Time tracking for roofers
Track visits throughout your day
Your work can include Tearing off old shingles, Installing drip edge, Tacking down felt paper. You might visit Residential repair sites, Commercial flat roof projects, New construction rooftops in one day. Use your timeline to review each recorded visit before billing.
Common time-tracking challenges
- Losing track of time spent on unexpected repairs discovered during a tear-off
- Difficulty documenting drive time between small, scattered service calls in different neighborhoods
- Unaccounted-for minutes spent prepping the site and moving materials before the actual work begins
How TradesTimer handles it
- Records repair visits for you to review before billing
- Tracks every trip between jobsites for an effortless mileage log at tax time
- Captures the full duration of your work sessions without needing to manually start or stop anything
The founder’s experience with roofer work
I worked roofing and siding crews, plus my own roof jobs during reno and extension builds. Roofing hours are hostage to weather — you tear off when the sky lets you, tarp and leave when it doesn't, and come back for a half-day to finish flashing. Two site visits, three days apart, one invoice.
Rain-split days are exactly where paper tracking fails. The full tear-off day, you remember. The two hours of flashing and cleanup on the return trip is the entry that never gets written down — and at roofing rates that's real money left on the table.
Automatic stop detection doesn't care that the job got split by weather. Both visits are logged with times, and the job total is just the sum of what actually happened.
Free time tracking
Record stops and trips, review your hours, and export reports without a subscription.
- Automatic stop and trip recording
- Unlimited stops, drives, and days
- Review and edit stops and trips
- Rounded billable hours, exported as text or CSV
- Travel log with estimated distances
- 7-day summary view
- History stored on your phone
Control your location history
TradesTimer stores your history on your phone. Address lookups send coordinates to an address provider. You choose where to share your hours and travel exports.
See the privacy policy for details about address lookups, exports, and other data use.