For UAE fit-out and MEP subcontractors who run several sites at once and only learn a project's margin after handover, the Construction app is a branded project cost and payment application system that ties crew hours and materials to each project's cost codes and has a draft payment application ready at every cut-off. Unlike Excel BOQs, paper attendance sheets and chat messages, it warns you when a cost code nears its budget and calculates retention, advance recovery and approved variations for you, so you see a loss while there is still time to act.
What the people who run these businesses are trying to get done, what goes wrong today, and what changes.
Against BOQs and payment applications in Excel, attendance on paper, material requests by chat message, and against a generic suite with a module bolted on.
From an imported, priced BOQ to the draft payment application, certification and the tax invoice for the certified amount, with retention release after the defects liability period.
Crew attendance with the location recorded on site, timesheets by cost code, and stock issued to the project, so the cost report and margin forecast stay current.
Bank guarantees with expiry reminders, worker visa and ID expiry, and a check on a subcontractor's Dubai Municipality registration before a PO on a Dubai project.
07:30, the project manager's morning. As our demo tells it; the company and its data are fictional.
The project manager logs in and sees what needs action: a cost code at 92% of its budget, two payment applications waiting too long for certification, a performance bond about to expire, and a site with no daily report yesterday.
On site, the supervisor marks crew attendance in two taps, with the location recorded. The daily site report follows: manpower by trade, work done, photos and issues.
A large material request needs two approvals: the project manager first, then the managing director. Procurement turns it into a purchase order.
At month end the draft payment application is already there. The QS enters progress per BOQ line; variations, retention and advance recovery calculate themselves, and the PDF is ready to submit.
When the certificate arrives, the certified amount is recorded and invoiced. The project cost report shows the overspending cost code and the margin forecast.
See it yourself: construction.renoxium.com ↗, with a fictional company and one-tap sign-in per role. It is reset every night.
Subcontractors in fit-out, MEP, joinery, facade and civil works that run several sites at once for main contractors or directly for clients. They are paid through monthly interim payment applications with retention and variations.
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Excel works for us. Why change?
It works until the QS is on leave. The app warns you when a cost code nears its budget, reminds you of uncertified payment applications and expiring bonds, and keeps labour and materials tied to each project. Your BOQs and worker lists are the migration input.
We already use Tally, Zoho or QuickBooks.
Keep it for the books. The app covers projects, payment applications, attendance, materials and supplier bills, and gives your accountant a VAT summary. Accounting export is on the roadmap.
Our sites have no signal.
The app needs a connection. Without one, the supervisor keeps a paper or photographed list and enters it within the late-entry window. An offline mode is on the roadmap.
Does it produce the WPS salary file?
Not yet. Approved timesheets are exported for your payroll today. Payroll and the WPS file are on the roadmap.
One of ten apps
Built from the same tested modules as the other nine, with its own deployment and database per client, hosted in the UAE. Advise businesses like these? Offer it under your own brand.
Next: Logistics. Every parcel and every dirham of COD, accounted for.
