How Fit-Out Contractors Can Boost Their Business With Technology
As a Fit-Out contractor, wouldn’t it be easier if you were able to automate repeatable actions and orders?
5 Ways Tech Can Boost Efficiency In Your Landscaping Business
Any one of these tips, all making use of modern technology, will save any landscaper hours a week that could be better spent generating revenue. So let’s dive in.
5 Construction Trends To Look Out For In 2022
2021 brought a number of challenges to the construction sector. Contractors experienced material shortages and price increases due to COVID-19. Looking forward, here are the key construction industry trends 2022 will bring. Let’s take a look at the top construction trends to look out for in 2022. Pressure on the bottom line Smart cities New […]
5 Benefits of Digital Time Tracking In Construction
Traditionally, the tracking of employee hours would have been done on a piece of paper, but times have changed and companies are evolving to use smarter more efficient ways to track employee hours. Seeing a full breakdown of your employee’s hours which is project specific can be incredibly beneficial for a construction company. Let’s take a […]
Cloud or Desktop Software For Construction?
Cloud software is relatively new way of running a business digitally and enables construction companies to perform all of their operations on a bigger scale. Desktop software is being phased out due to its limitations and high cost. Desktop software has been around a long time in business, so people are well aware of it, […]
Automating Invoice Processing In Construction
Invoice Processing is a workflow that has been established by a company to receive and pay incoming bills / invoices. In construction, due to its nature of supplying materials, the volume of monthly invoices to be processed can be extremely high and in turn difficult to manage. Manually keying in invoice data is a time […]
How To Choose The Right Construction Accounting Software For Your Company
In our accounting series of podcasts ‘What is the best accounting software for your construction company’, we discussed Xero, Sage and Quickbooks in detail, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages. Now, we take a look at how you can choose which construction accounting software is best suited to your individual business. Considerations to make before choosing your […]
How Can We Improve Construction Productivity & Profit?
With the ‘new normal’ introducing more restrictions to our labour force, we need to be aware of a potential decline in our productivity. Saving costs by increasing productivity is not an overnight fix. It requires an investment of time and resources to achieve improvements in each area to gain a result. There are many methods […]
What is Livecosts?
We have written blogs on many construction related topics in this series. We thought it would be good to answer a question we get asked the most. Niall Brennan from LiveCosts shares his view on what LiveCosts does and who it was built for. The Idea The Design What does it do? How does it […]
Choosing The Right Construction Accounting Software
After our recent podcast with Stephen Kinch (Kalc Accounting), we at Livecosts thought that it was worth digging a little deeper into this topic. Stephen has been very kind to spend time putting together this detailed blog for our readers. He discusses choosing the right construction accounting software for your business, as well as what […]