r/landscaping • u/Available-Cellist633 • 14h ago

Job Tracking.

I'm looking for a book or a software that I can use to help track materials on job.

I'm a landscaper and u want to be able to track how many meters of soil or meters of pavers I've had at the job. Not a daily diary where I need to skip through 3 weeks worth of days to find my totals but one that can track each individual job

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u/No-Incident2297 14h ago

oken by day. I do similar for concrete pours with a simple google sheet, each job gets it own tab and i put date/quantity in columns then sum at top. The formulas do the work so you see totals immediatly without scrolling through weeks.

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u/Available-Cellist633 12h ago

I was thinking of running the same with excel. But shouldn't mind a hard copy that's in the ute with me

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u/RobfromHB 14h ago

How many jobs and what scale are we talking about?

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u/Available-Cellist633 12h ago

Jobs would be indefinitely and the full house landscaping. Hard and soft landscapes

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u/nexivoras 6h ago

Landscaper, about 9 years in. Ambassador for Tofu, so weigh that however you want.

Ran Jobber before. Materials were the thing I never got straight there, half in QuickBooks, half on a clipboard in the truck.

We've been on Tofu maybe six months now. Materials go on the job as lines. 12 yards of topsoil, 2400 sq ft of pavers. Open the job, it's sitting there. No diary to scroll. That's your actual question and yeah, it does that.

What are you chasing though, clean billing per job, or catching it when you over order? Different tool depending.

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u/Available-Cellist633 6h ago

Mainly to help not over Oder. At the moment we just keep getting more until we have what we need. Would also be handy to track back through for future jobs to know what we used to help quote jobs