For geotechnical engineering firms

Time tracking for geotechnical and site investigation firms

Geotechnical work mixes days in the field, hours in the laboratory and reports at a desk, with subcontractors and equipment paid along the way. ReliTime keeps all of it against the job, and carries what you recharge onto the invoice the way GST treats it.

Field days with their times, from a phone

The week fills in from a phone held in one hand, and the day view keeps the start and finish of each field visit. Part-time and casual staff record start and finish times on every day they work.

The weekly timesheet on a phone, one day at a time, with large buttons for each day.

Costs recharged at cost, or with a markup

An expense is recorded against the job, approved by somebody other than the person who claimed it, and carried onto the invoice. A cost recharged at exactly what it cost goes on as a disbursement, outside the taxable value under CGST Rule 33; one with a markup goes on as a taxed line.

  • Expenses by unit, such as kilometres driven or nights away, with the amount worked out.
  • Categories for every expense, and a report of what each job spent.
A GST tax invoice with the work, the tax, and disbursements shown separately below the lines.

Work in progress, by job

The work-in-progress report shows what each job’s hours are worth at the rate that applied on the day, what is still unbilled, and what was written off, by whom.

The work in progress report: jobs with hours worked, value at the rate in force, and amounts written off.

Questions people ask

Can field and laboratory work go on different SAC codes?

A SAC code belongs to a job, so testing and advisory work set up as separate jobs each print their own code on the invoice. A job with none falls back to the organisation’s default, visibly.

How are drilling or testing subcontractors billed to the client?

Record the cost as an expense on the job. Recovered at exactly what it cost with the client’s agreement, it is a disbursement outside the taxable value; recovered with a markup, it is your own supply and is taxed at the rate of the work.

What happens to old invoices when a rate changes?

Nothing. A new rate starts on a date and never overwrites the old one, so re-running an earlier invoice prices it at the rate in force when the work was done.

Does it track where people are?

No. ReliTime has no location tracking, screenshots or idle detection. People record the hours they worked.

Where to go next

Every feature

Timesheets, approvals, rates, budgets, invoicing, leave and scheduling, one at a time.

See the features

GST invoicing

Tax invoices raised from approved hours, with CGST and SGST or IGST worked out for you.

See GST invoicing

Free templates

A timesheet, a job budget tracker, a GST invoice, a leave planner and an expense claim, free.

See the templates

See it on your own kind of work

We set ReliTime up with a walkthrough rather than a sign-up form. We will take you through a working organisation, from a week of timesheets through approvals and work in progress to a GST invoice, answer your questions as we go, and set up yours.

Or write to hello@relitime.com.