Five tools, three logins, and holdback still lives in a spreadsheet.
Tenvia Build runs the commercial side of the job from proposal to final holdback: bidding, costs, and billing on one record. Built for general and trade contractors sitting between a spreadsheet and an ERP.
What it costs to do this properly today.
Doing the job right currently means three to five subscriptions that don’t talk to each other, and the two things that matter most to a Canadian contractor still aren’t in any of them.
| What you need | What you’re probably paying for it | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| Project management | Procore, or nothing | $6,000–$15,000 |
| Bid management & prequalification | BuildingConnected with TradeTapp | $3,600–$22,000 |
| Job costing | Knowify Advanced, or the accountant | $1,200–$4,000 |
| Field time tracking | busybusy, ClockShark | $100–$160 / user |
| E-signature | DocuSign, PandaDoc | $300–$720 |
| Vendor compliance | a folder, and a good memory | n/a |
| Holdback tracking | a spreadsheet, and hope | n/a |
The stack, added up
$8,000–$20,000
a year, across three to five tools that don’t share a record, and still no vendor compliance tracking or holdback logic.
Tenvia Build
from $1,140
a year for the whole company. Everything above on one record, including the two things the stack can’t buy.
Third-party figures are published or reviewer-reported prices as of September 2026 and change without notice, so confirm with each vendor. All product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Our own figure is the Starter plan at $95 CAD per company per month; full pricing is published, with no quote call.
The four things the cheap tools leave out.
Bid it out properly
- Trade packages on locked scope lines, so every vendor prices the same rows
- Private bid link per vendor, no account to create
- Side-by-side leveling, low bid flagged
- Award writes an e-signed PO and a committed cost
- Vendor scorecards: response rate, ratings, lifetime value
Compliance that chases itself
- Insurance, WSIB clearances, and trade licences per vendor
- Expiry dates that warn before they lapse, then flag red
- Reminders go to the vendor, not onto your list
- Accept or reject every document submitted
- One shared profile trades keep current for everyone
Costs while the crew works
- Contract, forecast, and actual: three views of every job
- GPS-verified clock-in; hours × cost rate land in actuals. Planned
- Committed from issued POs, incurred from bills
- Timesheets approved before they cost the job. Planned
- RFIs tracked on the project record
Billing built for Canada
- Schedule-of-values billing, percent claimed per line
- Both holdback kinds withheld on the invoice itself
- Closing-docs holdback released on its own trigger
- Fixed price or cost-plus, set per project
- Per-line tax rates, inclusive or exclusive
Open a job on the money, not on a task list.
Contract against forecast against actual, the P&L underneath, and committed, incurred, and labour costs as tiles. It updates itself as bids are awarded, bills arrive, and crews clock in.
What we don’t do.
You’ll ask in the first demo anyway, so here it is now.
Not our lane
- Drawing and sheet management. Fieldwire and Procore own that; keep what you use
- Payroll. We cost labour, we don’t pay it
- General ledger accounting. QuickBooks keeps the books, and we sync to it on Scale
On the roadmap
- GPS time clock and approval timesheets
- Card payment in the client portal
- Receipt capture from the field
Weighing us against something specific? The comparison pages go tool by tool, covering Procore, Knowify, JobTread, Contractor Foreman and more, with what each does better than us.
Put your next job in it.
Book a demo and we’ll walk one of your jobs through it, proposal to holdback.