LOCATION
Texas
CONTRACTOR TYPE
Specialty
TRADE
Electrical
NO. OF EMPLOYEES
2.000
INTEGRATIONS
Luke Harmon is the Executive Vice President at Prism Electric, a commercial and industrial electrical contractor operating across Texas and Oklahoma. Over the past five years, Prism experienced rapid growth, and leadership knew the old way of tracking time would not scale with where the business was going.
CHALLENGES
Growth Exposed the Cracks in Timekeeping
Before SmartBarrel, thousands of weekly timesheets looked identical, time was routinely rounded and resulted in overpaying workers. They struggled to to tell who was working when and whether timesheets were ever accurate.
Prism’s biggest issues were:
- No reliable time data (thousands of timesheets showing the same generic schedule)
- Overpaying workers due to rounding hours up
- Constantly miscoded time
- Manual errors and payroll reruns
- An outdated timekeeping process that couldn’t scale with business growth
Prism needed timekeeping that could support a busy construction environment without adding admin load or slowing the field down.
SOLUTION
From Thousands of Paper Timesheets to One Dashboard
With SmartBarrel, Prism Electric changed the conversation. Instead of treating timekeeping as something the office fixes after the fact, they made it the employee’s responsibility to manage their time accurately. That shift created immediate accountability and better data quality. A simple and accurate check in process allowed workers to focus on high value activities like their craft, and let SmartBarrel manage their hours.
SmartBarrel gave Prism Electric:
- Immediate solution to mis-coded time
- More precise time capture, eliminating overpaying
- Cleaner data at the source, so leaders can trust the numbers they’re making decisions off
- Scalable timekeeping solutions that scaled with the business
- Freedom from chasing payroll corrections
“We’ve essentially instantaneously eliminated all of that miscoded time.”
RESULTS
Reliable Time Data and a Back Office That Didn’t Have to Grow With the Field
Leadership saw a drastic change in data reliability, and common timekeeping errors were eliminated. Executive teams are now using the most accurate data to make the best business decisions. With accurate timekeeping in place, Prism Electric scaled their field workers while keeping the same back office staff.
Key Results
- Reliable, decision-grade time data replaced generic, rounded timecards
- Eliminated common time leakage due to rounding up
- Reduced miscoded time and
- Improved accountability instantly
- Clear ROI: Prism believes SmartBarrel “paid for itself”
The SmartBarrel Advantage
“We’ve been able to maintain a very constant back-office staff while growing our field forces tremendously.”
Built for Construction Leaders Who Don’t Have Time to Babysit Timekeeping
Prism didn’t need a tool that creates more steps. They needed a system that removes low-value admin work and keeps leaders focused on the work that actually moves projects forward.
What mattered most:
- Accurate time data captured up front, not patched later
- Accountability shifted to the field, where time is created
- Less weekly payroll stress and fewer downstream fixes
- Scales with growth without forcing back-office headcount to
- Turns timekeeping into a lever for better decisions, not a weekly headache
