CMiC is a strong construction ERP: accounting, job costing, project management, payroll and more, relied upon by thousands of contractors.
One area that can complement CMiC is accurate time capture and cost code tracking, prior to data entering CMiC. Some contractors track time and cost codes with foreman time-entry solutions
1099 reporting is how a business tells the Internal Revenue Service about the payments it made to people who are not on its payroll, most often independent contractors and subcontractors.
In construction, that work happens on nearly every project, which makes it a routine part of running a compliant business.
The cost of employee absenteeism in construction looks straightforward on paper: one worker doesn’t show up, one worker’s wages aren’t paid for the day. One less pair of hands. Except that’s not how construction works.
On a jobsite with multiple trades working at once, crews are sequenced. One absent worker
Foundation Software does several things well: job costing, payroll processing, project accounting, and more. However, in order for you to effectively manage payroll, hours and cost codes from the field need to be accurate, easy to collect and always up to date.
When time collection depends on foremen manually entering
A construction daily report app is a digital tool that enables field teams to document jobsite activity: workers present, work completed, weather conditions, equipment usage, safety incidents, and photos, then share that information with project managers, GCs, and other stakeholders in an
Timesheet rounding is a common place practice, legal under the right conditions, and simplifies payroll math. But when the process is inconsistent, never audited, or drifts toward favoring one side, it can turn into a compliance liability.
This guide breaks down the rules, shows what proper and improper rounding look
Prevailing wages are a legal requirement that directly shapes how trade contractors price public work, structure payroll, and document workforce hours for public projects.
For subcontractors bidding on federally funded or state-funded construction, understanding prevailing wage laws is essential. Failing to comply with those laws can mean back-pay obligations, fines,
A fully burdened labor rate is the true hourly cost of an employee, including base wages plus all additional expenses required to keep that worker on the job. This includes payroll taxes, workers’ compensation insurance, health benefits, paid time off, training, equipment, and allocated overhead. While base wages might be
Construction productivity rates have barely moved in decades. While manufacturing output per labor hour has grown roughly threefold since the 1950s, construction productivity has largely stagnated; and in many advanced economies, such as Europe and the United States, it’s actually lower today than it was in the late 1960s.
Timesheet errors in construction occur for a variety of reasons including rounding, estimating, manual re-entry, but the root cause runs deeper than that.
Understanding the cause of timesheet errors starts by assessing how time tracking is set up from day one. When data is collected after the fact, without verification,
AI time tracking is changing the way trade contractors manage labor data, and the shift is long overdue.
For decades, trade contractors running crews across multiple jobsites have depended on manual timesheets to capture hours, assign cost codes, and process payroll. The result has been a predictable cycle of inaccurate
Construction payroll is, in theory, straightforward. Track hours. Apply the right rates. Cut the check.
In practice, it’s one of the most operationally complex processes a trade contractor runs, and the complexity starts in the field.
The problem most construction businesses don’t say out loud: the data feeding their
