A Time Tracking and Job Management App for General Contractors

A general contractor's own payroll is usually small: a site super, a project manager, a few carpenters and labourers. Most of the work on site is done by subcontractors, and most of the risk sits in what happens between them. JobSnap is a time tracking and job management app for general contractors that tracks your own crew's hours by site and keeps a dated record of every day on every job.

How a GC's week actually runs

The super covers two to four sites, spends the morning on the one with the inspection and the afternoon on the one where the framer didn't show. Your own carpenters do blocking, corrections, deficiencies and whatever the subs left undone. Labourers move between sites for cleanup and deliveries. Clients change their minds, the architect issues a revision, the window order is three weeks late. Where it goes wrong:

Delays nobody wrote down. A sub's no-show on Tuesday is obvious on Tuesday. In a delay dispute four months later, it is a memory against a memory.
Extras agreed on site. The client asks for a change during a walk-through, and the change order is written weeks later, if at all.
Your own labour on cost-plus jobs. The client wants backup for every hour billed. A handwritten sheet doesn't convince anyone.
Damage and responsibility. Who scratched the new window? The photo of it intact after install settles that, if someone can find it.

What JobSnap does for a general contractor

A daily report from every site. At the end of the day the super answers what got done, what caused delays or extra work, and what is needed tomorrow. Add your own fields, like which subs were on site and which inspections happened. The report records the weather and pulls your crew's labour hours from the timesheet. Set a due time and choose who gets the daily summary by email. See photos and daily logs.
One feed per job. Photos, documents, daily reports, notes, estimates and invoices in date order. That is what you open when a client disputes a change or a delay.
Your crew's hours, by site. Each site gets a geofence. A labourer who does cleanup at two sites in a day has his hours split between them, with GPS-verified punches behind every line. That is your cost-plus backup. See time tracking.
Progress and damage photos. Photos taken in the app go to the nearest job with the date and the person who took them. Mark up the scratch with an arrow and send it to the sub from your phone.
Your crews scheduled by job. A job can have several blocks of dates, each assigned to a crew, on a calendar, a whiteboard and a planner.
Estimates built from parts. Build a line item from several cost components, carry sub quotes as line items, track each estimate's status, and turn the accepted one into an invoice. With QuickBooks Online, customers, estimates and invoices sync. See estimates and invoices.

Your crew, your subs and the extras

JobSnap tracks your own employees. On a site with a trailer, put a tablet at the door in kiosk mode: it stays locked on the time clock, your whole crew punches in on that one device, and it is included in the same price. For subs on site, note them in the daily report or keep a jobsite sign-in sheet. Write the extra in the daily report the day it comes up, and get it signed with a change order template. Holdback rules vary by province, so check yours before you bill. JobSnap fits residential and light commercial GCs, and renovation contractors.

What it costs

$5 CAD per active employee per month, $20 minimum, every feature included. A GC with a super, a project manager, four carpenters and two labourers pays $40 a month. You pay for your own people using the app, not for your subcontractors' crews. The first 30 days are free, with no credit card.

Questions general contractors ask

Can my subcontractors clock in on JobSnap?

JobSnap is built for your own crew. For subs, track presence in the daily report with a custom field, or with a sign-in sheet at the gate.

Can I back up cost-plus labour with JobSnap?

Yes. The timesheet shows each employee's hours per site, with a GPS-verified punch behind every line, and approved hours export to QuickBooks.

Will the daily reports hold up in a delay dispute?

We can't give legal advice. What JobSnap gives you is a report written the same day, with the date, the weather, the hours and the photos on the same job.