The phone app

The Aggrado app is coming to the App Store and Google Play. Until it is listed there, open www.aggrado.com/phone in your phone's browser, sign in, and add it to the home screen. It is the same app.

Unsent work is kept in that browser, so don't clear the browser's data for the site while anything is waiting to send.

For a crew, print the first-day card or the phone app poster for the shop wall, in English and Spanish.

1. Sign in with your Aggrado account.

   Enter your Email and Password and tap Sign in. It is the same account you use on the website. Signing in needs signal.

2. Or sign in with your phone number.

   No email? Tap No email? Sign in with your phone number, enter your Mobile number, tap Text me a code, and enter The code we texted. Someone invited by text starts here.

3. Or create an account.

   Tap Create an account, enter Your name, Email and a Password of at least 8 characters, and tap Create account. Open the link emailed to you to confirm your address, then sign in.

4. Forgotten your password?

   Tap Forgot your password?, enter your email and tap Email me a link. Choose a new password from the link in the email.

5. Choose the company.

   If you belong to more than one company, tap it under Choose a company. With only one, it is chosen for you. You can also start a company here; you become its owner.

If the app says a company hasn't given you anything in this app yet, either the company doesn't have that product turned on or your roles don't reach it. An owner or admin at that company gives you a role on the website, under Company › Users and roles.

The office can see who has signed up on the website, under Company › Employees. The App column shows who is on the app and when they last used it, who was invited and hasn't signed up yet, and who hasn't been invited.

The tabs along the bottom depend on what your roles reach:

• Field — for a role that enters crew records, such as Foreman or Operator / laborer. It opens on Today, shaped by role: a foreman gets who's clocked in, Start the day and Finish the day; a crew member gets My time, their machine's walkaround and their next two weeks. Everything else is under More. See Today on the phone.
• Shop — for a role that works work orders, such as Mechanic or Shop manager.
• Electric — an Electric crew's time and daily work, or service calls, where the company has Aggrado Electric.
• Job — for a role that sees the office's side of jobs beyond one crew, such as Project manager: the office's figures for each job.
• Bid — for a role that reads estimates or proposals across the company, such as Estimator: the bid list and site notes.
• Develop — for a land developer's site inspector or owner's representative.
• Account — for everyone: your company and roles, Notices, Ask Aggrado, My file, the language, and signing out.

A driver or yard hand at a precast plant or supply house works in Aggrado Deliver instead, and the app shows the way there.

The app opens on Field if you have it. For the crew's day, see Getting started with Field.

The Field tab is built for a site with no signal. What you enter is kept on the phone and sent when there is signal: time cards, clock entries, meter readings, walkarounds, problem reports, rental call-offs, deliveries, pour records, T&M tickets, daily reports, the weather day, crew sign-ins, photos, to-dos and punch list records, material requests, expenses, toolbox talks, site tickets, fuel tickets (and fuel fills, where a company logs fuel machine by machine) and incident reports.

The bar at the top of the Field screens says where things stand:

• No signal. Everything is saved on this phone and sends when there's signal.
• A count of what is waiting for signal.
• Everything's sent. A crew member's Today shows no bar at all then.

The app sends on its own when Field opens, when signal comes back, when the app returns to the front, and every minute while something is waiting. Pull down on Today, or tap Send now, to send right away. If something can't go, the app stops retrying and says why: Couldn't send: … Fix it and send again. Waiting to send, a big button under the bar, lists everything the phone is holding; something that couldn't send can be opened, fixed and sent again, or thrown away.

Signing out keeps your unsent work, and it is sent when you sign in again. If someone else signs in on the same phone, whatever the last person left unsent is deleted, so let everything send before handing the phone over.

Every piece of paper that comes onto the site goes into the job's files the same way: truck and scale tickets, delivery tickets, dump tickets, the fuel truck's ticket, T&M sheets and test reports.

1. Tap Ticket.

   On Today, or on a job's screen. The camera opens; take the ticket so it can be read. The job and the day come from today's dispatch.

2. Check what it says.

   Where the company has AI on its photos and there is signal, the ticket is read right away and the form fills in: who issued it, the number, the material, the quantity and unit, the loads. Fields AI filled are marked Read by AI — check. Choose the kind (Haul, Material, Delivery, Fuel, Dump, T&M, Inspection) and fix anything that's wrong.

3. Confirm, or save it for later.

   It matches the paper once each box does. Save, check later keeps it under More › Paperwork › Site tickets, with the ones still to check first. With no signal it all waits on the phone, and AI reads the ticket once the photo reaches the office.

A confirmed fuel ticket goes on the job's Fuel code. A delivery ticket can mark the delivery that was expected as received, or log one nobody announced. A T&M ticket is linked to the job's T&M ticket with the same number. The day's tickets show on the daily report under Already on the report. A fuel ticket can also be typed in, with Fuel ticket on the job's page.

On Finish the day, tap Say it under What happened and talk. Most other text boxes have a microphone beside them too, for the note on a punch item, what the customer asked for on a T&M ticket, or what happened in an incident. Tap it, talk, and tap it again; the words land in the box after whatever was already there, to fix by hand if a word came out wrong. You can also use the keyboard's own microphone.

On a past day's card or report, Talk through the day takes one spoken account of the day, asks what's missing, and fills in both for you to check. In Spanish it works the same. Nothing is sent until you send it.

The app follows the phone's own language: Spanish on a phone set to Spanish, English otherwise. To choose, open the Account tab and under Language choose Same as this phone, English or Español. The choice is kept on that phone.

The app also tells Aggrado which language it shows, each time you sign in and whenever you change it, so the end-of-day reminders and the time card notice come to you in that language, by push and by email. See Notifications.

The app's own screens are translated. Text the office writes, such as a note or a talk with no Spanish version, appears as it was written, and some messages from the office's system are in English only.

The Account tab shows who you are signed in as, the company and your roles in it, Switch company when you have more than one, Notices (what reaches this phone), Ask Aggrado, My file, yourPIN for the foreman's phone, two-step sign-in, the language, and Sign out.

1. Delete your account.

   On the Account tab, tap Delete my account. The screen explains what is removed and what your company keeps, and warns you if anything on the phone has not reached the office yet.

2. Confirm.

   Type DELETE and tap Delete my account. This needs signal and cannot be undone. The phone's own copy of your work is cleared, and you are signed out.

See Your account and privacy for what deleting removes and what stays with your company.