What AroFlo Does Well
AroFlo is an enterprise-grade job management platform designed for complex operations. It excels at resource scheduling and workforce management, equipment tracking and allocation, compliance management for civil and heavy equipment operations, job costing and financial tracking, timesheet and attendance management, and project coordination across multiple sites. When you need to manage large crews, track heavy equipment, coordinate complex civil projects, or maintain strict compliance records, AroFlo provides the enterprise infrastructure to handle it all. For trade contractors, crane companies, and rigging operations requiring sophisticated resource management, AroFlo delivers powerful capabilities.
Where AroFlo's Daywork Falls Short
AroFlo includes forms functionality, but these are general-purpose forms that require extensive configuration for daywork use. The platform wasn't designed specifically for the nuanced requirements of daywork documentation and billing workflows. You can build forms to capture information, but you'll need significant time and money to set them up properly, manually configure calculations, and still export data to manually compile billing reports at month-end. The enterprise setup process is lengthy and expensive—great for comprehensive job management, but not optimized for the specific daywork-to-billing workflow that subcontractors need daily.
What Dayworkbook Was Built For
Dayworkbook isn't enterprise job management—it's a platform designed exclusively for best-in-class daywork documentation and billing. Every feature is purpose-built for the daywork workflow—from the specialized daywork sheets (labour, plant, materials, rates with built-in structure and intelligence) to the automatic billing compilation. It works for any trade (civil, cranes & rigging, electrical, plumbing, scaffolding—any discipline), any company size (2-person teams to 200-person operations), and any location globally. The platform focuses entirely on making daywork fast to capture, easy to approve, and simple to bill—solving the specific admin burden that enterprise platforms don't address. Setup takes 5 minutes, not weeks.
The Complementary Approach
You invested significant time and money implementing AroFlo for job management, resource scheduling, and compliance. Keep using AroFlo for what it's designed for—managing jobs, crews, equipment, and project financials. Add Dayworkbook for your daywork documentation and billing. Use AroFlo for job coordination and resource management. Use Dayworkbook for capturing variations, getting approvals, and generating billing reports. Each platform excels at what it was designed to do. This isn't either/or—it's both/and.