Three views of every job, and none of them wait for month end.
Contract, forecast and actual sit side by side on every project. Committed cost arrives the moment you award a trade, and incurred cost as each bill lands, so the gap shows while the job is still running.
The job looked profitable until the last bills came in.
Committed cost lives in somebody’s head until the invoices arrive, and the awarded value of a trade is remembered rather than recorded. The profit figure is assembled by hand at month end, which is well past the point where you could still have done something about it. By the time the number is trustworthy, the job is finished.
Three views that keep themselves current.
Contract
Set from the signed value plus every approved change order, so it always matches the document the client signed.
Forecast
Moves as you award trades. Committed cost from issued purchase orders lands here the moment the award is made.
Actual
Fills from vendor bills as they arrive, matched to the purchase order that committed the money. No re-keying. Clocked labour at each person’s cost rate is planned, not yet available.
All three, always
Side by side on the project, with profit in dollars and percent, so the gap is visible while you can still act on it.
A job opened on the money, not on a task list.
Contract against forecast against actual, the profit and loss underneath, and committed, incurred and labour costs as tiles. It updates itself as bids are awarded, bills arrive and crews clock in.
What real job costing costs elsewhere.
Job costing is the feature most often held back for a higher tier, and the one most often undermined by time tracking crews refuse to use.
| Doing it this way | What you get | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Knowify Advanced | Strong costing, but gated at this tier and charged per user on top | ~$3,950 / yr plus $29 / user / mo |
| Contractor Foreman | Costing is present; its own reviews report time tracking as unreliable | $588–$3,984 / yr |
| Your accountant, quarterly | An accurate number, months after you needed it | billable hours |
| Tenvia Build, Growth plan | Contract, forecast and actual, with committed cost from every award | $1,800 / yr |
Job costing and progress invoicing ship on the Growth plan at $175 CAD per company per month, with unlimited users. The GPS time clock and approval timesheets are planned, and are not part of what ships today. Third-party figures are published or reviewer-reported as of September 2026 and change without notice, so confirm with each vendor. All product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
What this is not.
Not this
- Not payroll. We cost labour, we do not pay it.
- Not a general ledger or an accounting system.
But this, yes
- Committed cost from issued purchase orders, not from memory
- Bills and expenses allocated to the job, so the actual moves the day a cost lands
- The same costs synced to QuickBooks Online on Scale, so the books match the job
- GPS-verified clock-in, so the hours in the cost are hours actually worked. Planned
- Timesheets approved before they ever reach the job cost. Planned
- Three cost rates per person: bill, pay, and cost
Weighing it directly? Tenvia Build vs Knowify, vs JobTread and vs Contractor Foreman. Written up for your role on the contractors page.
Load a job you already finished.
The fastest way to judge this is to put a job you know the answer to through it, and see whether the numbers agree with you.