Acumatica's Construction Edition extends the core ERP with job costing by project and phase, committed costs tracked against budgets, compliance management for lien waivers and certified payroll, and progress billing built around the AIA-style formats construction owners expect. Those modules handle the numbers correctly once the data's in front of them; what they don't do on their own is chase a subcontractor for a lien waiver or a certificate of insurance before a payment can legally go out, which is where the real manual grind usually sits.
Job costing in Construction Edition tracks cost and revenue by project and phase, not just by a generic GL account, so a general contractor or specialty sub can see margin on a specific job rather than the business as a whole. Committed costs sit alongside that: budgets, purchase commitments, and change orders all roll up against the same job so a project manager can see what's actually left to spend before it's overspent.
Compliance management covers the paperwork construction specifically requires: lien waivers, certified payroll for prevailing-wage jobs, and the subcontractor documentation that government and larger commercial projects demand before money moves. Progress billing is built around the AIA-style formats owners and lenders expect, billing by percentage of completion rather than a flat invoice.
Compliance management tracks and stores the documents Acumatica needs, but it doesn't go get them. A subcontractor who hasn't sent this month's certificate of insurance or lien waiver still has to be emailed, called, and followed up with by a human before their pay application can legally be approved, and that chasing rarely happens on a predictable schedule.
Certified payroll reporting has the same shape. Acumatica holds the underlying wage and hours data, but formatting and submitting it the way a specific state agency or project owner requires is often a separate report built to match that one requirement, not something the base module produces out of the box for every jurisdiction.
We build the automation that requests outstanding lien waivers, certificates of insurance, and other compliance documents from subcontractors on a schedule and files them against the right job in Acumatica, instead of a project admin tracking it in a spreadsheet.
When a project requires certified payroll in a specific format or submission method, we build the report that pulls the underlying data straight out of Acumatica instead of someone re-keying it into a separate form every pay period.
A document chase, a payroll format, a billing step a template doesn't quite fit: tell us what it is and we'll map it against Acumatica's construction data.
Tell us which document, payroll report, or billing step is still manual, and we'll scope what's buildable against Acumatica's job and compliance data. And if construction isn't actually your bottleneck, that's fine too. We build this kind of automation on top of whatever ERP a business runs, not just this one.
Let's talk →Many general contractors and specialty subcontractors run it for the job costing, committed-cost tracking, and compliance management built into its Construction Edition, which goes further than what the base ERP offers a non-construction business.
Job costing by project and phase, committed costs against budgets and change orders, compliance management for lien waivers and certified payroll, and progress billing in AIA-style formats.
Yes. Progress billing supports percentage-of-completion invoicing in the formats construction owners and lenders expect, with retainage tracked and held back as part of that same billing process.
It stores and tracks them once they arrive, but getting a subcontractor to actually send a lien waiver or certificate of insurance on time is still a manual follow-up unless that chasing is automated separately.