What “one place” means on a real job
A job tracking system we build follows your job the way you run it:
- The job record — customer, site, scope, who’s on it, where it stands, in your statuses and your words (if your shop says “roughed in,” the system says “roughed in”)
- Scheduling that matches reality — crews and subs on a board the office controls and the field can read; when one thing slips, you see what it pushes
- The field view — each crew lead sees today’s jobs on their phone: address, scope, photos in, notes back; no laptop, no training week
- Change orders that don’t evaporate — scoped, priced, approved and attached to the job, so the argument at final invoice never happens
- Invoicing connected to the job — what was quoted, what changed, what’s owed, one thread
Every person on the crew gets a login, because logins are free on a system you own.
Why not just rent a construction app?
Many shops should — if an off-the-shelf tool fits how you run jobs and the bill stays small, keep it. The rented route turns against you the same two ways it always does: per-user pricing as the crew grows, and the workflow mismatch tax (“the app doesn’t do change orders the way we do, so those stay in email”). When you’re paying monthly AND keeping a shadow system of texts and spreadsheets, the app isn’t running your jobs — you are, around it.
A custom build is priced once: from $5,000 for the base, bigger builds quoted from what you currently spend. After handover, hosting on your own accounts is the only recurring cost. See what we build for construction.