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Pandit Constructions: From Paper Hajeri to One Labour Management System
A public website plus a custom admin that handles daily attendance, wages, advances and site expenses across every site, in one Laravel codebase.
At a glance
| Client | Pandit Constructions (Director: Dilip Pandit) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Construction |
| What we built | Marketing website + custom labour management admin |
| Stack | Laravel, PHP, MySQL |
| Services | Custom Software Development, Web Development |
The challenge
Pandit Constructions runs multiple sites at once, each with its own labour crew. Daily attendance (hajeri), wages, advances and site expenses were recorded on paper at each site and reconciled at the office. With nine sites and over a hundred labourers, that reconciliation never quite closed: advances given on one site were missed in salary on another, expense totals per site were not comparable, and nobody could say on a given day what the firm owed across all sites.
The firm also had no website, so enquiries arrived only by phone and word of mouth.
What we built
Two things on one Laravel codebase: a public website for the business, and an admin system for the labour operation behind it.
- Labourer records. One profile per worker with site assignment, rate and history.
- Attendance by site. Daily hajeri entered per site from a phone or desktop, listed by labourer with the day’s wage calculated automatically.
- Wages, advances and salary. Advances are recorded against the worker and deducted at salary time, so the end-of-month figure is produced by the system rather than reconstructed from slips.
- Site expenses. Material, transport and miscellaneous costs logged per site, giving comparable cost per site for the first time.
- Enquiries. Website contact forms land in the same admin panel, so the office handles leads and labour in one place.
- Marketing website. Services, projects and contact, built on the same stack and managed from the same admin.
How we approached it
The attendance screen was designed around how site supervisors already worked: a list of labourers for today’s site, mark present or absent, done. Everything else (wage calculation, advance deduction, site totals) happens from that one daily action. We deliberately kept the data model close to the paper forms the firm was already using, so the move from paper felt familiar to the people entering the data.
Results
- 115 labourers across 9 sites tracked in one system.
- ₹8.9 lakh+ in monthly wages issued from system-calculated salary sheets, with advances deducted automatically.
- Site-level expense totals available for every site, every day.
- Enquiries from the new website arrive in the same admin as operations.
Client words
Digitizing Workforce Management with Confidence
“Apothem IT Solutions developed a customized Labor Attendance and Payroll Management System that has greatly improved the way we manage our workforce. The software is user-friendly, accurate, and tailored to the unique requirements of the construction industry. It has streamlined attendance tracking, payroll processing, and reporting, saving us significant time while reducing manual errors. Their team demonstrated a clear understanding of our business needs, delivered the project professionally, and continues to provide excellent support. We are pleased to have Apothem IT Solutions as our technology partner.”
Dilip Pandit, Director, Pandit Constructions
Related work & services
For construction firms that also need office HR and project estimation, see the Keystone QS HRMS & ERP. For site teams who need cost figures on their phones, see the Keystone QS Cost Estimation App.
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