Every job

Every job, from enquiry to handover, in one place.

The client rings about a change, the architect has issued a new revision, and a stage payment is due on Friday.

In Auberon each of those lands on the job it belongs to — phase, programme, people, drawings, changes and money, in one record, open to each person as far as their role allows.

Reception counter · PhaseTue 22 Sep
  • Enquiry done
  • Booked done
  • Workshop current
  • On site
  • Snagging
  • Defects
  • Closed
Illustrative. Whether a job is active, on hold, lost or cancelled is recorded separately from its phase.

01What every job carries

Open any job and it is all there.

Programme

Section by section, with owners, due dates and anything overdue.

Survey & drawings
Done
Carcass · workshop
Thu 24 Sep
Stone template · site
Tue 22 Sep · clash

People

Who is on it each day, whole or half day, confirmed by the foreman each morning.

Site
3 people
Workshop
4 people
Spray shop
1 person

Drawings

Every revision kept; the current one marked; what the client was sent, and when.

GA-201
Rev C · current
Sent to client
Rev C · 15 Sep
Rev B
Superseded

Changes & payments

Every change from instructed, to priced and proposed, to agreed or declined. Every stage payment.

Agreed sum
£42,500.00
Changes agreed
2 · £3,150.00
Stage 3 of 7
Invoiced · unpaid

Illustrative. What you set down once — the plan, the decision, what was agreed — turns up exactly the same for everyone who needs it.

Reception counter · MoneyTue 22 Sep
Agreed£45,650.00
Invoiced£22,750.00
Paid£12,750.00
Left to invoice£22,900.00
Materials invoiced£12,480.00
Materials ordered, not yet invoiced£3,150.00
Labour£8,200.00
Labour without a rate3 days
Cost to date£23,830.00 + unknown
Illustrative figures. Three days of labour have no rate on file, so the total says so.

02The money trail

One sequence: agreed, committed, actual, invoiced, paid.

Materials count from the day they are ordered, not the day the invoice turns up, so a late bill does not flatter the cost of a job. Labour counts from the day it is confirmed on the job.

Absence is never zero.

A timesheet comes in without a rate.

Count the missing part as nothing and the total looks better than it is. Auberon shows the total, says + unknown, and names what is missing. Missing information is never quietly treated as zero.

03If you make what you fit

Made in the workshop, fitted on site, kept as one job.

The vanity units are cut and assembled in the workshop, sprayed, and fitted on site a month later.

In Auberon that is one job: one set of stages, one money trail, one record. The pieces move from bench to spray shop to van to site on the same programme as the fitting, and a template booked before its carcass is finished is flagged in the diary, in days.

The client follows their made-to-order pieces through the workshop as part of the same job, alongside the work on site — the same page, the same minute.

Workshop items · Vanity unitsFit · w/c 19 Oct
  • Queued done
  • In assembly current
  • Spray booth
  • Curing
  • Ready for site
  • Installed
Vanity carcass · leftAssembled
Vanity carcass · rightIn assembly
Doors and drawer frontsQueued
Stone topsTemplate after carcasses · Thu 8 Oct
Illustrative. Made-to-order items move through the workshop stages as part of the same job.
Reception counter · Allocation logTue 22 Sep
07:52 · K. StannardConfirmed all · 7 people on site
09:14 · G. AshcombeS. Wilkes to half day · reason: dentist, back at 13:00
11:40 · ClientSelection decided: bronze ironmongery · receipt issued
16:05 · G. AshcombeChange 8 priced · £615.00 · proposed to client
Illustrative. Every change carries a name, a time and a reason.

04The record

Every change has a name and a reason on it.

A manual adjustment to the day’s crew cannot be saved without a reason, and the reason is written to the log with the name and the time. A priced change, a client’s decision, an issued drawing: each one is a dated entry on the job.

People who leave are deactivated, never deleted, so the record of their work stays whole.