Every item.Every movement.Every dollar.
Field Connect follows material from the packing list to where it is needed, by container and item, and applies your rate card as each movement is recorded. A stillage of glass, a run of kitchen joinery, a pallet of panels. The costing report is written by the work, not rebuilt at month end.
Twenty storeys of glass. The same record works for joinery, frames, panels, or whatever else is on the list.
The packing list becomes the job.
Drop in the packing list and Field Connect reads it out: every container, every item, its ID, where it is going, its size and weight. On this shipment those items are stillages. On the first shipment it asks you to confirm the columns once, and after that every shipment on that project imports the same way.
Checked, photographed, and on the clock.
Record the unpack date, attach the arrival photos, and mark whether the container came in damaged or the goods came out clean. Storage starts accruing from that date, the free days first, then a weekly rate per stillage off the project's rate card.
Pick the stillages. The delivery prices itself.
Filter the master sheet by level, container, shipment or PO, tick what is going out, and confirm. Field Connect takes the next DEL number, counts singles and doubles into billable units, and applies the delivery rate and fuel surcharge before you have closed the tab.
The waiting time nobody invoices.
Attach the POD and enter the times the truck arrived and left. Waiting time is worked out against the allowance on the rate card, rounded to your billing increment, floored at your minimum charge, and sits as its own line beneath the delivery.
The variation report is already written.
Every unpack, storage week, delivery, waiting charge and cancelled load sits on the project's variation report under its commodity, with cost beside sell on each line. Change a rate and the system-priced lines follow it. Export to Excel or PDF the day you need it, not the week after.
And the ones that come back.
A stillage returned from site, damaged or headed to recycling, comes back on hand against a BL number, back onto the storage clock from the day it lands, carrying the backload rate. It is the movement most likely to be forgotten, and it is the same few clicks as any other.
Built by people who have stood in the warehouse.
Material at this scale does not arrive as one count. It arrives in containers — stillages, frames, joinery, panels — and every movement has a rate behind it. Field Connect is built around that.
The item is the unit
Whatever the packing list calls it. Each item carries its ID, the container and shipment it arrived in, where it is going, how it bills, its weight and its size. In, out and back again, each movement logged with a date and a reason, so the on-hand number is one you can defend.
Documents to upload: the packing list on the way in, the POD on the way out. Everything else is a tick and a date.
Your rate card applied as each movement is recorded, cost beside sell. Change a rate later and the system-priced lines follow it.
Damage attached to the thing that was damaged
Raise a record against a container or an item: photos, the yard, the date it was found and the reason for the change. Every update is kept as a new version, so the history sits on the record instead of scrolling away in a group chat.
Month end should not be a memory exercise.
The charges that go missing are the small ones that happen constantly: a storage week past the free days, forty-five minutes of a truck waiting on site, a load cancelled the night before, an item that came back. Field Connect prices each one the moment it is recorded, against the allowances, increments, minimums and surcharges already sitting on the project's rate card. On a hundred-container package that is the difference between an invoice and an estimate.
The answer is already on the screen.
Builder
How many of the hundred containers have landed, what has gone to site, and what is still sitting in the warehouse.
Contractor
Which of the package has landed, what arrived damaged, and what is quietly accruing storage.
Installer
What went out on which delivery, when it landed, and the POD attached to prove it.
3PL project manager
Stops rebuilding the invoice. Two documents go in and the variation report is already written.
Bring us a project
that is about to start.
Thirty minutes. We ask about the trade lane, the warehouse, the rate card and how the variation report gets built today, and tell you straight whether Field Connect helps on this package or the one after it.