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ConstructionOnline™ continues to expand the connection between field activity, project costs, and financial performance. This week’s release introduces Pay Rates for Time Tracking and a new Labor Expenses workflow in OnCost™ Purchasing, giving construction teams a more complete way to calculate, manage, and carry labor costs throughout the project lifecycle.

TIME TRACKING

New: Pay Rates

ConstructionOnline now supports Pay Rates for Time Tracking Shifts, allowing companies to calculate labor costs directly from recorded employee time. 

New Pay Rate capabilities include:

• Default Pay Rates for individual Company Users
• Overtime Multipliers and Overtime Rates
• Unique Pay Rates for specific Cost Codes
• Automatic application of Cost Code-specific rates when available
• Tools for copying Pay Rate settings to other Company Users
• Retroactive application of current Pay Rates to past shifts
• User-specific control over available clock-in Cost Codes
• New permissions for viewing and managing Pay Rates

Calculated labor costs are available in the Time Summary view, Time Summary Reports, and related Excel exports. 

ONCOST™ PURCHASING

New: Labor Expenses

Now available within OnCost Purchasing, Labor Expenses are a new record type that offers construction teams a dedicated way to document and manage project labor costs. 

Labor Expenses can be:

• Generated automatically from Time Tracking Shifts
• Entered manually for subcontracted labor, outside payroll, and/or other labor costs not tied to Time Tracking Shifts
• Filtered by Date Range, Project, Cost Code, and/or Employee
• Formatted in lump sum as a single line item, or broken down into individual line items, organized by Cost Code or Employee
• Linked to corresponding Categories, Subcategories, and Line Items in Project Estimates
• Marked as Billable, making them available for Invoicing
• Used to create Bills and record Payments

A new Labor Expense Cost column also brings linked labor costs into Estimating, while unlinked amounts appear within Unlinked Purchasing Totals.

CHANGE ORDERS

• Targeted Proposal and Contract Reports: Proposal and Contract Reports launched for a specific Change Order from the Column View now automatically correlate to the correct Change Order within the report settings.

CLIENTLINK™ / TEAMLINK™ PORTALS

• Shared File Folder Access: ClientLink and TeamLink Users can once again access folders designated as visible to all Client or Subcontractors through their respective portals. 

PHOTOSTREAM

• Drag-and-Drop Photo Downloads: Images can now be downloaded from the Recent Files & Photos Photostream by dragging them directly to the desktop or to a desktop folder. 

COMPANY REPORTING

• Flexible Selections Reporting: Users can now exclude rejected Selections Choices from the All Selections Report, producing a more focused view of relevant project selections. 
• Contact-Based Change Order Reporting: Change Order Reports can now be filtered by Contact, including—
  • Change Order Summary by Status
  • Change Order Summary by Type
  • Change Order Summary by Reason
• Complete PO Exports: Purchase Order Excel Exports now include all eligible Purchase Orders, including records originally created by Contacts that have since been deleted. 

TO DOS

• Reliable Exports for Large Datasets: To Do Exports have been optimized to support larger datasets and extensive Tag information with greater consistency.