Accounting

QuickBooks for Contractors

Industry-standard small business accounting with contractor-specific features for job costing and payroll.

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Use Cases

Contractor bookkeeping
Job costing
Payroll processing

Capability Matrix

Feature	Status	Depth
Invoicing	Yes	Advanced
Payment Processing	Yes	Advanced
Job Costing	Yes	Standard
Payroll	Yes	Advanced
Reporting Dashboard	Yes	Standard
Time Tracking	Yes	Basic
API Access	Yes	Advanced
QuickBooks Sync	Yes	Advanced
Estimating	Partial	Basic
CRM / Customer Management	Partial	Basic

Alternatives to Consider

Sage 100 Contractor

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Sage 100 Contractor is a construction-specific accounting and project management platform built for small to mid-size specialty contractors and general contractors. Originally developed as Master Builder Software (founded ~1980 by Dan Smith), acquired by Intuit in 2001, then by Sage Software in 2006, and rebranded Sage 100 Contractor. The platform integrates job cost accounting, construction payroll (including union and certified payroll), estimating, project management, service dispatch, scheduling, and document control in a single system. It supports both on-premise and cloud-hosted deployment and is used by approximately 18,000+ contractor businesses across the US.

Per UserQuote only

Small–LargeiOS