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When Your Construction Crew are Independent Subcontractors
Is there an easy way to manage subcontractors on your job site? In this blog post we'll show you how to easily create A/P invoices to pay your subcontractors. Abio also automatically calculates their union dues and WCB remittances. Employees An employee's employment...
Strategies for Recovering Direct, Indirect, and Job Overhead Costs
To run a successful construction company, you need to recover all your costs and then some. Generally there are three kinds of costs in a construction project: Direct Costs Craft workers and labourers, materials, and equipment all represent direct job costs. Indirect...
Getting Started with Abio
While initially designed to manage very large industrial projects, Abio is also a great choice if you're ready to transition from a basic accounting package to a full featured job costing system. By choosing Abio for your Canadian construction firm, you ensure your...
How we developed our SaaS pricing model
As part of Abio’s transition to a Software as a Service (SaaS) company, we needed to develop a consistent, transparent, and fair pricing model that could work for clients of all sizes. The pricing challenge we ran into was that Abio is not just a single service but...
Managing Complex Rental Agreements with Abio
There's more than one kind of rental agreement. It's easy to track large pieces of equipment with Abio - create timesheets, bill timesheets, collect a week's worth of rent. But what if what you're renting is more nebulous than a bobcat or a truck? What if it's a...