Software for contractors, organised around the bill and the site
A contractor's business runs on two documents: the bill of quantities, which says what the job is worth, and the daily site report, which says what actually happened. Everything else — orders, deliveries, certificates, payroll, the ledger — is a consequence of those two. Software that treats them as attachments to a task list has the model upside down.
The chain, end to end
- 01Price the tender from a structured bill, not a spreadsheet
- 02Convert bill lines into purchase orders without re-keying
- 03Receive material against the order and hold it in a store that knows its balance
- 04Report the site daily, from a phone, with photographs
- 05Measure work in place and certify it
- 06Bill the client, hold retention, recover the advance
- 07Pay subcontractors on the same measurement basis you were paid on
- 08Run payroll for a workforce that moves between sites
What actually changes on the Monday after
- The bill is priced in one spreadsheet and the orders are raised from another
- The store receives what the site says it needs, not what the PO said
- Daily reports arrive as photos in a group chat, if they arrive
- Payroll is rebuilt by hand from three attendance registers
- The certificate is argued from memory
- One bill, priced once; purchase orders raised from its lines
- Suppliers, rentals and the store report against the PO
- The site files its record in five minutes and the office can search it
- Payroll runs off the live roster, advances and letters included
- Valuations argued from the measured bill, not from memory
Committed, spent, certified — three different numbers
Most contractors can tell you what they have spent, because the ledger holds it. Far fewer can tell you what they have committed on open orders, and fewer still can reconcile certified work against it in the same week. Those three numbers together are the project's actual position; any one of them alone is a story.
How a contractor sets up Ofivio
Contractors run Ofivio AEC, the product for architects, engineers and contractors, and add the Build module. The other modules are bought inside Ofivio from OfiMart when the work needs them, and each adds its departments to the same workspace.
- Ofivio AEC brings Studio, Manager, HR and Finance: the drawings, the projects, the people and the money
- The Build module brings Site and Operations: the daily site record, and who is doing what, where, today
- Planning & QS holds the bill of quantities, the rate library, tender bills, snag lists and the completion desk
- Inventory Management brings Procurement and Warehouse: purchase orders, suppliers, rentals, stock in and out, valuation
- Accountant turns Finance into double entry, with the chart of accounts and vouchers
Where to start, depending on what hurts
| What is going wrong | Start here |
|---|---|
| Material variance appears at stocktake | Procurement & store |
| Certificates are prepared from different numbers than the site's | Construction management |
| Retention and advances are tracked by hand | Construction accounting |
| The bill is re-typed at every step | BOQ |
| Nobody can prove what happened on site that day | Daily site reports |
| Payroll is rebuilt from registers each month | Payroll |
Built for measured work, not a schedule of values
Most mature construction software assumes a US-style contract: a schedule of values, percentage completion, and a separate design consultant. Where work is measured and certified against a bill — and where the contractor may also have designed it — that model fits badly. Construction management software in Pakistan is the specific version of this argument.
Who this is not for
If you are on this list, Ofivio is the wrong purchase and we would rather you know now than in month three.
- Heavy civil contractors needing CPM scheduling with resource levelling
- Firms already running a working construction module inside an ERP
- Single-crew fit-out businesses where a task list and an invoice book are enough
- Anyone whose main requirement is BIM coordination
The products behind this
Questions people actually ask
Is this an ERP?
Can we start with just the site side?
Do subcontractors need accounts?
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- Ofivio AEC, explained: one product for architects, engineers and contractorsProducts
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