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Restaurant Payroll Is Not
Construction Billing.
Planday connects to Xero for hourly shift pay. Construction billing involves AIA G702/G703 pay applications, certified payroll, prevailing wage compliance, retainage tracking, and change order reconciliation. POD provides the pay app intelligence construction demands.
Why Shift Payroll Falls Short for Construction
Construction billing is a different financial discipline entirely
Hourly payroll is not construction billing
Planday exports hours to payroll software. Construction billing requires progress-based pay applications, schedule of values, retainage calculations, and certified payroll documentation. Completely different financial workflows.
No certified payroll or prevailing wage
Government and prevailing wage projects require certified payroll reports with specific wage rates by classification. Planday has no concept of trade classifications, prevailing wage rates, or Davis-Bacon compliance.
No pay application reconciliation
Construction billing disputes cost the industry billions annually. Reconciling pay applications against actual progress, approved change orders, and stored materials requires specialized intelligence — not a payroll export.
No retainage or change order tracking
Retainage management, change order pricing, and billing accuracy directly impact cash flow. Planday tracks hours worked. Construction needs to track dollars earned, billed, approved, and retained.
The POD Advantage
Construction-grade billing intelligence
Pay App Intelligence
POD tracks pay application accuracy, billing reconciliation, progress claim deltas, and retainage schedules. AI-powered billing intelligence that catches discrepancies before they become disputes.
Automated Labor Documentation
Daily voice reports capture crew hours by trade and classification. Certified payroll documentation generated from field data — no duplicate entry, no classification errors.
Change Order Financial Tracking
Track change order proposals, approved amounts, and billing impact in real-time. AI monitors for budget exposure and unapproved work that affects pay applications.
AI Cash Flow Prediction
AI agents analyze billing patterns, payment velocity, and retainage schedules to predict cash flow. Know your financial position weeks in advance, not after the bank statement arrives.
Key Features
AIA G702/G703 Pay App Tracking
Track schedule of values, progress billing, and retainage against daily field data automatically.
Certified Payroll Documentation
Voice reports capture crew hours by trade classification. Certified payroll data generated from field reports.
Change Order Reconciliation
AI cross-references approved change orders against pay application line items to catch billing discrepancies.
AI-Powered Cash Flow Forecasting
Predict cash positions based on billing cycles, payment velocity, retainage releases, and pending change orders.
Retainage Management
Track retainage held, released, and pending across all subcontractors and pay periods automatically.
“We were reconciling pay apps manually against daily reports. POD does it automatically — the billing accuracy AI has already caught three discrepancies that would have cost us $200K in disputes.”
— Controller, Mechanical Contractor
Billing Intelligence Restaurant Payroll Cannot Touch
These KPIs auto-populate from daily field reports — no manual data entry required.
The Real Cost of Planday
6 metrics that prove POD delivers better outcomes — using KPIs that Planday can't even show you
Your Crew Gets Their First Hour Back
Your foreman spends 45 minutes every day on paperwork after a 10-hour shift. That's 188 hours per year per person — nearly 5 full work weeks — lost to forms, typing, and data entry. With Planday, reporting is still a chore.
POD replaces all of it with a 60-second voice report in 10 languages. No forms, no typing, no laptop. AI structures everything automatically. Crews start producing from minute one.
Ask Planday to show you your crew's first-hour productivity. They can't — they don't even track it.
Every Near-Miss Gets Captured
90% of near-misses go unreported because reporting is too hard. The ones that escalate to recordable incidents cost an average of $42,000 each — and they were preventable. Planday can't tell you what it doesn't capture.
Voice-first reporting captures incidents in real-time. AI categorizes severity, identifies patterns, and alerts supervisors before near-misses become accidents. The more you capture, the safer your site.
How many near-misses went unreported on your site last month? Planday doesn't know. POD does.
Your Data Is Never Stale
By the time your executive team reads a report from Planday, the data is already 24-48 hours old. Decisions based on stale data cost projects an average of 7% in overruns. You're always looking in the rearview mirror.
Data flows in continuously via voice, photos, and file uploads. The dashboard updates in real-time. Every KPI reflects what's happening right now — not yesterday, not last week.
Your last report from Planday was already outdated by the time you opened it. POD never sleeps.
Detect Turnover Before It Happens
Construction turnover averages 68% annually. Frustrated crews leave when their concerns aren't heard, their work isn't recognized, and their tools waste their time. Every departing crew member costs $15,000+ to replace. Planday shows you output — not morale.
60-second reporting removes frustration. AI highlights team achievements. Momentum tracking shows managers which crews are thriving and which need support — before resignations happen.
Does Planday tell you which crews are accelerating and which are about to quit? POD sees it weeks ahead.
From Data to Decision in 12 Minutes
Project managers spend 4.5 hours per day gathering data, compiling reports, and waiting for field information before making a single decision. That's more than half of an 8-hour day spent on administrative overhead. Planday gives you data to export — not answers.
Voice reports auto-structure into hundreds of KPIs. 9 AI agents analyze continuously. Decisions that took hours now take minutes — with better data supporting them.
Planday gives you data to export and analyze yourself. POD gives you answers in 12 minutes.
Five Dimensions. One Score. Zero Guessing.
Most construction software tracks metrics in silos. Safety doesn't talk to budget. Schedule doesn't connect to labor. You're making decisions with fragments of the picture. That's how projects go 20% over budget. Planday can't connect the dots.
POD's Momentum Score combines schedule adherence, budget health, safety record, quality score, and labor efficiency into one number. You see the full picture — instantly.
Show us where Planday connects schedule to budget to safety to quality to labor in one view. We'll wait.
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