Painting contractors can boost profits by tracking crew hours with tools like ClockShark or QuickBooks Time, then tying bonuses to accurate logging. When hours sync directly to payroll, you cut manual data entry and overhead. Workers stay motivated to clock in when they earn extra pay for hitting budget targets.
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to start a performance-based system. If you're time tracking, you'll need to have that dialed in. Talk to some painting businesses and they want to do time tracking, but they can't get their team to do it. So I would tell those painting contractors, there's a ton of painting businesses that do get their team to do it. So don't see that as an unsurmountable task because there's plenty of painting businesses that get their team to log into a time tracker and properly select the job that they're on to track their time. So there's solutions like ClockShark, QuickBooks Time. Those solutions integrate with QuickBooks Online and it will allow your team to log into the proper job, hit start time, and rack up those hours against that project. And those two systems, ClockShark and QuickBooks Time, also integrate with QuickBooks Payroll and also Vesto Payroll. Improve the hours in the time tracking system, ClockShark or QuickBooks Time, and then you sync the hours over to your payroll. You don't have to do much data entry.
Sometimes employees don't like to clock in. We have to find a way to motivate them. Well, if I know my bonus is tied to my hours, that's gonna be a powerful motivator for me to clock in and make sure that my hours are being tracked so I can go to my boss and say, hey, I came in under budget, show me the money. Good point. You need to start a performance-based system and that would encourage them to do it.
