A pool is a long job made of short ones. The excavator, the steel crew, the gunite crew, the tile setter, the electrician, the plaster crew and the deck crew each show up for a few days, send a bill, and leave. The client pays in draws. Three months in, it's hard to say whether the pool is on budget or whether the dig and the deck have already eaten the margin.
Obra keeps every one of those bills on the pool, by phase, and shows what's been spent. Review what's still left to spend after each phase, and the pool's expected final cost stays current from the first day of digging to start-up.
One pool, twelve phases
Set up the budget by phase, the way the subs bill you. When each bill arrives, it goes against its phase and the job's page shows the gap. The committed costs guide explains how signed subcontracts count before the invoice, so the forecast is right even in month one.
Draws against progress
The client pays at excavation, gunite, plaster and completion. Obra shows what's been billed and what's still open on the job, so a draw is never missed. The progress billing guide covers the schedule that keeps cash ahead of the subs.
Rock, marble and the gas line
The three change orders below show up on most pools. Write each one as a change order the day it comes up, with your markup, and get the signature before the hammer is rented or the pallets are ordered. The change order guide keeps it short.
The deck as an allowance
The deck is the line most likely to move. Budget it as an allowance, log the stone invoice against it, and turn the upgrade into a change order. The allowance overage guide shows the wording that keeps the client happy and the margin whole.
What Obra isn't for a pool builder
Not 3D design, not scheduling, not a service route. Obra is the money on each pool, in English and Spanish, from bills and receipts your team already sends, exported clean to the accountant.