Keep an eye on Profit Margins with Automated Job Costing
Keep an eye on Profit Margins with Automated Job Costing
"With Fieldclix software, we get accurate daily updates on all our job costs, including labor, materials, rentals, subcontractors, and field expenses."
Darrin Wagner, CEO, Test Communications
"With Fieldclix software, we get accurate daily updates on all our job costs, including labor, materials, rentals, subcontractors, and field expenses."
Darrin Wagner, CEO
Test Communications
Test Communications
Establish budgets with automated, accurate job costs
Fieldclix lets you establish a target budget for each project and updates job costs daily to keep your business on track to hit your target margins.
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Establish budgets with automated, accurate job costs
Fieldclix lets you establish a target budget for each project and updates job costs daily to keep your business on track to hit your target margins.
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Don't let any spend
slip through the cracks
slip through the cracks
Fieldclix captures all job costs (labor, materials, vendors and remote purchases) as they happen to give you real-time updates on your total project spend.
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Keep your eye on the prize with P&L Reports
Track Profit and Loss at the Project, Regional, Client, and Corporate level to learn where you're making and losing money.
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Keep your eye on the prize with P&L Reports
Track Profit and Loss at the Project, Regional, Client, and Corporate level to learn where you're making and losing money.
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Keep Track of Your Vendor Invoices
Our new Vendor Invoice Management Dashboard keeps track of your Committed Costs for each Project, Streamlines approvals for Invoices and Field Expenses, and Integrates to your Accounting System for payments.
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Darrin Wagner, the CEO of Test Communications, a growing wireless services company with headquarters in Slidell, Louisiana, had limited visibility into where his company spent money on a day-to-day basis. To support ongoing growth, Wagner realized he needed accurate and timely updates on all project costs. After an extended search, Wagner deployed Fieldclix to get daily updates on project costs. As part of that journey, he identified five essential steps to accurately track job costs to help measure and improve project margins.
1. Use software to track project performance accurately.
Find a software platform that can capture operational and financial data in real time to help make informed decisions. "With Fieldclix, our office and field teams have instant access to the data, reports, and documents they need to perform their job," Wagner said.
2. Establish project budgets, and track costs daily.
Wagner's project managers had limited visibility into the amount of money they were spending on a daily basis. With Fieldclix, his project managers establish an operating budget at the beginning of the project, which receives a review and approval before they spend the first dollar.
3. Redefine roles, and establish measurable goals.
"Fieldclix changed our perspective on the project manager's role and how they are measured," Wagner said. "Now that we can measure with accuracy, everyone knows what is expected and can see how they're performing against their targets and peers".
4. Track locally for global improvement.
While rolling out the new software platform and setting up his measurement program, Wagner realized there were no standards for project performance he could rely on. "The reality is the time required to complete a project differs by customer, by region, by site type, and by project team," Wagner said. Wagner now creates targets based on historical performance and sets expectations for improvement at the local level.
5. Keep raising the bar.
With his new operational and financial reporting system in place, Wagner now has the confidence to step out and grow into other markets. Wagner is meeting budgets on 70 to 80 percent of his projects and expects to continue to find opportunities to increase his profit margins by10 percent and beyond.
1. Use software to track project performance accurately.
Find a software platform that can capture operational and financial data in real time to help make informed decisions. "With Fieldclix, our office and field teams have instant access to the data, reports, and documents they need to perform their job," Wagner said.
2. Establish project budgets, and track costs daily.
Wagner's project managers had limited visibility into the amount of money they were spending on a daily basis. With Fieldclix, his project managers establish an operating budget at the beginning of the project, which receives a review and approval before they spend the first dollar.
3. Redefine roles, and establish measurable goals.
"Fieldclix changed our perspective on the project manager's role and how they are measured," Wagner said. "Now that we can measure with accuracy, everyone knows what is expected and can see how they're performing against their targets and peers".
4. Track locally for global improvement.
While rolling out the new software platform and setting up his measurement program, Wagner realized there were no standards for project performance he could rely on. "The reality is the time required to complete a project differs by customer, by region, by site type, and by project team," Wagner said. Wagner now creates targets based on historical performance and sets expectations for improvement at the local level.
5. Keep raising the bar.
With his new operational and financial reporting system in place, Wagner now has the confidence to step out and grow into other markets. Wagner is meeting budgets on 70 to 80 percent of his projects and expects to continue to find opportunities to increase his profit margins by10 percent and beyond.
Case Study - Test Communications
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Is Fieldclix right for you?
Are remote labor hours your biggest cost? Do you struggle to get accurate, timely job costs? Do you have to go to multiple sources for project documents and status?
Fieldclix is built to help Subcontractors, Trades and other companies with a mobile workforce address the unique challenges that come with deploying field resources to multiple project sites every day.
Unlike many other platforms, Fieldclix provides real-time visibility into remote activities and daily updates on progress and costs across all your active projects so you always know where you stand.
Schedule a discussion with a Fieldclix representative to learn more about our features and pricing so you can decide whether we're a good fit for you.
Is Fieldclix right for you?
Are remote labor hours your biggest operating expense? Do you struggle to get accurate, daily job costs? Do you have to go to multiple sources for documents and status across all your active projects?
Fieldclix is purpose-built to help Subcontractors, Trades and other companies with a mobile workforce address the unique challenges that come with deploying field resources to multiple project sites every day.
Unlike many other software platforms, Fieldclix provides real-time visibility into field activities and daily updates on progress and costs across all your active projects.
Schedule a discussion with a Fieldclix representative to answer any questions you have about our features and pricing so you can decide whether we're a good fit for you.
