Job Management Software for Shed Builders

That is fine. A supply-only project can stay simple while installed jobs carry more scheduling and labour detail.

Move the schedule when site conditions change without rebuilding the project.

Keep those purchases attached to the project so the real cost stays visible.

Keep using the design tools that work. WorkGuru can hold the operational job, costs, documents and workflow around them.

Yes, and they are different businesses wearing the same name. A supply-only kit is a product sale with procurement and freight and very little labour. An installed shed is a project with site preparation, crews, weather exposure and a programme. Keep both as jobs, with the supply-only ones staying simple. Running them through the same system is what eventually tells you the honest margin on each, and shed builders are frequently surprised to find the kit business outperforming the install business per dollar of revenue.

Yes, through project purchasing. On a shed the bought-in content — frames, sheeting, purlins, fasteners, doors, guttering — dominates the cost, which means your margin is largely determined at the point of ordering rather than on site. Keeping purchases attached to the job gives you the actual landed cost against the actual quote, and across a run of jobs it shows whether supplier price movement is being passed into your pricing or absorbed.

Yes. Both are visible on the same schedule, which matters because shed work has an unusual dependency: the concrete. Site preparation and slab curing sit between order and erection, they are frequently done by someone else, and they are weather-dependent. A schedule that only shows your own crews will keep booking erection dates against slabs that are not ready, and the standing time that results is a cost nobody quoted.

Rescheduling moves the work without touching the job record, so the plan can change as often as the forecast does. What is worth capturing alongside it is the cost of the disruption — a crew stood down, a crane rebooked, a trip to a site that turned out to be too wet to work on. Shed builders tend to treat weather as an unmeasurable cost of doing business, and it is usually measurable and larger than assumed.

Yes. Changes record against the job as they happen — an added roller door, a different cladding profile, extra height, additional footings after the site was assessed. The pattern in shed work is that changes are agreed casually with a customer who is often a private buyer rather than a builder, and the record is the only thing that makes the final invoice explicable. Without it you are asking someone to accept a number higher than the one they remember agreeing.

Yes, as project documents. Shed projects carry engineering certificates, wind classification, footing designs and approval paperwork, and those documents are needed again at inspection and sometimes years later. Keeping them attached to the job means the certifier’s question or the customer’s request is a retrieval rather than a reconstruction.

Yes, as project documents. Shed projects carry engineering certificates, wind classification, footing designs and approval paperwork, and those documents are needed again at inspection and sometimes years later. Keeping them attached to the job means the certifier’s question or the customer’s request is a retrieval rather than a reconstruction.

Yes, on separate tasks. This is worth separating on shed work because the two have very different exposure — workshop hours are controllable while site hours are hostage to access, ground conditions and weather. Builders who see only the combined figure tend to conclude their fabrication is slow when the variance is almost entirely on site. The distinction also changes what you do about it. A fabrication overrun is an efficiency problem you can work on directly. A site overrun is usually a scheduling or site-readiness problem, and the fix is upstream — better site assessment, firmer slab confirmation before committing a crew — rather than anything the erection team can influence once they are standing on a wet pad.

Yes. Where you sell recognisable sizes and configurations, a project template holds the standard structure and the individual job carries the site’s specifics. Given how much of a shed’s cost is bought-in, the template’s real value is the purchasing structure — knowing what a standard 12 by 24 actually consumes means your quote reflects the current cost of those components rather than a price list somebody updated last year.

Yes. Purchases, freight, workshop hours and site labour accumulate against the job and compare against the quote. The item that most often turns a profitable shed into a break-even one is freight, particularly on regional deliveries where a single long-distance run can exceed the job’s whole labour content. It is also the cost most likely to be quoted from a rule of thumb rather than a number.

No. Your design package sizes the structure and produces the drawings, and WorkGuru does not attempt that. It runs the job around it — the quote, the order, the freight, the schedule, the crews and the result. For shed builders the join is the material list: design determines it, purchasing executes it, and job costing tells you whether the price you quoted covered what it actually cost to buy.