Best General Contractor Software

For general contractors who run multi-trade remodels and additions, the best general contractor software in 2026 is QuoteIQ, because the estimate, the proposal, the signature, the deposit, the schedule and the invoice are one workflow on one bill instead of four apps stitched together. Standard Estimates price a bathroom remodel from your price book in under a minute, Options Estimates put Essential, Signature and Custom scope tiers on one document so the homeowner chooses the budget instead of asking for three separate bids, and Proposals carry the drawings, the allowances, the license and insurance details and the 30/40/30 payment schedule a remodel needs. AI Estimator writes a first draft from photos and a description, and e-signatures collect the acceptance and the deposit from the same link. Buildertrend and CoConstruct are construction management software built for larger builders and priced by quote; Jobber and Housecall Pro cover estimating for home-service trades, and at their published rates on September 20, 2026 a ten-user company pays $399 a month on Jobber Grow and $399 on Housecall Pro MAX ($329 for 8 users plus two more at $35 each) against $299.99 on QuoteIQ Elite, which includes 10 users. The accepted estimate becomes the job, the schedule and the invoice without retyping a line. QuoteIQ holds 4.7 stars across 4,100+ App Store and Google Play reviews and is used by 40,000+ contractors across 50+ industries; the pricing page lists every plan, and you can bring one real remodel to the free demo and price it live.

For a small general contracting business the best CRM is one that keeps the lead, the estimate, the signed proposal, the schedule, the job photos, the change orders and the invoice on the same customer record, which is how QuoteIQ is built from $29.99 a month. InstaQuote turns a website visit into a lead with a ballpark price, Pipelines track every open bid from first call to signed contract, ClientHub gives the company a business line where calls and texts land on the record, and the Virtual Call Team AI receptionist answers while you are on site, on every plan. Once the job is sold the same record holds the schedule, the inspection forms, the progress photos and the draws, and Review Multiplier sends the customer to your review page when the final invoice is paid online, with automated requests from Pro. ClientHub and email and text automation start on Pro; InstaQuote, Pipelines and review campaigns are on Elite and Max. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 609,100 construction manager jobs in 2025 and projects 9% growth through 2035 with about 49,700 openings a year, so the market rewards the company that answers first and follows up every time; a CRM that is also the estimating and invoicing tool means nothing gets retyped between the two. See how the record compares on the Jobber and Housecall Pro pages.

Contractor management software costs between $29.99 and $699.99 per month on QuoteIQ: the plan is chosen by team size and features, and you can add more users at $25/per-additional-user/mo on any plan. Essentials is $29.99 for one user and includes Standard, Quick, Options and Package estimates, invoicing, online payments, scheduling, e-signatures and AI tools on 500 IQ Credits a month; Beginner is $99.99 for up to two users and adds MapMeasure Pro, QuoteIQ Cam with inspection forms, expense tracking and Google Calendar sync; Pro is $199.99 for up to four users and adds ClientHub, Job Costing, the Client Portal, QuickBooks Online sync and review request automation; Elite is $299.99 for up to 10 users and adds InstaQuote, InstaSchedule, EmployeeHub with live location, Pipelines and review mass send; Max is $699.99 for 20 users with Crews, Sales Team Tracker, the AI Website Builder and 8,000 IQ Credits a month. Annual billing is two months free and every plan has a 14-day free trial. For comparison, read September 20, 2026, Jobber listed Connect at $299, Grow at $399 and Plus at $599 a month for a 6-to-10-person team billed monthly, with AI Receptionist ($29), Pipeline ($49) and Marketing Suite ($99) as add-ons below Plus; Housecall Pro listed Basic at $79, Essentials at $189 for up to 5 users and MAX at $329 for 8 users plus $35 per additional user, so 10 users is $399; Buildertrend and CoConstruct publish no list price and quote each company, which the Buildertrend comparison covers. Pick the tier by the people who need the app on their phone: on a ten-person team the $99.01 a month between Elite and those $399 plans buys a decent compressor every year.

General contractors use estimating software that starts from a price book, adds allowances and sub quotes, and turns the accepted estimate into a proposal with a payment schedule; in QuoteIQ that is Estimates plus Proposals. Build the price book once with your framing, drywall, electrical and plumbing rates, then price each job by phase: demolition and disposal, framing labor, rough-in by the subs, drywall, tape and finish, cabinets as an allowance, quartz countertops, tile, trim and doors, interior paint, permit fees, project management and a contingency line. Options Estimates present Essential, Signature and Custom scopes on one document, Package Estimates sell a home maintenance plan next to the project, and the AI CoPilot adds a deposit, a discount or a line item from a sentence. The proposal adds the company story, the reviews, the license and insurance details, the drawings and the 30% / 40% / 30% draw schedule. The customer opens it on a phone, signs with e-signatures, and pays the deposit through QuoteIQ Payments by card, ACH, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Buildertrend and CoConstruct are built for larger builders and priced by quote; QuoteIQ gives a remodeling or addition company this paperwork at a published price and keeps it connected to scheduling and invoicing from Essentials at $29.99 a month, with job photos from Beginner at $99.99.

Yes. In QuoteIQ the deposit is collected when the estimate is signed, and each progress payment is recorded as a partial payment against the open invoice until the balance is zero. Add a deposit to the estimate as a percentage or a fixed amount (the AI CoPilot will do it from a sentence), require the signature, and the customer pays the deposit by card, ACH, Apple Pay or Google Pay from the acceptance screen through QuoteIQ Payments. When the rough-in inspection passes, send the draw as a payment request or record the check as a partial payment; the invoice shows the amount paid and the balance due, and the final walkthrough payment closes it. A typical residential schedule is 30% at signing, 40% at rough-in inspection and 30% at the final walkthrough, written into the proposal so nobody is surprised, and the homeowner can see every payment in the Client Portal on Pro and above. Customer financing is available at checkout on every plan through your payment processor (Stripe or Whop), not from QuoteIQ, subject to the processor’s terms, which turns a $46,900 Signature-scope kitchen into a monthly number the customer can say yes to. The QuickBooks Online integration on Pro, Elite and Max carries every deposit and draw to the books. Deposits, partial payments and online payments are on every plan from Essentials at $29.99; check your state’s rules on deposit limits for home improvement contracts before you set the percentages.

General contractors track job costs by putting labor, materials, subs and permits on the job as they happen and comparing them with the estimate while the job is still open; in QuoteIQ that is Job Costing fed by Time Tracker Pro, expense tracking and Inventory. The crew clocks in on the app and the job timer starts near the job site, so labor is recorded as it happens; the site lead snaps the supply-house receipt from the truck, so materials are real; the electrician’s invoice is logged as a sub cost; and the job shows estimated versus actual with the margin that is left before the final draw. A change order is priced from those numbers, documented with QuoteIQ Cam photos of the rotten subfloor or the added outlet run, sent as a revised estimate, and signed with e-signatures before the work starts, so the extra $1,850 of demolition and disposal is accepted in writing instead of argued about at the final walkthrough. Keep the records the IRS recordkeeping guidance describes for a small business; the app keeps the receipts, the timesheets and the signed change orders on the job so the file exists when you need it. Expense tracking and inspection forms start on Beginner at $99.99; Job Costing and QuickBooks Online sync start on Pro at $199.99; EmployeeHub with live location and the time clock and Inventory are on Elite and Max. Jobber lists job costing on Grow and Housecall Pro lists advanced custom reporting on MAX, per their pricing pages on September 20, 2026; the Jobber comparison shows the plan detail.

Yes. QuoteIQ Scheduling puts a multi-day job on one calendar with a visit per phase, and you assign team members or a sub to each visit; Crews on Max groups the framing crew and the finish crew so a whole team is assigned in one tap. Add Bell Electric and Coastal Plumbing as teams, then drag demo day, the rough-in, the drywall and the cabinet install onto the right lanes across Day 1 to Day 14. The customer gets the on-the-way text, the crew gets the address, the scope and the photos on their phone, and crew chat keeps the morning plan inside the company account. Live crew location through EmployeeHub on Elite and Max shows who is on site while they are clocked in, Google Calendar sync from Beginner up keeps the office calendar honest, and when the inspector reschedules you move one visit and every calendar follows. A sub who does not use QuoteIQ still gets the schedule by text or email; a sub who does can be one of the 10 users on Elite and see their own lane. The inspection form at the end of each phase records who signed off, and on Elite InstaQuote and InstaSchedule let the next homeowner request a walkthrough from your website while the current job is still running. Scheduling and the calendar are on every plan from $29.99.

Ask at the final walkthrough, when the last draw is paid, and send the homeowner straight to your Google review link instead of hoping they find it. Every QuoteIQ plan redirects a customer to your review page the moment they pay online through Review Multiplier, so the 30% final payment on a kitchen remodel ends on your Google Business Profile; Pro and up add a timed text or email request on triggers you choose (invoice paid, job completed), with a message like “How did the final walkthrough go?”, and Elite and Max add a review campaign to past customers who never left one. Google, Facebook, Yelp and Angi links are tracked in one dashboard with requests sent this month versus year to date, and the QuoteIQ reviews page shows the same loop working for the software itself. Remodel work runs on referrals and reviews: the NAHB Remodeling Market Index read 61 in the second quarter of 2026, which means more remodelers reported good conditions than poor ones, and the company with sixty recent five-star reviews wins the bid before the estimate is opened. On Jobber, automated review requests are not listed on the plan page, and the Marketing Suite is a $99-a-month add-on below the Plus plan; on Housecall Pro, review management is listed on Basic and premium review management on Essentials, per their pricing pages on September 20, 2026; on QuoteIQ the redirect is in every plan. Reviews also ride inside every proposal you send, the online payment that triggers the request is on Essentials at $29.99, and ClientHub plus the Virtual Call Team answer the calls the reviews bring in.

Contractors document inspections, punch lists and job photos with a phone on site and a form that lands on the job record, which is what QuoteIQ Cam and inspection forms do on Beginner and above. Build the forms once (Rough-in inspection, Pre-drywall walkthrough, Final punch list, Change order) with pass/fail items, notes and required photos; the site lead opens the form on the job, works down the checklist, snaps the outlet run, the plumbing stub-outs and the insulation before the drywall goes up, and the completed form and every photo attach to the customer record and the visit. A failed item becomes the punch list, the punch list becomes the finish crew’s next visit on the schedule, and a photo of something the estimate never covered becomes a change order sent as a revised estimate and signed with e-signatures. Before-and-after photos also feed the proposal for the next homeowner, the Client Portal on Pro and above lets the current homeowner follow progress without a daily phone call, and Job Costing sits on the same record so the photo of the rotten subfloor and the cost of fixing it are in one place. When the building inspector, the homeowner or an insurer asks what was behind the wall, the answer is a dated form with photos rather than a memory. The IRS recordkeeping guidance covers how long a small business keeps supporting documents; keeping them on the job record in the app is the simplest way to meet it. Jobber lists checklists on its Connect plan and Housecall Pro lists customer equipment tracking on Essentials, per their pricing pages on September 20, 2026; see the Housecall Pro comparison for the plan detail.

QuoteIQ syncs with QuickBooks Online on Pro, Elite and Max: invoices, payments and customers flow across so the books match the app without re-entry, and data export is available on every plan for a bookkeeper who works outside QuickBooks. Because Job Costing pulls labor from the time clock, materials from expense tracking and sub costs from the job, the margin you see on a kitchen remodel in QuoteIQ and the margin your accountant sees come from the same numbers. Deposits collected on the signed estimate, progress draws recorded as partial payments and the final online payment each post like any other invoice and payment, so a 30/40/30 schedule shows up in QuickBooks as three payments against one customer instead of a note in a text thread. Jobber lists QuickBooks Online sync from Connect up and Housecall Pro lists QuickBooks Online and Desktop from Essentials up, per their pricing pages on September 20, 2026; Buildertrend and CoConstruct are priced by quote. The U.S. Small Business Administration publishes general guidance on managing a business, and the IRS recordkeeping guidance describes the supporting documents behind each entry. QuoteIQ runs the operational workflow; confirm the entries and the reconciliation your accounting process requires, and see the pricing page for which plan carries the sync.

For a one-person general contracting business, QuoteIQ Essentials at $29.99 a month is the best starting point because it includes the parts that usually cost extra elsewhere: Standard, Quick, Options and Package estimates, invoicing with recurring service plans, online payments with ACH and tips, e-signatures, scheduling, the post-payment review redirect and the AI tools, including AI Estimator and the Virtual Call Team receptionist that answers while you are up a ladder, on 500 IQ Credits a month. Beginner at $99.99 adds QuoteIQ Cam with inspection forms, MapMeasure Pro and expense tracking, which suits an operator who documents every phase; Pro at $199.99 adds the ClientHub business line, Job Costing and QuickBooks Online sync when the first hire arrives. Housecall Pro Basic is $79 a month billed monthly ($59 annual) and Jobber prices by team-size tier, with its 6-to-10-person tier starting at $299 on Connect, per their pricing pages on September 20, 2026; the Housecall Pro and Jobber pages hold the detail. A one-person GC is doing the construction manager’s job, which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics put at a $114,990 median in 2025, while also swinging the hammer; software that prices the bid, collects the deposit, schedules the subs and asks for the review on its own is how that person keeps the manager’s hours for the work that pays. Every plan carries a 14-day free trial, and the pricing page shows the step up when the first hire arrives.

QuoteIQ’s free trial is 14 days on every plan, Essentials through Max, and it is the full plan rather than a demo. Put a real remodel through it: price the kitchen as an Options Estimate with Essential, Signature and Custom scopes, send the proposal with the 30/40/30 payment schedule, collect the signature and the deposit through QuoteIQ Payments, put the rough-in inspection on the schedule for Bell Electric, fill a pre-drywall walkthrough form with QuoteIQ Cam photos on Beginner and above, and offer customer financing at checkout through Stripe or Whop on any plan, subject to the processor’s terms. The four-step setup below takes under ten minutes, the support team covers the rest, and the U.S. Small Business Administration’s guide to managing a business is a good companion for the first-hire decisions the software surfaces. If you would rather see it first, book a free demo and bring a real job; the demo runs on your trades, your subs and your prices. Data you enter during the trial (customers, price book, photos, signed proposals) stays in the account when it converts, so the trial is also the setup, the trial can be cancelled before it ends, and the export is yours at any time. Annual billing after the trial is two months free.

A credit or debit card is required to start. For a remodeling business that runs service calls as well as projects, compare one-off project costs with recurring maintenance plan work.