Trades Project Command Center for General Contractors

You're running five jobs in your head right now — and one missed inspection is about to cost you a week.

Track every jobsite, subcontractor, and permit deadline in one place — the Trades Project Command Center is built for GCs managing 3–8 active projects simultaneously without dropping the ball.

**Does this sound familiar?**

You're on the phone with your electrician, your inspector just left a voicemail, you've got a framing crew waiting on a permit approval, and somewhere in a spiral notebook is a deadline you haven't thought about in three days. Running a trades business at scale isn't a knowledge problem — it's a coordination problem. And a color-coded sticky note system isn't going to cut it when you're juggling five active jobsites and four subcontractors who all need answers yesterday.

This is exactly the gap the **Trades Project Command Center** was built to close.

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**What This Template Does For You**

This is a full operations hub — not a basic to-do list. It's designed specifically for general contractors and trades business owners who are managing multiple concurrent jobs and need one centralized place to track progress, subs, inspections, and permit milestones without switching between seventeen apps or digging through email threads.

Here's what's inside:

- **Multi-Project Dashboard** — See all 3–8 active jobs at a glance. Status, start date, deadline, and overall completion percentage visible in one view so you always know where every jobsite stands before the morning call.
- **Per-Project Scheduling Tracker** — Break each job down by phase (demo, framing, rough-in, inspection, finish, closeout) with start dates, target completion, and actual completion logged side by side. Spot delays before they become disasters.
- **Subcontractor Coordination Log** — Track which sub is assigned to which job, their scheduled dates, payment status, and notes. No more "I thought you told him Tuesday" conversations. Everything is documented and visible.
- **Permit and Inspection Milestone Tracker** — Log permit submission dates, approval status, scheduled inspection dates, results, and re-inspection flags by project. Never miss a compliance window that could shut down your job.
- **Deadline and Priority Matrix** — Surface the most urgent tasks across all active projects so you can triage your day in under five minutes each morning.
- **Notes and Change Order Log** — Keep a running record of scope changes, verbal agreements, and client requests by project so nothing falls through the cracks when it's time to invoice or defend your position.

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**Who This Is For**

This template was designed for:

- General contractors managing 3 to 8 active residential or light commercial jobs
- Trades owners who are the ones holding the schedule together — whether or not they have an office manager
- Small construction businesses that have outgrown a whiteboard but aren't ready (or don't want) to pay for enterprise PM software
- Anyone whose current "system" is a mix of texts, emails, and memory

If you're still tracking jobs in your head or across three disconnected tools, this template gives you an operations command center for $22.99.

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**What You Get**

✔ Fully pre-built Excel spreadsheet — open it, enter your jobs, and start working
✔ Multi-project dashboard with visual status overview
✔ Per-project phase and scheduling tracker
✔ Subcontractor assignment and payment log
✔ Permit submission and inspection milestone tracker
✔ Change order and notes log by project
✔ Clean, professional layout — no design skills needed
✔ Instant digital download — no waiting, no shipping

**Works in Microsoft Excel.** If you are using Google Sheets, please message us before purchasing and we'll confirm compatibility for your version.

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**How It Works**

1. Download instantly after purchase
2. Open in Excel and enter your active project names
3. Populate each project with phases, subs, and permit milestones
4. Check your dashboard every morning — your day is already prioritized

No formulas to build. No setup videos required. It's ready to run from day one.

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**License**

This template is licensed for personal and single-business use only. One purchase covers your business — not for distribution or use across multiple separate business entities.

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**Questions?**

We're responsive. Message us through Etsy and we'll get back to you fast. If something isn't working the way you need it to, we want to fix it.

**Stop running jobs in your head. Get every project, sub, and deadline out of your skull and into a system that won't forget anything. Grab the Trades Project Command Center now — $22.99, instant download.** ⬇️

Perfect for: General contractor or trades owner running 3-8 concurrent projects with subs, inspections, and permit milestones to juggle

Why now: Material lead times are longer, inspection backlogs are stretching 2-3 weeks in most metros, and labor shortages mean sub scheduling is tighter than ever — GCs who miss a window lose weeks, not days

✓ Instant digital download
✓ Works with Microsoft Excel (Mac & PC) and Google Sheets
✓ No technical skills required
✓ Formulas and calculations already built in

📋 LICENSE: Personal and single-business use only. This template may not be resold, redistributed, or used to create derivative products for sale.