SiteLedger Pro
Custom construction management software
Sites, materials, labour, costing and payroll in one system.
Built for contractors and developers running several active sites at once, where material moves between godown and site daily, labour is paid on day rates, and nobody can price the next floor until the last one is closed. This is a custom build, shaped around how your firm actually estimates and settles work.
Screens
What it looks like
4 screens from the working demo — the same data you will see if you open it.
The problem
Why this gets built
Most construction firms run on three registers, two WhatsApp groups and one person who knows where everything is. Material goes missing between the godown and the site, labour attendance is reconstructed from memory at month end, and nobody can say what a floor actually cost until long after it is poured.
Who it is for
Fit
Contractors and developers running multiple active sites who need costing they can trust before the project ends.
Capabilities
What the system does.
Site-wise budgets vs actual
Every cost entry rolls up to the site it belongs to, so overrun is visible in week two rather than at handover.
Material stock ledger
Cement, steel, sand and aggregate tracked in and out per site, with reorder alerts before work stops.
Labour attendance & wages
Daily attendance per site with skill-type rates, advances tracked against each worker.
Cost calculator
Area x material rate plus per-worker labour lines, giving cost per sq.ft while the work is still quotable.
Payroll with approve & lock
Monthly wages computed from attendance minus advances, locked once approved so history cannot drift.
Reports that settle arguments
Budget vs actual, stock movement, labour productivity and supervisor performance.
See it running
SiteLedger Pro is a clickable demo — open the modules, browse the tables, see how the screens fit together.
Buying decision
Why off-the-shelf falls short here.
Generic construction packages are written around a Western procurement model: a signed contract, a fixed BOQ, purchase orders against approved vendors, and subcontractors who invoice. That is not how most sites run. Material arrives on a supplier's challan and is reconciled weeks later, labour is a mix of company payroll and contractor gangs paid per head per day, and the BOQ moves while the work is happening.
So the software gets used for the parts that fit and abandoned for the parts that do not. Attendance goes back to a register, material to a diary, and the one place that was supposed to hold the truth now holds a subset of it. The reporting that justified the purchase is reporting on half the data.
A custom build starts from your rate card, your material list and the way your supervisors already record things, then tightens it. The aim is not to make site staff work a new way - it is to capture what they already do accurately enough that cost per square foot is a fact rather than an argument.
Comparison
Packaged product vs a custom build.
The differences that decide it, for this sector specifically.
| Aspect | Packaged product | Custom build |
|---|---|---|
| Bill of quantities | Fixed at import; revisions need a new project | Versioned in place, with variance against the original visible at every level |
| Labour | Employees with monthly salaries | Day-rate gangs by skill type, advances against individual workers, contractor and company labour side by side |
| Material | Purchase orders against approved vendors | Challan-first entry, godown-to-site transfers, reconciliation when the bill eventually arrives |
| Costing | Project-level profit and loss at completion | Site, floor and activity-level cost while the work is still quotable |
| Compliance | Generic document storage | RERA milestone data, labour cess and statutory registers produced from the same records |
| Field use | Desktop-first, site staff excluded | Phone-first attendance and material entry that works on a weak connection |
Integrations
What it connects to.
A system that cannot reach the tools already in use becomes another island. These are the connections this sector normally needs.
Accounting
Purchase, sale and journal entries pushed to Tally, Zoho Books or an existing ERP so the books stay authoritative.
Banking
Statement import for reconciling advances and supplier payments without retyping.
Attendance hardware
Biometric and RFID readers at site gates, or phone-based marking with geofencing where hardware is impractical.
Drawings and documents
Version-controlled storage linked to the activity it belongs to, not a shared drive.
Messaging
Daily progress and stock-alert digests to the WhatsApp or Telegram groups supervisors already use.
How it runs
From first conversation to cutover.
Indicative for a build of this shape. The parallel run is not optional — nothing is retired until the numbers agree.
- 1-2 weeks
Discovery
We sit with your estimator and one site supervisor, take your real rate card and a live BOQ, and map what is actually recorded today.
- 4-8 weeks
Core build
Sites, BOQ, material ledger and attendance first, because those feed everything else. You get a working system with your own data in it, not a demo.
- 2-3 weeks
Field pilot
One site runs on it in parallel with the registers. Every gap the supervisors hit gets fixed before the second site starts.
- 2-4 weeks
Rollout
Remaining sites, payroll and reporting switched on, with the old registers retired only once the numbers reconcile.
After rollout
What changes day to day.
- Overrun becomes visible in week two of an activity rather than at handover, because every cost entry already carries the site and activity it belongs to.
- Month-end wages stop being reconstructed from memory - attendance is captured daily and advances are already netted off.
- Cost per square foot exists while the next block is still being quoted, which is the only point at which it can change a decision.
- Material shrinkage becomes attributable, because stock is tracked per site rather than as one company-wide pile.
Described qualitatively on purpose. We do not publish percentage improvements we cannot attribute to a named client with their agreement.
Questions
Common questions.
How long does it take to build construction management software?
A first working version covering sites, materials, labour attendance and costing typically takes four to six weeks. Payroll and reporting follow once day-to-day data is flowing reliably.
Can supervisors mark attendance without a network connection?
Yes. Attendance is captured on the device and synced when a connection returns, with a visible count of unsynced entries so nothing is silently lost on site.
Does it handle different wage rates per worker and per site?
Yes. Each worker carries a default daily rate by skill type, with a per-entry override when a site agrees a different rate. Every rate used is recorded against the attendance it applied to.