Coretime for Surveyors

As a surveyor, your time in the field, in the office, on-site visits, and reporting is your most valuable asset. With Coretime’s surveyor time tracking software and surveying project management tools, you can track every billable hour for surveyors, manage expenses with ease, and run multiple projects all while maintaining clear visibility over profitability.

Why Surveying Firms Choose Coretime & The Benefits

Surveying projects often involve complex schedules, multiple staff or contractors, mobile staff on site, and detailed reporting. Coretime is built to solve these exact challenges, helping surveying firms:

Eliminate Time Lost on Manual Timesheets

Surveying work often happens on-site, making traditional spreadsheet-based time recording slow, inconsistent, and error-prone. Coretime replaces manual admin with simple, fast digital time entry, giving your team a reliable way to record hours as they work not days later. This means fewer mistakes, less admin, and more accurate billing.

Capture Billable Hours Anywhere From Field to Office

Whether you’re surveying on a remote site, meeting clients, or finalising reports back at the office, Coretime makes time capture effortless. Log hours via desktop or mobile, even on the go, so every billable minute is captured. No more lost time due to travel, site visits, or delayed data entry.

Instant Clarity on Project Status and Performance

Coretime gives you real‑time visibility over your survey project management data, including project budgets, actual hours worked, and performance metrics. With insights into WIP and resource utilisation, survey teams can make confident decisions without waiting for end‑of‑month reporting.

Efficient Expense Tracking and Cost Recovery

Travel, mileage, equipment, and on-site expenses can quickly add up and become difficult to track. Coretime centralises your expense management, making it easy for staff to input costs and assign them to the right project. With accurate expense records, your team can recover costs correctly and ensure nothing slips through the cracks.

Every Hour Accounted For Every Project More Profitable

By combining accurate time tracking, clear project insights, and organised expense management, Coretime ensures you get a full picture of your true project costs and profitability. With reliable data at your fingertips, you can invoice confidently, avoid lost revenue, and make stronger decisions that support business growth.

Plan Resources and Forecast Workloads with Confidence

With multiple projects running at once, coordinating surveyors, subcontractors, and office staff can be challenging. Coretime’s resource planning for surveyors and forecasting tools help you see who’s available, how busy each team member is, and what work is coming next — leading to improved scheduling and overall productivity.

More Benefits

Field Data Collection Visibility & Alerts

Track time spent on-site in real-time and get notified when the phase is close to exceeding estimated hours.

Example in practice:
During a topographical survey, unexpected site conditions can slow the team. As surveyors log time via mobile, Coretime flags the Field Data Collection phase nearing its budget. You can then adjust resources, update the client, and agree on extra time or fees before overruns occur.

Initial Site Visit & Assessment

Quickly capture hours and monitor phase progress before the main survey begins.

Example in practice:
During an initial site visit for a residential development survey, unforeseen site hazards are discovered that require extra safety planning. Coretime tracks surveyor hours in real-time and flags that the Initial Site Visit & Assessment phase is exceeding planned time. You can then adjust resources, inform the client, and ensure accurate billing from the outset.

Data Processing & CAD Modelling

Monitor office-based work on collected data and maintain budget control.

Coretime has significantly changed how we track time and allocate it against jobs. … As an efficient system, our business is much more likely to accurately bill hours of work actually incurred on any job, helping us to protect profitability.” – Amanda, GWP Consultants

Explore the Coretime Interface

Take a guided look at Coretime’s dashboard and modules. See exactly how your team could track time, manage projects, and stay on top of budgets all through an interactive, visual walkthrough of the platform. Get a feel for the interface and how Coretime works in practice.

surveying project management and WIP reporting in Coretime software

Core Features Built for Surveyors

Accurate Time & Expense Capture (Wherever You Are)

Coretime’s surveying timesheets let you log both billable and non‑billable time accurately wherever you are — in the field, on site visits, or back in the office. Pair this with survey expense tracking to assign travel, equipment, and site costs to the correct project.

Central Project & Budget Management

Manage multiple simultaneous surveying projects, each with its own timeline, phases, budgets, and resources. Keep budgets under control, track actual vs estimated time and costs, and spot overruns before they become problems.

Work-in-Progress (WIP) & Profitability Insight

Get real-time visibility: see which projects are profitable, which are eating time, and where you need to reallocate resources. That means smarter bidding, better client management, and improved cashflow forecasting.

A Central Project Management Resource

Manage multiple simultaneous surveying projects, each with its own timeline, phases, budgets, and resources. Keep budgets under control, track actual vs estimated time and costs, and spot overruns before they become problems.

Flexible Deployment — Cloud or On-Premise + Multi-device Access

Whether you run a small solo surveying practice or a large firm with multiple offices and mobile staff, Coretime adapts to your setup. Access via desktop, laptop, tablet or phone so time tracking works the way your team works.

Staff Planning and Forecasting Tools

Managing surveyors, subcontractors, and office staff across overlapping projects doesn’t have to be a challenge. Coretime’s Resource Manager provides a complete, at-a-glance overview of your team, so you can easily plan workloads, avoid clashes, and deploy your staff where they’ll have the most impact.

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