Hammertrack uses Google's Cloud Storage, so your data is safe, secure, and fully backed up. This includes all of the project data that you add, all of the company data that you add, and all of the labor logs that you add. We also actively encourage you to keep a copy of the data on your computer, and we make it super easy to do this. On the Project Details page, there's a prominent button to download the data (as a ZIP file).
This is an easy question to answer. It's your business, so it's your data. And if you're worried about it getting "lost" in the cloud, we encourage you to download it whenever you want so that it's stored on your device as well as in the cloud. In fact, when you complete a project and change its status from "Active" to "Archived", the app will ask you if you want to download a nicely organized copy of that project's data including the images of receipts!
My name is Dave. I am a carpenter in Vermont. I love designing and building, but I don't love paperwork. So, I spent six months of late nights and weekends designing and building this app (with the help of a very talented full-stack developed who I hired). Since I started using the app, I've avoided the tedium and hassle of receipts, logging labor hours, adding up figures, creating invoices, and other back-office work. I'm so much happier, and Hammertrack has been such a gamechanger for my business that it's time to share it with my fellow carpenters, plumbers, electricians, tilers, painters, and other micro-contracting companies (by micro, I mean the ones where the owner is on the tools during the day and then on the calculator and spreadsheets at night). I continue to swing a hammer every day, and in my off-hours I love family time with my wife and two sports-obsessed elementary-aged boys, volunteering as coach and as a local board member, and trying to keep up with the maintenance on our 206-year-old house.
Do I know how to code? No, but in my past I worked for a software company for ten years on product development, so I am very familiar with the process including creating the specifications that steer the coding. The software developer I hired does the actual coding for Hammertrack.
Yes! We are already working on more features and functions to make running a small contracting business (like ours) easier. The big function we're working on now is to integrate with Plaid, the financial tech company, so that you have the option of automatically feeding transactions from your business bank account and your business credit accounts into Hammertrack at the end of each month. The app will then be able to compare the transactions you entered during the previous month to the transactions that your financial institutions have recorded, and you'll then get a list of anything that doesn't match up or seems to be missing. Imagine, automated reconciliation!
We have other cool functions and features on our roadmap, but if you have any ideas/suggestions/requests for things that would help you with your business, please let us know!