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NCT Plumbing
Hear how Scotty Kidd, owner of NCT Plumbing has leveraged Bolt trade contractor software to make scheduling easier, increase profitability, and give him more time back in his day.
A simpler way for trade contractors to schedule and manage jobs for home builders.
Say goodbye to paperwork and whiteboards!
Built by the trades for the trades, contractors use Bolt to manage all their jobs in one easy-to-use app. Reduce the number of wasted trips, improve scheduling, and manage all job documents and photos in one spot with Bolt.
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Features
Builder Communication
Job Scheduling
Job Confirmations
Time Tracking
Schedule Organization
Reschedule Reporting
Job Progress Visuals
D.R. Horton Vendor Suite Integration
Job Folders
Document Management
Quick Search
Job Contracts
Material Pull Sheets
Accurate Reporting
Estimating Templates & Bid Revisions
PreBuilt Reports
Executive Dashboard
Builder Communication
Job Scheduling
Job Confirmations
Time Tracking
Schedule Organization
Reschedule Reporting
Job Progress Visuals
D.R. Horton Vendor Suite Integration
Job Folders
Document Management
Quick Search
Job Contracts
Material Pull Sheets
Accurate Reporting
Estimating Templates & Bid Revisions
PreBuilt Reports
Executive Dashboard
You work with a lot of builders and get POs in a variety of ways. Maybe you have to log in to each builder portal to view purchase orders or you're sorting through your email inbox to find the latest one that's been sent.
Bolt simplifies the process.
The Builder Communication feature auto-populates the builder's PO in Bolt. You just review the data, make sure it's accurate, and accept it with a click of a button. No more manually typing it in saving you time and reducing data entry errors.
Spread the responsibility of keeping accurate schedule dates across multiple employees.
With Bolt, you can view work orders on weekly and monthly calendars, reschedule work orders, automate work order scheduling, from your mobile device and computer.
Receive “job ready” confirmations from the builder, eliminating wasted trips to the site.
Confirmation requests can be automatically sent to a builder once a work order has been scheduled. Notify the builder prior to the work order's schedule date so they can confirm or request a new schedule date.
Track time, location, and log specific activity directly to the work assigned to a crew.
With a click of a button, your crew can start tracking the time driving to the job, spent on the job, or even picking up materials. The clock is stopped automatically when a different activity is started—even when tracking time for a different work order.
Crews only see work assigned to them, and supervisors only see the schedule for their communities.
Bolt gives you control. Define the level of security and permissions users can have so they only see the schedule relevant to them.
Reschedule jobs quickly and gather the reasons why to identify specific areas of improvement.
In Bolt, you can customize the system and add reasons why a job needed to be rescheduled. Use the Reschedule report to understand how many jobs needed to be rescheduled and why. Narrow down to show which work orders, employees, other trade contractors, or builders may have caused the schedule delays.
Quickly see the current status or progress of a work order based on the color or icon.
Bolt lets you associate a color with a status so you can see quickly what's complete, what's ready for the crew, or in progress. Now you can see the status of your entire schedule at-a-glance.
If you’re working with D.R. Horton, Bolt now gives you an easier way to manage all your jobs.
There is no longer a need to access two systems—get updated scheduling, confirmations, and completion information automatically within Bolt.
The new connection simplifies the process, so your day got a whole lot easier.
Online job folders allow ease of access by keeping all the job details in one spot.
No more searching for a paperwork order or plan only to realize it's back at the office. Bolt brings it all together so you and everyone on your team have access to the same information anytime, anywhere.
Store job documents, plans, work orders, photos, material pull sheets, and more, all in one spot.
Replace your folders and filing cabinets with Bolt! Quickly add your documents and assign them to different categories for easier access. Preview them so you know you've uploaded the right one.
Find answers you need within seconds from either the app or browser.
Stop wasting time frantically searching your folders for the job information you need. Bolt lets you find job specific information within seconds.
Keep billing and purchase orders organized with Bolt. All job contracts are stored in one place, that way you know exactly what you're getting paid to do.
Use contracts to request purchase orders and invoice builders. Preconfigured before the job starts, include base, structural option, or extras added throughout the construction process.
Contracts can be assigned to work orders and require approval before a PO is sent or work is scheduled. If another trade damages your work, send a purchase order to the builder prior to making that extra trip.
Assembly and parts are organized into the specific pull sheets.
Once awarded and in production, easily look at your schedule and see accurate pull sheet quantities for the work on your upcoming schedule. These pull sheets reflect the estimate, structural options, and design center extras that the homeowner selected.
Understanding whether your job is profitable is critical and accessing this information quickly is important to making better decisions.
In Bolt, Profit and Loss reports are just a click away and are calculated using invoiced totals and accurate material and labor costs.
Bolt software helps you manage a large volume of bids, update costs, and send accurate materials to the job site, all from your mobile device.
Bolt Insights is a business intelligence, reporting, and dashboard service that gives you insights into the performance of your company—in real-time.
Simple to set up, you can customize the key business metrics you want to see and drill-down to get deeper insight into your business. View per job profit and loss, employee productivity, identify wasted trips, and problem areas.
Still chasing papers and using whiteboards to run your business?
Imagine your supervisors leaving the office with just an iPad® and measuring tape. Bolt stores all job information in one system, accessible on any device. Whether they are in the field or the office, everyone can see the same information.
Bolt simplifies project management, scheduling, and estimating for your entire team. And with Bolt Insights, profit and loss reporting is one click away.
Minimize dry-runs and wasted trips and start earning more money on every job with Bolt.
You need to make sure all jobs are completed on time and budget—and done to a high standard.
Managing crews, making sure the house is ready for work, and keeping your builders happy is a lot to juggle. Nobody wants another wasted trip to the job site.
Bolt lets you accurately track contracts and easily report on any outstanding purchase orders. Job information is 5 seconds away, and you can store all of your job details, work order history, plans and documents, photos, contracts, purchase orders, material pull sheets, and estimates in one spot.
Keep your builders and crews accountable with Bolt.
Making sure the schedules are accurate is a never-ending task. You have a lot of information to communicate to a LOT of people with every little change that is made.
If you’re using whiteboards and filing cabinets of paper, it can be tough to stay organized.
Bolt makes scheduling easy; quickly change schedules and communicate that to your crew or builder. Create and manage your constantly changing schedule from your laptop or mobile device allowing you to prevent wasted trips to the job, easily supervise the work assigned to crews, and do the job right on the first trip.
Improve how you schedule jobs, reduce back-and-forth trips, and manage more tasks during the phases of new home construction with Bolt.
Owners and General Managers
INCREASE EFFICIENCY AND PROFITABILITY
Still chasing papers and using whiteboards to run your business?
Imagine your supervisors leaving the office with just an iPad® and measuring tape. Bolt stores all job information in one system, accessible on any device. Whether they are in the field or the office, everyone can see the same information.
Bolt simplifies project management, scheduling, and estimating for your entire team. And with Bolt Insights, profit and loss reporting is one click away.
Minimize dry-runs and wasted trips and start earning more money on every job with Bolt.
Field Supervisors
GET TIME BACK IN YOUR DAY
You need to make sure all jobs are completed on time and budget—and done to a high standard.
Managing crews, making sure the house is ready for work, and keeping your builders happy is a lot to juggle. Nobody wants another wasted trip to the job site.
Bolt lets you accurately track contracts and easily report on any outstanding purchase orders. Job information is 5 seconds away, and you can store all of your job details, work order history, plans and documents, photos, contracts, purchase orders, material pull sheets, and estimates in one spot.
Keep your builders and crews accountable with Bolt.
Schedulers
KEEP EVERYONE ON TRACK
Making sure the schedules are accurate is a never-ending task. You have a lot of information to communicate to a LOT of people with every little change that is made.
If you’re using whiteboards and filing cabinets of paper, it can be tough to stay organized.
Bolt makes scheduling easy; quickly change schedules and communicate that to your crew or builder. Create and manage your constantly changing schedule from your laptop or mobile device allowing you to prevent wasted trips to the job, easily supervise the work assigned to crews, and do the job right on the first trip.
Improve how you schedule jobs, reduce back-and-forth trips, and manage more tasks during the phases of new home construction with Bolt.
Why do Trade Contractors Need Bolt?
Hear how Scotty Kidd, owner of NCT Plumbing, has leveraged Bolt to make scheduling easier, increase profitability, and give him more time back in his day.
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How Bolt Helps Contractors Like You
We now have eliminated rooms full of cabinets, are able to access important information instantly, and are attracting younger talent that would have found our previous systems archaic.
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The ease of use and simple formatting allows our least-likely employees the opportunity for success. I highly recommend this program for any subcontractor looking for a single source of operations. Clearly the best option available.
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We used to shuffle hundreds of papers from the office to the field and back…now we are completely paperless and can keep a better pulse on the day-to-day operations.
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We are so organized that our supervisors now walk out of the office with just an iPad and measuring tape.
C & B ELECTRIC
We use Bolt every day on the job site, connecting our field managers in real-time, and were able to implement very quickly.
TUCSON PLUMBING & HEATING
I never had experience using technology in the field. I found Bolt easy to use.
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Let’s admit it; if you’re a trade contractor working for regional or national homebuilders, you have been overlooked, underserved, and overworked until now.
Finally, a system built by the trades for the trades.
Trade contractors that work for regional or national homebuilders often must pay for and use builder portals that serve little to no value to the actual trade contractor other than a way for them to access purchase orders and potentially inaccurate schedule dates. These trade contractors didn’t get the choice; builders told them, "if you want the work, you will pay for the portal." Once implemented, the builder may often call with or email information and not even use the portal they require the trades to purchase.
Just a few years ago, the tide started to turn. A new generation of business owners and employees started flooding into the industry. This generation grew up using smartphones, expecting access to information in the palm of their hand. A small group of them banded together and created what we now know as Bolt software.
They realized that the speed of new technology was going to require them to adapt or die. They wanted to build software designed for the trades working for multiple regional or national home builders and solve the pains that only these trades experience.
What are these pains? Being unable to go home and have dinner with your family because you're still at the shop putting paperwork orders into clipboards for your crews in the morning. Getting a call on a Saturday from the builder because a new homeowner is upset and you're in trouble for causing a warranty issue only to spend 3 hours to find out another trade caused it. Questioning the schedule dates or purchase order totals that the builder gives you and hiring employees to validate their accuracy. Making wasted trips to the job because the builder said the previous trade would finish in time for you to start, and they have not.
If this story hits home, then it's time to increase the quality of your life for you and your employees by looking into Bolt. To learn how Bolt can help transform your new home construction business, contact us today.
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