For MEP and building services consultancies

Time tracking for MEP and building services consultancies

Mechanical, electrical and plumbing design is several disciplines on one job, each at its own rate. ReliTime prices every hour by who worked it and in what role, and lets each job’s lead approve the hours on it.

Rates by role on the job

A rate can apply to the whole organisation, a client, a job, a person, or the people holding a role on a job. The most specific one in force on the day prices the hour, and an hour with no rate is named rather than billed at nothing.

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

The job lead approves the hours

Each job can name a manager. They may approve the weeks of people who booked time to their job, and nobody approves their own week.

The approvals queue: submitted weeks listed by person, each with its hours, waiting for a decision.

Budgets per discipline

Split the job into a phase per discipline or stage and give each one a budget in hours. A booking that takes a phase near or past its budget says so, and the hours are still recorded.

A job’s budget panel: hours quoted, booked and remaining for each phase.

Questions people ask

Can two engineers on the same job bill at different rates?

Yes. A rate can name a role on the job or a person on the job, and the most specific rate in force on the day applies.

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.

Can different jobs carry different SAC codes?

Yes. Each job carries its own SAC code, and the invoice prints it on every line for that job. A job with none falls back to the organisation’s default, visibly, rather than inheriting one silently.

Can we see margin as well as value?

Administrators see cost and margin in the work-in-progress report. Approvers see what the work is worth without seeing anyone’s pay.

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.