BlueCollar gives you two connected ways to keep tabs on where every project stands. Project Status lives right on the project record and walks each job through its milestones one step at a time. The Project Status Calendar lifts those milestones into a single workspace-wide view, so you can see what is happening across the whole portfolio without opening one project at a time.
The milestones themselves are set up for your account, which means the stages you track, the order they appear in, who owns each one, and the colors used on the calendar all reflect the way your business actually runs jobs.
Open any project and select the Project Status tab. You will see your project's milestones laid out in order as a simple checklist, with a progress bar at the top showing how many are done (for example, "3 of 7 complete" and a percentage). This gives an at-a-glance read on momentum the moment someone lands on the record.
Each milestone shows as a card with:
Click any card to open its detail panel on the right, where you do the actual work.
When the current milestone is done, select the milestone, set its Completion Date (or check Mark as N/A if it genuinely does not apply to this job), and choose Complete Status. The project automatically advances to the next milestone in the sequence. This is the day-to-day rhythm: finish a stage, date it, advance. Because a date or an N/A flag is required before you can complete a milestone, the history you build up is always meaningful rather than half-filled.
Marking a milestone N/A is handy for stages that only apply to some jobs — say a permitting step that a small interior fit-out for Acme Builders simply skips. The milestone still records that it was consciously handled rather than forgotten.
Already-completed milestones can be edited. Select a completed milestone, adjust its date (or its N/A status), and choose Update. This is the quick fix for a typo or a date that came in after the fact.
If a project genuinely backtracks — work that was thought finished turns out not to be — use Revert Project Status on the most recently completed milestone. Reverting makes that milestone the current one again and clears every milestone that came after it, so the tracker honestly reflects reality. Before anything changes, a confirmation window lists exactly which milestones will be reset, so there are no surprises. Reverting is offered only on the step immediately before the current one, which keeps the workflow orderly and prevents accidental jumps far back in the timeline.
The Project Status Calendar is its own area in the top navigation. Instead of looking at one project, it plots every project as a colored entry on the date of its milestone — so a glance tells you which jobs hit a key stage this week, what is bunching up next month, and where attention is needed. Each color corresponds to a milestone, making it easy to spot patterns (all the "ready to bill" jobs in one color, all the "closeout" jobs in another).
Switch between Month, Week, and Day views using the view buttons. Use Previous, Today, and Next to move through time, or jump straight to a specific date with the date picker. The view you pick is yours — pull back to Month for a planning overview, or drop into Day when you want to focus on a single date.
Three filters on the left let you zero in on exactly the slice you care about:
Filters stack, so you can combine them — for instance, every closeout milestone owned by one project manager for one customer.
Click any entry on the calendar to open a quick popup with the project name, customer, the responsible assignee, the milestone (with its color), and the date. The project name links straight to the project record and the customer name links to the customer, so you can jump from the big-picture calendar into the detail in a single click.
You can also drag an entry to a different day to reschedule that milestone's date directly from the calendar — useful when a target date slips and you want to update it without opening the project.
A milestone appears on the calendar only when it has been set up to be shown there and has a date to plot against. If a stage you expect to see is missing, it is usually because it has not been flagged for the calendar in your account's setup.
The milestones, their order, colors, and responsible parties are configured for your account. If you would like to adjust which stages you track, add a new milestone, or have any questions about Project Status or the Project Status Calendar, reach out to the BlueCollar team at support@bluecollar.cloud and we will be glad to help.