WorkYard does its one job well: GPS-verified time tracking, so you know where your crews clocked in and how long they stayed. The question owners bring to me is the next one. The hours are recorded, so what did they cost, and which jobs are they eating? That’s an integration question, and yes, it’s answerable: WorkYard’s data can be pulled programmatically and put to work in systems you own.
What I’ve done with it
A fence and deck contractor I work with was running WorkYard for crew time while the rest of his operation lived in other tools. We wired his WorkYard time data into a job-costing system, so every clocked hour landed on the job it belonged to, with the crew member’s real cost attached. For the first time, the owner could open a job and see labor burn against the quote while the job was still running, instead of discovering it at the end of the month. That build eventually grew into a full operating system he owns, and its own timecards took over. Both stages were real jobs: the sync first, the replacement later, each one a modest, phased build.
What owners hire this for
The pattern repeats across trades. Time data sits in the time app, costs sit in the books, and jobs sit somewhere else, so nobody can answer “did we make money on the Hendricks fence?” without an afternoon of spreadsheet work. The buildable jobs: a sync that lands hours on jobs automatically, with per-employee rates applied. Payroll prep that rolls the week up the way your payroll actually works, overtime rules and all. A dashboard that shows labor against quote per job, live. And when you outgrow the stack entirely, a clean migration that keeps every historical hour queryable in a system you own.
None of that changes how crews clock in. The best integrations are invisible to the field and priceless to the office.
If your crew hours live in WorkYard and your job costs live in your head, describe your setup to me. I’ll tell you what a sync would look like, what it typically runs, and how fast it lands. The hours are already being tracked. Making them mean something is the short trip.
Have a project like this in mind?
Describe it in a sentence or two and I’ll tell you what it would run, how long it would take, and whether it’s worth building at all. No pressure either way.