Daily work reports written where the work happens
The site manager opens the app, writes what was done, attaches a couple of photos and closes it. The crew's hours are already there, because they are the same hours they clocked. The office has the report that evening, not the following Monday.
What a daily work report is, and why doing it well matters
A daily work report records, day by day, who worked, what was built and what went wrong. It is what you bill hours from, what justifies a variation, and what answers a client who asks, months later, why one item cost what it cost.
The problem is never the writing — it is the delay. When reports are written from memory in the evening, or retyped in the office from paper covered in dust, hours become estimates and the photos are never there. Filling it in on site, while the day is still fresh, is the only difference that counts.
What you can do with Tabiquo
The report is not a separate module: it draws on the same hours, the same projects and the same photos the site is already producing.
Filled in from a phone
Written on site, with or without signal: what you type stays on the phone and sends itself once the connection is back.
Hours already attached
Crew hours come from the clock-ins, so nobody retypes them. If a worker clocked in, they are already on that day's report.
Photos as evidence
Every photo stays tied to its day and its task. Six months later you find the right photo without scrolling a chat.
Voice dictation
The foreman dictates the day into the phone: “twelve bags of cement and three cubic metres of sand” becomes material lines with their quantities, and the notes and each crew's work get written without typing.
Two-step approval
Draft, confirmed, approved. Who can approve is set by role, so nobody signs off on someone else's behalf.
PDF export
The report becomes a clean PDF to attach to an invoice, a payment certificate or a dispute.
Who writes reports with Tabiquo
Contractors
Anyone billing by the hour who needs the hours on the report and the hours on the payroll to be the same number.
Site managers and foremen
The people actually filling the report in, who would rather not spend the evening reconstructing the day from memory.
Project supervisors
Anyone who needs to know what happened on site without phoning someone to be told.
Technical offices
Anyone reconciling progress against cost, who needs a reliable daily figure rather than an estimate.
Why move off paper
This is not about being modern. It is that a paper report loses the information exactly when you need it.
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The report reaches the office that same evening, not at the end of the week.
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Hours are never retyped: the hours clocked are the hours billed.
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Photos stay attached to the right day instead of disappearing into a chat.
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It works where there is no signal, and syncs itself afterwards.
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When a client disputes something, the day is documented rather than remembered.
Frequently asked questions
Do we need an internet connection on site?
No. The app works offline: the report is written anyway and sends itself when the phone finds a connection. Nobody has to remember to redo anything.
Do the workers have to use the app?
The report is normally written by one person per site — the site manager or foreman. Workers only use the app to clock in and out, and those clock-ins land on the report by themselves.
Can I export reports for the accountant or the client?
Yes. Each report exports to PDF, and the hours for a period export to Excel broken down by project and by person.
Does a digital report carry the same weight as a paper one?
It records the same information, plus the date, the time and the photos from when it was written. Where a formal signed document is required, Tabiquo handles the site diary separately, with signatures from the parties involved.
Stop reconstructing days from memory
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