Feature overview
Fifteen areas connect the building application, the enquiry, the job, the site, the certificate, the invoice, the people, the payroll and the payment. Here is what elektro.box covers today.
The cantons publish building applications every day. We read them, put them on the map and propose the building owner and the planner as customers — except where the planner is in your own trade.
What comes in becomes an order, gets a date and a crew. Who placed it and when stays in the header — still there in two years, when somebody asks.
The day is on the map rather than in a column: who is working, where the sites are and how long it takes between them. A plan is proposed; applying it is yours.
The Rapport is written where the work happens, and the customer signs it on the phone. The hours are clocked instead of being guessed at on Friday.
The values are captured at the circuit, on site, instead of going through the keyboard a second time in the evening. Which certificates an order needs is proposed for you — and whoever did the work may not sign it off.
The three are the same Beleg with a different kind, so they are the same editor too. What the customer sees, they see through a link and sign on whatever device is in their hand.
The bank statement is held against the open invoices, the dunning ladder keeps climbing, and the construction lien deadline speaks up before it runs out. A supplier invoice is signed off, coded and released before it is payable. If you want, keep the books right here in the general ledger — or stay with bexio, Abacus or Banana.
The hours, the absences and the Funktionsstufe are recorded already, so the wage run uses them instead of a second entry. Withholding tax, the Lohnausweis, the AHV declaration and the GAV report all come out of the same run.
A new starter fills in their own personal details, through a link. What has been handed out stays in the register until it is back, and the annual review starts from the figures already recorded. The signals are a reason for a conversation — never a verdict.
Not a second set of books: the figures come from the Belege, the hours and the stock that are recorded anyway. No chart of accounts, no opening balance.
The catalogue says what a socket costs — at several wholesalers, on your own terms. The stock says whether one is in the van, and the weekly reconciliation says whether what was delivered was also billed.
In an apartment block those are three different people. Property management, general contractor and tenant hang off the Objekt and not off the order — which is why they are still there long after the order is filed.
E-mail, WhatsApp and the form on your website land in the same list. What there is to say about an order is said on the order, not in a group chat nobody can find again.
The supplier invoice is read rather than retyped, the Rapport dictated on the drive home. Plenty is suggested; nothing goes out without you.
Work continues in a basement with no signal and syncs later. Who sees what is decided by the role: the Monteur sees his orders, not the margin.
How to read this list
This list describes the current software, not a roadmap. Areas such as tasks, appointments, scheduling, Pikett, planning, compliance, controlling, building applications, defect reports, work packages, branches, stock, the general ledger, payroll and HR can be shown or hidden for each business. Planned integrations are listed separately and explicitly marked as planned.
A feature list is cheap. Ask us what one of them looks like in your own business.
45 minutes using one of your jobs: from capture on site through to the certificate and invoice.