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British Columbia · civil, hydrovac, underground

The shift becomes the invoice.

Your crew logs time, progress and photos the way they already work. The office gets a clean report the boss will actually read, and an invoice that starts BC's 28-day payment clock the day it goes out.

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How it works

Four things, in the order they happen.

Nobody re-keys anything. What the operator taps at 5:30 is what the GC reads at 5:30 the other way, and what billing sends on Friday.

01 · Time

The clock

In, out, standby, per person per job. Ours, or a live link to the client's clock. Offline in the hole, synced when the cell comes back.

02 · Field

Progress & proof

Hours, metres, loads, m³. Four photos, north east south west. Extras with a name attached to the yes. The FLHA signed before a shovel moves.

03 · Office

Reports to the boss

A daily the GC can forward without editing. Invoice backup billing can trust. A compliance file with the FLHA, the names and the photos.

04 · Money

Invoice & cost

Locked tickets become one proper invoice. Holdback held back. Cost against the job as it happens, not a surprise at month end.

Getting paid · British Columbia

The law finally has a clock. Most shops can't prove the date.

BC's Construction Prompt Payment Act sets hard deadlines once you give a proper invoice. The catch is that the clock only protects you if you can show what you sent and when. A number scribbled on a ticket in a truck does not do that. SiteWire does.

28
days for the owner to pay you, from the invoice date
7
days for them to call the invoice not proper. Miss it and it counts as proper
14
days for a notice of non-payment, with reasons, line by line
7
days for you to pay your subs once you have been paid

What a proper invoice has to carry

  • Your legal name and address, and the payee contact
  • The period of work, not just a date
  • Description and quantity of what was done
  • The amount, with holdback shown separately
  • Whatever the contract additionally demands

Miss one and they get to call it not proper — and the 28 days never started.

What SiteWire does about it

  • Every ticket is timestamped and locked on site — the numbers freeze
  • Friday is one button: locked tickets become one invoice
  • Holdback is a jar, not a guess. Held on the work, never on the tax
  • A board that says day 26 — silent, not "AR aging"
  • If it ever goes to adjudication, the file is already built

The Act received Royal Assent in November 2025 and is not yet in force, and the prescribed forms have not been published. Everything here is built to swap the day they are. This is not legal advice.

Who uses it

Three people. Three amounts of rope.

Same shift underneath. Nobody wades through somebody else's screen.

On site

The foreman

Six taps in the rain, one thumb, gloves on. Jobs today, on site, photos, hours and loads, extras, lock. Shows the dollar amount before they leave the hole.

Back office

Safety & records

Crews, tickets, equipment, site records, the compliance file. Everything about the work and the people — and nothing about the money.

Owner

Whoever chases the cheque

What's ready to invoice, what's past day 28, what each job is costing against what it's billing. One button on Friday.

Why you set it up yourself and not a sales call

Buyers should feel the board before they fight an IT login.

Take the usual particulars once and you are inside — no sandbox password, no "request access", no forty-minute discovery call to see a screenshot.

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Contact

Talk to the wire.

Greater Vancouver corridor, Chilliwack to Squamish. Civil, hydrovac, open cut, locates. Built for crews who live in the mud and get paid late.