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Keeping Job Costs Straight When You're Running Two or Three Sites in a Day
A one-job day makes tracking easy by default — everything that happens belongs to the one thing you're doing. A day split across two or three sites is where costs quietly get tagged to the wrong job, or not tagged at all, simply because there was no time to stop and think about it.
Read moreWhat to Do When a Job Gets Paused Halfway Through
Weather, a client waiting on their own funds, another trade running late, a change of mind mid-build — jobs get paused for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with your work. The costs still tick on regardless, and a paused job with no running record is the hardest one to price fairly when it finally restarts.
Read moreWhat a Warranty Callback Actually Costs You (and How to Track It)
A comeback under warranty feels like it costs nothing beyond the annoyance — no invoice goes out, so nothing seems to hit the books. It still costs fuel, materials and a morning's labour, and if that cost isn't tracked somewhere, it quietly erodes the margin the original job was supposed to make.
Read moreTracking Subcontractor Costs When They're Working Across More Than One of Your Jobs
A subcontractor working across two or three of your jobs in the same week is normal for anyone running more than one site. Their invoice, when it lands, usually isn't — it's one number for the whole week, and splitting it fairly across the right jobs is where the job-costing habit either holds up or quietly falls apart.
Read moreWhat to Do When You Lose a Receipt After the Job's Already Invoiced
The receipt blew out the van window, went through the wash, or simply never made it out of a jacket pocket before it was binned with the rubbish. The cost still happened. Here's what's actually worth doing once you realise a receipt is gone for good.
Read moreTracking Tool and Equipment Costs Against the Jobs That Actually Use Them
A hired breaker for two days is an obvious job cost — it comes with an invoice. A blade that snaps mid-cut, or the wear on a drill that's used on every job you do, is a cost too, just one that never arrives with a bill attached telling you which job to charge it to.
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