Create my accountMargin tracking & profitability
You find out whether a job paid once it’s finished.On a margin down to two points, that’s already too late.
In construction, margins are thin and the biggest cost, labour, is the least well tracked. When the accounts come in, the job is closed: nothing left to fix. Margin isn’t noted at the end, it’s steered along the way.
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What’s really at stake
Profitability isn’t discovered. It’s steered.
A job can be running, the relationship good, and still not be profitable. Often it was mispriced from the start: quoted by guesswork, with no real cost of production. The rest of the time, margin leaks silently, through the hours no one allocates and the small purchases tied to nothing.
of turnover: the net margin in construction. Two points make the year.
figure attributed to the FFB
of a job’s cost is labour, the least well tracked item.
Alobees
the real cost of a worker, charges included, far above their net pay.
Batup
At that level of margin, what you need isn’t one more dashboard. It’s to see, during the job, what others only see at the end.
Where the margin plays out
Four moments where margin slips away.
The margin you find out about too late
The job goes on, all is well, and it’s only at closing that you see whether it paid. Too late to act.
The hours that vanish unallocated
The heaviest item is the least tracked: paper sheets, memory, evening data entry. Every misallocated hour is lost margin, invisible.
The job that doesn’t pay its overheads
Your expenses don’t stop at this job’s cost. The business runs, job or no job: premises, vehicles, insurance, admin. A quote that doesn’t cover its share of those overheads loses money, even when its direct margin looks fine.
Steering blind across several jobs
Impossible to say, at any moment, which job is winning and which is losing, or where to act first.
None of these leaks is fate. Each one shows the moment you track it at the source, during the job.
Each job’s margin, in real time.
Here, a job’s margin doesn’t wait for the end. Price sold, materials, hours: it updates day by day, while the job is running. You see where the money goes while you can still act, not at the accounts.
And it isn’t reconstructed from memory. It rests on what actually happened on site, reported at the source. That’s what makes it accurate, and what makes it credible when you decide.
And your overheads don’t vanish into a blind spot: you track them in the same place. A job has to cover its share, not just its direct cost.
A simple cockpit: the figure in euros, your jobs sorted by risk, planned against actual. You know where to act first.
The margin is accurate because the hours are.
Labour is over 40% of a job. As long as it’s noted in a notebook in the evening, the margin is wrong. Here, each person logs their time, on their job, from the field. The real cost enters the margin on its own, at the loaded rate, not net pay.
Steering shouldn’t be reserved for the most expensive plan.
Elsewhere, real-time margin exists, but the field time tracking that feeds it is often reserved for the most expensive plan, or sold separately. Here, margin and time tracking are in the single plan, for everyone, billed per seat, fairly. No module to unlock, no price on request.
Your margin and your file play out in the same place.
Tracking your margin isn't one more piece of accounting. Margin is the second front of your contract: what it earns you, alongside what it protects. And the same gestures serve both, an hour tied to the right job, extra work recorded as an amendment, a purchase allocated. What makes your margin accurate also makes your file solid.
What we get asked
Steering your margin, in plain terms.
How do I know if a job is profitable?
By tracking its margin while it runs, not just at the end. A job’s margin is the price sold minus materials and the hours spent, at real cost (charges included). As long as that calculation is done from memory or in a spreadsheet at closing, you learn it too late. Real-time tracking, fed by hours logged on site, shows it while you can still act.
How do I track a job’s profitability as it goes?
By tying to each job, as it goes, what it costs: the hours logged (at the loaded rate), materials, purchases. The margin updates on its own, and compares to the quote’s plan. You don’t wait for the accounting result: you see the gap during the job.
Why does my margin leak without my seeing it?
Most often through unallocated hours (the heaviest item, over 40% of the cost), forgotten amendments, small purchases tied to nothing, and a quote mispriced at the start. These leaks are invisible as long as nothing is tracked at the source. Once every hour and every expense is tied to the right job, they show.
Do I need a separate module, or an expensive plan, for time tracking?
No. Field time tracking is what makes the margin accurate: it shouldn’t be a premium module. Here, real-time margin and time tracking are in the single plan, for everyone, billed per seat. No pack to unlock.
Is this payroll software?
No. We track the cost of time spent to compute your jobs’ margin, at the item’s loaded hourly rate. Payroll itself stays with your accountant. This is profitability steering, not salary management.
Is a worker’s real cost their salary?
No, and that’s where many margins are lost. A worker paid net costs, charges included, far more per hour, and doesn’t work all year. The margin is only accurate if it counts the loaded cost, not net pay.
Your jobs deserve to be steered, not merely noted.
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Management software shouldn’t just tell you, at year’s end, whether you made a living. It should show you, job after job, where it’s earned and where it’s lost, while you can still act.