Job costing and change-order approvals for an electrical contractor
A commercial electrical contractor learns a job went over budget only when it closes. Change orders are agreed on site and lost in email. The software links timesheets, purchasing and approvals to each job’s budget.
- Type
- Example project · sample data
- Users
- Estimators, PMs, foremen, customers
- Connects to
- Timesheets, purchasing, accounting
- Delivery
- Two phases
The contractor, jobs and numbers shown here are invented: this is an example of how we’d approach the problem.
Budget against progress, per job
Spend is updated nightly from timesheets and purchasing, so overruns show up while there is still time to act.
Sample design · sample data
Finding out too late
Hours are on paper timesheets, materials on supplier invoices and budgets in an estimator’s spreadsheet. Nobody sees all three together until the job is finished.
One record per job
- Budgets imported from the estimate
- Foremen submit hours from their phones
- Purchases matched to jobs
- Change orders priced, approved and signed by the customer
- Nightly budget-versus-progress health for every job
Their way of estimating
Off-the-shelf construction suites were tried, but they forced a different estimating structure and charged per user across 60 field staff. A focused custom tool fits the estimating method the team already trusts.
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