Track the job, not just the invoice.
Keep every quote and every hour under one job. Watch the labor cost build while you work. Then price the next one from what the work actually took, instead of from what you guessed last time.
Start tracking your first job — freeOne job. One place.
Most job-tracking software is built for a crew — a foreman assigning hours, a payroll run, a price per seat. TradeCrew is built for the person who quoted the job, drove to it, did it, and is about to invoice it. That's one job record, holding the quotes you sent and the hours you logged, side by side.
- Pre-BiddingYou have been asked to look at it. Nothing priced yet.
- OpenQuoted, waiting on the customer.
- In ProgressWork has started. This is where the hours go.
- CompletedFinished, invoiced, and costed.
- RejectedDidn't win it — keep it, the number is still worth having.
Five statuses, no workflow builder to configure first.
Log time the way the day actually went
There's no clock to remember to punch. You add the entry when you stop — in the van, at the supply house, or that evening at the kitchen table. Four fields:
What you did
A plain description — "rough-in on the upstairs bath", "return visit for the valve".
How long
Logged in minutes, so a 40-minute service call stays a 40-minute service call.
Your rate for that time
Set per entry, not per job — so an evening service call can carry its own rate.
The date
A job that ran across three weeks still reads as three weeks.
Entries can be edited or deleted afterward, because you'll remember the extra half hour on the drive home. The job keeps a running total of your hours and your labor cost.
Tracked hours become a quote line
This is the part most tools leave to you and a calculator. Pick a quote on the job, apply the tracked time, and TradeCrew writes a single Tracked Labor line into it:
The line total is every entry costed at its own rate and added together — so a job with an evening service call in it doesn't get flattened to one day rate. Log more time and apply it again: the same line updates instead of a duplicate appearing, and the quote total moves with it.
Two ways to use it. Bill a time-and-materials job for exactly what it took. Or quote the next fixed price knowing what the last one really cost you.
What it doesn't do
Time entries save to your account rather than to the phone, so a basement with no bars means logging it once you're back in the van. There's no GPS, no geofence, and nothing tracking where you are. You log the time — it's your record of your own work.
Price the next job from the last one.
Free to start. No card, no monthly fee, no price per seat.
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