Schedule
What is next, what is late, and who is holding it up.
Each job gets a list of milestones with planned dates and the tasks under them. The company schedule puts every job on one screen, so Monday morning starts with what slipped last week instead of a round of phone calls.
Milestones and tasks on the job
A milestone is a stage of the job: excavation, framing, rough-in, drywall, cabinets, final. It has a planned date, an optional start date, a person responsible for it, and a flag for the ones the whole job hangs on.
Under each milestone sit the tasks, each with who is on it, a due date, and a status: not started, in progress, blocked or complete. Blocked is its own status because “waiting on the inspector” is not the same as “nobody started”.
Percent complete that means something
Mark a milestone complete and the job’s percent complete moves with it. That figure is what your client sees in their portal when you have the schedule switched on for them, along with the milestones and the estimated finish.
Remove a milestone and the client’s progress is recalculated without it. The screen tells you that before you confirm.
The company schedule
Every job on one screen. The office gets a timeline with a bar per job, milestones on their dates, a line for today, and week, month or quarter zoom, with filters for job status, project manager and client. Anything late says how late: “3 days late”, not a red dot you have to hover over.
On a phone it is a list, because a timeline cannot be read on a phone. A field user sees their own work and nothing else, and the page tells them that is what they are looking at.
The schedule your client sees
Switch the schedule on in a client’s portal and they see the milestones, the percent complete and the estimated finish, with a flag when the job is running past it. They do not see your tasks or who is on them. The client who can see the job moving is the client who stops texting you to ask.
Built for how it works in Canada
Today is your business’s today
Whether a milestone is overdue is judged by your business’s calendar day, in the time zone that follows your province, Newfoundland and Saskatchewan included. A laptop set to another time zone does not call something late a day early.
Inspections live beside the schedule
Rough-in inspections are what decide when drywall can start. On Growth, permits and inspections are tracked on the same job, so the date you are waiting on is written down next to the milestone it holds up.
Questions builders ask
Is this a Gantt chart?
The company schedule draws a bar per job with its milestones on it, which is the part of a Gantt chart most builders use, with week, month and quarter zoom and a line for today.
Can my client see the schedule?
If you switch it on in their portal, they see the milestones, the percent complete and the estimated finish. They do not see your tasks or who is assigned to them.
Can my crew see what they are on this week?
Yes. A field user opening the schedule sees the work assigned to them, as a list, on their phone.
How is “late” worked out?
A task is late when its due date has passed and it is not complete. A milestone is overdue when its planned date has passed and it is not marked complete. Both are judged by your business’s date, not the device’s.
Which plan includes scheduling?
Every plan, Starter included.
Works with
- Daily logsThe day on site, written from a phone, with or without signal.
- Permits and inspectionsEvery permit with its expiry date, every inspection with its result.
- Client portalA private page for each job. No password for the client to lose.
- Time trackingHours typed in or clocked, approved by you, and posted to the job as labour cost.
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