tallytoday
Built for painters & crew-based trades

Track time. Get paid.

Quote the job, clock the crew, invoice the work. Proposals, GPS time tracking, job costs, and AIA-style pay applications or T&M billing — one tool from first estimate to final payment.

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Free for 30 days. Then from $29.99/mo, priced by crew size. No credit card to start.

Hours add up

Every minute lands in the right column.

Crews clock in from the truck. The bars rise in real time as the day goes on — by Friday afternoon there's nothing to assemble.

Hours today
18.6h
↑ 6.3h vs Tue
This week
59.1 hours logged
Wednesday, mid-day — Thu–Sun still to come.
Mon
22.1h
Tue
18.4h
Wed
18.6h
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
Money adds up

Friday's payroll is calculated by Wednesday.

Live pay accrues against each rate's history, with overtime gating at 40h. The line below is the same one your books need on Friday morning.

Payroll today
$649.48
↑ $220 vs Tue
Cumulative payroll
This week vs last
Solid = this week (truncated at today). Dashed = same days last week.
Margin tells the truth

Watch margin live on every fixed-price job.

Labor + materials stack against the contract horizon. Sage = what you're keeping. When it shrinks, you see it before the job's done — not three weeks after.

Larkspur Residence
$45,946
Fixed contract · 15% burned
Cost burn
$7,011 of $45,946
15% of contract · $38,935 left
10.4%
4.9%
85%
Labor$4,771
Materials$2,240
Margin$38,935
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from clock-in to admin dashboard
0h
overtime threshold tracked automatically
1 click
payroll-ready Excel & PDF export

Already running weekly payroll for real crews — 16 workers across two pilot companies.

From first quote to final payment.

The paperwork side of the job — proposals, change orders, invoices, payments — without the paperwork.

01 · Proposal
Larkspur Residence
Exterior repaint · 3 scope lines
$18,400
Accepted by client
02 · Change order
Add garage & trim
CO-2 · locks once approved
+$2,150
Approved · contract adjusted
03 · Invoice
Pay application #3
AIA-style G702/G703 · 32% complete
$6,576
Sent as branded PDF
04 · Payment
Check #1187
Recorded against invoice #3
$6,576
Paid · balance current

Fixed-price jobs bill by AIA-style pay application (G702/G703 format) — schedule of values, retainage, and all. Time & materials jobs bill unbilled hours and receipts by the period. Either way, every shift and purchase can only ever be billed once.

Run the whole crew from anywhere.

The office screen and the app are the same tool — what the crew taps on site is on your dashboard before they have packed up.

Admin dashboard

Your day at a glance.

Who's on the clock right now, hours and payroll for the week, purchases from the field, what you're owed, and what needs your attention — one live screen.

Admin dashboard with a live on-the-clock hero, hours and payroll tiles, tomorrow's schedule, and recent activity.
Log-purchase sheet on a worker's phone — project selected, amount, description, and vendor fields — with a live shift timer running above.
Receipts in the field

Snap a photo. Done.

Workers log a material purchase from the truck — pick the job, punch in the amount, scan the receipt. It lands on the admin dashboard within seconds and rolls up into the right job.

On the dashboard · 4 seconds later
The admin dashboard on a phone — live on-the-clock hero, hours and payroll tiles, who is working now, and what needs attention.
The admin app

The office fits in your pocket.

The same dashboard, on your phone. See who is on the clock, check a timesheet, send an invoice or quote the next job — from the truck, the supply house, or the couch.

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Built for how crews actually work.

The details that make a workday actually work.

AIA-style pay apps & T&M invoicing

Numbered G702/G703-format applications with retainage against a fixed contract, or unbilled hours and materials by the period. GC-ready PDFs, overdraw protection, and every shift billed exactly once.

Real job costing

Contract vs. labor vs. materials on a live burn bar. Labor is priced the way payroll actually pays — overtime and raise history included — so the margin you see is the margin you keep.

Proposals & change orders

Send a branded proposal, get it accepted, and the project sets itself up. Scope changes become numbered change orders that adjust the contract — and lock once approved.

Works with no signal

Basements, steel buildings, the far side of a jobsite — the app saves the clock-in on the phone and syncs when service comes back. It records the time the worker actually tapped, not the time the phone reconnected.

GPS-tagged clock-ins

Every entry shows where the worker tapped clock in or out — payroll you can defend.

Know the moment they open it

A push when your client opens the proposal, and again when they sign. Overdue invoices tell you themselves, so chasing becomes a decision instead of a discovery.

Quote it from the truck

Proposals, change orders and invoices — fixed-price draws or time and materials — written, previewed and sent from your phone. The desk is optional.

A pay statement they can keep

Turn the week into a per-worker statement — days, hours, overtime, rate, total — and hand it over at payday. One worker or the whole crew, from the office or your phone.

Two businesses, two letterheads

Residential under one name and commercial under another? Each brand keeps its own logo, contact details and document design — and every document remembers the one it went out in, so a signed proposal never restyles itself.

Ask for the review while they're happy

Paid invoices carry a QR straight to your Google review page. The best moment to ask is the moment the job is done and the bill is settled.

Live pay preview

Workers see today's earnings tick up in real time. Admins see this week's payroll add up the same way.

Clients & receivables

Every client's projects, invoices, and balance in one place. Overdue balances surface on your dashboard before they become a problem.

Payroll-ready exports

Excel and PDF in one click — per-employee breakdowns, regular vs overtime totals, the works.

Custom clock-in tags

Define your own labels — Prep work, Touch-ups, Inspection — and workers tag each clock-in with a tap. Tags show on logs, timesheets, and exports. And on a T&M invoice the tag’s description becomes the line item, so the bill reads like the work.

Shift scheduling

Plan the week, assign workers, and they see it on their phone with the address ready to navigate — plus a push when a shift is added or moved.

The crew's half of this is an app.

Workers clock in, log receipts and check their schedule from their own phones — no company hardware, no shared tablet by the door. You can run the whole company from yours too: quote a job, send an invoice, check who's on the clock.

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30 days free. Then priced by crew size.

Everything included at every size — proposals, invoicing, time tracking, exports, and the mobile apps.

Up to 5 workers$29.99/mo
Up to 10 workers$39.99/mo
Up to 15 workers$49.99/mo
More than 15 workers?Talk to us
Start free trial

Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial — no credit card to start, and you pick a plan when it ends. Only workers count toward your plan — projects, clients, and office logins are never limited.

Common questions.

How much does it cost?
Your first 30 days are free, with no credit card. After that you pay by crew size: $29.99/mo up to 5 workers, $39.99/mo up to 10, $49.99/mo up to 15. Every plan includes everything, and only workers count — projects, clients, and office logins for whoever runs the books are never limited.
Do my workers need to buy anything?
No. The app is free on iPhone and Android, and only workers count toward your plan — admins and office staff are included. They join with an invite from their own phone; there is no hardware to buy and no shared tablet by the door.
What happens when the trial ends?
You pick a plan to keep going — there's no free tier, so clocking in and the office screens pause until you do. Nothing is deleted: every shift, project, and document is exactly where you left it and comes straight back when you subscribe. If a worker is on the clock when it ends, they can still clock out, so no hours are lost. And you can download everything you've put in as a spreadsheet at any point, including if you decide not to continue.
Do you handle AIA-style pay applications and T&M?
Both. Fixed-contract jobs bill by numbered pay applications in the standard G702/G703 format — schedule of values, retainage on work and stored materials, and change orders that adjust the contract automatically. T&M jobs bill unbilled hours and materials by the period — each shift and receipt can only ever be billed once.
Who owns my data?
You do. Every shift, receipt, and export is yours — you can pull it out as Excel or PDF any time, including if you decide to leave.
What happens after I sign up?
Your account works immediately — create the company, invite your crew, and they clock in from their phones the same day. Want a hand instead? We still onboard crews personally; just ask.

Set up in minutes.

Create your company, invite the crew, and they're clocking in from their phones the same day. Quotes and invoices come along when you're ready for them.

  • 30 days free — no credit card required
  • Workers join with an invite, right from their phones
  • One-on-one onboarding from a real person, if you want it
  • Your data stays yours — export everything, any time

Questions first? support@tallytoday.com — a real person answers.

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We're onboarding new crews one-on-one. No credit card.