Another common question that customers/clients will come to us with, is a question around how they can set up live project cost tracking.

How to avoid late subcontractor invoices: a question that we get hit with clients, customers a lot of time and a bugbear of ours when we had our own company as well was that late invoice coming in and disrupting cash flow.

So, we have a lot of customers and clients that will come to us using Xero, Sage, QuickBooks, and will show us how they tend to do things today, tracking projects in those systems.

So, a lot of our customers, a lot of our clients will come to us and ask the question of how they can automate the labour costs against their projects.

So, a common question we are asked by customers is how do I set permission sets that make sense to roles in my company?

So, PO books on site are a bad idea. Why? Because we don’t have a connection point between where the costs are being committed to on the project linked up to any thinking around where the costs are being tracked. 

A common question for us from customers and clients would be how to achieve profitability per project or how to get a real-time view of our profitability per project. This comes down to having simple access to the data that you need when you need it and that comes down to the project structure. Once […]

What we need to do is set up a simple database where we can actually see these listed out in terms of its ownership type or the cost that it requires to the project or to the company.

Tracking labour costs at phase level can be a problem when it comes to us getting an accurate reading of exactly how much our labour is actually costing us on the project.

When it comes to tracking project-specific material prices, this can be a problem because generally we don’t have a way to capture the initial cost quoted from the supplier and then take that information straight from the invoice as it comes in.