Superintendents filled out paper daily logs and mailed paper timesheets to the central office weekly. Accounting staff spent days manually typing hours into Sage 300 CRE, resulting in frequent cost-code misallocations and multi-week delays in identifying labor budget overruns on fast-tracked job sites.
Unifying Job Site Daily Logs and Accounting for a Regional Commercial Builder
A commercial general contractor building retail centers and office complexes across three states needed to eliminate paper daily logs and manual time tracking for two hundred field workers.
Challenge
Solution
FlipWorks developed an offline-first mobile field application integrated with Sage 300 CRE. Superintendents record worker hours, equipment usage, and daily site photos on mobile tablets. Data syncs automatically to the central database, where automated validation scripts match entries against project cost codes before posting records to accounting ledgers.
Result
- Automated daily field log and payroll submission across all active commercial job sites.
- Reduced weekly accounting processing time from three days to instantaneous digital audit approvals.
- Provided project managers with daily committed labor cost reports instead of two-week delayed summaries.