Budgeted Hours Per Line Item: Track Actuals vs. Budgeted for Techs (Electrical Contractor)

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As an Electrical Contractor we are trying to implement pay for performance to our technicians. We keep running into an issue where we cannot group line items to create services. If we can attach budgeted hours to each service and cross check that between actual hours spent throughout the day via time clock that would be a great report for performance pay for our technicians.

We don't want to separate out hours per service. If we have a big job we will schedule individual services per days to fill the schedule and that also helps our office dispatch correctly based off hours per service.

We do not want to separate out labor and or hide the totals for our clients to fix this. We want to let them know what each total service cost is per line item so they can pick and choose our optional item selections.

energizeus · Answer

Love this for the revenue / profit sharing - would love to see how it works.&nbsp;

brianbe · Answer

There is an integration called Bonus Up. I don't know much about it. I am not affiliated with it in any way. This might be a solution to what you are describing. Right now I am fighting spending allocating my time to jobs properly - the native timesheets do not do a good job.&nbsp;

krista · Answer

Hi Pelect​ Thanks for sharing this—your use case is really clear and makes a lot of sense. Being able to assign budgeted hours to individual services and compare them against actual hours worked would be a powerful tool for tracking performance and supporting a pay-for-performance model. I also hear you on wanting to keep service pricing transparent for your clients while still managing job planning and scheduling effectively on the backend.
I would love to clarify if you are quoting based on expected labour hours and then charging based on actual labour hours?&nbsp;

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Budgeted Hours Per Line Item: Track Actuals vs. Budgeted for Techs (Electrical Contractor)

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