FieldTimesheet gives you a real-time dashboard showing who is working, where they are, how much each job is costing, and whether you are on budget — all before you send the invoice.
Most electrical contractors do not know if a job is profitable until weeks after it is finished. Time entries trickle in on paper or via text. Someone enters them into QuickBooks on Friday. The job cost report runs the following week, if anyone remembers to run it at all. By the time you see the numbers, the crew has moved on to the next project and the overrun is already baked in. You cannot course-correct on a job that ended two weeks ago. This is how contractors consistently underbid — they do not have the labor cost data they need while the work is still in progress.
The end-of-month surprise is a familiar pain. You thought that commercial rewiring job was on track, but when the numbers come in, labor costs are 20% over estimate. The apprentice who was supposed to be on that job for two weeks stayed for three. Two journeymen billed overtime that nobody flagged. The foreman estimated 400 hours total, but the actual number was 485. Every one of these issues was visible in real-time if you had a system watching — but paper timesheets and weekly data entry do not give you real-time anything.
The alternative is a live dashboard that shows you what is happening right now. Not last week, not when the office manager finishes entering timesheets, but right now. Who is clocked in, which job they are on, how many hours have been logged against each project today, this week, and since the job started. When you can see labor costs accumulating in real-time against your estimates, you can make decisions while they still matter — reassign a worker, adjust scope, or have a conversation with the GC before the job goes over budget instead of after.
Simple setup. Immediate results.
Log in from any device — phone, tablet, or desktop. The dashboard shows real-time KPIs at a glance: active workers clocked in right now, total hours logged today, number of jobs in progress, and labor cost summaries. The data updates as workers clock in and out, so what you see is always current. No manual refresh needed.
See who is clocked in right now, which job they are on, and how long they have been there. Spot missing clock-ins before end of day — if a worker should be on-site but is not showing as clocked in, you know immediately instead of finding out on Friday. The crew status view gives you a foreman-level view of your entire operation from wherever you are.
Click any job to see budget versus actual labor hours. Jobs are color-coded by status: green means under budget with room to spare, yellow means approaching the estimated hours and needs attention, red means the job has exceeded the labor estimate and action is needed. This visual system lets you scan a dozen active jobs in seconds and focus on the ones that need your attention.
Generate labor summaries, job cost reports, and time entry exports filtered by date range, job, or worker. Reports can be exported as CSV for payroll processing, client billing, or job post-mortems. Every report pulls from the same real-time data your dashboard uses, so the numbers are always current and consistent across views.
Built specifically for electrical contractors
See exactly who is clocked in, on which job, right now. No calling foremen, no waiting for end-of-day reports, no guessing. If you need to know whether a crew showed up at a job site this morning, the answer is on your dashboard before you finish your coffee.
Every job shows estimated hours alongside actual hours logged. You can see at a glance whether a job is on track, approaching budget, or already over. This comparison updates in real-time as workers clock hours, giving you the earliest possible warning when a job starts trending over budget.
A job that is at 75% of budgeted hours with only 50% of the work done is heading for a 50% overrun. FieldTimesheet's dashboard makes this visible while there is still time to act — reassign workers, adjust the scope with the GC, or flag the issue before the invoice goes out wrong.
Drill into the data any way you need. See all hours on a specific job this month. See a single worker's entries across all jobs. See total labor for the past week. The filtering is flexible enough to answer whatever question you have without exporting to Excel first.
The admin dashboard is fully responsive. Check crew status from your phone while you are on a job site, then pull detailed reports on your desktop back at the office. The same data, the same views, optimized for whatever screen you are using.
Every report in FieldTimesheet can be exported as a CSV file. Send labor summaries to your payroll service, job cost breakdowns to your accountant, or time entry details to a general contractor for T&M verification. The exports are formatted cleanly and ready to use without reformatting.
Traditional time tracking gives you job cost data weeks after the work is done. FieldTimesheet gives you the same data while the work is happening. The difference between knowing a job went 20% over budget after you invoiced and knowing it is trending 20% over while there is still time to fix it is the difference between losing money and managing profitability.
Construction projects are notorious for labor budget overruns, and the root cause is almost always delayed information. When owners and foremen rely on weekly or monthly timesheet summaries, they discover overruns after the damage is done. The Construction Industry Institute has found that real-time labor tracking can reduce project cost overruns by identifying problems while there is still time to course-correct — moving workers between jobs, adjusting overtime, or restructuring task assignments.
For electrical contractors running multiple projects simultaneously, the visibility challenge multiplies. A 20-person crew split across 4 job sites generates hundreds of time entries per week. Without a centralized dashboard showing live labor data against budgets, owners are managing by gut instinct and delayed reports. By the time a foreman reports that a job is over budget, weeks of excess labor have already been spent.
The difference between catching a budget overrun at week 3 versus week 6 can represent thousands of dollars in excess labor on a single project. Real-time dashboards that flag jobs trending over budget give owners the data they need to intervene early — before a profitable fixed-price job turns into a break-even or losing proposition.
Yes. The admin dashboard is fully responsive and works on any smartphone, tablet, or desktop browser. There is no separate mobile app to download. Just log in from your phone's browser and you get the same dashboard with the same data, optimized for a smaller screen.
The dashboard updates in real-time as workers clock in and out. When a worker taps Clock In on their phone, the dashboard reflects their status within seconds. There is no manual refresh or sync delay. Labor hours and cost totals recalculate automatically as new entries are recorded throughout the day.
Yes. Only users with the Admin role can access the dashboard, reports, and company-wide data. Workers with the Contractor role can only see their own clock-in page and their own time entry history. There is no risk of a crew member seeing other workers' rates, hours, or job cost data.
FieldTimesheet includes labor summary reports (total hours by worker for a date range), job cost reports (budget vs actual hours per job), and detailed time entry lists with filtering by date, job, or worker. All reports can be exported as CSV for payroll, billing, or accounting use.
Yes. All reports can be exported as CSV files, which open directly in Excel, Google Sheets, or any spreadsheet application. The exports include all relevant data fields — worker name, job, date, clock-in time, clock-out time, total hours, and hourly rate — formatted and ready to use without cleanup.
Yes, if GPS verification is enabled for your workers. Time entries with GPS data show the clock-in and clock-out coordinates on the entry detail view. This allows you to verify job site presence directly from the dashboard without requesting additional information from the worker or foreman.