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Log time
while it happens.
Engineers add hours per job from the phone. Office sees the week building in real time. Weekly submit, manager approve, payroll-ready CSV — no more Friday-night chasing.
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From two-person crews to 200-strong firms.
The problem
Still chasing timesheets
on a Sunday night?
Adding it up on a Friday in Excel?
Most contractor timesheet processes involve paper tickets, a foreman with a clipboard, and an admin person retyping it all into payroll on a Friday. PaperDrop captures time as it happens, on the job — and exports it to payroll without anyone touching a spreadsheet.
In plain English
What is a contractor timesheet app?
A contractor timesheet app captures engineer hours as they happen — logged against specific jobs, from the phone, even offline — and pushes them through a weekly approval flow into a payroll-ready export. For UK trades that means CIS-compliant CSV exports for Sage, BrightPay, IRIS or any bureau that takes a CSV, with configurable lunch deductions, manual overrides for worked-through breaks, and automatic feed-through to each job's labour cost. No paper tickets, no Sunday-night calculator sessions.
What's inside
Time, sorted.
Log time per job
Engineers add hours and notes per job, from the diary or the job detail view, as it happens.
Job-aware
Time logged against a job feeds the job's labour cost and Financial Overview automatically.
Weekly workflow
Build the week as it happens. Submit at the end. Manager approves in one tap.
Lunch & breaks
Configurable lunch deductions per role. Manual override if the engineer worked through.
Approval flow
Line manager approves, finance picks up. Discrepancies flagged before payroll runs.
Payroll-ready export
CSV with line-item detail for Sage, BrightPay, IRIS or any CIS bureau that takes a CSV.
How it works
Log.
Submit. Approve.
01
Log time on the job
Engineer adds hours and notes from the mobile app — from the diary, from a job detail view, or by clocking on and off if they prefer. Works offline.
02
Submit the week
Friday afternoon (or whenever your week ends), engineer reviews and submits. Lunch deductions applied per role. Manual overrides if needed.
03
Manager approves
Line manager sees the submitted timesheet, approves in one tap. Finance picks up the export and runs payroll. Hours feed the job's labour cost automatically.
Time logged where the work happens.
Engineers add hours straight from the diary or the job detail view, on the phone in their pocket. Works offline. Notes attach to the time entry so finance can see what was done, not just the hours.
Hours that feed the job's margin.
Time logged against a job becomes labour cost at the engineer's rate, and feeds the job's Financial Overview automatically. Same record drives timesheets and job costing — no double-entry, no reconciliation.
CSV that lands clean in payroll.
Approved timesheets export as a CSV with line-item detail per person. Works with Sage, BrightPay, IRIS or any CIS bureau. PriceWork totals included if you run piece-rate teams.
“PaperDrop makes great work memorable for our clients.”
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TruBuild
Yes — the mobile app captures time offline. Entries sync to the timesheet (and the job) the moment the phone's back in coverage.
Yes — hours logged against a job become labour cost at that engineer's rate, and feed the job's Financial Overview automatically. Same record drives timesheets and job costing.
Configurable per role — set a default lunch deduction in user settings, override on the timesheet if the engineer worked through. PaperDrop handles the maths.
Engineer submits the week, line manager approves in one tap, finance picks up the export. Discrepancies between submitted and approved are flagged before payroll runs.
Yes — CSV export with line-item detail. Works with Sage, BrightPay, IRIS and any CIS bureau that takes a CSV. PriceWork piece-rate totals included for mixed PAYE/CIS teams.
Inactive users no longer show up in the unsubmitted timesheet list — their names won't clutter the chase view. Their historical timesheets remain on file for compliance.
Pairs well with
Better together.
Job Costing
Time logged on jobs becomes labour cost on the job's Financial Overview — automatic.
Read morePrice Work
Mixed PAYE and CIS teams? Timesheets for hourly, PriceWork for piece-rate — both in one export.
Read moreScheduling
The scheduled job your engineer worked on is the same job their time lands against.
Read moreFriday-night payroll.
Off the to-do list.
See timesheets running with your own team in PaperDrop — takes 30 seconds, no card, no call.