ConstructionOnline™ continues to expand the connection between field activity, project costs, and financial performance. This week’s release introduces Pay Rates for Time Tracking and a new Labor Expenses workflow in OnCost™ Purchasing, giving construction teams a more complete way to calculate, manage, and carry labor costs throughout the project lifecycle.
TIME TRACKING
New: Pay Rates
ConstructionOnline now supports Pay Rates for Time Tracking Shifts, allowing companies to calculate labor costs directly from recorded employee time.
New Pay Rate capabilities include:
- Default Pay Rates for individual Company Users
- Overtime Multipliers and Overtime Rates
- Unique Pay Rates for specific Cost Codes
- Automatic application of Cost Code-specific rates when available
- Tools for copying Pay Rate settings to other Company Users
- Retroactive application of current Pay Rates to past shifts
- User-specific control over available clock-in Cost Codes
- New permissions for viewing and managing Pay Rates
Calculated labor costs are available in the Time Summary view, Time Summary Reports, and related Excel exports.
ONCOST™ PURCHASING
New: Labor Expenses
Now available within OnCost Purchasing, Labor Expenses are a new record type that offers construction teams a dedicated way to document and manage project labor costs.
Labor Expenses can be:
- Generated automatically from Time Tracking Shifts
- Entered manually for subcontracted labor, outside payroll, and/or other labor costs not tied to Time Tracking Shifts
- Filtered by Date Range, Project, Cost Code, and/or Employee
- Formatted in lump sum as a single line item, or broken down into individual line items, organized by Cost Code or Employee
- Linked to corresponding Categories, Subcategories, and Line Items in Project Estimates
- Marked as Billable, making them available for Invoicing
- Used to create Bills and record Payments
A new Labor Expense Cost column also brings linked labor costs into Estimating, while unlinked amounts appear within Unlinked Purchasing Totals.
CHANGE ORDERS
- Targeted Proposal and Contract Reports: Proposal and Contract Reports launched for a specific Change Order from the Column View now automatically correlate to the correct Change Order within the report settings.
CLIENTLINK™ / TEAMLINK™ PORTALS
- Shared File Folder Access: ClientLink and TeamLink Users can once again access folders designated as visible to all Client or Subcontractors through their respective portals.
PHOTOSTREAM
- Drag-and-Drop Photo Downloads: Images can now be downloaded from the Recent Files & Photos Photostream by dragging them directly to the desktop or to a desktop folder.
COMPANY REPORTING
- Flexible Selections Reporting: Users can now exclude rejected Selections Choices from the All Selections Report, producing a more focused view of relevant project selections.
- Contact-Based Change Order Reporting: Change Order Reports can now be filtered by Contact, including—
- Change Order Summary by Status
- Change Order Summary by Type
- Change Order Summary by Reason
- Complete PO Exports: Purchase Order Excel Exports now include all eligible Purchase Orders, including records originally created by Contacts that have since been deleted.
TO DOS
- Reliable Exports for Large Datasets: To Do Exports have been optimized to support larger datasets and extensive Tag information with greater consistency.
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