![]() |
| With the Job Tracking module, you can stay on top of key project information in real time, such as production rates, costs, and forecasts. (Click to enlarge) |
Hard Dollar BID*BUILD Job Tracking Module is powerful job tracking software that helps you capture more profit by managing jobs to their successful completion.
With its ability to track every aspect of every job to virtually any level of detail, this Hard Dollar BID*BUILD module provides the job tracking solution you need to:
- Record and track quantities completed
- Track production trends in real-time
- Compare estimated vs. actual vs. forecasted costs
- Track employee and equipment hours
- Produce a variety of reports and graphs
- Share information with your team in real-time
Record and track quantities completed
- Make direct entries of quantities completed for cost items or accounts
- Record quantities completed by period (daily, weekly, or any user-defined time period)
- View quantities completed, and quantities remaining, for each cost item or account
- View the percent complete status for each cost item or account, and for the entire job
Track production trends in real-time
- Automatically calculate As-built Production using timesheet data from the Employment Tracking module, or from direct entries in the Job Tracking module
- View the calculated As-built Production for each cost item or account
- Compare the As-built Production to the Planned Production for each cost item or account
- View production values in more than a dozen different formats (units per day, units per hour, units per man-hour, man-hours per unit, and more)
- Forecast production for the remaining work of a cost item or account using average production to date, most recent production, or any user-defined production rate
- View graphs comparing the As-built, Most Recent, and Planned Production values for cost items or accounts
Compare estimated vs. actual vs. forecasted costs
- Make direct entries of actual costs, by cost category, for any cost item (or cost account)
- Automatically display accrued costs based on the planned cost of each cost item or account and its current percent complete status
- Automatically calculate As-built Costs using timesheet data from the Employment Tracking module, or from direct entries in the Job Tracking module
- View the calculated As-built Cost for each cost item (or cost account), and for the entire job
- Compare the As-built Cost to the Planned Cost for each cost item (or cost account)
- Forecast Cost at Completion for each cost item, and for the job as a whole, by assuming a production rate for the remaining work of each cost item (or cost account)
Track employee and equipment hours
- Automatically calculate As-built Man Hours and Equipment Hours using direct entries or timesheet data from the Employment Tracking module
- Compare and graph As-built Man Hours and Equipment Hours to Planned Man Hours and Equipment hours for each cost item (or cost account), and for the entire job
Produce a variety of reports and graphs
- Reports, including daily foreman reports and cost-to-budget status reports, can be as concise or as detailed as required
- Create, save, and print custom views of Job Tracking data with user-defined sorting and filters
- Print a variety of predefined Job Tracking reports, or send report output directly to Excel, Word, RTF, or Adobe Acrobat PDF files
Share information with your team in real-time
- Share job tracking information with other users on a network, or across remote locations
- Import timesheet data from the BID*BUILD Employment Tracking module
Module Prerequisites
Your company must have at least one license of the following BID*BUILD module(s):
Work Planning & Estimating




