Industries / Concrete and masonry
The pour date is a hard event, and six people need to hear when it moves.
Works with a few tweaks
Schedule pours around weather and inspections, keep crews and trucks straight, estimate by area.
Apex treats the pour as a fixed event with a ready-mix supplier, a pump and finishers attached, and notifies all of them at once when weather or inspection moves it.
Who it is for: Concrete and flatwork contractors pouring driveways, patios, slabs and footings, with inspection hold points before a pour.
Works with a few tweaksConcrete needs are drawn from vendor listings and domain knowledge, with no review evidence.
What generic schedulers get wrong for concrete work
The pour has many parties
The ready-mix plant, pump operator, finishers, subs and inspector all depend on one date. A generic reschedule tells none of them.
Weather and temperature set the day
Rain and extreme temperature are go or no-go, and a cancelled truck can cost money.
Inspection comes before the pour
Forms and rebar are inspected before concrete is placed, and the pour waits on the pass.
Cure time is part of the plan
The next trade cannot start until the slab has cured, and the schedule should say so.
Drawn in code for concrete work
A day in a concrete work business
- Estimate
- Forms and rebar
- Pour
- Cure
- Inspection
- Estimate
- Contract
- Permit
- Forms and rebar
- Inspection
- Pour
- Cure
- Sealing
The pour opens after inspection passes. Hold points are in build.
Moving the pour from Thursday to Friday tells the plant, pump and crew together.
One notice, four parties. In build.
A concrete job where the pour date moves and everyone is told at once. Illustration of planned screens: entries are examples, not customer data, and not every screen shown is built yet.
How concrete work runs in Apex: the key settings
Starter settings for this trade. You change any of them. Nothing here is a promise about your numbers.
How jobs get booked
Estimate window, then a pour date as a hard event with prep and cure days around it.
Stops in a day
Two estimate visits a day; one pour per crew per day.
Routing
Dynamic cluster for estimates.
Who says yes
Owner confirms every estimate and every pour date.
How you price
Per square foot by thickness and finish, or by yard, plus pump fee, with a deposit.
Repeat customers
None; sealing reminders after a year.
Follow-up calls
Quote follow-up at day 2 and day 5; day-30 check on cracking and finish.
Review requests
Review request after the cure and a walk-through, once.
What we ask the customer
- Area, thickness and finish
- Reinforcement
- Base prep needed
- Access for the truck and pump
- Demolition of existing concrete
- Drainage and slope
Photos and papers to collect
- Photos of the site and forms
- Rebar photos before the pour
- Finished-surface photos
Rules to watch
- Permit and inspection before the pour
- Temperature limits
- License where required
What you get as a concrete work business
4 of 12 work today. The other 8 are coming soon.
Estimate windows
Morning and afternoon windows for site visits.
Quote follow-up at day 2 and day 5
No more nudges once the customer signs or replies.
Route density for estimates
Estimates cluster by area.
Sealing reminder after a year
Stops if they scheduled.
Pour date as a hard event
Supplier, pump, finishers and inspector attached to the date.
One-click pour notice
A date move notifies every party at once.
Inspection hold before the pour
Forms and rebar must pass before the pour can be confirmed.
Weather and temperature limits
Rain and temperature thresholds hide days from the offer.
Yardage calculator
Area, thickness and waste into cubic yards.
Cure-time hold on the next trade
Fencing or finish work waits for cure days.
Pump and equipment booking
The pump reserved by date with the operator.
Crew sizing by square feet
Finishers assigned by the area poured per day.
The tools in concrete work, and where we can honestly do better
Tools our research found in use for concrete work: OneCrew, PlanSwift, StackCT, Planning Ops, Jobber. Listing a tool is not a claim about it.
No claimsOur research found no sourced complaints about the tools used for concrete work, so we make none.
When another tool may be the better choice: Planning Ops sells one-click pour notifications and OneCrew covers estimating and job costing. The sources we read about them are vendor pages, so we make no claim against them.
What it costs for concrete work
Apex lists three public plans, priced by users: Solo $59 per month for 1 user, Crew $99 for 2 to 5 users, Business $129 for 6 users plus $10 for each extra user. No plan includes any texts, AI phone minutes or AI usage. For this trade we would start you on Crew. A concrete company with several crews fits Crew.
Jobber lists Core at $29 to $49, Connect at $99 to $139 and Grow at $149 to $199 or more per month. Housecall Pro lists Basic at $59, Essentials at $149 and Max at $299 per month billed annually, or $79, $189 and $329 billed monthly. These are public figures as read on 2026-10-06, verify before buying. Seat counts and included features differ between vendors, and we have not verified every one, so compare your own crew size on the pricing page before you decide. Texts and AI run on your own provider account or a prepaid wallet, and card processing is at the processor's own rate.