in EWS
Would like to see comments added to timesheet VI. My employees need to add work order #'s and other information to validate the time entered into their EWS timesheet. ...
Holidays automatically populate on timesheets
Would be nice if EWS automatically added Holidays to the employee timesheets. Right now lots of employees forget to put Holidays on their timesheets so it causes a ...
Import EWS cost centers
It would be nice to be able to import cost centers into EWS. Beneficial when a new grant cycle starts and I have to create numerous new cost centers for several grant ...
EWS Scheduling/Calendar seen by all employees
It would be nice if the entire organization can see all employees time off schedule. This is extremely beneficial to my employees when wanting to see someone is ...
Lengthen session timeframe
Most of my employees like to keep their timesheet open throughout the day so they can continuously add their time, but EWS time-out so quick that they have to keep ...
EWS Enhancement: Self-Report Ethnicity and Others
There are fields in HR that are required to be reported on and we would like them to be options for employees to self-report in EWS under the Personal Profile. This ...
Lunch Taken Field EWS
It would be helpful if Supervisors and Managers could see the lunch taken field check box when reviewing/approving timesheets in EWS. This would save them time having ...
Have EWS calculate weeks separately in a bi-weekly pay period.
I would like to suggest that EWS calculate each week separately in a bi-weekly pay period. For example the total hours of the first week would be shown before the ...
EWS - Log deleted punches
Keeping the punches deleted by a manager on the timesheet entry log as deleted would be great for auditing purposes.
EWS - Allow Employees to add and adjust Grant hours
Allowing employees to add and adjust grants and hours in the approve timesheet, but not change the total hours would be a nice feature.
EWS - Clock in/Clock out separate buttons
Have Clock in, clock out, lunch out, and return be separate buttons so employees don't accidentally clock in and immediately clock out with a double click.
EWS - Schedule/Leave Groups
Being able to Group Employees on the schedule would be a great tool for managers that oversee multiple departments.
EWS - Export Schedule
Exporting the schedule/leave approvals to an editable format (Excel maybe?) would be nice.
EWS - Indicate Another User has Edited an Employee's Timesheet.
In the approve timesheets section it would be great to have an indication that another manager has altered someone timesheet so it is not duplicated.
EWS - Display Current Hours Worked while an employee is clocked in.
A feature that shows how many hours have currently been worked on the day while an employee is still clocked in would help avoid unapproved (and often unwanted) ...
EWS Manager access to Staff Information
There is no way to restrict the information that a Manager who signs time sheets can see in EWS using the "Staff Information" tab - Including personal information and ...
Distributing hours to more than one Cost Center/detail line during an entry in Time Entry Form I
Distributing hours to more than one Cost Center/detail line during an entry in Time Entry Form I automatically checks the Lunch Taken checkbox for every cost center ...
EWS Timesheet 7 Changed to 5 minute increments
In order to avoid costly employee lawsuits regarding their time being rounded to the quarter hour, we would like EWS Timesheet #7 to be expanded from 15 minute ...
Show submitted in Web Timesheets
I've been bugging managers to approve timesheets as they appear in Web Timesheets as unapproved. However, I've found that most of the time, the employee hasn't even ...
EWS ability to choose what leave type automatically enters time in the timesheet
EWS allows you to put in leave codes in HR Codes. They may or may not have associated "banks" with them. For instance, Vacation or Sick can have a "bank", but maybe ...
Add Hire Date to Employee Profile in EWS
We would like to have the hire date added in EWS under Employee Profile. This would allow employees to view what their hire date is. This would be helpful when ...
Add attachments in EWS timsheets
This would be helpful for things like employees that we don't have them using EWS because they don't have access to the server from their job off site, we could add a ...
Link/limit earning codes to cost centers in EWS timesheets
There are some earning codes that should only be used with specific cost centers and vice versa and so I would like to be able to link the earning codes to cost ...
Increasing character length in Description in EWS
In EWS > Manager tab> Approve Timesheets> adding time for an employee. We have an in-house counsel that uses the description field for documentation of his time. We ...
EWS - Bug with OT Calculation
If the work date starts on Saturday and someone forgets to enter Monday but enters Tuesday-Friday but then goes back to enter Monday and those hours put them into OT, ...
EWS - Create an app for cell phone
I would like to see an app for EWS time entry so that staff who are not in front of a computer all day can easily clock in and out during the day.
Save Default EWS Pivot Table Format
I recommend allowing EWS users to modify and save the default Pivot Table format. For example, there is one very obvious use case for the pivot tables in my ...
Allow Windows Authenticiation (AD) for EWS Login
Most organizations require password changes after a set amount of time. EWS does not follow this requirement, and so our employee's Windows Login password and EWS ...
Allow quarterly W2 Calculation for Auditing
For Auditing purposes we would like to have the option in MIP to calculate W2's at the end of each quarter so that we can pull a report of the information and then ...
California lunch rounding in EWS
In California we are not allowed to round the hours for lunch breaks. We need the ability to turn off rounding for just the lunch period to be compliant with ...
EWS Check/W2 History Averages Rate when multiple detail lines use same wage code
In regards to EWS > Reporting Check/W2 History. If an employee has an earnings code listed multiple times at different rates, the software displays and average rate. ...
Add ethnic dropdown to Personal Tab>Profile Menu in EWS
Include the ethnic dropdown and Hispanic checkbox in the Personal Tab>Personal Profile menu in EWS. This will allow employees to self-select their ethnicity and ...
EWS Leave Calendar
We just got our EWS system up and running. It is wonderful, however, it would be helpful if the leave calendar could be available to selected ...
EWS Leave - Schedule Calendar
It would be nice on the leave calendar to select the leave and see how long someone is out whether it is all day or partial day. We currently are using another ...