Running a small-to-medium construction business in NZ? You’ll know the juggle. Chasing quotes, wrangling timesheets, losing receipts, getting ghosted on invoices. The good news? It doesn’t have to be this hard.
Here’s how you can streamline the chaos, sharpen your numbers, and win back your weekends using NextMinute’s job management software as your right-hand tool.
1. Quoting that Doesn’t Drain Your Time
Still quoting in spreadsheets or Word docs? It’s slow, clunky, and can take hours for bigger jobs.
With NextMinute, quoting is quick, consistent and totally mobile. Use saved templates, pull prices from your own price book, and fire off slick, branded quotes right from your ute. Optional extras? Terms and conditions? Sorted.
You’ll spend less time quoting, win more jobs, and never lose track of what you actually agreed to.
2. Get the Crew Clocking In Properly
Missing time is missing money. If your crew’s scribbling hours on the back of GIB board or texting them in late, you’re bleeding margin.
With NextMinute’s mobile timesheets, every tradie can clock in and out with a couple of taps. Hours are tagged to the right job. Overtime’s tracked. And no more chasing people on a Friday arvo when you’re trying to run payroll.
3. Tame the Whiteboard Chaos
Job board full of scribbles and arrows? No one knows who’s where? You need a proper schedule.
NextMinute gives you a drag-and-drop calendar so you can plan jobs, assign the right crew, shift things when the weather turns, and stay on top of what’s happening across every site. From the office or on the go.
👉 Plan and schedule like a pro
4. Invoice While the Job’s Still Warm
You wrap a job. You tell yourself, “I’ll invoice it later.” Then life happens.
Invoicing delays cost you real cash. With NextMinute, you can invoice on the spot, pulling in timesheets, materials and variations straight from the job. It takes minutes, not hours. And it all syncs with Xero or MYOB without double entry.
More invoices sent = more money in the bank.
👉 Learn about invoicing features
5. Know Your Numbers While the Job’s Still On
What if you knew before the job ended that your margin was in the red?
With NextMinute’s live job costing, you can see quoted vs actual costs as they happen. If labour’s blowing out or materials are piling up, you’ll know early and can course-correct before it’s too late.
6. Keep Clients in the Loop (and On the Hook)
Ever had a client say, “But I thought that was included…”?
Variations can kill your margin if they’re not handled right. With NextMinute, you can send variation quotes from your phone, get client sign-off, and keep everything tracked with an Clear, simple, no confusion.
7. Stay in Sync with Your Accounting
Juggling your job software and your accountant’s world? NextMinute plugs into Xero and MYOB, so invoices, payments and contacts all talk to each other.
No double entry. No crossed wires. No grumpy bookkeepers.
8. Put Your Whole Business in Your Pocket
Whether you’re on the roof, on the road, or in the pub, you’ve got full access to your job info. With NextMinute’s mobile app, you can:
- View job details
- Check schedules
- Send quotes and invoices
- Upload photos
- Approve timesheets
All in real-time, where ever you are.
9. Bring it All Together in One Place
You don’t need five different systems. NextMinute wraps up your quoting, scheduling, timesheets, invoicing, and job costing into one tidy system. Everyone in the team sees what they need to see. Nothing gets lost.
One app. One source of truth.
Final Thoughts: Don’t Just Work Hard, Work Smart.
Your tools are sharp. Your team’s solid. Don’t let admin chaos drag you down.
NextMinute gives tradies the edge with simple, powerful job management software built for Kiwi construction crews. You’ll save hours each week, keep more profit in your pocket, and finally get the systems in place to scale.
