Aggrado Site resources
Guides and references.
How to set up and use Aggrado Site, written for the people who do the work.
GuideHow to estimate siteworkFrom takeoff to a bid you can run as a budget: quantities, crew-based unit prices with a storm pipe run worked end to end, bid day, and tracking the won bid.GuideGetting started with BidCreate your account and company, set up a project on its Bid tab, import drawings, build an estimate and lock the bid as submitted.GuideThe Bid tabA project's first tab: go/no-go, the GCs you bid to, the due date, addenda and pre-bid RFIs, prices still out and About this bid; how the projects list sorts itself, and what Bid day keeps.GuideSetting up your CodebookEnter wage scales and rate books, equipment, materials, crews and production rates, so every estimate is priced from your own data, and carry a change onto open bids.GuideImporting DWG drawingsDWGs convert on Aggrado's own servers when uploaded — nothing to install; what Civil 3D objects need, and the office-computer helper that Precast plants (and already-paired companies) still use.GuideProposalsWrite the letter and scope, add terms and alternates, send the proposal for the customer to read and sign, mark the bid won, and start from a template.GuideOpinions of cost and bond estimatesFor engineering firms: keep a unit price book from your bid results and public bid prices, price an opinion of probable construction cost with its class, range and basis, make the bid form, issue and share it, file bond estimates on the jurisdiction's form, and see how close your estimates land.GuideAgency reviews and permitsFor engineering firms: track each set of plans through the town, NC DEQ and NCDOT round by round, read the comment letter into a list, answer it with AI drafts you check, send the response letter, and keep every permit's number, fee and expiry.GuideBid room, award, punch lists and closeoutFor engineering firms: keep the official plan holder list, issue addenda every holder acknowledges, answer bidders' questions, assemble the award package, walk the punch list and bind the closeout package.GuideConstruction administration for engineering firmsFor engineering firms: what needs attention across your projects, daily inspection reports, field tests, RFIs, submittals, field orders and directives, pay estimates, who may approve each step, and emailing each record.GuideFunded projects: certified payrolls and Buy AmericaFor engineering firms on SRF, CDBG and USDA jobs: review certified payrolls by employee number, find missing weeks, record labor interviews, and keep the Buy America register that holds pay items.ReferenceEstimating glossaryDefinitions of the estimating and earthwork terms used throughout Aggrado.GuideGetting started with JobSet up your people and their pay rates, open a job from a won bid, build its budget, dispatch and approve time cards, watch cost against budget, and bill the customer.GuideQuick jobsTemplates for the small jobs you do over and over, making one in a minute from the office or the phone, quotes, rain-outs, invoicing, and on-call contracts with work orders.GuideNC811 locate ticketsWhen digging may start, when a ticket runs out, each utility's answer, remarks, and the warnings before one runs out.GuidePlanning weeks aheadPut people, machines and placeholders on jobs by the day, four to eight weeks out, see where a job is short, sort out clashes, and make a day's dispatches from the plan.GuideThe Monday updateBring every job's schedule up to date in one pass: the lines late to start, running late, off pace or wrong on percent done, worked out from the crews' quantities and applied job by job.GuideThe look-aheadSuperintendents ask for the next two weeks each week, resource managers book and decline against what every job asks for, and publishing puts everyone's days on their phone, makes the machine moves the plan calls for, and lists the rentals it needs.GuideThe time clockFor the office: setting up the clock, the geofence and PINs, the office board and the Week, correcting a clock entry, and how the clock becomes time cards to approve.GuideDaily reportsFor a foreman and the office: Finish the day, what's filled in for you, what you add, Send the day, a second foreman, what the office does, and what the customer sees.GuideReportes diarios (en español)Daily reports in Spanish. Para el capataz y la oficina: Terminar el día, lo que ya está lleno, lo que usted agrega y Enviar el día.GuideConcrete poursPlan pours from the bid's element schedule, record trucks, samples and temperatures on the phone, and reconcile the yards.GuideTo-dos and punch listsHand out to-dos, walk a punch list on the phone with photos and pins on the plans, and fix, check, close and send it.GuideRFIs and submittalsWrite and send RFIs with a link the reviewer answers from, start change orders from the answers, and keep the submittal register through review, stamps and resubmittal.GuideSafetyCheck-in questions, hazard analyses, toolbox talks signed on the phone, inspections and checklists, corrective actions, incident reports and investigations, and the OSHA 300 log.GuideExpiring documentsKeep certifications, insurance certificates, registrations, licenses and job permits with their expiry dates, and choose who is reminded, and when, before they expire.GuideRoles and permissionsThe starting roles every company has and changes to fit, giving people roles and exceptions, their jobs and their crew, and the record of every change.GuidePeople and HR filesEach employee's file and who sees what of it, who is HR, the encrypted birth date and license number, the record of every look, the employee's own file, and hiring needs.GuideReceivablesMake invoices, add billable costs, bill signed T&M tickets, send them, record and verify payments, and read the aging of what customers owe.GuideExpenses, receipts and fuelSend in expenses with a receipt photo from the phone, approve and post them to job cost, and record fuel fills against machines.GuideSend to payroll: sending hours to payrollSend approved hours to your payroll service (QuickBooks Online Payroll, an import file or a CSV), split regular, overtime and double time, with certified and union rates, and bring payroll costs back.GuideLabor burden: one standard rate for the yearBuild the year's burden from payroll taxes, workers' comp, liability, benefits and time off, adopt it from a date, and weigh what payroll actually paid against it.GuideBills and QuickBooksEnter vendor and sub bills here first, starting from the bill's PDF, match them to the PO and the site tickets, approve them, and send them to QuickBooks to be paid.GuideMonth endClose the month in one pass: the month's pay applications, accept each job's forecast from the WIP list, close the month, and read the backlog and the bonding pack.GuideSubcontractors' accounts and lien waiversInvite a sub to an account on their subcontract: pay requests come in as bills, they sign the waivers you ask for, and you choose which go to the customer.GuideSending documentsDownload or email every PDF Aggrado makes, from pay applications to safety sign-in sheets, and see what was sent to whom.GuideCustomer accessShare a job with its customer through a link: the passcode, the modules the job shows, full access or read only for each person, approving change orders and pay applications, and change requests from the customer.GuideManaging equipment in AggradoAdd machines, print QR tags, check readings and walkarounds, work problems and work orders, keep service on schedule, and charge jobs the right rate.GuideYour time cardFor a crew member, on one page: getting on the app, clock in, walk around your machine, Switch, clock out, your hours, and fixing something.GuideSu tarjeta de horas (en español)Your time card in Spanish. Para el trabajador, en una página: marcar entrada, revisar su máquina, Cambiar, marcar salida y sus horas.GuideThe crew time cardFor a foreman: who's on the clock, clocking people in, picking some of the crew, Switch and Lunch, machines, changing someone's hours, and what's sent, whichever way your company clocks.GuideLa tarjeta de horas de la cuadrilla (en español)The crew time card in Spanish. Para el capataz: quién está trabajando, marcar a la cuadrilla, Cambiar, el almuerzo, las máquinas y lo que se envía.ReferenceFirst-day cardOne page to print for a new crew member, in English and Spanish: get on the app, clock in, walk around, clock out.ReferencePhone app posterA QR poster for the shop wall that opens www.aggrado.com/phone, in English and Spanish.GuideGetting started with FieldSign in on the phone, Start the day, Finish the day, get a T&M ticket signed, and record what the machines did, without signal.GuideToday on the phoneThe phone's Today, shaped by role: a foreman's day, a crew member's own, the one orange Next, the weather day in one tap, Report a problem, and More's four groups.GuideThe phone appSign in, work without signal, talk through the day, switch between English and Spanish, and delete your account from the phone; store listing coming.GuideThe company directoryOne list of the customers, subcontractors, suppliers and agencies you deal with, shared by Bid, Job and Field: add, import, merge and archive.GuideNotificationsThe bell, and choosing which notices also come to you by email or to your phone.GuideYour account and privacyChange your name, time zone and password, and delete your account on the web or the phone: what goes and what stays.