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How to use the app and what each role can access.

Overview

About this application

This is a project management and billing platform for Bluegrass Specialty Welding & Fabrication. It supports the full lifecycle from customer and job creation through labor/material capture, invoicing, payment tracking, and analytics.

Workspaces

What each workspace does

Overview

Dashboard with key metrics: active customers, jobs, contracted revenue, and total billed. Quick links to common actions.

Operations

Manage your customers, jobs, and employees. Create jobs, set billing model (T&M or fixed bid), capture labor and material line items, manage internal references and file attachments, and assign employees to jobs.

  • Customers — create and edit customer records, view associated jobs.
  • Jobs — create and track jobs through their lifecycle (Pending → Planning → In Progress → Complete).
  • Employees — manage employee records and pay schedules.
  • Line items — capture labor (hours × rate) and materials (quantity × rate) against a job. These flow directly into invoice drafts.

Financials

Financial reporting and billing. Select a job from the grid to review burn rate, margin health, and variance breakdown. Move invoices through Draft → Approved → Sent → Paid.

  • Summary tab — job financial grid with margin and invoice status; click a job to see its detailed breakdown.
  • Invoicing tab — create draft invoices, approve and send them, record partial or full payments.
  • AR Aging tab — outstanding receivables broken down by aging buckets.
  • Jobs must be marked Complete before an invoice can be created.

Analytics

Data visualizations across the portfolio.

  • Cash flow — projected money in/out over time with a cumulative net line.
  • Pipeline — kanban view of all jobs by status with responsive density (cards → compact → chips).
  • Profitability — profit vs. collection risk scatter matrix.
  • Lifecycle — average days in each job stage, invoice status mix, weekly transitions, recent status changes.

Time entry

For employees: log hours against jobs you are assigned to. Each entry becomes a labor line item on the job. Supervisors can also access this view to log time on behalf of others.

Administration

Owner-only. Create user accounts, assign roles, link users to employee records, and manage access. Each user logs in with their email address and password.

Roles

Access matrix

What each role can see and do:

Feature / Workspace Owner PM Accounting Foreman Employee
Overview dashboard
Operations — view jobs & customers
Operations — create / edit jobs
Operations — capture line items
Operations — manage employees
Operations — assign employees to jobs
Financials — view job summaries
Financials — create & send invoices
Financials — record payments
Analytics
Time entry
Administration (user management)
Workflow

Typical job lifecycle

  1. Create a customer in Operations → Customers.
  2. Create a job for that customer, set billing model (T&M or fixed bid) and contract value.
  3. Assign employees to the job so they can log time via Time Entry.
  4. Capture line items (labor hours, material purchases) as work progresses.
  5. Mark the job Complete when work is done.
  6. Create an invoice from Financials or via the "Create invoice" button in the job dialog.
  7. Approve and send the invoice; record payments when they arrive.
  8. Track cash flow and lifecycle metrics in Analytics.