New — cash-flow forecasting, snagging lists & variation tracking are live. See what's new →
Home/Help/Budgets & costs/Timesheets, hours and day rate
Budgets & costs

Timesheets, hours and day rate

ConstructionPro.io · 19 August 20261 min read

Approved hours × (directory day rate ÷ 8) post labour to the budget. Both pieces are required.

Hours on a timesheet are not spend until they have a rate and a category. Otherwise remaining pretends the labour was free.

Set the directory day rate

On the worker in the project directory, set a day rate for an 8-hour day. That is the figure labour uses — not a hidden hourly field on each row.

Log and approve

  1. The trade logs hours (decimal hours — 7.5, not 750).
  2. You pick the budget category (usually labour or the trade's line).
  3. Approve. ConstructionPro posts hours × (day rate ÷ 8) to Costs and remaining moves.

Without a category or a day rate, approval will not post. Fix the directory, then approve again.

Void or un-approve removes the labour cost so the ledger does not double-count.

Log spend against a category →