Roll Call is an employee in and out board that runs on an office's PC network.
The main fallacy of in and out boards is people forget to change their status. With Roll Call, you only need to remember to change it when you leave your desk, not when you return. When you click your mouse or type on your keyboard for the first time after being away from your desk, Roll Call will automatically change your status to "desk". If you happen to leave your desk and forget to change your status, Roll Call will change it to "idle" after a given amount of time.
When you remember to change your status, Roll Call makes it easy by allowing you to type a hotkey or select a status from a popup menu that is presented when Roll Call's tray icon is right clicked. For instance, you can define a hotkey to change your status to "lunch", another to "home", etc. No matter what the forefront application is, you can enter a key sequence to change your status. Roll Call's tray icon also graphically represents what your status is.
When you change your status, Roll Call saves you time by defaulting to a reasonable return time. If "lunch" or "break", the current time plus the typical amount of time you take for lunch or a break respectively. If "home", the next business day at your typical arrival time. The calculation of the next business day considers company holidays that you provide and weekends.
You can ask Roll Call to notify you when selected employees return to their desk.
Our Review: Yet another Big Brother wannabe, Roll Call is an electronic time keeper, allowing the employer to keep tabs on who's in, gone home, having lunch, on a break, out or at their desk. It even lets you know when somebody gets back. If you are idle for a given time then Roll Call puts you on to a break. There are hotkeys and a tray icon for quick status changes. If you haven't been snooping then you should try this. This is a new version but no developer details document differences between this and the last release.
This software's licence is Shareware - 21 Days Trial, which means that this program allows a free trial period of 21 days from the installation date. This is not free software. Subject to the author's terms, you are licensed by the author to use this software for evaluation purposes without charge for a period of 21 days. If you use this software after the 21-day evaluation period a registration fee is required.
If you wish to register and receive the full version of this Shareware - 21 Days Trial program, it will cost you US$ 69.00