Features
Every part of the job, in one system.
OMBR covers a traffic control contractor’s operation from the first quote to the last invoice, including the parts that normally live on paper. This is what each part does.
Quoting
Price a job the way you actually price it
Traffic control quoting is not one number. It is controllers at a day rate and a night rate, a supervisor, a ute, two VMS boards, signage hire, a minimum call-out and a travel allowance — and the client has their own agreed rates on top.
- Rate cards held per client, so the schedule of rates you negotiated is the one that gets quoted.
- Separate day, night, weekend and public holiday rates, with minimum engagement built into the line.
- Line items for personnel, vehicles, plant, signage and traffic management plans, priced individually.
- Revisions kept against the quote, so you can see what changed between version two and version five.
- An accepted quote becomes the project and its rates — nothing is re-entered to start the work.
Clients and projects
The job, not just the shift
A resurfacing contract might run eleven weeks and sixty shifts. Bookings, permits, dockets, purchase orders and invoices all belong to that project, and the project belongs to a client with its own rates and contacts.
- Clients with their sites, contacts, purchase order requirements and agreed rate card.
- Projects that hold every shift, permit, docket and invoice raised against them.
- A running picture of what has been booked, delivered, and billed on the contract.
- Site records that carry across jobs, so the second job at the same intersection starts from what you learned on the first.
Bookings and allocation
Monday morning, without the whiteboard
Allocation is the hardest half-hour of the week: who is available, who has the right ticket, who is already on eleven hours, which ute has the boards on it, and which client just moved a shift to tomorrow night.
- Every shift across every project on one board, by day, week or depot.
- Controllers, supervisors and crews assigned against real availability, not a remembered roster.
- Vehicles, VMS and arrow boards, trailers and signage allocated to the shift alongside the people.
- Tickets and competencies visible while you allocate, so an expired card is caught in the office.
- Changes pushed to the crew, so the shift on their phone is the shift you just moved.
Permits and ROL
Nothing goes to site without the paperwork behind it
Road occupancy licences, council permits and traffic management plans have authorities, reference numbers, validity windows and approval states. Losing track of one stops a shift at the kerb.
- A board of every road occupancy licence and permit, grouped by what is drafted, lodged, approved or expiring.
- The issuing authority, reference number, site and validity window held against the job it belongs to.
- Traffic management plans stored with the project and available to the crew on site.
- Visibility of what is about to lapse while there is still time to lodge the renewal.
Field app
What the crew needs, and what the office needs back
A controller starting a night shift wants four things: where to be, who else is on, what plant is coming, and when they can go home. Everything the office needs comes out of giving them that properly.
- The shift on the phone: site, meeting point, hours, scope, the rest of the crew and the plant assigned.
- The traffic management plan for the site, where it can be read rather than left in the ute.
- Prestart checks completed and signed from site.
- Site photos attached to the shift, so setup and conditions are on the record and findable later.
- Start, breaks and finish recorded as they happen rather than reconstructed days later.
- The client representative signs the docket on the phone before the crew stands down.
Dockets and timesheets
One signed record, two jobs
The paper docket has always done double duty — it is the client’s proof of work and the crew’s timesheet. On paper it gets copied into two systems by two people and disagrees with itself. Here it does not.
- A docket per shift, holding the crew, the plant, the hours and what was actually done.
- Signed on site by the client representative, with the signature held against the record.
- The same record feeds the timesheet, so payroll and billing never work from different numbers.
- Variations and standby time captured at the time, while the client representative is standing there.
- A searchable history, so a query about a shift six months ago takes a minute rather than a trip to the archive box.
Payroll
Pay built from hours that were actually worked
Shift work, night loadings, weekend and public holiday penalties, minimum engagements, travel and allowances. Assembling a pay run by hand from a stack of dockets is a full day, and it is the day the mistakes happen.
- Hours drawn from signed dockets rather than re-keyed from paper.
- Overtime, penalties, loadings and allowances calculated against the shift that produced them.
- A pay run you review and approve rather than assemble.
- Payroll figures traceable back to the shift and the docket, for when someone queries a payslip.
Invoicing
Bill what the client already signed for
Most invoicing disputes are not disputes about price. They are disputes about whether the hours are right, and they take weeks to resolve because the evidence is a photocopy in a folder.
- Invoices assembled from signed dockets and the agreed rates on the project.
- Signed dockets attached to the invoice, so the evidence arrives with the claim.
- Client purchase order references carried through from the booking to the invoice.
- Invoicing that keeps up with the work, instead of running a fortnight behind it.
- Accounting integrations so invoices land in the ledger without being typed again.
Suppliers and purchase orders
The costs that arrive three weeks after the job
Hired plant, subcontract crews, signage and traffic management plan authors all invoice you later, usually with a reference that matches nothing. Costs that cannot be matched to a job cannot be recovered on it.
- Suppliers and subcontractors with their contacts, rates and the documents you hold for them.
- Purchase orders raised against a project or a specific shift, with an approval step.
- Supplier invoices reconciled to the order and the job, so cost lands where it belongs.
- A view of committed spend on a project before the invoices turn up.
Client and supplier portals
Stop being everybody’s filing system
A large share of an operations coordinator’s day is answering questions the other party could answer themselves: send me that docket again, what is booked for next week, where is our purchase order up to.
- Clients see their bookings, signed dockets and invoices without emailing for them.
- Suppliers see the orders raised against them and what has been received.
- Both sides work from the same record you do, so there is one version to argue about instead of three.
Reporting and AI
Knowing whether the job made money
When the quote, the roster, the dockets and the supplier invoices live in four places, project profitability is a spreadsheet somebody rebuilds each quarter. When they live in one, it is a screen.
- Reporting across bookings, hours, utilisation, invoicing and project cost.
- Revenue and cost brought together on the project, including committed supplier spend.
- AI assistance for the repetitive parts — drafting a quote from a scope, reading a docket, summarising a project.
- AI actions are included in every plan, with the monthly allowance set by the plan you are on.
Running the account
Multiple depots, access control, and your own systems
A contractor with yards in two states does not want two accounts, and a business of any size has people who should not see the payroll.
- Multiple depots under one account on the larger plans, with allocation kept per depot.
- Roles and permissions, so schedulers, payroll and management each see what they should.
- Single sign-on and a sandbox environment on Enterprise.
- API access from the Pro plan up, for connecting the systems you already run.
Which part is costing you the most right now?
Tell us where the week falls apart — allocation, dockets, payroll or invoicing — and the demo starts there.