Erin Koets
Every pay period, someone is chasing down timecards, fixing job codes, and re-entering hours by hand. How many hours does that actually take, cycle after cycle? Most subcontractors have never put a number on it. They just know payroll week is rough, and they are not alone in that. It is one of the most … Read more
Every subcontractor tracks things a little differently. Whether that is travel pay rates for employees, certification expiration dates, billing rates per unit, or piece rate payouts. None of that shows up as a standard field in most field management software, because most software wasn’t built around any one of those businesses. It was built to … Read more
Something goes wrong on a concrete pour. A dispute follows. Maybe it is over the number of workers on site that day, or whether weather conditions were documented, or who signed off on the mix design. Your daily report is the first thing anyone is going to ask for. If you have been doing daily … Read more
Both Raken and CrewTracks do daily reports. Both have time tracking. Both are built for the construction industry. So how do you pick? The honest answer is that they are built for different kinds of companies. Which one is right for you depends on what you actually do and who you are running the job … Read more
Most subcontractor owners spend their Fridays doing the same thing: chasing timecards. The crew has been out all week. The foreman has the hours written down somewhere. The office is waiting on them so payroll can go out Monday. And no one in the office actually knows what happened on site this week until someone … Read more
Scaffolding contractors have a documentation problem that most field management apps were not built to solve. You need to know who is on which structure, when they started, and what they completed, every day, across every site. That information is not just operational. It is your liability protection. When something goes wrong on an elevated … Read more
Masonry jobs are bid by the unit: block count, square footage of brick, linear feet of stone. That means your field data has to capture units alongside hours, or your job costing is built on guesswork. Most time tracking apps do not do this. They were designed for office workers and service businesses. Here is … Read more
GPS time tracking for construction crews has a reputation that is more complicated than it needs to be. Owners hear “GPS tracking” and picture a surveillance system. Crews hear it and wonder if they are being watched all day. Neither picture is accurate. Here is what GPS time tracking actually does, and what it does … Read more
Most time tracking apps were designed for offices, retail, and service businesses, not for a 20-person masonry crew working a job site without reliable cell signal. The gap between what those apps offer and what a subcontractor actually needs shows up fast. Before you commit to any software, here is a framework for evaluating whether … Read more
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