For owners whose rollout stalled

Your Crew Won't Use
The Time Tracking App.

You bought it. You set it up. You explained it twice. And the field still turns in paper on Friday. The software is not the problem. The install is.

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What They Say, And What It Actually Means

None of these are laziness. Every one is a reasonable objection to installing a company app on a phone the worker paid for.

On the job site
"I'm not putting a work app on my personal phone."
With BuildCenter
There is nothing to put on it. He texts a number the same way he texts you now. No account, no install, no company software sitting on his device.
On the job site
"My phone's full, it won't download."
With BuildCenter
Texting needs no storage, no data plan, and no current operating system. An eight year old phone clocks in exactly like a new one.
On the job site
"I forgot my password again."
With BuildCenter
There is no password. There is no login screen. The phone number is the identity, so there is nothing for anyone to reset at 6:45 in the morning.
On the job site
"Are you tracking me all day with that thing?"
With BuildCenter
A text captures no location at all. There is nothing on the phone to report a position, so the honest answer to your crew is no. GPS exists only in the optional app, and whether it is on at all is a setting you control. Workers who text are simply not tracked.
In the office
"Half of them just have the foreman punch them in."
With BuildCenter
When clocking in is one word from your own phone, there is no reason to hand it to someone else. Your payroll record stops being one person's memory of who showed up.

Rolling It Out Without A Fight

You do not have to switch the whole company on a Monday. The usual path is one crew, one week.

  • 1
    Pick the crew that resisted hardest
    Not your easiest crew. The one that killed your last rollout. If it works there, nobody else has an argument left.
  • 2
    Add their names and mobile numbers
    That is the setup. There is no device to touch, so there is no rollout meeting and nothing to hand out.
  • 3
    Tell them one sentence
    "Text this number when you get there and when you leave." That is the entire training. There is no keyword list to hand out, because it reads plain language in English and Spanish.
  • 4
    Compare Friday's hours to the paper
    One week of both. The gap between what got texted and what got written down is usually the whole business case.

Send One Text. See If They'd Do It.

You already know whether your crew would download another app. You probably do not know how fast this is until you try it from your own phone.

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