Contracting
Materials, labour and a client who pays in stages
Site materials, subcontractors, advance payments and retention. The accounting here is harder than the work, so Rocket ERP keeps every site's materials, labour and payments in one set of books.
What usually goes wrong
Sound familiar? Here is what Rocket ERP puts in their place.
Material leaves the store and vanishes
Issued to a site, used or not, returned or not. Without a document behind each movement, the stock figure and the site's consumption are two separate fictions.
Subcontractors are a parallel ledger
Advances, progress claims, deductions and retention held back — usually tracked in a spreadsheet that only one person understands.
Cash comes in before the work is done
An advance is not revenue, and treating it as one flatters this month and punishes a later one. It needs to sit where it belongs on the balance sheet.
Retention is forgotten until it is late
A percentage held on every claim soon adds up to real money. Left in a spreadsheet, it is chased late; it belongs in an account you can see.
What matters for you
One platform, configured for the way your business works. Nothing extra to buy, and no separate edition to maintain.
- Stock withdrawals to a site, with an approval chain and a document behind every movement.
- Cost centres on the ledger, so a site can be the thing you group cost by.
- Supplier and subcontractor accounts with statements aged by due date, advances, and payments against specific invoices.
- The full cheque cycle — issued, due, collected, returned — each stage posting where it belongs.
- Attendance and payroll for site staff, including hourly permissions and overtime after a shift genuinely ends.
- E-invoicing on the claims you issue. If the tax authority's system is down, documents queue and the work carries on.
What you gain
Here is what changes when you run your business on Rocket ERP:
Know what every site consumed. Each issue of material carries a document and an approval.
Read each site's spend straight from the ledger, with every cost grouped under that site's cost centre.
Bring subcontractors into your main books: advances, statements aged by due date, and payments against specific invoices.
Follow every cheque from issue to collection or return, with each stage posted to the right account.
Tell us how you work
Book half an hour and we will walk you through Rocket ERP on your own process: your documents, your branches, your way of working.