Software for contracting business owners
A remodeling job can begin with demolition and finish with a punch list, with purchases and decisions between those stages. Microtra connects the business records around that work so a contractor can explain the estimate, track effort and prepare the next invoice.
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The everyday details
Kitchen work may include removal, preparation and fitting while excluding specialist work arranged separately. If the estimate does not explain those boundaries, the customer and contractor may expect different outcomes from the same project title.
A different fixture or an additional repair can be discussed while work is underway. When the business record stays unchanged, the final invoice is harder to explain and materials may be bought without a clear approval trail.
Supplier bills, equipment hire and labor costs do not wait until the customer is invoiced. A stack of completed tasks does not show the owner which costs have been entered or which issued invoices remain outstanding.
Parking, access windows, delivery arrangements and the contact on site matter to every visit. Repeating them from memory wastes time and makes it easier for the wrong version of an instruction to reach a worker.
How Microtra helps
Use the tools that fit your day, with your records ready on your phone or on the web.
Use reusable items, quantities and your own prices for labor, materials and agreed project stages. Prepare progress invoices from estimates when appropriate. Microtra does not measure drawings, calculate construction takeoffs or produce project designs.
Explore this featureSave Client details and linked Properties with site context, business notes, estimates and invoice history. Use your own controlled process for security credentials and formal project documentation rather than placing sensitive information in ordinary shared notes.
Explore this featureCreate job appointments, assign staff and maintain task notes as the project develops. Confirm dependencies and outside contractor availability directly. The app keeps your scheduled work; it does not produce an engineered construction program.
Explore this featureRecord job time, expenses and receipt photos, then review the costs behind completed work. Inventory starts off in Trades & construction; switch it on in Modules & terms before using stock records for materials held by the business.
Explore this featureA day in the life
Identify the requested result, existing conditions and work that needs professional assessment. Discuss included stages and exclusions with the client before turning the conversation into a priced estimate.
Review the descriptions, quantities and billing stages. Arrange the first site appointment and the people involved, while checking permits, specialist qualifications and other obligations through appropriate authorities and qualified professionals.
If the client requests additional work, discuss its effect on the agreement and update the estimate before proceeding. Keep the revised business description available so purchasing, site work and billing reflect the same decision.
Compare the stage supplied with the estimate and recorded costs. Share the invoice PDF from your device, record payment received elsewhere and keep remaining work distinct from work already billed.
Your words
Choose Trades & construction when you set up Microtra and these are the labels you start with. Change them, and the tools you use, any time in Modules & terms.
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Compare plansA few useful answers
Microtra does not perform drawing takeoffs, structural calculations or specialist construction estimating. You enter quantities and prices from your own estimating process, then use the app to organize the commercial estimate and resulting invoices.
Progress invoices from estimates are available. Check each invoice against your agreement and the work supplied, keeping earlier billed stages and approved changes clear. The app does not decide contractual entitlement to payment.
Trades & construction uses Job and Client with linked Properties enabled. Stock starts off and must be enabled in Modules & terms before you use it to track held materials.
The app records expenses, payments and business reports backed by a ledger. It does not replace a qualified accountant or determine your tax treatment. Accounting sync is coming soon; review appropriate exports with your adviser.
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