Drywall is a labor business with a material bill attached. The board is delivered, the crew hangs it in two days, and then the finishers spend a week on mud and sanding. Whether the job made money comes down to days: how many the hangers took, how many the finishers took, and how many you spent going back for other trades' holes.
Obra keeps each job as its own project, with hang and finish labor on separate lines, so you see where the days went while the job is still open.
Hang and finish, apart
Give the hangers and the finishers their own labor codes. After a few jobs you'll know which crew is fast, which one is slow, and what a level 4 finish really costs you per square foot. The cost code guide has a short list you can copy.
The extra pass
Level 5 after the paint sample, patches after the plumber, a return trip because the framing wasn't ready. Each one is a change order, written the day it comes up, with a price. The change order guide keeps the wording short enough to send from your phone.
Receipts from the yard
The supply yard, the lift rental, the dump. Your crew lead photographs each receipt and sends it by WhatsApp. Obra reads it, drafts the expense, and you confirm which job it belongs to. The receipt tracking guide shows the habit.
Which jobs paid
When the last check clears, the job's page shows the contract, total cost and margin. Compare your new-build jobs against your remodels and your commercial work. The profit margins by trade guide has the published benchmarks for specialty trades so you know whether yours is high or low.
What Obra isn't for a drywall contractor
Not takeoff software, not scheduling, not payroll. Obra is the money on each job, in English and Spanish, from receipts your crew already sends, exported clean to the accountant.