Four Game-Changing Reasons General Contractors Need Digital Time Cards
Time tracking is a necessary evil—unless it’s done right. At JobPlanner, we believe your team’s hours should power your profits, not complicate payroll. Paper time cards are notorious for errors, slow approval cycles, and flawed job costing. That’s why we’ve integrated mobile, digital time cards directly into our platform, giving general contractors a powerful tool to recapture lost labor hours and ensure precision from the field to the ledger.
Reason 1: Precision Through Mobile Verification
The foundation of fair pay and accurate cost reports is eliminating labor time fraud. Our mobile time cards ensure this precision for general contractors. Employees clock in and out from their mobile devices, often with optional GPS validation. This feature verifies the worker's location upon clocking, ensuring hours are logged only when they are actively present on the correct job site.
Reason 2: Seamless Labor Cost Code Integration
Accurate job costing depends entirely on where labor hours are allocated. We've made this crucial step effortless. Our time cards allow field staff to instantly assign their hours to specific tasks or cost codes. For general contractors, this direct allocation eliminates administrative guesswork and ensures that every minute worked is billed and tracked against the correct budget line item.
Reason 3: Dramatically Faster Payroll Approvals
The end-of-week payroll rush is stressful and error-prone. Our system streamlines the entire process. Digital time sheets are submitted from the field, instantly routed to the correct supervisor for review, and approved with a single click. This rapid digital workflow allows general contractors to finalize payroll quicker and ensure timely submission to accounting, keeping the whole operation moving.
Reason 4: Creating a Defensible Audit Trail
Staying compliant with evolving labor laws, including rest breaks and overtime calculations, is a burden we help manage. Every submitted and approved time entry is logged with an immutable timestamp, creating a clear, digital audit trail. This secure documentation gives general contractors peace of mind, making it simple to retrieve necessary records for internal or external compliance audits.
Switching from paper to digital time cards is one of the quickest ways to improve your construction business's accuracy and bottom line. JobPlanner takes this essential function and connects it directly to your job costing, giving general contractors an immediate competitive edge. Explore how JobPlanner can eliminate payroll headaches, or start your free trial today.