About
Software built for the yard, not the boardroom.
OMBR is operations software for Australian traffic control contractors. It is built and operated by OMBR Systems Pty Ltd, and it is sold as a subscription to the companies that use it.
Why it exists
Traffic control is a business of shifts. A client rings on Thursday about a Sunday night closure. Someone works out whether there are four controllers with the right tickets and a ute with two VMS boards on it. The crew works the shift, fills in a docket book, and hands the top copy to the client representative. On Monday somebody types those hours into a spreadsheet for payroll, and somebody else types them again into an invoice a fortnight later.
Every one of those steps has software available for it. Almost none of it was written for this industry, so contractors end up running a scheduling tool that does not understand shifts, a payroll system that does not understand night loadings, and a docket book that understands nothing at all. The gaps between them are where the money goes: hours that never get billed, dockets that cannot be produced when a client queries an invoice, and licences that expire the week before a job starts.
OMBR was built to close those gaps by holding the whole job in one place: the quote, the permits, the bookings, the allocation, the shift on the crew’s phone, the signed docket, the timesheet, the pay run and the invoice.
Who it is for
Traffic control contractors: the companies that supply traffic controllers, signage, traffic management plans and road occupancy licences to road and civil projects. If you roster crews to sites, hire out plant with them, and get paid against signed dockets, the software is built around your shape of work.
That covers a two-crew operation running out of one yard just as much as a contractor with depots in several states. The plans are sized by what you run in the field, so a smaller operation is not paying for capacity it does not use.
How it is built and run
- OMBR is multi-tenant software delivered over the web. Each customer works in their own tenant, and one company’s data is not visible to another.
- It is sold per company on a monthly or annual subscription, sized by field personnel, and the vehicles and plant you put on bookings. Office users are unlimited on every plan.
- Prices are set in Australian dollars and published in full on the pricing page, where they are read directly from the product so the published figures and the billed figures are the same numbers.
- Accounts are set up by us, not by self-registration. A new customer starts with a conversation, and we configure their rate cards, personnel and plant before they run a shift through it.
Built alongside the people using it
OMBR is built against how a working traffic control contractor actually runs: real rate cards, real night shifts, real dockets, a real pay run. That is a deliberate choice. Operations software written at a distance from the operation ends up describing a business nobody runs.
It also means we would rather have a small number of contractors using OMBR properly than a large number trying it once. When you come on board you are dealing with the people who build it.
We are new, and here is what that is worth
OMBR is a young company. The software is in daily use at an Australian traffic control contractor, and you will hear from bigger names in this market with longer customer lists. That is a fair thing to weigh up, so it is worth being direct about what the other side of it gets you.
- You reach the people who build itSupport is not a queue in another timezone. An enquiry about how something works is answered by someone who can change how it works.
- What you ask for gets builtThe roadmap is not fixed years out. A contractor coming on now shapes what OMBR does about their state’s paperwork, their client’s portal, their pay rules.
- Nothing to unpick if you are wrongMonth to month, cancel from inside the product, export whenever you like. See pricing for the whole position.
Later customers get a more finished product. Early ones get a say in what finished means.
Company details
- Registered name
- OMBR Systems Pty Ltd
- ABN
- 80 604 252 824
- Based in
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Telephone
- 1800 662 747
- General enquiries
- hello@ombr.com.au
- Sales
- sales@ombr.com.au
- Support
- support@ombr.com.au
- Privacy enquiries
- privacy@ombr.com.au
- Country of operation
- Australia
See also our privacy policy and terms of service.
See it with your own jobs in it.
A demo runs about thirty minutes. Bring a quote, a roster and last week’s dockets, and we’ll show you the same week running in OMBR.
or ring 1800 662 747
- Australian companyABN 80 604 252 824
- Built and run by the same peoplewho answer the phone
- In daily useby an Australian traffic control contractor
- Your data stays yoursexport it at any time