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title: Roadway Yoke
summary: Free marketplace app — sign orders from proof to post, the shop-floor panel traveler and field install sites for traffic-control and signage companies. Requires Job Cost Yoke.
order: 23
---

::callout{type="info"}
This app's labels ship in US English first. They can be translated for the
whole platform, and a workspace admin can override any of them.
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# Roadway Yoke

**Roadway Yoke** runs the sign side of a traffic-control and signage business:
a sign order from design and customer proof approval, through printing,
laminating, mounting and QC on the shop floor, out to the field where each
post goes in — locates, digging, the concrete base, the post, the sign, and a
verification photo.

It is built on **Job Cost Yoke**. Every sign order, panel and install site
belongs to a job, and every hour and every dollar they consume lands on that
job's cost lines. Roadway Yoke adds the workflow; Job Cost Yoke keeps the
books on it.

It is not a manufacturing MRP. There is no bill-of-materials netting and no
planned orders — a make-to-order sign shop needs a traveler for each sign and a
true cost for each job, and that is what this is.

## Requirements

- **Job Cost Yoke** must be installed first. The catalog shows *Requires Job
  Cost Yoke* on the listing, with a button that takes you to it. While Roadway
  Yoke is installed, Job Cost Yoke can't be uninstalled.
- On the free plan, install the second of the two apps with demo data turned
  off — both demo books together come close to the free plan's record limit.

## What installs

- **Sign Orders** — the order board: *Design → Signature requested → Approved →
  In production → Ready to install → Installing → Installed.*
- **Shop** — the shop floor, one card per sign face (or per batch of identical
  faces): *Queued → Printing → Laminating → Mounting → QC → Staged.* You see at
  a glance how many faces are waiting at the laminator.
- **Field** — install sites, one per post or foundation: *Scheduled → Locates
  requested → Cleared → Excavated → Base poured → Post set → Sign hung →
  Verified.*
- **Shop Efficiency** — rework by sign code across all jobs.

On a job in Job Cost Yoke, Roadway Yoke adds the job's sign orders, its install
sites and its rework chart to the job page.

The install also adds traffic-control and signage cost codes (posts and tube,
blanks, sheeting, finishes, hardware, concrete, design / shop / field / traffic
control labor, trucks, excavation equipment, TTC devices, private locates) and
activities (design, print, laminate, mount, QC, locates, dig, concrete base,
TTC setup, shift and pickup) to Job Cost Yoke. They stay if you uninstall.

## The rules the boards enforce

- **No approval, no print.** A sign order can't leave *Signature requested*
  until the customer has approved the proof — either by e-signature, or by
  recording who approved it, when and how (with the signed proof attached).
  E-signature is an add-on; the recorded approval works without it.
- **QC before install.** An order can't be released to install until someone
  has signed off QC.
- **No locate ticket, no digging.** An install site can't be cleared for
  excavation until the utility locate ticket number is recorded.
- **Base before post.** A post can't be set until the base pour date is
  recorded.
- **Photo before verify.** A site can't be verified without an install photo.

A panel that fails QC goes back to *Printing*. Each rejection adds one to the
panel's rework count, which is what the rework charts add up — the sign codes
that keep coming back are where the shop is losing time.

## Costing the work

Roadway Yoke doesn't have cost records of its own; it uses Job Cost Yoke's.
When a cost line belongs to a specific panel or install site, set its *Work
Item Type* (`sign_panel` or `install_site`) and *Work Item* — the panel's and
site's pages then list their own costs. Import recipes for payroll, accounting
job-cost reports and rental or dispatch exports are on the
[Job Cost Yoke](/docs/apps/job-costing) page; for a traffic-control business:

- **Payroll job-cost export** — shop and field hours land as labor lines. Use
  the cost codes `LAB-SHOP`, `LAB-FIELD` and `LAB-TTC` and, where the punch
  carries it, the activity (print, laminate, mount, dig, TTC shift…).
- **Accounting job-cost report** — sheeting, blanks, tube and concrete bought
  for a job land as material lines under the matching `MAT-` code.
- **Rental or dispatch system export** — TTC devices and equipment days land
  as equipment lines (`EQ-TTC`), with **Source** set to `external`. If the same
  export records crew hours that payroll already pays, import those as hours
  with a zero amount.