Structure exactly as complex as the work really is
Projects is one of the biggest features in TSMPlus. Flexible and powerful, yet genuinely easy to use — it handles a simple job and a complex multi-stage build, without switching tools or bolting on a spreadsheet.
Most project tools give you one flat list of stages and hope your job fits. Real work doesn’t — a site has trades, a trade has sub-tasks, and scope changes mid-build. TSMPlus Projects was built around that reality from the ground up.
Stages inside stages, as deep as the job goes
A simple job stays a one-line stage. A complex build gets a genuine tree — site, trade, sub-task — nested to whatever depth the work actually has. No second spreadsheet keeping the real structure on the side.
- A real nested tree. As many levels as the project needs
- Budgeted cost centres and actuals at any level
- Variations at any point, complete flexibility
- Easily see progress, cost to complete, overruns
Every cost centre rolls up live — not at month-end
Labour, materials, sub-contractors, expenses and management: each stage’s cost centres roll up to the whole project automatically. Know whether a project is ahead or behind while there’s still time to do something about it.
- Actual costs roll up as work is logged
- Margin visible on every stage and variation, not just the project total
- Overruns and underruns in real-time
- Easy-to-read project dashboard
Variations sit in the plan, not beside it
When scope changes, the variation is added as its own flagged stage in the same tree — costed, scheduled and rolled into the same reporting. Nothing gets tracked in a side email or a forgotten change-order form.
- Variations at any level in the project tree
- Costed and scheduled like any other work
- Flagged, and rolled into the same reporting
- No change-order form lost in an inbox
Invoice against what is actually complete
Claim progress stage by stage, and the invoice draws from numbers the rest of the system already trusts — not a separate manual calculation. Every claimed dollar traces back to the stage it was earned on.
- Claim progress stage by stage
- Per-stage claim history, not one lump-sum guess
- Invoices built from numbers you already trust
- Every dollar traces to the work it was earned on
Retention and release milestones, handled automatically
Set the rate once and TSMPlus withholds and tracks it against every claim. First and Final Release milestones carry their own due dates and status, so nothing slips months down the track.
- Set the retention rate once
- Withheld and tracked against every claim
- First & Final Release milestones with due dates
- Nothing left on a spreadsheet on the side
Real figures from a live workspace
The same numbers appear on the Dashboard, Cost Centres, Invoicing and Financial tabs — because they’re the same underlying data.
Figures from a sample TSMPlus Projects workspace, shown for illustration.
What changes when the structure fits the work
The usual way
- A fixed structure, usually two levels, however complex the job
- Costs total at the cost-centre level; anything finer ends up in a spreadsheet
- Variations sit alongside the project as separate items to reconcile
- Retention tracked per claim, with release dates to chase yourself
With TSMPlus Projects
- Break a project down as far as the job needs: building, level, area, trade
- See costs on every stage, live, as work is logged
- Variations sit inside the stage they change, costed, flagged and never lost
- Retention release dates tracked and flagged, so retention money doesn’t go unclaimed
Bring your most complicated job. We’ll show you the tree.
Simple enough for a simple job. Powerful enough for the biggest multi-stage build you run. Ask your TSMPlus contact for a walkthrough of the Projects module against a job like yours.
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