What you get
- Reliable attendance tied to the right project
- Payroll without re-entering days
- Labour cost visible in project reporting
Workforce · Pakistan
Labour attendance and workforce software for construction in Pakistan
Record daily-wage labour and staff attendance once, by project, so wages and labour cost match the site, with no muster rolls rebuilt at month end.
- Every module on every plan
- Published PKR pricing
- Onboarding by our team
Overview
Labour attendance software for construction businesses in Pakistan
On most Pakistani construction sites, labour is the largest controllable cost and the least systematically recorded. A supervisor keeps a register. The register becomes a photograph. The photograph becomes a WhatsApp message. Somebody in the office types it into a sheet on payday. Three transcriptions later, a disputed day cannot be traced back to the site that worked it, and project labour cost is an estimate presented as a figure.
The fix is not complicated, but it has to happen at source: who worked, where, and on which day, recorded on the day it happened. Everything downstream then improves. Payroll starts from a register instead of a retyped summary, project cost carries real labour, and a wage dispute is settled by evidence rather than by seniority.
Smart Construction handles the mix that Pakistani sites actually run. Daily-wage crews whose headcount changes between Monday and Thursday, contract labour supplied through a subcontractor and invoiced by worker-day, and salaried site and office staff, each paid the way they are actually paid. That is the difference between a workforce system designed for an office and one designed for a site.
Core capabilities
- Attendance by project for every kind of worker
- Recorded on site by supervisors, on a phone
- Payroll that matches what the site recorded
- Labour cost on the project that used it
- Problems caught before wages are paid
Capabilities
What it helps your team do
Everything below is included on Starter, Growth, and Enterprise. Plans differ only on active project and user limits.
One register, every worker type
Every kind of worker, from daily-wage crews to salaried staff, in one place instead of a separate list per category, per site, and per supervisor.
Capture on site, on the day
Supervisors record attendance from a phone or laptop on site, and head office sees it the same day rather than at the end of the week.
Payroll without retyping
Attendance is captured once, so payday becomes a review rather than a transcription exercise and nobody retypes a register under deadline.
Wage advances that do not go missing
Money workers take before payday is on record, so recovering it no longer depends on a supervisor’s note surviving until the end of the month.
Labour cost on the right project
Wages land on the project that used the labour rather than disappearing into overheads. On most sites this is the single largest correction to project margin accuracy.
A record that survives a dispute
A dated record of who worked where, with a history of any corrections, so a question months later is answered from evidence.
Before and after
What changes in practice
The same work, run the way most contractors run it today and the way it runs on the platform.
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Paper register photographed and messaged
- On Smart Construction: Attendance recorded against a project on the day
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Payroll rebuilt from scratch each cycle
- On Smart Construction: Payday without retyping the register
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Project labour cost allocated at month end
- On Smart Construction: Labour cost on the project that used it
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Advances noted on paper, recovered from memory
- On Smart Construction: Advances on record, not remembered
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Labour supplier invoices accepted unchecked
- On Smart Construction: Invoices compared against the site register
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Overtime applied inconsistently
- On Smart Construction: Overtime treated the same way every time
Use cases
Situations this is built for
Recognisable scenarios from construction businesses operating in Pakistan.
A crew moving between three sites
- The situation
- A masonry crew moves depending on where the pour is. At payday nobody can say cleanly how many days each site consumed.
- How Smart Construction handles it
- Each day is recorded against the site the crew actually worked on.
- What changes
- Each site carries its true labour cost, and crew movement stops distorting project margins.
A labour contractor invoicing for worker-days
- The situation
- A labour supplier invoices for a headcount the office has no independent record to check.
- How Smart Construction handles it
- Workers supplied by the contractor are on your own site record, not only on their invoice.
- What changes
- The invoice is checked against a real record before payment, and you pay only for what was worked.
Advances that vanished
- The situation
- Workers take advances mid-month, noted on paper by the supervisor. Recovery depends on whether the note survives to payday.
- How Smart Construction handles it
- Advances are on record from the day they are paid, not on a note in a supervisor’s pocket.
- What changes
- Recovery stops depending on memory, and disputes about what was already taken largely disappear.
Benefits
What improves, and why it matters
Payroll stops being transcription
Captured once at source, the register turns payroll into a review-and-release step.
Real labour cost per project
People cost lands on the job that consumed it, usually the biggest single improvement to margin accuracy.
Fewer wage disputes
A dated per-project record settles most questions before they escalate.
Reliable advance recovery
What each worker has already taken is on record, so recovery no longer depends on recollection.
Contractor invoices get checked
An independent register gives you something to compare a worker-day claim against.
Workforce becomes manageable
Headcount and cost trends per project turn labour from an unavoidable expense into something you can steer.
Terminology
The vocabulary on this page, explained
Plain definitions of the terms Pakistani contractors and consultants use day to day.
- Daily-wage labour
- Workers paid per day worked rather than on a monthly salary, with headcount changing week to week. A per-day, per-project register is what makes this cost measurable.
- Contract labour
- Workers supplied through a labour contractor or subcontractor, invoiced by worker-day. An independent site register is what makes the invoice checkable.
- Wage advance
- Money paid to a worker before the payroll cycle, recovered from the next payment. Untracked advances are among the most common payroll disputes on site.
- Attendance register
- The dated record of who worked, where, and for how long. It is the source document payroll, project cost, and any wage dispute all depend on.
- Labour cost allocation
- Charging people cost to the project that consumed it rather than to a company overhead pool. Without it, project margin is an estimate.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Still have a question?
Ask our team during Pakistan business hours, in English or Urdu.
+92 333 2466662Chat on WhatsAppHow do we track daily-wage labour attendance?
Supervisors record attendance on site, project by project. Payroll and project cost then match what the site recorded, with no re-entry or month-end reconstruction.
Does attendance link to payroll?
Yes. Attendance and payroll work together, so wages reflect the days actually worked and nobody retypes a muster roll.
Can we see labour cost per project?
Yes. Labour cost lands on the project that used it, so finance sees labour expense per job in PKR rather than one overhead figure.
Do supervisors need a special app or device?
No special device. Supervisors record attendance on the phone they already carry, or on a laptop, so there is no hardware to buy or hand out.
Can we record attendance for workers supplied by a subcontractor?
Yes. Workers supplied by a subcontractor can be kept on your own site record, which gives you an independent register to check their worker-day invoice against before you pay it.
How are corrections handled?
Corrections stay on record rather than silently overwriting the original, so an amended register still tells you what it first said and who changed it.
Does attendance flow through to project cost automatically?
Yes. Labour cost lands on the project the work was done for, rather than in a company overhead pool.
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