Cost-code job costing that builds itself from the bills you already enter, pay applications on a proper schedule of values with the G702/G703-style PDF your owners expect, and retainage tracked from the first withholding to the final release. For GCs, subs, and remodelers.
Free 30-Day TrialThe mainstream accounting tools either don't do job costing at all or lock it behind their most expensive contractor tier. So the actual answer to "is the Hendersons' addition making money?" lives in a spreadsheet that's three weeks stale — and the pay application the architect wants is built by hand in Excel every month.
The owner holds 10% of every progress payment. If your invoices just show the net, those withholdings stop existing anywhere — and contractors routinely forget to bill thousands in released retainage at job end because nothing was tracking it.
Enter vendor bills as usual, tag each to its job with a cost code.
SOV lines roll forward; type this period's numbers; retainage computes.
The net-of-retainage invoice drafts itself; the G702/G703 PDF prints for the owner.
No separate job-cost entry system. Bills go into Vendor Hub exactly as before; one tag assigns them to a job and cost code. From there, costs-by-code, cost-to-date vs. billed-to-date, and remaining-to-bill maintain themselves — and the margin number turns red the moment a job goes underwater.
Jobs carry their contract amount and retainage percentage; spend lands against CSI-style cost codes. The job page answers the three questions that matter: where did the money go, are we ahead of our billing, and what's left on the contract?
Progress billing the way owners and architects expect. Lines roll forward from the previous application with previously-billed amounts already filled — you type only this period's work and stored materials.
Every application prints a landscape payment certificate: the continuation-sheet table with per-line percent complete, totals, the retainage computation, current payment due, and signature blocks for contractor and owner/architect.
Each application withholds at the job's percentage and adds to a visible retainage-held balance — money the owner owes you that never falls off the radar. At completion, one click drafts the final invoice for the full held amount.
Subs are vendors, so every tagged bill accrues to their 1099-NEC automatically — job costing and tax reporting from the same single entry.
Bank feeds, reconciliation, AI categorization, invoicing with online payments, estimates, purchase orders, audit logs — the whole BizBooks Pro platform is under the hard hat.
Neither. It's a feature flag inside standard BizBooks Pro, included from the Pro tier up — the 🏗️ Construction section appears when your license qualifies. No per-job fees, no contractor surcharge.
Work completed this period plus materials stored, times the job's retainage percentage, is withheld. Example: $30,000 of work on a 10% job drafts a $27,000 invoice with a visible "less retainage withheld" line, and $3,000 joins the job's held balance. The G702/G703 PDF shows the same computation.
It's an application-and-certificate-for-payment document in the G702/G703 style — same columns, same math, same signature blocks. If your contract strictly requires licensed AIA paper, transcribe the numbers; for most private jobs the PDF is accepted as-is.
The application validates per line: previously billed plus this period cannot exceed the scheduled value. The whole submission is rejected with the offending line named.
Phase 1 ships Job → Cost Code, which covers most small and mid-size contractors. A deeper Job → Phase → Cost Code hierarchy is on this edition's roadmap — tell us if your workflow needs it and you'll move it up the list.
Payable-side retainage (withholding from subcontractor bills) is the next planned phase. Today the edition tracks the receivable side — what owners hold from you — which is where the forgotten money usually lives.
Nothing beyond Pro. Compare that with contractor-tier pricing elsewhere, where job costing alone is the justification for doubling the subscription.
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