CONTROLQORE FOR PROCESS PIPING CONTRACTORS.
Generic accounting software can't cost a weld, split shop spool production from field welding, or tell you which welder's repair rate is reducing the alloy margin. ControlQore can.
ControlQore for process piping contractors builds cost codes that follow the code the work is welded to. Shop spool fabrication and field welding are separate cost objects. Weld-inches or diameter-inches get their own rate in each, compared weekly to the bid rate. Documentation labor gets its own cost code, because under ASME B31.3 the traceability dossier is contractually half the product and hydrotest sign-off waits on it. Examination, repair and post-weld heat treatment post as their own process steps, so repair rate by welder and by process is a weekly number. Milestone billing is aligned to hydrotest and dossier turnover on the schedule of values.
The pipe is half the product. The other half is a package that ties every weld to the welder, the procedure, the heat treatment and the examination result. A finished rack with no package behind it is unbillable inventory in stainless steel. B31.3 examines 5 percent of each welder's production welds per lot on normal fluid service, minimum one per welder. A single failure expands step by step into that welder's whole lot. When you read repair rate by welder every week, you see that expansion coming. When you don't, you find it at the audit as rework on welds already in the rack.
THE NUMBERS GENERIC SOFTWARE MISSES.
WHAT IT IS.
ControlQore is a job costing and WIP platform for contractors that tracks cost by job and cost code, so a process piping contractor can read cost per weld-inch separately for shop spools and field welds, against the estimate, while the spools are still moving.
WHERE IT GOES WRONG.
Documentation Labor Goes Unbilled
Under ASME B31.3 every weld gets a unique number traceable to the welder, the welding procedure, the heat treatment and the examination results. On high-pressure and hazardous service the documentation package becomes legally binding. Weak weld maps can delay hydrotest sign-off and final acceptance. So the dossier is a deliverable with a labor cost. If your paperwork trails production, you've built unbillable inventory in stainless steel. The hours that will produce the package are already spent and nobody counted them.
Repair Rates Invisible Until the Audit
For normal fluid service B31.3 examines a sample: 5 percent of each welder's production welds per lot, with a minimum of one per welder. A failed sample triggers progressive expansion. More welds get cut open, more repairs follow, and a welder's whole lot is in question. The risk is lopsided. An undetected defect in an unsampled weld can cause a hydrotest failure or a service leak in a hazardous fluid line. If you don't track repair rate by welder and by process, that cost goes into a labor total nobody reads until it's rework.
Alloy Work Bid at Carbon Steel Productivity
P5 chrome-moly, stainless and nickel-alloy systems need expensive filler and purge gas, preheat, and post-weld heat treatment cycles with documented soak temperatures, controlled ramp rates and thermocouple records. A failed or undocumented PWHT cycle is a code non-conformance, and the weld has to come out. Category M and K service goes further, up to 100 percent radiographic or ultrasonic examination and hydrotest at 1.5 times design pressure. If none of those steps has its own cost code, you estimate alloy scope off carbon steel history and give the extra cost away.
Shop and Field Blended Into One Rate
Spool fabrication in the shop is controlled-position work, machine welding and high productivity. Field welding is position welds, tie-ins and confined access, on a completely different cost curve. Average them into one rate per weld-inch and both numbers are wrong. The shop looks worse than it is and the field looks better. So you decide how much to prefabricate by habit. That decision is on every line of every bid in this trade.
WHAT WE BUILD.
SPM builds ControlQore so spool fabrication and field installation are separate cost objects on the same job. Each has its own weld-inch or diameter-inch production. Fit-up, welding, examination and rework post to the correct one. Each week, actual cost per weld-inch in each is compared to the rate in the estimate. After a few jobs you own the shop and field productivity numbers, and you price the prefabrication decision from them.
The dossier gets a cost code and is built weld by weld as production goes on. Nobody scrambles to assemble it before turnover. ControlQore reports welds completed against welds documented, and the difference is your unbillable position. SPM writes the schedule of values so milestone billing lines up with hydrotest and dossier turnover, and documentation labor is a billable line. The weld map is the index to every other quality record at audit. It's also what releases the invoice.
Under ASME Section IX, a welder who hasn't used a qualified process for more than six months loses that qualification and must requalify before production welding. SPM sets up a matrix by welder, by process and by P-number, with continuity dates reviewed weekly against the jobs each welder is assigned to. You see a lapse coming and schedule around it, before it turns into rework on welds already in the rack. Requalification cost and downtime go in the budget.
Nondestructive examination, repair, preheat and post-weld heat treatment each get their own cost code, whether the examination is subcontracted or done in-house. Monthly reports give repair rate by welder and by process. That's an early warning against progressive expansion, and it's a bid input. Your reject costs go straight into the next alloy estimate. A chrome-moly package gets priced on your own reject and PWHT history, and not on the carbon steel rate that happened to be in the last spreadsheet.
The WIP schedule is produced monthly from cost-to-cost percentage complete by job, with the weld-level detail under it. Industrial owners hold retainage to final acceptance and tie milestones to hydrotest. So an overbilled position on this kind of contract takes a long time to unwind, and an underbilled one pays for the owner's project with your cash. You see both in the month they occur. Underbilled positions trigger a corrected pay application before the next milestone.
THE OUTPUTS, LISTED.
FLAT MONTHLY FEE. NO SOFTWARE INVOICE.
Three tiers, priced by your trailing twelve month revenue. ControlQore comes with Strategic and Platinum, and it never appears as its own line item on an SPM invoice. Which tier you're in depends on how much of the work you want off your desk.
Built for subs doing $1M to $12M. Above $12.5M we quote.
| Last 12 months revenue | Core | Strategic | Platinum | One-time onboarding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under $1M | $1,900 | $3,100 | $3,300 | $2,500 |
| $1M to $3.5M | $2,600 | $4,100 | $5,300 | $4,500 |
| $3.5M to $6.5M | $3,800 | $5,900 | $8,300 | $6,000 |
| $6.5M to $9.5M | $5,100 | $7,600 | $11,800 | $7,500 |
| $9.5M to $12.5M | $6,100 | $8,900 | $14,900 | $9,000 |
| Above $12.5M | Quoted | Quoted | Quoted | Quoted |
The onboarding fee covers migrating your books back to the start of your last taxable year and getting you fully operational in 60 days. It's billed once, with your first invoice. It's the same for all three tiers, and it moves with your revenue band. Your first month is prorated, and your monthly engagement starts on the first of the first full month.
Just want the setup? Onboarding only is the same onboarding work with no monthly service after it, one time, at the onboarding fee plus $2,000. Start a monthly engagement later and $2,000 counts toward it. It starts at $4,500, and the price for every band is on the pricing page.
The three tier columns are the whole price. Which one fits depends on how much of the work you want off your desk. No payroll. No hidden line items. The onboarding fee is right here in the table.
- Online software only: QuickBooks, Sage, Viewpoint and similar. No VPN or hosted desktop.
- Not in any tier: payroll, pay applications, collections on receivables.
- Pricing valid through 2027.
CFO work. Your own bookkeeper keeps doing the books.
We build your plan every month. Your team does the work.
You get the CFO work: job costing built to match the way you estimate, a 13 week cash forecast, WIP every month, and a monthly meeting that ends with decisions.
Your bookkeeper still does the books.
Core, plus bookkeeping and bank reconciliations, plus job costing and WIP software set up and managed for you. Use your own online accounting software or we supply it, one price.
We build the plan, track it and adjust it every month.
We only work with trade subcontractors. We know what to look for, and we fix problems while they're still small. Everything in Core, plus the bookkeeping and bank reconciliations done for you, and the job costing and WIP software set up, loaded with your cost codes, and managed every month. Use your own online software, or move to ours and we pay for it.
Our team does the bookkeeping and the reconciliations. We don't do payroll.
Strategic, plus a controller who handles payables and receivables the way an in-house controller would. You approve every payment.
We manage the money side for you, every week.
Everything in Strategic, plus our team does the controller work. We handle your bills and receivables the way an in-house controller would: we call vendors, pay the bills and keep the accounting current. We plan the cash flow first, and you approve every payment because it is your money.
Our team does the payables and receivables. We don't do payroll, pay applications or collections.
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