Where the evening goes
Everything in the report was already posted. Someone types it up again.
The DPR is retyped every evening, and the weekly and monthly reports are rebuilt from it. Nearly all of it was already posted in the groups, and gets typed up again from memory and calls.
Compiled from calls
The DPR is built at 7 pm, from memory.
The site engineer rings each foreman and types up what they remember, after a full day on site.
What was posted in the groups at 11 am, with photos, often isn't what reaches the report.
Two versions of the day
The group says one thing. The DPR says another.
A patch size in a caption, a labour count in another group, a delivery in a third.
When the DPR is retyped, numbers drift, and nobody can say which version the bill or the client should trust.
Rebuilt every week
The weekly report, rebuilt from seven DPRs.
The weekly and monthly reports are rebuilt from the dailies and a scroll-back, in another format for the client.
The same work is typed three times, and the monthly report is late.
Labour on paper
Headcounts by contractor, added up by hand.
Each labour contractor's count is posted in a different message, some as a photo of the register.
The daily labour report is totalled by hand, and the month's total by contractor is never quite right.
How Velora does it
One record, every report.
Your site teams keep posting the way they do today. The reports come from what they post.
- Read
Every update, as it arrives
Progress, manpower counts, machinery, deliveries, fuel, blockers and photos, from text, voice notes and photos of registers, in any language.
- File
By location and scope
Each update filed by work front and location, matched to its scope line, with quantities worked out from captions and marked as calculated, stated or counted.
- Check
Drafted for review
Each report is drafted in its format from the record. Have it sent on schedule, or generated in the app for the engineer to check first.
- Flag
Sent on schedule
Each report goes out on its own day and time, on WhatsApp or email, to the people set up for it.
Need a single-site DPR without a pilot? The free DPR Generator drafts one on your own computer.
Worked example
Every report on its own schedule.
The reports one project sends, each set up once with its recipients. All of them are drafted from the same site record.
Daily, to the PM
Work done against scope and manpower by contractor, every evening.
Weekly, to the client
A written progress report, as a Word document.
Monthly, to billing
The month's quantities against scope, each with how it was measured.
To accounts and the plant
Deliveries by vendor and fuel consumption by machine, on their own days.
Illustrative schedule
Where it fits
Part of Field Intelligence, rolled up in Portfolio.
Reports come from the same site record as everything else in Velora. These pages show the rest of it.
- ProductField IntelligenceProgress, deliveries, fuel, manpower and blockers, recorded from your site groups.
- ProductPortfolio IntelligenceEvery site in one daily pulse, for the MD and project controls.
- Use caseBill preparationThe checklists, test results and work done behind each bill line.
- GuideDaily progress report formatWhat a DPR should include, with a template you can use by hand.
- Free toolDPR GeneratorA free desktop app that drafts a single-site DPR from your WhatsApp groups.
- IndustryResidentialProgress by tower, floor and flat, in reports for the client and HO.
Get tonight's report without the typing.
Talk to us about one live project and we'll set up a pilot against its WhatsApp groups and your scope.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions from project managers, planning engineers and site engineers.
Work done by location with quantities, manpower by trade or contractor, machinery, material received, blockers, and photos, against the plan or scope. Velora drafts the work done against scope and manpower by trade and contractor every day, with deliveries and consumption as their own reports; blockers and photos go in the weekly report. Machinery in the reports is something the team is still working on. The guide covers the format if you build it by hand.
Progress against scope daily, weekly and monthly; manpower reports daily, weekly and monthly; a written weekly progress report as a Word document; and material deliveries and consumption reports. Each goes on its own schedule, on WhatsApp or email.
Reports come in Velora's formats, as Excel or Word files. Filling a client's own template is something the team is still working on.
The DPR Generator is a free Windows app that drafts a narrative DPR for one site, on your own computer. Velora reads every group on every project, files each update by location and scope, and sends the daily, weekly and monthly reports on a schedule.
Yes. Velora reads text, voice notes and photos in the languages your teams use, including photos of registers and log sheets, and keeps each original message with the record it created.
We run a discounted pilot for the first three months on one project: the full product, with no long-term commitment.