By industry · Construction and trades

The job, the crew who turned up and the progress invoice, from one record.

Job costing falls apart when the site, the timesheet and the accounts are three systems. WorkBOS runs the job as a project, records who was on it, tracks the spend against it and issues the progress invoice from the same books.

Free for up to 5 seats · no card required

What usually goes wrong

01

Nobody knows a job lost money until the final invoice is already out.

02

Attendance on site is paper, a group chat, or a supervisor’s memory.

03

Supplier bills and variations arrive faster than anyone can post them.

What you get, by name

Every capability below is enforced on the server, not a demo screenshot. Anything that needs a paid plan says so on the card rather than leaving you to find out at checkout.

Jobs as projects
Templates for the work you repeat, timelines, approvals and per-company tagging if you trade under more than one entity.
Crew scheduling and attendancePro and up
Shared calendars, leave, and attendance with biometric check-in on Pro and above: face verification, a passkey thumb, fingerprint and face terminals, or a tablet kiosk with per-person codes, with geofencing and photo evidence you control the retention of.
Expense claims and supplier billsPro and up
Claims and bills posting straight to the ledger against the job, with a vendor master behind them showing what you owe and what is overdue.
Progress invoicing
Estimates a client can accept online, invoices with server-computed totals, credit notes that reduce the balance, and receipts that settle several invoices at once.
Assets and inventoryPro and up
What you own and what is on the shelf, in the same workspace as the job that needs it.
Approve-first AI agents
An approve-first AI Chief of Staff that proposes the work and waits for a person to say yes. Every action it takes runs through the same permission checks a human would hit, is recorded against the person who approved it, and can be rolled back in one click. The full append-only audit log you can read back and export is an Enterprise capability.

Your first week

  1. 1

    Set up one live job as a project and tag its costs to it.

  2. 2

    Put one crew on attendance and pick which check-in methods count.

  3. 3

    Issue one progress invoice and check the job in the P&L.

What you are probably weighing this against

Each comparison opens by saying where the other product is the better choice, because that is the half of a comparison worth reading.

Questions construction teams ask

How does biometric check-in work on site?

Four ways into one ledger: face verification with the signature computed on the person’s own device and matched on the server, a passkey thumb, ZKTeco class fingerprint and face terminals that push punches straight in, and a tablet kiosk with per-person codes for crews without smartphones. Enrollment is consent based and revocable, and your workspace policy decides which methods count.

Can I run several trading entities?

Yes, from Pro. Each company keeps its own books and invoices under its own name, logo and tax ID, and the group consolidates on top.

Is there a mobile app?

WorkBOS installs as an app from the browser and works on a phone or a site tablet. There is an offline punch queue on the kiosk so a dropout does not lose a shift.

Set it up the way construction teams actually work.

Start free for up to five seats, or let the Business Architect lay out the whole workspace from a short conversation and show you the blueprint before anything is created.

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