CONTROLQORE FOR SCAFFOLDING CONTRACTORS.
Generic accounting software can't tell you whether the erection crew, the rental weeks, or the engineering lost the money on a job that went long, and it can't report what the fleet in the yard costs to own. ControlQore can.
ControlQore for scaffolding contractors splits every job into its three revenue streams: erection and dismantle labor, the rental stream that earns by the week the scaffold is up, and engineering where the configuration requires it. Transport is charged per move. Rental billing is based on documented dates. A handover certificate starts the meter, an extension gets billed the week a schedule moves, and an off-hire confirmation stops it. Components are tracked by job and location, so fleet utilization is a monthly report. The WIP schedule is produced monthly from cost-to-cost percentage complete.
Scaffolding contractors at $1M to $5M net 8 percent before taxes in the SPM 48-trade dataset, rising to 16 percent by $25M to $50M, against a CFOS target of 11.5 percent before taxes. The losses in this trade come from how the work is priced and tracked. Erection labor, rental weeks and engineering are three revenue streams with three cost behaviors. A blended price can't tell you which one lost money when the dismantle date moved. Commercial erected packages reach $5,000 or more a month, so an undocumented month of erected scaffold is a full invoice nobody sent. Weekly rates are roughly three to four times the day rate. That's why handover, extension and off-hire paperwork is how this trade gets paid.
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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 scaffolding contractor can read erection and dismantle labor, rental weeks, and engineering as three separate results on the same job.
WHERE IT GOES WRONG.
One Blended Price for Three Different Businesses
A scaffold contract bundles three things. Erection and dismantle labor is crew cost at the front and the back of the job. The rental stream earns by the week the scaffold is up. Engineering comes in where the configuration requires it. The trade quotes them as separate components and then costs them as one number. Tube and clamp trades lower material rates for higher labor, and system scaffold reverses that. So a blended result can't even tell you whether you picked the right method. When the dismantle date moves, only the split tells you whether labor, rental or both moved.
The Meter Nobody Read
Rental revenue builds by the week the scaffold is up, and the losses are paperwork losses. A handover date nobody wrote down. An extension nobody rebilled when the schedule moved. A weather month discounted on a phone call. A dismantle date that moved without the meter being adjusted. Swing stages at $1,600 to $2,000 or more a month and commercial erected packages at $5,000 or more a month are big meters to leave unread. Weekly rates are roughly three to four times the day rate, so a missed period costs real money.
Fleet in the Yard With No Cost Attached to It
The component fleet is your capital, and the yard is where it stops earning. Published rental-market math puts ownership cost near 1.5 percent of purchase price a month for maintenance, insurance and storage. It puts the rent versus own crossover near 60 percent utilization. A scaffold contractor works that math in reverse. Idle components cost cash, and erected components earn rental. Without component tracking, meaning what's erected where, on whose job, since when, you have no utilization rate to manage the business with.
Compliance Overhead Folded Into a Rate Nobody Tested
The customer is buying more than frames. They're buying certified equipment, competent person inspections, tagging, engineered drawings where the configuration requires them, and a liability transfer that holds up in an insurance audit. Training, inspections and engineering review are overhead the rate has to include on purpose. Scaffolding overhead is about 18 percent at $1M to $5M in the SPM 48-trade dataset, a figure derived from comparable trades and not measured. A rate built without that weight in it produces jobs that look fine and a year that doesn't.
WHAT WE BUILD.
SPM builds ControlQore so erection labor, dismantle labor, the rental stream, engineering and transport per move each have their own cost and their own revenue. The quote gets built the same way, so you can compare the two. When a job goes three weeks long, you read it as extra rental weeks earned against extra crew cost. Those are two separate numbers with two different answers. It's also how you settle the method question. System scaffold against tube and clamp is a labor and material tradeoff, and you need both sides costed.
Every rental job in ControlQore has three dates. Handover starts the meter. Extension gets billed the week the schedule moves, before the end of the job. Off-hire stops it. Those dates are on the job record, so nobody has to remember them. At commercial rates of $5,000 or more a month, one undocumented month is a full invoice given away. It's the easiest money in this trade to collect.
Components are tracked by job and location in ControlQore, so you can read a fleet utilization report next to the P&L and the WIP every month. Erected inventory earns, and yard inventory costs. The ratio between them is the business. Loss and damage recovery gets easier too. When a job's component list is on the job record, the count at dismantle is a report. You don't end up arguing with a customer six weeks later.
Inspections, tagging, training, engineered drawings and the liability the customer is transferring are real costs. They go in the rate on purpose, so you aren't hoping volume covers them. Customers push back too. One siding contractor posting on a trade forum was quoted $5,600 for 30 days per building across four townhouse buildings, $22,400 for the project, and his first reaction was to go price his own frames. The answer to that customer is the bundle, priced and explained. The overhead figure behind it has to be right before the conversation starts.
The WIP schedule is produced monthly from cost-to-cost percentage complete by job. On scaffold work it does one more thing. Rental that built up but was never invoiced reads as an underbilled position, so you fix it with a pay app and don't write it off. Overbilled positions flag jobs where billing is ahead of the erection and dismantle cost the job still owes at the back end. That's how a job that looks profitable settles up badly.
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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