Construction projects take well coordinated efforts and plenty of planning for correct time and budget execution. While this is always the goal to make sure your company makes money, we all know it takes more than a close eye to make it a reality. Your construction software stack should work for you and should be complimentary of the different platforms that you use.
While busybusy dominates the construction time tracking space, we want to share our organization features and benefits as well. To help you get your team and tracking organized, busybusy offers industry-specific capabilities around photo documentation, GPS, equipment management and reporting. If you haven’t downloaded the busybusy app yet, you’re going to want to after reading this!
1. A photo speaks a thousand words, whether good or bad words, they tell the story of our work and projects. Photos also do an incredible job of protecting our clients from litigations and providing proof of progress from day to day. Your crews daily mobile time tracking log can be elevated by separating their hours into appropriate job costing buckets and attaching photos to document progress. At the end of every day, the busybusy app requires a photo before employees clock out. The more photos you have, the more support you have when questions and issues arise on your project. The last thing to realize about photos is that photos do an incredible job of conflict resolution between crew members, crew members and their leads, employee versus employer, sub versus other sub, sub versus GC.
- Photos will save you a ton of confusion, frustration and disputes each year.
- They are categorized for the jobsite, project, cost code and employee.
- They are all time and GPS stamped so they can be used in the court of law.
- They demonstrate progress from day to day.
2. Locations services on phones and tablets have come a long way and many of us probably don’t even realize how many applications use our location. Maximizing the impact and use of those services adds more to an already existing organization feature. At busybusy our industry leading GPS features further enhance the abilities of the mobile device location services. Some key features include breadcrumbing, onsite project verification, and location and time based employee reminders.
- Breadcrumbing – From clock in to clock out, see where your employees go on the jobsite and where their time is spent.
- Onsite Verification – Confirm employee location and scope of work based on location. If your mason says he was laying block but he’s been on the other end of the building today, ask for confirmation of his activities and reallocate his time to the appropriate job costing category.
- Reminders – John showed up on site 40 minutes ago and forgot to clock in but luckily his phone noticed he was onsite and sent him a reminder to clock in. There’s also time based reminders if your employees maintain a consistent schedule.
3. If your company owns or rents equipment you’re well aware how critical it is to track and know when and where it is needed or being used. Adding to the benefit of employees, we keep track of your construction equipment in three ways; Location, Time and Use.
- Location – Where is the equipment located and where do you have to collect it from to move it to the next project, or even better, which piece of equipment is nearby to grab it in a pinch.
- Time – How long did the equipment run. For both job costing and maintenance this gives you insights to improve current projects, improve future estimates and ultimately reduce equipment downtime.
- Use – Who’s using it and when is it needed. Knowing how much longer the equipment is needed on a jobsite helps you schedule it’s move to the next project
4. “Yeah. It’s just we’re putting new cover sheets on all the TPS reports before they go out now…” – Office Space 1999
We all hate reports and creating them and remembering what’s changed from version to version. The nice thing is that since 1999 technology and reporting has become very automated depending on your platform. Imagine reports on jobsite activity, time cards, e-signatures and payroll summaries at a click of a button? Unheard of 15 years ago because mobile time tracking platforms were just starting to emerge, this is now a simple feature with huge returns. With busybusy your construction daily reports can be all-inclusive or as simple as one element to meet your specific reporting needs.
To make sure you have what you need in your reports, we:
- Created reports based on input from companies like yours.
- Built out what you need, how you need to see it.
- Provide software designed to increase accuracy of your time tracking capabilities on a jobsite and increased efficiencies, ultimately increasing profits.
- Accurate reporting gives you insights you didn’t have before.
(if you already have those insights, we aim to make it easier)
For every element of your project that we can make better through our time tracking software, we will. Take busybusy for a test run and see how seamlessly you can track project progress through photos, employee breadcrumbs and improvement of job costing accuracy. You’ll enjoy the benefits of seamless employee time tracking and jobsite reports, relieving you of the endless excel charts you struggle to get through.
We are so confident you’ll love the improvements and organization features we’re giving you a 100% money back guarantee for 90 days. Download the construction app now and try it out.
