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The app that gives Monday morning back to the boss.

Your team logs their day on site, in one tap. You approve the week in one click, and the accountant's file makes itself. Patrick does the Sunday work.

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Used every day at XP ELEC, an electrical contractor in Thyez, Haute-Savoie, France: thirteen employees, since 2006.

The boss's Monday morning on the computer: weeks to approve, leave to answer, who is where today

The story

In a small building company, the week does not end on Friday evening. It ends on Sunday, in the basement office, in front of an Excel sheet.

At XP ELEC, in Thyez, that was Patrick's ritual. He started the company in 2006 with three employees; there are more than thirteen today, and the first ones are still there. His Sunday, though, did not change for years: a few hours, every week. Next week's planning to build cell by cell. Last week's hours to dig out of everyone's sheets, printed Excel tables filled in with a pencil on site and piled up on the desk, to copy out and check. The same job-site names typed ten times: for the planning, for the hours, for the accountant, for the quote you suspect you have overrun. And Monday morning starting with what was left of Sunday.

The app was born from a conversation in that office one summer, working out how much time everyone was losing. His son, who had spent every summer on the company's job sites, built it on evenings and weekends to get him out of the basement. Not to watch the hours: so that the week would close itself. On Monday morning he opens one page, approves, and heads out to the sites.

We called it Patrick because it does his job: the Sunday one, in his place. He kept Monday morning. And on Sundays, he takes an extra nap.

There is a Patrick in every company: the one who does the hours on Sunday. He is who it is for.

What it does

On site

The day in one tap. The job site from the planning is already filled in, and 8 hours is the default. On Monday, "Copy last week" fills the empty days.
No signal? It works anyway. In a cellar, entries and photos wait on the phone and go out when the network comes back.
The planning in your pocket. Every evening, everyone gets tomorrow's job site, with the address and the client's phone number.
Leave from the phone. Requested in three taps, approved in one, written into the hours straight away.
The photo of the panel is in the job-site folder before the van is back.
"I need…": the worker types what is missing, the depot prepares it, he is told when it is ready.
The job-site sheet in your pocket: address, contact, gate code, who is planned, even without signal.

In the office

Monday on one page. Weeks to approve in one click, leave to answer, who is where today.
Overtime counts itself, per week and per contract, with nothing to copy.
The month's payroll export for your accountant: one Excel file, one line per employee, absences by reason.
The planning as a grid, sent to the phones in one click, with a warning if you change it after sending.
Every job site has its folder: client, photos, plans, hours used against the quote, PDF report, and a warning when the quote runs low.
The time-and-materials statement, day by day, with its approval box, to staple to the invoice or e-mail to the client.
Rain, in one click: the site stops for bad weather, everyone is told, the accountant gets the line.
A link for the client, a screen for the workshop: the client follows photos and billable hours; the workshop shows who goes where, the weather and what to load.

Logging a day on the phone — The day, in one tap. (The app is in French.)

The month's hours and the payroll export — The month, and the accountant's file.

Who it is for

Building companies with 3 to 25 employees where the boss is still out on the sites: electricians, plumbers, heating engineers, masons, carpenters, painters. The ones where the hours get done on Sunday because nobody else can do them.

Not for fifty-person firms with a design office and a payroll department: there is bigger, pricier software for them. Patrick does three things, hours, planning and leave, and does them without training.

How it goes

A call. Half an hour to understand your team, your contracts and what your accountant expects. No commitment.
Setup. We create the accounts, import your clients and job sites from your Excel, settle the overtime rule with your accountant, and install the app on every phone during half a day at your premises.
The first Monday. You open the page, you approve. We call you back three weeks later to adjust what needs adjusting.

Pricing

Setup

€990 excl. VAT, once

Accounts, import of your clients and job sites, contracts and overtime rule settled with your accountant, half a day of installation at your premises, a follow-up call after three weeks.

€490 if you import and install yourself.

Subscription

€10 excl. VAT per employee per month

Only employees who log hours count; owner and office accounts are free. Minimum three employees. No commitment. Two months free if you pay for the year.

A team of six: €60 a month.

Money back: if you stop within 60 days, the setup fee is refunded. Your data stays yours: hosted in France, exportable, deleted on request.

The first five companies

We are looking for five building companies in Haute-Savoie, 3 to 25 employees, to start with us this winter. Setup free and six months of subscription free, in exchange for one call a month to tell us what is missing, and your opinion once it all works.

Be one of the five

Questions we get asked

My guys don't like apps.: Logging takes one tap: the planned job site is already selected, an 8-hour day is the default. We built it for electricians, not for IT people. At XP ELEC we expected pushback; the team was happy from day one.
There is no signal in cellars.: Entries and photos are kept on the phone and go out on their own when the network comes back.
What about my accountant?: They get a ready Excel file every month: hours worked, overtime, absences by reason, week by week. We meet them during setup to settle the calculation rule. XP ELEC's accountant gets it every month and finds it far simpler than before.
Do my employees use their own phones?: Yes, Android or iPhone. The app reads nothing but what they type into it. No geolocation, no clocking to the minute: a day, a job site, hours.
I'm a plumber, not an electrician.: Hours, planning and leave are the same in every building trade. What changes is your job sites and your contracts, and we set those up with you.
What if I stop?: You stop whenever you want, you leave with your data in an Excel file, and within 60 days the setup fee is refunded.

Talk to Patrick

A half-hour call is enough to know whether the app fits your team. We come to see you in Haute-Savoie; elsewhere, we demo by video call.

info@allopatrick.com

Prefer to look first? Try the demo company: one boss, six electricians, two months of hours. The accounts are shown on the login page. Everything is rebuilt every night.

Patrick is built in Thyez, Haute-Savoie, inside the electrical contractor XP ELEC that uses it every day.