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Gest-Time — Work time management software for businesses

SaaS software enabling businesses to track employee work time, manage timesheets and centralise weekly validation.

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Case study

What the project changed

Built from scratch at Kodeva, where I was a full-stack engineer (work-study) in an agile team from October 2020 to August 2022, working directly with clients. Distributed to businesses by Breizhtic.

  • 20 to 200employees in the SMEs using it
  • In productionstill in use today
  • 3business applications built from scratch at Kodeva, this one included
  1. Before

    • Hours written on paper or in scattered Excel files.
    • Manual re-entry before every approval, a source of errors.
    • Little visibility for managers on the time spent per project or site.
  2. What I built

    • Time entry by day, project, task or site, designed for tablets and field teams.
    • Weekly timesheet approval, with alerts on missing hours or overtime.
    • Leave and time-off management, per-project reporting and Excel and PDF exports.
  3. After

    • Paper and Excel files replaced by a single tool.
    • No more manual re-entry, and more reliable time tracking.
    • Deployed in SMEs with 20 to 200 employees, still in production today.

Project description

Context

Gest-Time is a work time management SaaS application developed within Kodeva, in collaboration with the company Breizhtic, which handled distribution of the solution to small businesses and SMEs.

The project was designed to replace paper timesheets and scattered Excel files with a centralised platform for tracking team working hours.

The application is used by companies to record hours worked, track project progress and simplify timesheet validation.

It was designed to be easy to use on tablets and computers, including by field teams with limited familiarity with IT tools.

Problem

Many companies still track hours using poorly suited systems: paper sheets, spreadsheets or non-specialist tools.

These methods make it difficult to:

  • capture working hours reliably
  • track time spent on projects
  • validate timesheets
  • analyse data for team management.

Managers need a simple tool to centralise information and quickly spot anomalies.

Solution

Gest-Time offers a web application that lets employees enter their working hours by project, task or site, directly from a clear interface suited to tablets.

Employees record their hours day by day, then submit their weekly timesheet for validation.

Managers have a centralised weekly view to validate, correct or reject timesheets as needed.

The system also includes automatic alerts to flag anomalies such as missing hours or overruns.

Key features

  • time entry by day, project, task or site
  • interface optimised for tablet and field use
  • absence management (leave, RTT, etc.)
  • weekly timesheet validation workflow
  • alerts on hour anomalies
  • user and role management
  • project, site and task management
  • detailed reporting by project, task or employee
  • export to Excel or PDF
  • statistics and reports for activity tracking.

The software also allows certain advanced features to be enabled according to business needs, such as travel management, business mileage or hourly cost tracking.

Results

Gest-Time enables companies to centralise work time tracking, improve timesheet reliability and simplify hour validation by managers.

The software provides better visibility on team activity and makes it easier to analyse data for project tracking.

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