Geofencing
I currently parse my Google Timeline kml files and strip out what I need to confirm my timesheet entries.. However, some timeheet apps now support geofencing.
(Android-centric here)
Updating the terms of service on the Zoho invoice app to allow location sharing and using geofencing Zoho users could mark their Contact's GPS coordinates (multiple sites per Contact) in Zoho. Then, with geofencing, when a Zoho user goes onto a client site a time-entry could be started and an alert generated on the phone. Same process when leaving an area.
I know I am missing quite a bit of detail on this, here are some notes:
- Contacts in close proximity. How to deal with those? Turn off automatic feature per contact would probably help.
2, Require stable GPS readings at a contact location over a set period of time to thwart creating false tickets by passing near another contact location. (You wait at a traffic light in front of contact A while driving to contact B's location).
- Would need to have a pending timesheet entry status and queue/view that user can review/edit automatically created timeshets.
I saw this as I was trying to update my script to become more automatic:
I would be willing to participate in any beta you may have.
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Better description:
https://developer.android.com/training/location/geofencing.html