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Contractor Workspace

The Contractor Workspace is the firm’s own side of the record — its measurements, its bill pipeline and its money position, kept independently of the department’s books so the two can be compared line by line. It opens from the Contractor Workspace menu; your administrator grants access per account.

Works

Each work carries its agreement details and full schedule of items at agreement rates. A work can be entered by hand, imported from a tender BoQ, or — for a work estimated in this very suite — adopted in one step from the finalised agreement (Agreement › Adopt into the workspace): the schedule arrives at the awarded rates, marked “from the estimator” with its work code.

Site measurements

Record measurements as the work proceeds — date, location, description and the count × length × width × depth dimensions (expressions like 2+1 or 5.5*1.2 are accepted). When the department records the MB, mark the lines recorded up to a date against a bill number; the work’s dial and money tiles follow every entry.

Bills & payments

Raise running-account, advance or final bills for the recorded value and walk each one through its journey — recorded, prepared, submitted, passed, paid — with the date and desk at every step. On passing, the deductions are applied automatically from your rules: the firm-wide standards, or the rates a particular agreement fixes (security deposit, income-tax, GST, labour cess and the rest). The tiles show at a glance what is executed, locked up unbilled, in passed bills, received, and held as security.

Work splitting & petty contractors

A work can be split among petty contractors at internal rates, with their measurements and payments tracked against yours. Internal rates and margins are visible only to accounts your administrator allows.

Site diary & compliance

Keep a dated site diary per work, and the firm’s compliance papers (registrations, insurances, licences) with their expiry dates — the dashboard warns as they fall due.

Tip. Record measurements the day they are taken and mark them recorded when the MB is written — the value of unbilled work on the dashboard is only as honest as the register behind it.