Time, work orders, and billing for electrical contractors.

The problem

1. A service call and a rough-in land on the same scrap of paper, and the office guesses which job to bill.
2. Hours from the truck disappear before Friday, so payroll starts with a round of phone calls.
3. The work order status lives in a text thread. Nobody in the office can see it.
4. PTO is a message the office finds after the week is already closed.
5. The time app on the phone wears another company's name.
6. Someone retypes the day into the invoice, and hours get dropped.

The solution

1. Every hour is tracked against a work order and billed. The hours stay on that order until the job is billed.
2. Payroll takes 15 minutes or less. The weekly summary is already filled in.
3. Time, PTO, and work orders all come from the phone, with the site and the crew on the order.
4. PTO is requested in hours from the phone, and the office approves it before payroll.
5. Your instance is branded with your own logo and colors, and it is set up around your process.
6. Billing reports are ready to invoice. The office does not retype the day.

A service call and a rough-in are both work orders

One day can hold a panel change in the morning and a school addition in the afternoon. If both sets of hours land in a notes app, the office guesses which job to bill. In Contractor Revolution each ticket is a work order: the site, the crew, and the hours logged against it.

The foreman and the helper enter time from the phone. The office sees the same hours on the team list, with the work order named on the row. When the job is done, it stays on the billing list until someone marks it billed. Payroll uses the weekly summary. Billing uses the work order. Those are two different lists, on purpose.

What the phone is for

• Today's scheduled work orders, with the site on the screen.
• Hours logged to that order, with a short note if the day did not match the plan.
• PTO requests, in hours, for the office to approve.

What this is not

It is not a CRM, a dispatch map, or a payment app. It does not build a flat-rate book. If you need those, keep the tool you already use for them. Contractor Revolution is the hours, the PTO, the work orders, and the list of work that still needs a bill.

Your instance carries your logo and your colors. Setup loads the roster, the PINs, the jobs, and the locations, then trains the people who will use it.