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 ran 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, meaning erection and dismantle labor, the rental stream that earns by the week the scaffold stands, and engineering where the configuration requires it, with transport charged per move. Rental billing runs off documented dates: a handover certificate starts the meter, an extension gets billed the week a schedule slides, and an off-hire confirmation stops it. Components are tracked by job and location, so fleet utilization is a monthly report instead of a guess. The WIP schedule is produced monthly from cost-to-cost percentage complete.
Scaffolding contractors at $1M to $5M net 6 percent before taxes in the SPM benchmark set, rising to 8.5 percent by $25M to $50M, against a CFOS target of 10 percent. The leaks in this trade are structural rather than accidental. Erection labor, rental weeks, and engineering are three revenue streams with three cost behaviors, and a blended price can't report which one leaked when the dismantle date slid. Commercial erected packages reach $5,000 or more a month, which makes an undocumented month of standing scaffold a full invoice nobody sent. Weekly rates run roughly three to four times the day rate, and that's what makes handover, extension, and off-hire documentation the billing discipline of the trade.
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 erection and dismantle labor, which is crew cost at the front and the back of the job, the rental stream, which earns by the week the scaffold stands, and engineering where the configuration requires it. The trade quotes them as distinct components and then costs them as one number. Tube and clamp trades lower material rates for higher labor while system scaffold reverses that tradeoff, so a blended result can't even tell you whether the method choice was the right one. When the dismantle date slides, only the split reports whether labor, rental, or both moved.
The Meter Nobody Read
Rental revenue accrues by the week the scaffold stands, and the leaks are administrative rather than operational: a handover date nobody wrote down, an extension nobody rebilled when the schedule slid, a weather month discounted verbally, and a dismantle date that moved without the meter running. Swing stages at $1,600 to $2,000 or more a month and commercial erected packages at $5,000 or more a month are meaningful meters to leave unread. Weekly rates run roughly three to four times the day rate, so the arithmetic of a missed period isn't small.
Fleet in the Yard With No Cost Attached to It
The component fleet is the capital, and the yard is where it stops earning. Published rental-market math puts ownership carry near 1.5 percent of purchase price a month for maintenance, insurance, and storage, and it puts the rent versus own crossover near 60 percent utilization. The scaffold contractor runs that equation in reverse: idle components burn carry while standing components earn rental. Without component tracking, meaning what's standing where, on whose job, since when, there's no utilization rate to run the business on.
Compliance Overhead Buried in a Rate Nobody Tested
What the customer is buying is more than frames: certified equipment, competent person inspections, tagging, engineered drawings where the configuration requires them, and a liability transfer that survives an insurance audit. Training, inspections, and engineering review are overhead the rate has to carry explicitly. Scaffolding overhead runs about 18 percent at $1M to $5M in the SPM benchmark set, a figure derived from comparable trades rather than measured, and 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 carry their own cost and their own revenue. The quote gets structured the same way, which is how the two ever get compared. When a job runs three weeks long, you read it as extra rental weeks earned against extra crew cost absorbed, and those are two separate numbers with two different answers. It's also how the method question gets settled, because system against tube and clamp is a labor versus material tradeoff that needs both sides costed.
Every rental job in ControlQore carries three dates: handover, which starts the meter, extension, which gets billed the week the schedule slides rather than at the end of the job, and off-hire, which stops it. Those dates live on the job record instead of in a project manager's memory. At commercial rates of $5,000 or more a month, one undocumented month is a full invoice donated, and it's the cheapest money in this trade to go collect.
Components are tracked by job and location in ControlQore, so a fleet utilization report can sit beside the P&L and the WIP every month. Standing inventory earns, yard inventory carries, and the ratio between them is the business. Loss and damage recovery gets easier for the same reason: when a job's component list is on the job record, the reconciliation at dismantle is a report rather than an argument with a customer six weeks later.
Inspections, tagging, training, engineered drawings, and the liability the customer is transferring are real costs, and they belong in the rate explicitly and not in a hope that volume covers them. Customer resistance is real 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, and 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 thing extra: rental that accrued but was never invoiced reads as an underbilled position, so the correction is a pay app rather than a write off. Overbilled positions flag jobs where billing has run ahead of the erection and dismantle cost the job still owes at the back end, which is the failure that makes a profitable-looking job settle up badly.
FLAT MONTHLY FEE. NO SOFTWARE INVOICE.
Three tiers, priced by your trailing twelve month revenue. ControlQore comes with Strategic, 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.
Pricing
| Last 12 months revenue | Monthly fee |
|---|---|
| Up to $1M | $1,900 to $2,900 |
| $1M to $3.5M | $2,600 to $3,900 |
| $3.5M to $6.5M | $3,800 to $5,700 |
| $6.5M to $9.5M | $5,100 to $7,100 |
| $9.5M to $12.5M | $6,100 to $8,500 |
| $12.5M to $15.5M | $7,400 to $11,000 |
| $15.5M to $18.5M | $9,400 to $13,500 |
| $18.5M+ | Quoted individually |
Range reflects the three tiers below. Which one you're in depends on how much of the work you want off your desk. No payroll. No hidden line items.
You stop guessing.
You get the CFO work. Job costing built against the way you estimate, a 13 week cash forecast, monthly WIP, and a meeting every month that ends in decisions rather than a report.
Your bookkeeper keeps doing the books.
You stop touching the books.
Everything in Core, and we run the bookkeeping and the controllership as well. Nobody in your office is answering coding questions or chasing a reconciliation at month end.
We do the books. No payroll.
Every job shows its margin while it's still running.
Everything in Executive, plus the job costing and WIP platform set up, loaded with your cost codes, and managed for you every month. You never have to learn it.
We do the job costing.
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