I just read a blog post on CT about some apps for small construction business owners, and I am pretty interested in learning more. Since I don't have too much experience on utilizing apps to manage my biz. Just want some opinions from you guys. Let me know if you recommend any apps. It's better to be free so I can download it and test if I like it. Thanks.
I have been searching high and low for an app that will do the following
Clock In to Job
Clock Out of Job
Generate Invoice and email to customer with invoice showing start and stop time
Im also looking to switch to cloud based accounting, either QBO, Xero, or freshbooks. Im willing to go to whichever one someone makes a good 3rd party time tracking app for since non of them have good built in time tracking.
Some of the apps come close but still non allow you to automatically add stop/start time to the invoice. Toggl comes close itleast keeps track of stop and start and allows you to export it to a spreadsheet. But with there app the intervals that it syncs with freshbooks are ??? so you clock out and your time might show up in freshbooks 5 minutes later or hours later.
So far they all fail miserably. Maybe Im the only person in the world who puts start and stop times on there invoices for jobs that are billed as time and material so if thats the case I guess Ill just stick with my clunky spreadsheets and using 3 different programs to get an invoice out the door. It seems that all of the apps where designed by people who have never actually done any work in the field. If someone has a good solution please let me know
Unless Im overlooking something I dont think it will show the start and stop time only the duration. It will let you add about every other detail though.
Friend of mine just told me about this site. Saw this. So basically I have a carpentry background and am a GC. Made my own app for my company, people like it and basically made a business out of it.
It does everything that's wanted in here and is probably the most user friendly thing around. Website is www.site2site.ca , I'm alex - ask me anything I'll respond best I can.
Try Construction Daily Log app; Construction Estimator and Bidding app; Construction Manager app
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