In today’s digital world, doing anything on printable timesheets creates duplicate work. So much of our project lifecycle is documented in various construction apps, and we need to expand that to include time tracking software. This simple shift from paper time cards to a mobile time clock app has the potential to make substantial differences in how construction crew members manage their time.
Contractors, or humans for that matter, are resistant to change. Change is an unknown variable, and the common mindset is to stick with what we know. Change doesn’t have to be a struggle for your team. A simple shift from paper to a digital time tracking software is easy and will make your team’s job easier.
Go Digital With a Construction Timesheet App
Digital time tracking software can offer time card calculators. A time card calculator helps keep track of billable hours within buckets of funding and keep projects in line with deadlines and budgets. Additionally, a GPS enabled time tracking software, your team can clock in once on site from their mobile device or kiosk. Supervisors have real-time access to see employees clocked in, the tasks they are working on, and the job site location.
Not only does mobile time tracking software keep your field staff aligned, but your administrative staff will save as well. Gone will be the days of compiling time from paper cards or secondary software. When tracked on-site, down to a specific job code, and with the ability to see updates in real-time, it’s hard to find a reason not to switch.
Benefits of Going Paperless
If you haven’t made up your mind yet, let’s dive a little deeper into the benefits of adopting a time tracking software.
Major benefits include:
- Improved historical data for future estimates
- Labor tracked by project and cost code
- Identifying budget constraints (know before you go over budget!)
- Job stats in real-time
- Tracking from multiple devices
- GPS enabled platform
- Billing for exact time spent
- Improved scheduling
When job site data improves, analysis of that data leads to better estimates, less downtime, and improved schedules. A big benefit in real-time data is seen in your budget. When time tracking is done on a digital platform, hours used for scope are updated instantaneously. Project status’ becomes easier to quantify, and earned value calculations are improved.
The Simple Shift
We know digital time cards make job costing better and the multiple benefits they provide for improvement across projects. So, how do we implement them across our teams? In a few simple steps, your teams can be taking strides to improve job costing and increase profits.
- Choose your pilot group – Who is the first crew to test it out?
- Get buy-in. When everyone understands the benefits of a new program, they’re willing to try it and will put effort into proper execution.
- Sign up for busybusy – create administrative access accounts
- Upload user access accounts for your pilot group and import job costing categories
- Distribute directions to pilot group for download and login to busybusy
- Test it out! It’s so easy, the test eliminates time tracking burdens and has more benefits than we even discussed here.
- Review progress and roll out the program for the rest of your organization.
Administrators, supervisors and crew members alike will easily see the benefits and simplicity in using busybusy in their day to day work. Even if a crew member forgets to clock in, busybusy has your back, with GPS enabled software, you can see when a crew member arrived on site and when they left. It doesn’t get much easier than this.
Quick Setup Makes it Easy to Implement Now
Whatever size or stage of your business, construction time tracking software is an easy win to bolster your bottom line. With busybusy we know that time tracking for your team is critical and doesn’t need to be complicated. We are so confident in our platform and the ability to increase profitability for your organization, we offer a 90-day money-back guarantee. Try it out and watch the improvements throughout your crews.
