Projul pricing verified August 2026: Core $4,788/yr, Core+ $7,188/yr, Pro $14,388/yr, no per-user fees. Who each tier fits, and when JobTread, Buildertrend, or a field service platform is the better call.
Remodeling software has one job that new-construction and service platforms both fumble: managing the homeowner. Selections and allowances, change orders mid-job, draw schedules, and a client who texts you at 9pm – the right platform turns that into portals, approvals, and paper trails. Here is the 2026 field, with pricing from each vendor’s own pages. … Read more
This week ran on a split screen. On one side, four of the biggest companies in America publicly declared the skilled trades shortage a national problem. On the other, software vendors kept doing what they have done all summer: shipping more AI features. Put them side by side and the honest takeaway for a small … Read more
Two contractors can charge the exact same number on a bid and walk away with completely different profit. The difference usually isn’t the price. It’s whether they understood the math behind it. Contractor markup and profit margin sound like the same idea, and plenty of shops use the words interchangeably. They are not the same, … Read more
Most contractors do not lose money on bad jobs – they lose it on jobs they thought were good until the numbers came in. Job costing is the fix: tracking labor, materials, subs, and overhead against each job while it is running, not three months later at tax time. Here is what actually does that … Read more
Landscaping software is a different buy than general contractor software. Your revenue is a mix of recurring maintenance routes and one-off design/build or enhancement jobs, your crews are seasonal, and your margins die by the hour in drive time. The right platform has to handle recurring scheduling, routing, crew mobile time tracking, and per-service pricing … Read more
Search for “construction ERP” and you will find enterprise systems priced for companies with a CFO and an IT department. That is not what most contractors actually need. What a 5-to-50-person shop needs is business management software: one system that holds your leads, estimates, schedule, job costs, invoices, and payments, so the business stops living … Read more
Work order software means two different products: field service platforms (Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan) and CMMS tools (UpKeep, Limble). Verified 2026 pricing and how to pick the right category.
Labor owned the week: JPMorgan, Google, and a robot bricklaying startup all bet big on the trades shortage, Turner and Townsend says labor is now the top construction cost driver, and QuickBooks Online reprices August 1.
BuildOps, ServiceTitan, FieldEdge, Service Fusion, and Jobber for mechanical contractors – what is publicly knowable about cost, and the five questions that get you a real quote.