Software for fit-out and finishing companies

Plasterers, floor layers, carpentry and interior fit-out, painters and property maintenance. In your work a job is plenty of hours and little material. The schedule shifts on the day because the trade before you overran. Variations get agreed on the floor. Platrom lets the hours land where they belong: on the job, and not on a timesheet.

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Where it goes wrong today

Four things we hear back in nearly every conversation. If none of them sound familiar, you probably do not need this system.

The hours come in on Friday and on round numbers

Fill in on Friday what you did on Tuesday and you come out at eight hours. Every time. You cannot calculate a cost price out of “roughly”. So you do not know which kind of work was profitable.

The schedule holds until the first setback

The trade before you overruns. The floor is not dry yet. The whole week moves a day. Passing that on costs half an hour on the phone. There is always somebody who did not hear it.

Variations happen on the floor, not on paper

An extra door frame. A wall that had to be sanded after all. Agreed with the resident and not recorded. At final account you cannot make it stick.

Void works are scattered

Twenty small jobs a week for the same housing association. Each with its own job sheet and its own settlement. Together it is a lot of money. There is no overview until the monthly invoice.

What Platrom does about it

With the module named, because a solution without a name is a promise. Everything below is in the system and can be seen in a demo.

Hours on the job sheet, on the day itself

A timer that starts and stops, with breaks and premiums. No timesheet afterwards but the real time on the real job. That gives you a cost price you can actually use.

A schedule that shifts without a round of phone calls

The site manager moves the work order on a day. Everybody working on it sees that on their phone. What is still free that day is on the same board.

Variations signed on the floor

Put it on, get it signed, done. With the date, who agreed it and who signed. At final account that is no longer a conversation but a line.

Void works per home, gathered per client

Every home gets its own job sheet with its own hours. On the invoice they come together per association. Every line carries its sheet underneath. That is the backup a client asks for before they pay.

A week of void works

Eighteen homes and three crews. At the end one invoice, with eighteen job sheets underneath it.

Mon 06:45
The crews see their addresses for the day. Each home says what needs doing and how to get in. No chat group and no list on the van.
Mon 09:20
At the first home the ceiling turns out to be damaged. Photo on and variation on. The association’s clerk of works signs on the screen.
Tue 15:00
The floor at number 14 is not dry yet. The site manager moves that home to Thursday. The crew sees it straight away and brings number 22 forward.
Fri 16:30
Eighteen sheets closed, with hours per home and photos where they were needed. The timer ran them. Nobody filled them in on Friday.
Mon 09:00
One invoice to the association with eighteen lines. Every line carries its sheet. Asking where an amount came from is one click.

Questions from this trade

Does the timer work if somebody is on three jobs in a day?

Yes. The clock runs per job sheet. Somebody at number 12 in the morning and number 30 in the afternoon has two sheets with two times. That is why a weekly timesheet does not work: it cannot carry that difference.

Can we handle premiums for evenings, weekends and dirty work?

Yes, per hour line. They carry through to the cost price and to the invoice. An evening premium does not fall between two stools.

Do our people need a tablet?

No, a phone is enough. The view for the field was built for it. Big targets, few fields and a button that says what it does. Gloves on is the starting point, not the exception.

Questions about price, notice period, integrations and where your data is held are on the pricing page and on Data and security.

Do you work in another trade?

Any technical company with people out in the field and an invoice it has to be able to explain fits here. These are the other four.

Installation companies

Heating, plumbing, electrical, ventilation, cooling and heat pumps.

Contractors and builders

New build, conversion, refurbishment and maintenance contracting.

Roofing, façades and insulation

Roofers, dormers, window frames and façade elements, glazing, solar shading and insulation.

Service and maintenance

Maintenance contracts, call-out service, fire safety and inspections, doors and access, drainage and pipework.

Half an hour, on your own work

Bring one of your own projects. A breakdown, a refurbishment or a contract. We walk it through the system, from enquiry to invoice line.

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