Project profitability dashboard: Dropia displays your KPIs in real time.

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Oct 20, 2025

10/20/25

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Real-time construction site profitability dashboard with Dropia: essential KPIs, automatic alerts, multi-site view to manage your construction margins. An effective profitability dashboard should allow you to understand the situation of your construction sites in a matter of seconds. The Dropia dashboard has been specifically designed for construction decision-makers who need actionable information, not data overload.

Dashboard Anatomy of Dropia

View 1: The Multi-site Dashboard

The main screen you consult every morning

List view of all your active sites with for each one:

🎯 Site Name (clickable for details)

📊 Visual health indicator

  • 🟢 Green: Profitable, no issues detected

  • 🟡 Orange: Attention required, moderate gap

  • 🔴 Red: Alert, intervention needed

📈 Physical progress (estimated %) Example: 45% - Almost halfway

💰 Budget consumed (% and amount) Example: 52% (€31,200 / €60,000)

⚠️ Gap between progress/budget Example: +7 pts - Consuming faster than progressing

📉 Projected margin (% and amount) Example: 9.5% (€11,400) vs goal 12%

🔔 Number of active alerts Example: 2 alerts (threshold exceedance + productivity)

Available filters and sorting:

  • By status: All / Greens / Orange / Reds

  • By client, by type of site, by site manager

  • By start date, by amount

  • Sort by increasing/decreasing profitability

Example of a typical morning view

List of 8 sites:

  • 5 in green: quick consultation, no action

  • 2 in orange: click for detailed analysis (2 min each)

  • 1 in red: in-depth analysis and action plan (10 min)

Total time: 15 minutes to manage 8 sites

View 2: Detailed Dashboard by Site

When you click on a specific site

Section 1: Executive Summary (at the top of the page)

📝 General Information

  • Site Name, client, address

  • Responsible site manager

  • Expected start and end dates

  • Current status (in progress / suspended / completed)

💼 Key financial data

  • Client estimate: €85,000 excl. VAT

  • Total budget expected: €72,000

  • Target margin: €13,000 (15.3%)

📊 Current status

  • Progress: 60%

  • Actual cost to date: €45,800

  • Budget consumed: 63.6%

  • Projected margin: €10,200 (12%) ⚠️ below target

Section 2: Performance Indicators (KPI)

🎯 Hourly cost

  • Forecast: €45/h

  • Actual: €47.5/h (+5.6%) ⚠️

  • Trend: Chart of the last 4 weeks

⏱️ Productivity

  • Budgeted hours at 60%: 480h

  • Actual hours: 515h (+7.3%) ⚠️

  • Main affected tasks: identified

💶 Supplies

  • Budget: €28,000

  • Consumed to date: €17,500 (62.5%)

  • Gap: +2.5% (slightly above)

📉 Gap between progress/budget

  • Current value: +3.6 points

  • Trend: Chart showing the trend

  • Forecast at completion if trend continues

Section 3: Cost Breakdown

📊 Pie Chart

  • Labor: 61% (€28,300)

  • Supplies: 35% (€16,000)

  • Others: 4% (€1,500)

📋 Labor Detail by Task

TâcheBudgetRéelÉcartGros œuvre15 000€14 200-5,3% ✅Charpente8 000€9 500+18,8% 🔴Couverture6 000€5 900-1,7% 

→ Immediate identification: issue with the framework

Section 4: Alerts and Recommendations

🚨 Active Alerts (2)

  1. Productivity Alert - Framework

    • Hourly cost €58/h vs €48/h forecasted (+21%)

    • Investigation recommended

    • Possible actions: team reinforcement, training, method revision

  2. Budget Alert - Risk of exceeding at 85%

    • Projection: €77,500 vs €72,000 budgeted

    • Projected margin dropped to 8.8% vs 15.3% target

    • Action: urgent optimization or client discussion

💡 Dropia Recommendations

  • Prioritize optimization of the framework task (potential savings: €1,500)

  • Renegotiate roofing supplies prices (identified margin for maneuver)

  • Closely monitor for the next 3 weeks

Section 5: History and Evolution

📈 Time Charts

Chart 1: Cumulative Cost vs Budget Two overlapping curves showing development from the beginning:

  • Blue curve: actual cumulative cost

  • Green curve: budget proportional to progress

  • Red zone if significant gap

Chart 2: Gap between progress/budget Line showing the evolution of the gap over time:

  • Allows to see if the situation is deteriorating, stabilizing, or improving

  • Identification of problematic periods

Chart 3: Projected Margin Evolution of the projected margin over time:

  • Starting at 15.3% (target)

  • Gradual drop to 12%

  • Visualization of the impact of issues

Section 6: Actions and Notes

📝 Site Journal History of events, decisions, and actions:

  • 10/12: Productivity alert for framework detected

  • 10/13: Team reinforcement decided (senior worker for 3 days)

  • 10/15: Productivity improvement noted

  • 10/18: Projected margin risen to 12.5%

Allows tracking of decisions and measuring their impact.

View 3: The Company Consolidated Dashboard

Overview of the company’s performance

Global Indicators

📊 Average Profitability

  • All active sites: 11.8%

  • Completed sites this month: 13.2%

  • Change vs last month: +1.4 pts ✅

💰 Revenue

  • Invoiced revenue this month: €145,000

  • Monthly target: €150,000 (97%)

  • Remaining projected revenue: €230,000

🎯 Performance by Type

  • Structural sites: 14.5% average margin ✅

  • Renovation sites: 10.2% average margin ⚠️

  • Extension sites: 12.8% average margin ✅

Top/Flop Sites

🏆 Top 5 Most Profitable Sites

  1. House Bertrand: 18.5% margin

  2. Center Building: 16.2% margin

  3. Modern Villa: 15.8% margin ...

⚠️ 5 Sites Needing Attention

  1. Restaurant Extension: 6.1% margin 🔴

  2. Office Renovation: 7.8% margin 🔴

  3. North Pavilion: 9.2% margin 🟡 ...

Overall Productivity

👷 By Worker Ranking of the 10 employees with:

  • Hours worked this month

  • Estimated produced value

  • Productivity rate vs average

Identification of top performers and training needs.

By Task Inter-site analysis:

  • Which tasks are consistently profitable?

  • Which ones often deviate?

  • Improvement of future estimates

The Intelligent Alerts of the Dashboard

Configurable Alert Types

🔴 Critical Alerts (immediate notification)

  • Negative projected margin

  • Budget exceedance > 100%

  • Gap between progress/budget > 15%

🟡 Important Alerts (daily summarized notification)

  • Budget consumed > 80%

  • Gap between progress/budget > 10%

  • Hourly cost > forecast +15%

🟢 Informative Alerts (weekly)

  • Site completed with final report

  • Margin goal reached or exceeded

  • Milestone of progress achieved

User Personalization

In Dropia, each user configures:

  • What types of alerts they want to receive

  • By which channel (email, app notification, SMS)

  • How often

  • For which sites (all / those they're responsible for / certain clients)

Dashboard Accessibility

Multi-platform

📱 Mobile App

  • Version optimized for smartphone

  • Consultation on the go

  • Instant push alerts

💻 Web Interface

  • Access from any browser

  • Large screens for detailed view

  • Printing and export facilitated

🖥️ Desktop App

  • Optional installation on PC/Mac

  • Automatic synchronization

  • Offline mode with delayed sync

Wall/TV Display

Some companies display the multi-site dashboard permanently:

  • On a screen in the office

  • Visible to the whole team

  • Constant reminder of the status of the sites

  • Culture of transparency and accountability

Dashboard Personalization

Configurable Widgets

Dropia allows customizing the display:

  • Select which KPIs to prioritize

  • Size and position of the widgets

  • Charts vs tables based on preference

  • Light or dark theme

Dashboards by Role

Business Owner: Focus on overall profitability, revenue, top/flop sites

Site Manager: Focus on their sites, details by task, productivity

Accountant/Admin: Focus on exports, reports, billing data

Saving Custom Views

Create and save your favorite views:

  • "My Urgent Sites"

  • "Performance of the Month"

  • "Client X Analysis"

  • One click to switch between views

Testimony: Company with 35 Employees, 15 Simultaneous Sites

"The Dropia dashboard has changed our way of managing"

Sophie, Director:

"Before Dropia, managing 15 simultaneous sites was a nightmare. I would spend my Monday mornings trying to understand where we stood on each project. With Excel files everywhere, conflicting information, it was impossible to have a clear vision.

The Dropia Dashboard changed everything. Every morning, I open it on my tablet:

  • I see in 10 seconds which sites are green, orange, or red

  • I click on the 2-3 that need attention

  • In 15 minutes, I have a complete overview and I know what to do

The great thing is that everything is up to date in real-time. The previous day's entries are already integrated, the calculations are done, the alerts are there. I no longer spend my time gathering data, I use it directly to make decisions.

Our average profitability has risen from 9% to 12.5% in 18 months. Simply because we see problems coming and react quickly. The Dropia dashboard has become the most consulted tool in the company."

Exporting and Sharing the Dashboard

Automatic PDF Reports

Generation in one click:

  • Synthetic report (1 A4 page per site)

  • Detailed report (complete analysis)

  • Consolidated report (company view)

Programmable automatic sending:

  • Weekly to site managers

  • Monthly to management

  • Quarterly to shareholders

Data Export

For in-depth external analysis:

  • Excel export of all KPIs

  • CSV export for import into other tools

  • API for integration with third-party software

Selective Sharing

Give access to the dashboard to:

  • Your clients (view limited to their sites)

  • Your financial partners

  • Your field teams (custom view)

Fine control of rights: who sees what.

Conclusion: Manage by KPIs, not by intuition

The Dropia profitability dashboard transforms raw data into actionable intelligence. In a few seconds, you know exactly where each site stands and what needs to be done.

This clarity has a direct impact on results:

  • Early detection of deviations (+2-3 weeks advance)

  • Decisions based on facts, not impressions

  • Fast and targeted reactions

  • Continuous improvement through learning from history

Companies that manage by real-time KPIs gain on average 3-5 margin points over those that manage in the old way. In the long run, it's the difference between growth and stagnation.

→ Discover the Dropia dashboard in demo