For concrete contractors
Driveways, patios and slabs, from takeoff to the last payment.
Square feet, thickness and yards on the takeoff, the pour on the schedule, and every payment recorded against the job.
Your trade, set up
What Concrete comes with.
Optracs runs a concrete company's jobs by work type: driveway, patio, sidewalks & steps, slab, decorative concrete, repair and concrete leveling. Switch off what you don't use, or make the trade your own.
Sales steps
- New Lead
- Contacted
- Site Visit
- Quote Sent
- Follow-Up
Work steps
- Ready to schedule
- Scheduled
- Prep & Form
- Pour & Finish
- Cure & Strip
- Wrap-Up
Work types
Driveway Patio Sidewalks & steps Slab Decorative concrete Repair Concrete leveling
Checklists
- Concrete job
- Concrete pour
- Decorative concrete
- Concrete leveling
- Permit & inspection
The concrete pour checklist
- Old concrete or sod removed and hauled away
- Base graded to drain away from buildings, and compacted
- Forms set to line, grade and thickness, and staked
- Rebar or mesh set on chairs, as quoted
- Expansion joint set against the house, garage and other slabs
- Delivery ticket checked for the mix ordered, and kept
- Concrete placed, screeded and finished as quoted
- Control joints tooled or cut at the spacing planned
- Curing compound or sealer applied
- Forms stripped once the concrete has set
Shown at the Standard size. Setup starts on the Simple size, the same few steps for every trade, and you can pick Standard or Detailed there or later in Settings.
In Optracs
The same job, in Optracs.
The office sends the estimate; the crew opens the job on site. Recreated from Optracs with sample data.
Sample workspace
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An estimate built from your own catalog
Standard line items from your catalog, quantities from the takeoff, and a profit slider that reprices the estimate to your margin.
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A takeoff for concrete
Typed in or imported from a supported report or a CSV.
Slab area Thickness Volume Control joints Rebar Edge form
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The crew's day, on the job
Tasks with a person and a due date. Photos, notes and files go onto the job as the work happens.
Set forms and photograph them Place rebar Cut control joints
Documents
The paperwork, on the job.
Written from your own templates, signed by the customer from one link, kept with the job.
Estimate
Lines from your own catalog, quantities from the takeoff, finishes as options when you want them.
Takeoff
Slab area, thickness, volume in cubic yards, joints and rebar.
Photos of the forms
Before the pour, on the job, with the date.
Deposit and progress payments
Each one recorded against the invoice with its own label.
Warranty
A warranty document from your template, kept with the job.
A day in the trade
A job, start to finish.
Tuesday
Driveway
Slab area, thickness and control joints go into the takeoff. Photos of the old slab go onto the job.
Wednesday
Office
Yards, forms and finish come from your catalog with the takeoff's quantities, priced to your margin, in one link.
Thursday
Office
The customer accepts. Record the deposit against the invoice and put the pour on the schedule.
Pour day
Driveway
The crew's tasks are on the job: forms, rebar, pour, joints. Photos of the forms go on before the truck arrives.
A week later
Office
The final invoice and the last payment, recorded. The customer's link shows nothing owed.
The trade, by the numbers.
From the US Census Bureau. More in our research.
23,350
77.2%
Try it
See it with a sample company.
A company with a few months of work in it, ready to click through. We email you a code to open it.