Comet Tracker | Actsoft Inc.

Overview

Take your mobile resource management to the next level with Comet Tracker; a heavy hitting GPS based business management solution that is both highly effective and easy-to-use.

Comet Tracker’s innovative software gives you everything Comet EZ offers, plus so much more. This client-based software (with web access) lives behind your firewall for extra customization and provides the additional security you need to make your business successful.

Comet Tracker is a versatile mobile management tool that will give you an immediate return on your investment. Save HUGE on fuel and maintenance by optimizing routes, minimizing idle/stop time, setting geo-fence parameters with customized polygons, and so much more.

With live GPS tracking on local or satellite maps, monitoring and managing your employees has never been easier. Instantly increase response times with “Drag-n-Drop” dispatching and “Closest-To” features. Reduce excessive overtime with clock-in/out from the field by Supervisor or employee. From accounting to operations, Comet Tracker is there to take the stress out of mobile resource management.

Location Based

Employee accountability is vital to any successful business. ** Comet Tracker** (most current)web-based maps, you can instantly see where your employees are travelling for routing and fuel efficiency. GPS mobile tracking allows you to be in the driver’s seat without being on the road.

Tracking

Monitor one employee or your entire staff with detailed history right at your fingertips.

  • Locate your employees immediately on local or global maps
  • View speed and stop durations of all workers
  • Easily assign “closest-to” worker to an incoming job
  • See places of interest such as nearest gas stations for driving safety
  • Set an unlimited amount of routes to view planned vs. actual routes travelled
  • Integrates with various routing software to improve efficiency

Polygon Geofencing

Save on productivity, fuel, and equipment maintenance by utilizing polygon geofencing. Avoid “outside” jobs with equipment when you monitor assets as they enter and leave specific zones or locations. By managing your production zones, you will see less wear and tear on equipment and a significant reduction in fuel costs.

  • Pinpoint and create up to 30 individual geofence points
  • Works with both standard and satellite maps
  • Know how long a worker stays at a specific location
  • All activity is validated through GPS time/date/location stamp

Alerts & Notifications

Take customer service to the next level with Comet Tracker’s notifications and alerts.

Alerts

It is the duty and responsibility of every driver to obey all traffic laws while on the road. Traveling at unsafe speeds can cost your company money and could potentially be fatal. Cover your assets with an emailed or text alert when your employee is travelling at excess speeds or out of an assigned territory. Alerts allow you to manage and monitor employees without the restraint of a computer.

  • Receive customized alerts to include: excessive speed, idle time, and geo-fence violations
  • Panic button on your employee’s mobile phone immediately sends an alert back to the office when activated – so you can quickly dispatch assistance with GPS accuracy
  • Instantly communicate with your entire team or a specific employee by sending an alert to their hand held device

Email Notifications

Developing and maintaining strong relationships with your customers is one of the keys to driving a successful business. Comet Tracker allows you to increase customer communication without adding extra steps to your daily process.

  • Increase your company’s credibility by sending a customer an email notification upon worker’s arrival or departure of specified landmark such as work site or office
  • Email notifications are sent to your customers to confirm work completed and determine overall satisfaction of the job

Time Keeping

Manual time keeping can be a daunting task. Data entry errors and uncontrolled overtime can cost a company thousands of dollars per year. Take control and receive accurate time records from ** the field. Comet Tracker provides the option of having your employees clock in/out or have the job Supervisor clock the entire team in at one time.** Not only will this instantly improve your bottom line, it will also assist in job bids, timeline estimates and overall project management.

Time Clock

Get an immediate return on investment by implementing wireless time keeping!

  • Collect accurate, tamperproof time records from your employees
  • Track the duration of tasks or jobs
  • Control overtime
  • Eliminate errors and payroll hassles
  • Integrate with numerous payroll systems

Supervisor Time Entry

Keep your payroll costs down and increase productivity with Supervisor time entry.

  • Changing employee data (add or remove) is easily done at the handset
  • View status of all employees at one time – no guess work
  • Eliminate the extra step of employee time verification from Supervisor or Management
  • Clock multiple workers in and out for shifts from single wireless device
  • Eliminate paying for travel time – employees go straight to job site instead of going to main office
  • No need to wait on paper time sheets – Supervisor sends WIRELESS time sheets to payroll for accurate processing each day

Data Collections

Maintaining the integrity of company data is important regardless the size of your business. Translating, reporting, analyzing, and communicating data can be overwhelming. Reports in ** Comet Tracker** make a tedious task into a fast and simple step in your business process. Easy-to-read reporting allows you to evaluate your business practices without becoming overwhelmed.

Reports

Scheduled or On-Demand reports provide you the data in an easy-to-view format that you can save as an excel spreadsheet or PDF.

  • Generate historical driving reports for speed, stops, locations and total mileage
  • Exception reports show when a worker has exceeded a defined speed, stop duration, or has made an unauthorized detour
  • View comprehensive time sheet reports
  • Instantly generate Order Status summary reports
  • Easily set-up your most run reports to send automatically (daily, weekly, monthly, or annually)

Make better business decisions with custom reports in Comet Tracker. Click here for more information.

Wireless Forms

Save money instantly by going wireless! Customize a basic form to fit your company’s needs and send it instantly for faster invoicing. Improve time management of employees with faster and easier form completion.

Completing forms reduces data entry error and improves productivity by eliminating cumbersome trips to the office.

  • Capture accurate data from the field
  • Provide factual data for regulatory and compliance purposes
  • Reduce paper and cumbersome manual processes

Management

Make smarter decisions and be more prepared when dealing with your mobile resources. Understanding how your company moves and performs is critical to its overall success. Whether you review reports daily or monthly, Comet Tracker provides all of the information you need to make those hard business decisions.

Comet Insight

Unleash the power of your mobile resources - Comet Insight is a business intelligence tool designed to retrieve, analyze, and report data in a fast and easy-to-use format.

  • Take raw data and generate a clear visual representation without exporting to another program
  • Discover trends and interesting relationships in your business quickly and easily
  • Visually analyze sales vs. service alongside of employee productivity to maximize operational efficiency

Take your data to the next level with custom designed charts and graphs. Click here to find out more information.

Worker Status

Comet Tracker allows you to manage the communication of workflow processes wirelessly and instantly.

  • Know and understand your workflow process in an instant
  • Employees easily update current status directly from their wireless phone
  • Easy-to-read icons clearly indicate availability
  • Eliminate verbal communications that result in misunderstandings that could cost you money

Scheduling

Organizing your employees, work orders, and productivity has never been easier than with Comet Tracker.

  • Create orders that occur on a scheduled basis
  • Color change alerts update status
  • Increase customer satisfaction with detailed schedule status

Calendars & Profiles

Enhance scheduling with instant visibility and availability and separate calendars for:

  • Workers
  • Assets
  • Vehicles

Work Orders

Take your business to a new level of wireless automation. Increase productivity, operational efficiency, and customer service by creating wireless work orders in Comet Tracker. Send out new jobs to your field employees in seconds and prioritize your incoming orders easily and efficiently. Wirelessly dispatching an order to the “closest-to” employee eliminates lengthy business practices and allows you to send the right person to the job instantly improving customer response times.

Job Dispatching

Comet Tracker’s “Job Dispatching” feature enables your field service team to receive and respond to customer work orders instantly.

  • Quickly and easily dispatch job orders in real time
  • Track job progress from acceptance through completion
  • Replace manual data entry with wireless automation
  • Optimize route by sequencing work orders