Flooring is bought by the box and sold by the foot, and the difference between the two is where a flooring contractor's margin lives. Ten percent overage that comes back as a credit is fine; ten percent that sits in the garage is not. Add the subfloor nobody saw until the old floor was gone, and a pattern the client chose after the material was ordered, and a well-bid job can finish thin.
Obra records each job's material as it's bought, its returns as credits when they come back, its labor by phase at the burdened rate, and every surprise as a change order the day it's found. The distributor's invoice for three jobs is split when it's confirmed. The page shows the job's expected margin before the last row is laid.
Boxes in, credits back
Record the full delivery on the job, with the invoice attached. When the leftover boxes go back, record the credit against the same code with the return slip. The job's material cost is right at every point, and at year end the material code across jobs shows whether your overage habit is costing you money.
The subfloor change order
The old floor is out and the subfloor is rotten around the sliding door. The morning it's found: photograph it, quote the repair, write the change order, get it signed, record the repair materials and hours on the job. The change order guide is built for exactly this morning. The alternative is a repair the client never saw and a margin they never paid for.
Labor by the foot, costed by the hour
Setters and installers are the largest line on most flooring jobs, and their cost is not their wage. The labor burden calculator finds the burdened rate; Obra records install and tile labor separately on the job, so a pattern upgrade that doubled the setting hours shows exactly where it landed.
What Obra isn't for a flooring contractor
Not a takeoff tool, not an estimator, not a scheduler. Obra is the money on each job, from the receipts and hours the crew sends, in English and Spanish, exported cleanly to the accountant.