Comms and reporting

Nobody types anything
into these reports.

The engineer clocking in, the buyer raising an order, the clerk logging an invoice: all doing their own job. The management picture is assembled from what they did, current to the hour.

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Management reports assembled from work already recorded in Unibuild

The yes queue

Everything that needs a decision, in one place, with a count on it.

Orders, invoices, expenses, holiday and plant requests. In most firms each has its own route, its own chaser and its own person who forgot. Here they arrive together.

One
queue

Approve

Every item waiting on you, with a live pending count carried through to the mobile app menu.

Purchase and subcontract orders
Small works orders
Subcontractor invoices
Expenses, holiday, plant

Inside · ApprovalsLive

Value-banded
routes

Committee

Authority is set by value, not by seniority alone, so the right number of signatures is enforced rather than remembered.

One approval to £5,000
Committee member above that
Two approvals above £25,000
Notified when raised

Inside · Approval committeeLive

Told,
not chased

Notify

The approver hears about it where they already are, rather than finding it next time they log in.

Push to the field app
Email to the office
Committee notified on raise
Logged when sent

Inside · NotificationsLive

Announcements
and reminders

Tell

The things everyone needs to know, and the things that come round again whether anyone remembers or not.

Company announcements
General reminders
Expiry driven prompts
Seen on the app

Inside · AnnouncementsLive

The five that carry it

Five reports that carry the business.

The reports menu holds fourteen items. These five carry most of the weight.

Labour hours and cost

Any date rangeReal effective-dated ratesHeadline figures, then chartsSortable tableCSV, XML and JSON export

Monthly totals per person

Payroll-stylePer operativeOvertime multipliers appliedDated rate history

Purchase order spend

Across suppliersAcross projectsCommitted valueSortable and exportable

Subcontract exposure

OrdersInvoices raisedPayments madeOrder value against invoiced

Live cost and margin

Labour in automaticallyPurchase orders at committed valueApproved expenses and invoicesMargin against contract value

Where the numbers come from

Every figure on these reports is a by-product of work already recorded: the timesheet line, the approved order, the supplier invoice, the valuation. Nothing is retyped and nothing is assembled by hand, which is why the cost position and the margin against it are current to the hour rather than to the last month end.

The record behind it

Every change carries a name
and a timestamp.

Reporting is only worth as much as the record underneath it. The log is added to, never edited.

On every login: Successful, failed and blocked attempts are all recorded with the IP address, and marked as a web or an app event.
On records created: The request URI, IP address, browser user agent and country code are written alongside the record itself.
On approvals: Who approved, when, and against which value band. Rejection is recorded as an event, not as an absence.
On notifications: What was sent, to whom and when, so a claim that nobody was told can be checked rather than argued.
On exports: CSV, XML and JSON files are built server side from the same query that drew the screen, so the file and the page cannot disagree.

Every change in Unibuild carrying a name and a timestamp

Asked in every demo

What directors ask
about the numbers.

The rest sit on the FAQ page, including payroll exports and the accounts package.

Can it tell me whether a job is profitable?

Yes, while the job is running. Labour flows in automatically at real effective-dated rates, purchase orders at committed value, supplier invoices and staff expenses as they are approved, all attached to the job, with the contract value from your client's own orders alongside it and the margin computed against that. It also closes the loop back to the tender, comparing estimated hours against hours logged and estimated quantities against quantities used, section by section, so a job drifting from its price is visible while there is still job left to run.

How current are the figures?

Current to the hour, because nothing is keyed in twice. There is no monthly cycle to fall behind and no one person whose absence stops the numbers appearing. The report is assembled from the clock-ins, orders and invoices that your team recorded while doing their own work.

Can I approve from my phone?

Yes. Approvals are on the field app as well as the web portal, and the pending count is carried into the app menu so it is visible without going looking. Push notifications reach the approver when an item is raised.

Who can see the reports?

Whoever you decide, and more precisely than most systems in this market allow. Web access is an explicit tree of the menus and sections a person can reach, and app access is a separate list set independently. On top of that sit specific controls on sensitive things, including whether someone can see hourly rates at all. See access and permissions.

The platform