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QuickBooks Enterprise Contractor Edition

Contractor Edition Tracks Job Costs. It Doesn't Always Close the Loop to Billing and Change Orders.

QuickBooks Enterprise's Contractor Edition adds job costing reports, committed costs, and change order tracking over standard Enterprise. For a lot of contractors, the real friction isn't the tracking itself, it's that change orders, field data, and subcontractor costs still live partly outside QuickBooks, in a separate app, a spreadsheet, or a construction management platform that doesn't automatically sync.

Where Contractor Edition actually needs connecting

Job costing reports are only as accurate as what actually reaches them. If change orders get approved in a field app or over email and someone re-enters them into QuickBooks later, your real-time job cost view is always behind. Same with subcontractor invoices, time tracking from the field, and any construction management platform (Buildertrend, Procore, CoConstruct) your team uses alongside QuickBooks.

We connect whatever's generating real job cost data, a field app, a construction management platform, subcontractor billing, to Contractor Edition's job costing, so the numbers in QuickBooks reflect what's actually happening on the job, not what someone got around to entering.

One of our recent projects

Shopify retailer

Shopify to QuickBooks sync

The problemShopify sales landed in QuickBooks as one number a day. Every month somebody spent half a day working out why a payout didn't match.

A retailer's Shopify sales synced into QuickBooks as one number a day, and every month someone spent half a day working out why a payout didn't match. We rebuilt the sync to itemize by product category, use real product costs, and match each payout to the orders, fees and refunds behind it. The half-day reconciliation became a five-minute check.

What We Connect

01

Change orders that update job costs automatically

An approved change order, wherever it's actually approved, updates the job budget in QuickBooks without someone re-entering it.

02

Construction management platforms synced

Buildertrend, Procore, CoConstruct, or whatever your team runs, connected to Contractor Edition's job costing instead of running as a separate, disconnected system.

03

Subcontractor and field costs flowing in

Subcontractor invoices and field-reported costs reach job costing automatically, so the real-time job cost view is actually current.

The result isn't replacing Contractor Edition. It's job costing that's actually current, because the data reaches it automatically instead of waiting for someone to enter it.

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Tell us what's still manual between your field, your change orders, and QuickBooks. We'll tell you what's realistic to connect.

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Questions people ask

What does Contractor Edition add over standard QuickBooks Enterprise?

Job costing reports built for construction, committed cost tracking, change order tracking, and reporting aimed at contractors specifically, on top of the standard Enterprise feature set.

Can this connect to Buildertrend, Procore, or CoConstruct?

Yes. We build the connection so job cost and change order data from those platforms reaches QuickBooks automatically instead of being re-entered.

Does this work with QuickBooks Desktop's integration limitations?

Yes, we build around the same SDK/Web Connector/ODBC reality as any other QuickBooks Desktop or Enterprise integration. See our QuickBooks Desktop API page for how that actually works.

Is the quote really free with no obligation?

Yes. Tell us what you need, we'll tell you what it takes and what it costs. You decide from there.

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