FAQ

Answers, grouped by who's asking.

The strongest questions from the product, compliance, implementation and pricing pages — in one place. Each answer links to the full detail.

01Product

Product.

When does job cost show up after a timecard?
Nightly. Field timecards captured during the day post to the cost ledger overnight, so you see burdened cost against budget within the week — not reconstructed at closeout months later. More on job costing →
How does labor burden actually get onto a job?
Raw wages understate true cost, so every labor dollar is loaded with its burden — Labor OH, payroll burden and spread — and carried to the job automatically. The number you see is fully-burdened, not base wages. How burden flows →
Is the accounting native, or a bolt-on to job cost?
Native. The GL, AP and AR are one system with job cost — there is no nightly export-and-reconcile loop between a job-cost tool and a separate general ledger. More on accounting →
Can a foreman see only his own jobs?
Yes. Access is role- and project-scoped: a foreman signs in to his crew’s timecards and daily reports on his jobs, and nothing else — not payroll, not another PM’s budgets. More on field operations →
02Payroll & Compliance

Payroll & compliance.

Can it handle a mid-period union rate change?
Yes. Ratecards carry union locals, classifications and effective dates, so a rate that changes mid-period applies from its effective date without re-keying hours or hand-patching the run. More on union payroll →
Does it print checks in-house?
Yes — the reference contractor runs roughly 500 paychecks a week through it, with fringe, garnishments and preflight checks before the print run. The full pay cycle →
Which certified-payroll reports are included?
The real public-works shelf — Public Works, Certified Job List, Prevailing Wage Jobs, Employment Utilization, Local Hire, and apprentice reports like Lone Apprentice and 500 Hour, among others. Agency formats are confirmed on the walkthrough. The report shelf →
Are you ready for AB 889?
AB 889 makes fringe annualization mandatory and bans frontloading from January 1, 2026, with a 10-day DLSE records deadline. Burdened union labor is native here, which is exactly where systems that stop at the pay run struggle. We walk through annualization operationally on a call. On AB 889 →
03Implementation

Implementation.

What can you migrate from QuickBooks or a legacy ERP?
Open jobs and history, AP/AR balances, vendor and customer records, and payroll history — from QuickBooks and spreadsheets, a payroll service, or a legacy construction ERP. Exact scope is set against what you run today. More on implementation →
How does cutover work?
As a parallel run. The new system operates alongside your current one and reconciles to it before you depend on the new numbers — the same way the original rebuild was proven penny-exact against fifty years of books. The cutover approach →
Where does our data live, and is it secure?
Your choice: managed cloud, or self-hosted on your own infrastructure. Access is role- and project-scoped, and a draft/submit document workflow gives you an audit trail on every financial record. More on security →
Are you SOC 2 certified?
Not today, and we will not claim a badge we have not earned. A formal SOC 2 attestation is on the roadmap for the productized offering; when it exists it will be a real report you can read. How we state the roadmap →
04Commercial

Commercial.

Do you charge per seat?
No. There is a flat platform fee and a one-time implementation — no per-seat meter and no modules to unlock. Every foreman, PM and clerk who needs the system gets it. How pricing works →
Why isn't there a price on the site?
Because migration scope is the biggest variable and it differs for every contractor. A headline number would overcharge the simple cases or lowball the hard ones, so the quote comes after a walkthrough. Public pricing follows as the founding cohort completes. More on pricing →
Do you have customer references?
One real, honest reference — a 90-year union wall-and-ceiling subcontractor in Southern California whose operation this system runs. No invented logos or star ratings; you can talk to the reference on a call. The reference →
Why this over QuickBooks, a payroll SaaS, or a legacy ERP?
One native system covers the whole back office — job cost, union and certified payroll, AIA-style billing and field apps — with no per-seat meter and a modern web and mobile interface. Spreadsheets miss job cost, payroll-layer tools stop at the pay run, and legacy ERPs price by the seat. The full comparison →

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