Concrete Scheduling Software for Masonry and Pouring Crews
Pours planned around deliveries and weather, crews assigned by trade, and site progress recorded where the work is happening.
A pour is an appointment with concrete that will not wait
Most trades can slip a day. A pour cannot: the truck is booked, the mix is made and the crew either has the formwork ready or is paying for concrete it cannot use. Scheduling around that single fixed point is what masonry planning actually is.
Several sites, one set of crews
A masonry contractor rarely runs one job. Crews move between sites during a week, sometimes during a day, and the question of who is where becomes genuinely hard to answer by phone once there are more than three active addresses.
Progress recorded in courses and elevations
Masonry progress is visual and specific. An elevation is up to a level, a slab is poured and curing, a wall is pointed. Photographs taken as the work moves become the record that settles valuations and defect claims.
Hours from sites, not from memory
Site hours are the largest cost in masonry and the least reliably recorded. Start times, travel between addresses and overtime all depend on somebody writing them down accurately on a Friday, which nobody does.
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Why masonry scheduling is harder than the job list suggests
A masonry contractor's week looks, on paper, like a straightforward allocation problem: so many bricklayers, so many sites, so many days. In practice it is governed by three things that refuse to be allocated. Concrete arrives when it arrives. Weather decides whether work is possible. And the trades in front of you decide whether the site is ready at all.
Concrete scheduling software that ignores those constraints produces a plan that is correct on Monday and fictional by Tuesday afternoon. What a contractor needs is not a perfect schedule but a visible one: something that shows immediately what a cancelled pour or a wet morning has done to the rest of the week.
The three fixed points
The delivery
Ready-mix is ordered, batched and delivered on a slot. Miss it and the cost is not just wasted material; it is a crew with nothing to do and a slot that may not be available again for days. Everything else in the plan moves around it.
The weather
Frost, heat and rain all change what can be laid and how it cures. This is the constraint most software ignores entirely, and the one every masonry contractor checks first thing in the morning.
The trade in front
Masonry sits inside somebody else's programme. Groundworks late means masonry late, and the crew that was going to be on that site needs somewhere else to be. Multi-site visibility is what makes that reallocation possible on the day rather than at the end of the week.
Where masonry contractor software earns its money
Not in the plan. In the record. Masonry disputes are about what was built, when, to what standard, and how many crew days it took, and they are settled by evidence collected at the time or not settled at all.
That means dated photographs of each elevation as it rises, the delivery tickets that say which mix arrived and when, and hours that came from a phone at an address rather than from a sheet written on a Friday. A contractor who can produce that in ten minutes negotiates from a different position than one who cannot.
Idle time, the cost nobody invoices
Ask a masonry business where its margin goes and the answer is rarely materials. It is crews waiting: for a delivery that is late, for scaffolding that was not struck, for a site that was not ready. None of it appears on an invoice, and most of it is never counted.
It becomes countable when hours are recorded by site and by day. Suddenly the pattern is visible: one contractor's sites are never ready, one type of job always overruns, one crew spends half its week travelling. Those are pricing decisions, and they need numbers to be made at all.
What this is and is not
Shifton Field Service is workforce and job software for masonry and concrete work. It plans crews and pours, carries the job to the site, records progress and hours, and reports on both. For two people the plan costs nothing indefinitely and includes scheduling, the app, site forms and reporting, with invoicing, inventory, location control and the customer portal charged as modules.
It is not estimating software, it is not a take-off tool and it does not price brickwork. Most contractors keep the package they already use for pricing and use this for everything that happens after the job is won.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can we plan a pour and everything that has to happen before it?
Yes. The pour is a fixed point with its own slot, and the preparation, crew and equipment are scheduled around it. If it moves, what depends on it is visible rather than being remembered by whoever booked the truck.
How do we see who is on which site today?
Assignments sit on a live board by site and day, including crews that split their time between addresses. Moves during the day are recorded as they happen, so the hours per site are not reconstructed afterwards.
What happens on a site with no coverage?
The crew keeps working. The job, its checks and its photographs live on the device, and a groundworks site or a rural plot with no signal makes no difference to what gets recorded.
Can we record progress by elevation?
Progress is recorded against the job with photographs and completed forms, so an elevation, a slab or a section of pointing carries its own dated evidence. That record is what valuations and defect claims are settled on.
Does it include estimating or take-offs?
No. Shifton Field Service plans and records work; it does not price it. Masonry contractors normally keep their estimating package and use this for the crews, the sites and the hours.
Can hired-in subcontract crews be scheduled too?
They can sit on the same board as employed crews, which is the point: the site does not care who employs the bricklayer, and neither does the programme.
What does a small masonry firm pay?
A firm with two on the books uses the free plan for as long as it likes, including the board, the app, site forms and reports. Invoicing, materials tracking, location control and the portal are paid additions.
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