The day's work, on the phone already in their pocket
Crew is the most restricted role on purpose. It opens the work — today's jobs, tasks, the schedule, daily logs, photos and hours — and none of the commercial side. Less to see means less to explain on the first morning.
This role opens
- Today's view and the schedule
- Projects and tasks assigned to them
- Daily logs and photos
- Time entry
- Messages and project documents
It does not open
- Leads, clients and estimates
- Invoices, POs and bills
- Payments
- Reports
- Crew rates and team settings
These are the actual route guards, enforced on the server — not a menu that hides links.
Adoption is the whole problem
Field software fails for one reason: the people holding the phone did not ask for it. Every extra screen, login step and field is a reason to go back to a text message and a photo.
So the crew role opens a short list. Today's work, the tasks on it, somewhere to log hours, somewhere to put photos and a note about the day. A crew member cannot get lost in a product that only shows them five things.
It installs, but it is not an app store download
BuildersBridge is a web app that installs to the home screen on iPhone and Android and opens in its own window, without a browser bar. There is no App Store or Play Store listing — open the site on the phone and add it to the home screen.
The honest trade: no store download to chase, no update to nag anyone about, and everyone is always on the current version. What you do not get is an app store icon to point at, which some crews expect.
Hours go on the job, not on a dashboard
Time is entered against the day and the project rather than clocked in and out. On a residential site that is the realistic choice — a clock needs every worker to remember it twice a day, every day, and the hours you actually get are the ones someone will enter.
Because each crew member carries an hourly rate, those hours become labour cost on the right job without anyone retyping them into a spreadsheet at month end.
The log is the evidence
A daily log takes a couple of minutes and settles arguments months later: what was done, who was on site, the conditions, and photographs dated at the time rather than found in a camera roll afterwards.
This is the part crews resist and owners are most grateful for. Keeping it short is what makes it happen — the log asks for the day, not an essay.
Questions
- Is there an iPhone or Android app to download?
- Not from an app store. BuildersBridge installs to the home screen from the browser and runs in its own window. Everyone is always on the current version, and there is nothing to update.
- What can a crew member see?
- Their work: today's jobs, tasks, the schedule, daily logs, photos, time entry, messages and project documents. Not leads, estimates, invoices, payments, reports or anyone's rates.
- Does the crew need training?
- The role is deliberately narrow, which is most of the answer. A crew member sees a short list of screens rather than a product built for the office.
- Can crew log time for someone else?
- Time entries carry the crew member they belong to, so hours land on the right person and the right job. Crew rates and team settings are not open to the crew role.