Who did the work?

Shared properties run on work that nobody writes down. Someone drives out with the parts. Someone pays for the paint. Someone spends a Saturday on a ladder. A year later nobody remembers who did what, and the quietest person has the least to show for it.

Yaybe lets you keep the record while the work happens.

How it works

• Add a place. A house, a cottage, a unit, a workshop. Invite the people who help.
• Add a job. A title, a “before” photo, who is doing it and when it is due.
• Record the work. Hours at a rate you choose, or no charge. Purchases with a photo of the receipt. Kilometres driven.
• Close the job with an “after” photo. Photos, history and costs stay together.
• See the year. Each place has a Work tab with every person’s hours, work, purchases and travel, a list of jobs by cost, and a spreadsheet you can download.

What makes it fair

Everyone’s time is counted the same way, whether they are a parent, a child, a partner, a neighbour or someone you hired. Each person records their own work, and nothing is ever edited behind anyone’s back: a wrong entry is cancelled with a reason and entered again, and both stay on the page.

Time you are not charging for is still kept. Leave the rate blank and the hours show in the yearly view with no charge, so unpaid work is never invisible.

An example, with made-up numbers

Here is what a year at an imaginary cottage could look like on the Work tab. The names and amounts are invented to show the layout.

• Alex: 140 hours, work 2,800.00, purchases 640.25, travel 310.00.
• Sam: 35 hours, work 0.00 (not charged), purchases 112.40, travel 0.00.
• Jordan: 12 hours, work 360.00, purchases 0.00, travel 48.00.

Nobody has told the family what to do about it. The record only makes the picture plain, so the conversation starts from what happened.

What Yaybe does not do

Yaybe does not pay anyone or hold money. It records. You settle up the way you already do. Where you also keep books for a place on Yaybe, a person with access to its money pages can add a job’s charged entries to the books in one step, once each. Yaybe is not tax or legal advice, so ask an accountant how to treat family wages and expenses where you live.

Start with one job

Pick the next repair on your list. Add the place, add the job, take the first photo. Read the guide on keeping a fair record of the work for the five steps, or sign in to begin.