Features
Everything it does, written out.
No feature gating between plans and nothing on this page is a roadmap item — if it is listed here it is built, shipping and included in every tier. The only thing that changes with price is how many Workers you track.
01
Job site photos
A photograph is the cheapest evidence a contractor can produce, and it is worthless if nobody can find it two years later.
- Photos belong to the property, not the phone
- Every shot lands on the Site it was taken at. The history survives the job, the season and the worker who took it — including photos from the estimate visit, months before the work was won.
- Full-resolution originals, never downscaled
- The file that comes off the camera is the file that is kept, at the resolution it was captured. No compression pass, no thumbnail-only tier. That is a permanent storage bill for us and the reason there is no free plan.
- Annotation is a layer, never a burn-in
- Arrows, boxes, freehand, text and measurements are drawn above the photograph. The pixels underneath are untouched, so you can always produce the clean original — which is the version that holds up when an insurer or a lawyer asks.
- Capture with no signal
- The camera works in a basement. Photos queue on the device and upload themselves when there is service, and the app tells you plainly what is still waiting rather than pretending it sent.
- Share without an account
- Send a homeowner or an adjuster a link to a set of photos. They open it in a browser — no app, no signup, no login — and you choose whether they see the clean image or the annotated one.
- Site albums and job filtering
- Browse everything ever shot at an address, or narrow to one job, one day, or one worker.
02
Time and labour cost
Hours that are not attached to a job are payroll. Hours that are attached to a job are job costing, and that is a different business.
- Clock in and out in under three seconds
- One thumb, gloves on, in the sun. The clock is the first thing on the Today screen because it is the thing done most.
- Hours land on a Job and a Cost Code
- Not just a date and a duration. On Sunday night you are reading labour cost per job instead of reconstructing a week from a shoebox of paper.
- A foreman can log time for a worker with no phone
- Proxy entries are recorded as what they are — who logged them, for whom, and when — so the audit trail stays honest. This is why the product is priced per Worker tracked and not per login.
- Breaks, edits and an audit trail
- Break time is recorded separately. Every edit to a submitted entry keeps the original value, who changed it and when — the record a wage dispute actually turns on.
- Approvals before payroll
- An owner or admin reviews the week, approves or sends entries back. Nothing reaches an export unapproved.
- Labour burden, so the number is the real number
- Add payroll tax, insurance and overhead as a burden rate per worker. Job cost then reflects what the labour actually cost you, not just the hourly wage.
- Payroll export
- The approved week leaves as a file your payroll provider or bookkeeper can read.
- Geofence awareness
- Clock-ins record whether they happened at the Site. Recorded and visible, never used to block a worker from starting.
03
Crews and the schedule
Tomorrow gets decided once. Everything after that is retyping, and retyping is where the two-crews-at-one-house mistake comes from.
- Assign workers to jobs, by the day
- A week view of who is where. Change it once and everyone sees the change — nobody re-reads a message thread to work out where to drive.
- Crews as named groups
- Build a crew once and assign the whole crew to a job, rather than picking the same four people every morning.
- Roles that actually scope the data
- Owner, admin, foreman and worker. A foreman sees the Sites and Jobs their crew is on and nothing else — enforced on the server, not hidden in the interface. The customer book is admin-only for the same reason.
- Invite by link
- Send a worker a link, they set a password, they are in. No seat provisioning, and no requirement that everyone on the roster owns a smartphone.
- Certifications and expiry
- Track licences, tickets and safety cards per worker, with a warning before one lapses — so you find out in the office, not at a site gate.
04
The work itself
Customers, sites, jobs and cost codes — the spine everything else hangs from.
- Customers, sites and jobs
- One customer has many sites; one site has many jobs over the years. That shape is what answers "what have I done for this person", which a flat job list never can.
- Cost codes, pre-loaded per trade
- Pick your trades at signup and the standard cost codes for them are already there. Painting and remodeling gets you both sets, deduplicated. Edit them or add your own.
- Job status and history
- Every status change is kept with who made it and when.
- Forms and a completion gate
- Build checklists and sign-offs. Mark a form as required on a job and the job cannot be closed until it is filled in — the mechanism that stops a punch list being skipped.
- Field data capture
- Record measurements, counts and readings against a job, not on a scrap of paper in a truck.
05
Built for the conditions
A jobsite is a hostile place for software. Most of what makes this work is invisible until the signal drops.
- Offline is the normal case, not an error state
- Photos, hours and notes captured with no service are saved on the device and sent when service returns. The app says exactly what is queued instead of failing silently or losing it.
- Nothing offline can be lost to a conflict
- Work captured without signal may only ever be added, never edited or deleted. That single rule removes conflict resolution entirely — two phones can never disagree about the same record.
- Interruption-safe
- No flow has to be finished in one go. Put the phone in your pocket halfway through and come back to it.
- Readable at midday, usable with gloves
- Heavy contrast and large targets, tested on a five-year-old Android in direct sun rather than a new phone in an office.
- Alerts that are worth the interruption
- Push for the things that change your day — a schedule change, an approval waiting, a certification about to lapse, an upload that failed.
One more thing
What it deliberately does not do.
It does not write estimates, send invoices or take payments. Those are real jobs and there are good tools for them, and a product that did all of it badly would be worse than one that does three things properly. Crewsome is the record of what happened on the job — the photographs, the hours and who was where. If you need an estimating package too, keep the one you like.
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