Your Crew's Hours Get Re-Keyed Twice Before Payroll

The crew worked eight hours and drove two. By the time those numbers reach payroll, they've been written on a paper sheet, typed into a spreadsheet, and re-keyed again — and nobody fully trusts the result.

Job time and travel time aren't the same number

For pricing and payroll, you need to know what was billable work on site versus drive time between stops. Most tracking lumps them into one daily total, so your job costing is guesswork and your travel pay is an argument. The split that actually matters to your margin is the one nobody captures cleanly.

• Time logged on paper, then re-entered for payroll
• Job hours and travel hours mashed into one figure
• QuickBooks job costs that never tie back to real labor
• Disputes over drive time you can't settle with data

Every time you re-key a timesheet, you're paying to create your own errors.

The double-entry tax

Re-keying isn't just slow — it's where the numbers diverge. Payroll says one thing, your job-cost report says another, and reconciling them is a monthly chore that erodes any faith in either. The data was right once, in the field, before it got copied.

Capture it once, sync it clean

You know how your crews actually clock a day across trades — that's the blueprint. This is where a fractional C-suite team earns its keep. APLINO's fractional CTO and senior engineers turn it into a working product: a Blueprint of how time and travel really accrue on your jobs, an MVP that captures both in the field and reconciles to payroll and QuickBooks in weeks, and ongoing engineering as your crew grows.