Projects & Job Costing

Japan makes the main contractor keep a register of everyone working below it, on site — and makes each tier tell the tier above who it engaged. The party who keeps the register is not the party who fills it in, and our supplier portal is already the right channel.

Victoria caps what a builder may hold at each stage as a percentage of the contract price, with the stages defined by what is physically built. Our projects module holds the stages in order and holds no contract price at all.

Singapore's security-of-payment Act defines a day, for every deadline in it, as any day other than a public holiday. Weekends count. That is a third unit of time, and most systems implement two.

A British contractor files monthly, naming each subcontractor, what they were paid, and how much of it was materials. That third figure is defined as what the contractor is satisfied the subcontractor's own materials cost — not a number on any document you hold.

A certified payroll has a period of one week, a scope of one contract, and a signature attesting to three specific things. None is a cost figure — and its most unusual requirement is something this product already does, in the wrong module.

A sprint belongs to a project, and a task can only join a sprint in its own project. For a squad built around one engagement that is invisible; for a standing team carrying a client portfolio it is one cadence turned into four records, four burndowns and four velocities.

Peru sets a monthly valuation cycle for public works with the deadlines written into it — present within the first three days of the following month, supervisor reports within five, entity pays by month end. The binding deadline is not the payment one; it is how fast you can close a month.

A milestone here is a name, a due date, a status and a sort order — the one level between a task and a project that reports cleanly. Turning that date into something that gates, triggers and alerts is an addition we can wire into your workspace.

A project here can pay the people who worked on it, through a document with its own reference, approval and posting date. That is a second way of paying somebody, running beside payroll, and neither one knows about the other.

A project carries one money budget. Its actual cost arrives from four independent streams — logged time, purchases, expenses and stock issued to the job. So the system can say a job is eighty per cent through its money and cannot say which of the four is why.

A task here can carry story points and a sprint, or estimated hours and a milestone, or all four at once. Only one of those vocabularies reaches the cost figures — so which one you plan in quietly decides whether your plan can be costed.

Copying a project rebuilds the whole structure — tasks, subtasks, dependencies, milestones, checklists — and deliberately resets every date, assignment and trace of progress. The list of what it resets is the most opinionated thing in the module, and we can tune it to your templates.