Time Tracking App for Roofers: Hours, Photos and Extras on Every Roof

A roofing crew can tear off and reshingle a house in a day, then lose half the next one to rain. JobSnap is a time tracking app for roofers that clocks the crew in when they pull up to the house, files the photos from the deck under the right job, and gives the office a timesheet that already knows which roof each hour went to.

How a roofing day actually runs

A residential re-roof crew is usually four to six people: a foreman, two or three roofers, and a labourer or two on tear-off and cleanup. The day starts early to get ahead of the heat, with the dumpster or trailer dropped the evening before. Most houses take one or two days. In storm season the backlog can push a crew through three roofs in a week, and a wind or rain forecast can send it to a small repair across town at 10 a.m. instead.

That is where the hours and the proof go missing:

• Split days. Half a day drying in a roof before the rain, half a day on a flashing repair. On a paper sheet it all ends up under one job.
• Dump runs and supply pickups. The labourer who hauls the trailer to the transfer station is off the roof for an hour, and nobody writes it down.
• Extras found during tear-off. Rotten decking, a second layer of shingles, soft spots around a vent. You charge those per sheet or per square, and the homeowner was not on the roof to see them.
• Leaks and claims, two winters later. A homeowner calls about a leak, or an insurer handling a storm claim asks what the roof looked like before you started. The photos are on the phone of a seasonal worker who left in October.

What JobSnap does for a roofing crew

• Clock in at the house. Give each job its address and a geofence. The shift starts when the crew arrives, or the foreman clocks in the whole crew with one tap. When they leave to dry in another roof, their hours go to that job instead.
• Photos of the deck before it is covered. Open the jobsite camera on the roof and it picks the nearest job. Shoot the rotten sheets, circle them, and the photos sit on the job with the date and the name of whoever took them. When the invoice shows eight extra sheets of plywood, you can send the homeowner the eight photos.
• Rain days on the record. The daily report records the day's weather and asks what caused delays. When a two-day roof takes four, the reports say why, and the owner reads them by email without driving out.
• Reshuffle when the forecast changes. The whiteboard has one column per crew. Drag the repair job to the crew that got rained off, and the roofers see where they are going in their own planner.
• Estimates written in the driveway. Save your price per square, tear-off per layer, drip edge and decking per sheet in the cost library. Write the estimate before you leave the homeowner's house, send the PDF with your logo, and turn it into an invoice when the roof is done. See estimates and invoices.
• A timesheet that matches the roofs. Hours by job, overtime separated, and approved hours exported for payroll, including QuickBooks.

If you also do siding and eavestroughs, that is closer to renovation work. The same timesheet covers both.

What it costs for a roofing company

$5 CAD per active employee per month, $20 minimum, with every feature included. Take a roofer running two crews of five from April to November, plus an estimator: 11 active employees, $55 a month. In December, pause the roofers instead of deleting them. If only the owner and the estimator stay active over the winter, you pay the $20 minimum until spring. The 30-day trial is free and does not need a credit card.

Questions roofers ask

Does the geofence still work when the crew is up on the roof?

The boundary is drawn around the property, so the roof is inside it. A punch made outside a boundary is not blocked: it is recorded and flagged for the foreman or the office to review.

Can I show a homeowner or an adjuster the photos?

Yes. Select the photos on the job and share them from your phone, by text or email. Marked-up copies show exactly which sheets or which flashing you mean.

I run one crew of three and I am on every roof. Do I need this?

Maybe not. If you see every hour yourself and rarely bill extras, a paper sheet and your phone's camera can be enough. It starts paying off when you are not on every roof, when extras need proof, or when payroll takes you an evening every week.