Acoustical ceiling software for the trade that waits on everyone above it.

With a daily log made on each day it happened, not a letter written at closeout. Each log records the areas worked, hours per worker, and a delay with its cause from a fixed list — weather, material, labor, access, GC direction, inspection or other. The day you were told level three was ready and found the sprinkler fitter still on the deck is logged that day, with the areas not released and photos of why. Twenty of those is a dated account of a schedule other trades wrote. It will not move the GC’s date; it is what makes the compression conversation something other than two people remembering differently.

Only if the schedule of values has the lines. That is the first thing to fix about the pack’s opening breakdown: one line called Grid and one called Tile for a whole building means a hung, untiled floor bills as a percentage somebody has to accept, and your trade can sit in that state for months. Split both by floor or release area before the first draw. SubMark holds the schedule of values and logs each draw you submitted against it, with what was certified, what retainage is held and when the money landed. It does not negotiate the breakdown for you, and the schedule of values locks when the first draw is submitted, so the structure has to be right before that.

By pricing it as repair the day it is found rather than absorbing it as punch. The log entry with the photograph establishes that an area was complete and undamaged when you left it, so the cracked tile and the handprints that appeared after the balancer came through are somebody else’s. From there it is a T&M tag priced off your own rate list and e-signed on site by whoever authorizes it. Several tags can convert into one change order, so a building’s worth of lifted tile does not become a building’s worth of separate arguments. It also belongs on its own schedule-of-values line as a unit price, agreed before anybody needs it.

SubMark cannot settle that, and software that claims it can is selling something. What it does is make sure you ask before layout: switch on Pre-Construction Review and the pack’s third item — whose scope the seismic bracing and hanger attachment is — is already on the list for every job, with somewhere to write the answer. The list is tenant-wide, so you edit it once and it applies to every project, while the tick and the note stay with the job. Two minutes, on the question that otherwise gets answered by an inspector with your crew already on site.

Log it, in writing, on the day, before you install. The pack’s fourth pre-construction item is confirming the building is dry and conditioned, so the condition is already a question you asked. A daily log with the date, the areas, the conditions and photographs of the tile as delivered is the difference between a warranty claim you defend and one you absorb. If the direction to proceed came from the GC, that is a change event on the day it was given — the field logs it with photos and it carries forward into a priced change request. SubMark holds the record; it does not certify the work.

With Area Tracking switched on in Settings, yes — it is not on by default. With it on, layout, hanger wire, grid, tile and specialty hours stay distinct and you get budget versus actual per phase while there are still floors left to hang. Left off, job costing is per job and grouped by cost type — labor, crew lump sum, materials invoiced, materials committed, QuickBooks costs and subcontractors — against your budget lines. Installed quantities are not tracked either way, so square feet per man-hour comes from your own takeoff put next to those hours.

Through the logs and the schedule, because nothing else will show it. Each daily log carries the work areas your crew was actually in, with the phase and percent complete, so three visits to the same half floor are three dated records rather than one memory. Crew Scheduling shows the same thing from the other side: the men you moved, and the job they were not on. That is the evidence base for a remobilization claim or a change request. It is also the argument for getting a release-area breakdown into the schedule of values at contract time, which is cheaper than claiming it afterward.

Yes, and the pack already does it. Specialty / Clouds is one of the six phases and Specialty Ceiling is one of the four work types, so a wood baffle ceiling or a linear metal cloud is logged as what it is rather than disappearing into flat ACT. What the pack cannot do is put it on your contract as its own line — that is your schedule of values, and it should carry the fabrication and the installation separately, because the lead time is longer, the rate is higher and the shop drawings are the thing most likely to hold the whole job up.

No. Keep submitting through whatever portal, template or email each GC requires. SubMark is where the schedule of values lives — grid and tile split by floor, specialty ceilings on their own lines, tile replacement as a unit price — and where every draw you submit is logged against it. Procore, Textura and GCPay are recorded as the submission method on a job; nothing is sent on your behalf. SubMark is not a document generator.

Yes. Connect QuickBooks Online once and bills and purchases pull into job costing — hourly, if you switch auto-pull on — so a truckload of tile sits against the job it was delivered to. Draws go across as QuickBooks invoices and POs as purchase orders, one at a time with a click. For your trade the habit worth keeping is a PO per material release, because your tile is ordered long before it is installed and committed cost is the only thing that shows that against the budget before the supplier invoices you. A coverage meter shows how much of the cost pulled from QuickBooks is coded to a job at all; it is company-wide rather than per job.

No. Field users are free and unlimited, and so are the subs you invite into a job. You pay one company subscription: $249 a month with your first 3 office users included, then $39 a month each. The whole breakdown is on the pricing page.