Many businesses have digitalised over the past few years. They plan jobs in one tool, track hours in a second and invoice in a third. On paper, that looks modern. In daily practice, it often produces the opposite of efficiency, because the same information has to be entered by hand several times.
This is where a widespread misconception lies. Digitalisation is equated with running many separate programs. But if those programs do not talk to each other, the effort simply shifts. Instead of recording something once and properly, someone types the same service job into the planning tool, then again into reporting and finally into invoicing.
Duplicate data entry is the real problem
Every duplicate entry costs time and creates a new source of error. A figure maintained by hand in two places will sooner or later be wrong in one of them. In a dispatcher’s daily work, this leads to queries, corrections and a loss of trust in the company’s own data.
The point of digitalisation is not to move work from paper to screen. The point is to record a piece of information once and make it available everywhere it is needed. That only works when the systems in use are connected.
Integrations connect what belongs together
An integration ensures that data flows automatically from one system to another. A service job created in the industry software appears in the planning tool without anyone retyping it. A planned booking becomes the basis for the report. Three separate entries become one.
For smaller businesses, this kind of connection was long a privilege of large firms with their own IT. Today it is within reach for small and medium-sized companies too, because modern software is built around open integrations. This makes a continuous data chain from job to invoice realistic even for a business with ten or twenty employees.
Concretely in the Swiss market
In the electrical and building technology sector, established industry solutions have grown over the years, with which businesses calculate, report and invoice. Anyone wanting to add job planning and time tracking should not have to replace these existing systems. The focus is therefore on connecting as many of the common industry solutions as possible, so that data flows instead of being entered twice.
Both codeto plan for job planning and codeto report for time tracking have an integration with Volta. Through it, projects and bookings, for example for service jobs and service reports, can be captured with a single entry. What is created in one system is ready in the other. This prevents exactly the kind of double bookings that cost so much time in daily work.
A comparable connection to extro by Braso AG is currently in progress for codeto plan. The goal is the same principle: one entry, no duplicate maintenance, continuous data across the systems involved. With codeto one, the two in-house modules are planned to come together in fall 2026, so that planned jobs flow directly into time tracking. To see how central job planning closes this gap, visit the codeto plan page.
Integrations are not a technical add-on. They are the point at which it is decided whether digitalisation relieves a business or burdens it with additional work.