# SwapCerts

> Expiring tickets, licences and insurance tracked across every worker and subcontractor on a site

- URL: https://envisageapps.com.au/blog/portfolio-item/app-construction-industry-trades/
- Type: caseStudy
- Published: 2017-03-03

**Native app | Construction.**

**Outcome:** The compliance status of every worker and subcontractor on a project, visible from the site instead of from a filing cabinet.

**Project inclusions:** iOS app, project and stage tracking, worker and subcontractor licence records, company profiles, invitation-based project joining.

## Field Service App Development Australia — SwapCerts Case Study

### The certificate nobody notices until it has expired

Every trade on a construction site carries tickets, licences and insurance, and every one of them has an expiry date. The paperwork lives in a dozen places, and the moment it matters — an incident, an audit, a principal contractor asking — is the moment somebody discovers a card lapsed three weeks ago.

SwapCerts, built for Momentum Construction, put that record in one place and made it checkable from a phone. Its own onboarding stated the pitch plainly: view the status of your workers' and subcontractors' cards and licences anytime, anywhere.

### The Product

Work is organised by project, each carrying its stage — tender through to site — and each with a roster. A company creates its projects and invites others to join theirs, so a subcontractor's credentials travel with them across the sites they work on rather than being re-collected by every head contractor. Company profiles hold the organisation-level documents; individual records hold the tickets.

### Key Features

- Certificate, licence and insurance records with expiry tracking
- Projects with stage tracking from tender to site
- Invitation-based joining, so credentials follow the subcontractor
- Worker and subcontractor status visible at a glance
- Company profiles alongside individual records

### Scoped down on purpose

The concept was a startup idea rather than an internal tool, so the advice was to release on a single platform first and validate the idea before funding an Android build. That is a smaller engagement than the one originally scoped, and it was the right one: the question worth answering was whether trades would maintain the records at all, and a second platform would have cost money without answering it.

Compliance products carry gates that arrive from outside the app — what a certificate record is worth as evidence, how long it must be retained, and who is liable when it is wrong. A [Launch Gate Audit](/launch-gate-audit/) exists to find those before launch rather than after.

More [property and construction work](/work/property-construction/): [Stroud Pulse](/blog/portfolio-item/stroud-homes-app/) for franchise margin, [Imagine Kit Homes](/blog/portfolio-item/imagine-kit-homes/) for buyer-side quoting, and [Studio M](/blog/portfolio-item/studiom-metricon-homes/) for in-showroom selection. See the rest of the [portfolio](/case-studies-app-development/).

### Building for trades and site teams?

**Talk to a team that has shipped construction and field service tooling.**