A Time Tracking App for Concrete Contractors, Built Around Pour Days

On a concrete crew, the costly hours are the ones nobody writes down properly: finishers waiting on a slab until dark, a crew standing around for a late truck, a quick stop to pull forms on the way to the next site. JobSnap is concrete contractor time tracking on each worker's phone. It clocks the crew in on site, puts form days and pour days on the right job, and keeps photos of the base and the rebar on the same record.

How a concrete day actually runs

On a pour day the crew is on site before six. Ready-mix is booked for seven, the pump for half past. A flatwork crew is often five or six people: a foreman, two or three finishers and a couple of labourers. If the first truck is 40 minutes late, everyone waits on the clock. After the pour the labourers can go, but the finishers stay until the bleed water is off and the slab will take a power trowel. In July that is an hour. In October, under blankets with a heater running, it can be the evening.

Between pours the crew splits. Two people set forms and tie rebar on a garage slab across town while the rest saw-cut yesterday's driveway and strip footings on a third site. Three sites, one truck, and the foreman's memory as the timesheet. The work is priced by the square foot, the cubic metre or as a lump sum, with standby and winter protection as extras.

Where pour-day hours and slab proof go missing

• Finisher overtime. The hours after the pour are the expensive ones, and on paper they become "about 7". Overtime rules vary by province, so the real punch-out time matters.
• Standby time. When the truck or the pump is late, you want to charge for the wait. Without times, it is your word against the GC's.
• What was under the slab. Once the concrete is down, nobody can see whether the base was compacted or the mesh was on chairs. When a slab cracks, that is the first question.
• Cold-weather protection. Blankets and heaters are often an extra. Proving how many days they stayed on takes dated photos and a weather record.
• Short visits and machines. Stripping forms rarely lands on the right job, and the trowel, compactor, saw and heaters move between sites without a log.

How a concrete crew uses JobSnap

• A boundary around every pour. Set a geofence on each site. Workers are clocked in when they arrive and out when they leave, so labourers who leave after the pour and finishers who stay until dark each get their real times. The foreman can also clock in the whole crew at once.
• Hours split by site. Forms on one job in the morning, stripping on another after lunch: the time tracking puts the hours on each job.
• Photos before the concrete covers it. The camera picks the nearest job. Shoot the compacted base, the rebar and the blankets, mark up a photo with an arrow, and find it months later by searching the gallery for "rebar".
• A daily report with the weather on it. The foreman answers three questions: what got done, what caused delays or extra work, and what is needed tomorrow. The daily report records the weather and the crew's hours, and the late truck goes in on the day it happened. You can add a field for cubic metres poured.
• Equipment hours per job. Log the trowel, saw and heaters with equipment tracking, next to labour on the same timesheet.

One crew on one slab at a time can get by with a paper sheet. JobSnap earns its place when crews split across sites and finishing overtime is real money. If you also lay block foundations, see the masonry page.

What it costs

$5 CAD per active employee per month, $20 minimum, every feature included. Two flatwork crews, each with a foreman, three finishers and two labourers: 12 people on the clock, $60 a month. When flatwork stops for the winter and four people stay on for heated basement work, pause the others and pay the $20 minimum. Free 30-day trial, no credit card.

Questions concrete contractors ask

Can I bill truck or pump standby from the app?

Yes, with the record behind the charge: when the crew was on site, the foreman's delay note and the dated photos. You add the line to the invoice.

Does it handle 14-hour pour days?

Breaks and overtime are captured, and regular and overtime hours are separated in the export to payroll or QuickBooks. When overtime starts depends on your province, so check its rules.

Can I see what a slab cost in labour and machines?

Yes. Crew hours and equipment hours for the job sit on the same daily timesheet, so you can set them against what you quoted.