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Manage Projects, Track Time, and Bill with Confidence — Built for Town Planners

Abtrac gives planning professionals the clarity to manage complex projects, meet submission deadlines, and maintain financial control — from feasibility through to council approval.

Abtrac for Town Planners

Simplify project management — from research to resource consent

As a town planner, you balance multiple moving parts — from site visits and feasibility reports to client meetings, submissions, and hearings. Each project involves layers of documentation, consultants, and compliance steps that can quickly become overwhelming without the right system in place.

Abtrac gives you the structure to manage every stage efficiently. It keeps your team organised, captures billable time accurately, and simplifies invoicing and reporting — helping your firm stay profitable while delivering better outcomes for clients and councils alike.

How Abtrac Helps Town Planners

Stay on Top of Time & Costs

Accurate time tracking is crucial for planning projects that stretch over months or even years. With Abtrac’s mobile app, planners can record time from anywhere — whether at a site visit, consultation, or council meeting. Real-time visibility shows hours worked against budgets and alerts you when limits are close.

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Bring Structure to Complex Planning Projects

Town planning involves multiple stages, tasks, and stakeholders. Abtrac helps you break each job into clear steps — feasibility, assessment, reporting, submissions, hearings — and track progress across them all. Nothing slips through the cracks.

Bill the Way You Work

Whether your firm bills hourly, by stage, or as a fixed fee, Abtrac adapts. Apply different rates for fieldwork, research, reporting, or travel, and invoice by activity, role, or project. Progress claims and milestone-based billing are fully supported, ensuring cash flow stays steady throughout long-running projects.

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Clarity Through Reporting & Forecasting

From profitability by job or client to WIP, utilisation, and future workload forecasts — Abtrac’s reporting gives you the insights to make confident business decisions. Identify where time is spent, which projects are most profitable, and how to resource upcoming commitments.

Resource Allocation & Scheduling

Assign the right planners and support staff based on availability, expertise, and deadlines. Abtrac’s scheduling tools make it easy to see who’s working on what, balance workloads, and avoid bottlenecks across multiple concurrent projects.

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Collaborate Without Confusion

Keep internal teams, external consultants, and clients aligned with shared access to key data and documents. Abtrac stores everything — planning reports, consent applications, correspondence, and zoning info — in one place for easy reference and compliance.

Job Locations & Mapping

With Google Maps integration, Abtrac helps you manage projects across regions. Store key site details, zoning information, and navigate directly to client or council meetings from within the system.

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Track Every Project Expense

Every expense contributes to your project’s success.
Track costs such as site visits, printing submissions, consulting fees, permits, travel, and stakeholder workshops. Import creditor invoices or download costs from external sources so every planning project is fully accounted for.

Integrates with your accounting software

Synchronise clients, projects, time, invoices, and payment details between Abtrac and your accounts. Keep feasibility work, submissions, and multi-party projects aligned financially with no manual double entry.

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Star rating

“Abtrac gives us reliable data in and reliable data out. The Timesheet Entries by Task report has made our invoicing clearer and easier, and it gives us a solid foundation for reporting and insights.

You can tailor Abtrac to work the way you need it to, and the support team is fantastic. They are fast, knowledgeable, and always willing to help.

I have used different software over the years, and I genuinely commend the team behind Abtrac. Having that level of expertise available makes a big difference in our day to day work.”

Ready to Take Control of Your Planning Projects?

Abtrac is trusted by town planners across New Zealand and Australia to manage projects, time, and billing with ease. Whether you’re working independently or managing a multi-consultant firm, Abtrac gives you the tools to plan, deliver, and invoice more efficiently.