Trades & job costing: questions contractors ask
What TrackOver does for each trade, in plain terms: excavation bids tied to the job, paving tons, fiber design maps shared with primes, lawn routes billed by the month, and what counts toward job costs.
Trades & job costing
What should software for an excavation contractor actually do?
It should connect the bid to the job. In TrackOver you measure quantities off an uploaded plan sheet, balance cut and fill, and turn the priced bid into an estimate. Once the job starts, stamped photos, machine hours and 811 mark-out dates stay on that same job, so the office and the crew see one record.
TrackOver for excavation contractors →What costs does TrackOver count against a job?
Labor from clocked hours at each person's pay rate, machine time at the machine's rate, materials drawn from inventory, supplier bills, receipts, subcontractor bills, and any cost you type onto the job. Revenue is what you invoiced before tax, and until you invoice, the quote stands in, so a running job still shows a margin.
Job costing and reports →Can TrackOver price an asphalt job and warn me when it runs over on tons?
Yes, with the PavingOps tools. Enter the area, depth and mix and TrackOver works out the tons, then builds estimate lines for milling, base stone, tack coat, trucking and mobilization. As crews log tons placed, a morning alert tells managers about open jobs running over the quoted tons, so you hear before the invoice.
TrackOver for paving contractors →Can I load a fiber design KMZ and let my subs or the prime follow the build?
Yes. Upload the engineering KMZ and TrackOver redraws it as a map your crew can read, with bores, handholes, splices and drops sorted by type. Crews tap a run to mark it built. You can send each sub, GC or carrier its own link, set to view and comment, redline, or full edit, and revoke it anytime.
TrackOver for fiber and telecom crews →How do I bill a mowing route at the end of the month?
Each lawn account sits on a weekly or biweekly day, and the crew logs a cut or skips a rained-out visit. At month end the office turns each account's unbilled cuts into one draft invoice, one line per cut. Billed cuts are stamped so they cannot be billed twice, and skipped visits are never billed.
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