Solva Systems › Scaffolding
Software for scaffolding companies.
Hire periods that bill themselves, inspections that never get missed, and a straight answer to where your materials actually are.
Book a conversationWhat usually goes wrong
Scaffolding does not really sell jobs, it sells time and steel. Almost all job management software is built around a job that starts and finishes, which is the one thing scaffolding does not do.
- Hire is where the money leaks. Structures stood for weeks past the hire period, unbilled, because nothing was counting.
- Weekly inspections are a legal duty and a paper trail. Every seven days, on every structure, and proving it later means finding the right piece of paper.
- Adaptations never reach the invoice. A lift added on Tuesday, agreed on site, and nobody told the office.
- Nobody knows where the kit is. Tube, fittings and boards spread across a dozen sites, and the count only happens when something runs out.
- Job software wants a job. Yours is a structure that goes up, gets adapted, gets inspected weekly and comes down whenever the main contractor says.
What we build instead
Bramall Sealants on our home page is the same shape: crews, sites, certificates and timesheets, with the site as the thing everything hangs off. Scaffolding gets that engine with hire, inspections and stock built for how the trade actually earns.
Hire that counts itself
Every structure with its erect date, its hire period and what it has earned, so overrun is visible rather than discovered.
Inspections that cannot be missed
Weekly checks scheduled per structure, recorded on site, and the paper trail there when somebody asks.
Adaptations captured on site
Agreed at the scaffold, photographed, and on the invoice without a phone call.
Materials you can actually find
What is on which site and what should have come back, so shortages are noticed before a delivery.
Crews and sites on one screen
Who is erecting, who is striking and who is inspecting, today.
Invoices from the hire, not from memory
Raised off what is actually standing and for how long.
Why not one of the off-the-shelf ones
There is scaffolding specific software and some of it is good. It is also mostly built for large contractors and priced that way. This is worth looking at when you have outgrown spreadsheets but the specialist products want more than the operation is worth.
| Team size | Typical per-seat tool | Over three years |
|---|---|---|
| 5 people | around £50 a seat | about £9,000 |
| 15 people | around £50 a seat | about £27,000 |
| 30 people | around £50 a seat | about £54,000 |
The question is not whether the licence is cheap. It is what you are working around every day, and what that costs you in evenings. Work out your own three year figure.
How it works
We learn how you actually run. Usually a couple of calls. If it suits you we will come and spend a day watching the work move through the company.
You see it before you pay anything. We build the opening screens in your branding, with your words for things and demo data in them. Not a finished system, enough to see the shape of yours and tell us where it is wrong.
Then we build the real one. The monthly starts and takes three to six months depending on how much system there is. Every fortnight you are told where it is up to. One fee covers building it, running it, hosting it and improving it.
Worth a conversation about what your hire is actually earning?
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