A small GC has a project manager who is also the estimator, an office of one or two, and a bench of subcontractors who are most of the labour on every job. The software question is not which platform has the most features. It is which one your team and your subs will still be using in six months. That comes down to four things: a price you can approve without a sales call, setup you can do yourself, sub access that is free and works on a phone, and an accounting sync that does not leave the bookkeeper running a parallel spreadsheet. This page is about those four.
Three failure modes we hear in almost every first call, and what prevents each.
A six-week implementation with a consultant, or a blank system that needs a cost code list, a schedule template and a budget template built from scratch before the first job can go in. Jobs start before setup finishes, so they go into the old spreadsheet, and the system is half-populated forever.
Subcontractor access that costs a seat, or that only works properly on a desktop, or that lives behind a link in an email. The subs keep calling and texting, the schedule in the system drifts from the schedule in reality, and within a month the PM is back to the phone.
A one-way export to QuickBooks, or a CSV, means the bookkeeper re-keys invoices and payments and keeps the real job cost in a spreadsheet. The system's budget and the books disagree, and the owner trusts the books.
Three plans at $49, $99 and $199 a month. The sub portal, scheduling, budgets, change orders and estimating are on every plan; the client portal, AI capture and weather alerts start on Growth; QuickBooks sync, bank reconciliation and AI estimating are on Pro. A 30-day trial with no credit card. Subcontractor and client seats are unlimited and free, so the price does not change when you add subs.
Schedule templates for custom, semi-custom and spec builds, a residential cost code library covering CSI and NAHB, quality and inspection checklists per phase, and one-click clone of a previous project. Context-sensitive help on every screen. Set up the next job that starts, invite its subs, and run it alongside whatever you use today; jobs already in flight can finish where they are.
Every sub gets the native iOS or Android app and sees only the tasks you assign. They read schedule changes, get SMS and email alerts when a task shifts, bid on packages from the app or just by replying to the invitation email, capture photos and receipts, and submit invoices. Each user picks English or Mexican Spanish. Everything works offline and syncs later.
Build the estimate from a template or let AI draft a first pass from the plans. Split it into trade bid packages with an AI-drafted scope, invite the subs, level the bids side by side against your estimate, and award to a subcontract or purchase order. Committed costs then count against the budget before the bill arrives, so cost-to-complete is real. Leads are tracked with activities and reminders.
Critical-path scheduling with trade dependencies, drag-to-reschedule, and automatic SMS and email to the affected subs. CPro360 watches the 14-day forecast per jobsite and shifts weather-sensitive tasks such as concrete, framing, roofing and exterior paint automatically.
Daily logs with weather and photos in the project journal, RFIs with due dates, inspections and checklists on the phone. Change orders with amount, reason and schedule impact in days, visible to the client in their portal, approved by your PM from the phone and revising the budget line immediately. Receipts, supplier invoices and sub quotations read by AI into line items on the right budget line. Sub payments gated on a current COI and W-9. Retainage tracked with partial release.
Bills, payments, customers, vendors and the chart of accounts sync both ways with QuickBooks Online, and the same records reach QuickBooks Desktop through the Web Connector. Xero and Sage are supported by import and export. Job costing is on your cost codes, and a per-project P&L is available before the month closes. A portfolio dashboard across active jobs flags the ones slipping on schedule or budget.
Competitor details from each vendor's own pricing page, read in October 2026. Each is covered in full on its comparison page.
| Requirement | CPro360 | Buildertrend | JobTread | BuildBook |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Published price | $49 / $99 / $199 per month, users included | From $499 / month; final quote by annual construction volume | $199 / month + $20 per internal user | $79 to about $349 / month by seat band |
| Setup | Self-serve from templates, under a week | Guided setup and daily live training, bundled | Free implementation and training; no setup fees | Self-serve; easiest to learn of the group |
| Sub access | Free, unlimited, native iOS and Android app, Spanish | Free, unlimited; mobile app | Free portal users; web app saved to home screen | Shared links; no sub login |
| Accounting | Two-way QuickBooks Online; Desktop via Web Connector (Pro plan); Xero and Sage CSV import/export | QuickBooks, Sage, Xero, Gusto | QuickBooks Online | One-way push to QuickBooks |
Full comparisons: vs Buildertrend, vs JobTread, vs BuildBook, vs Houzz Pro. Weighing a move off Buildertrend? See the Buildertrend alternative guide.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Internal users | Active projects | Fits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $49 | $499 | 3 | 5 | Owner, one PM or super, bookkeeper; a few jobs at a time |
| Growth | $99 | $999 | 10 | 25 | Most small GCs: two to ten office and field staff, a dozen or more jobs a year |
| Pro | $199 | $1,990 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Twenty-plus employees or many concurrent jobs |
Subcontractor and client seats do not count toward the user limit on any plan. The client portal, AI capture and weather alerts start on Growth; QuickBooks sync is on Pro. Full table on the pricing page. Prices as published on cpro360.com/pricing in October 2026.
A trial account takes an afternoon. Set up the next job that starts, invite its subs, and let jobs in progress finish where they are. If you are leaving Buildertrend, CoConstruct or another platform and want the history, the CPro360 team loads clients, subs, cost codes, projects, budgets, schedules, change orders and daily logs from your exports and reconciles them with you before go-live; see the migration guide.
The one your team and your subcontractors will actually use. For a residential GC with two to twenty employees that means published pricing you can approve without a sales call, setup you can do yourself in a week, subcontractor access that is free and works on their phone, and a two-way QuickBooks sync so the bookkeeper is not re-keying. CPro360 is built to those four requirements at $49 to $199 a month.
Usually one of three reasons: setup took longer than the patience for it, so jobs were never fully entered; subcontractors would not log in because it cost money or only worked on a desktop; or the office kept a parallel spreadsheet because the accounting sync was one-way. Each of those is a buying criterion, not a training problem.
No. Subcontractor seats are unlimited and free on every CPro360 plan. Subs get a native iOS and Android app, see only the tasks you assign them, bid on packages, read schedule changes and submit invoices, with their certificate of insurance and W-9 tracked on their vendor record. Crews can use it in English or Mexican Spanish.
Yes, through Intuit's Web Connector. Bills, payments, customers, vendors and items are delivered to QuickBooks Desktop on the Connector's schedule; with QuickBooks Online the sync is two-way, pulling the chart of accounts and paid status back. Xero and Sage are supported by import and export, and job costing uses your cost codes.
Under a week for most. The trial account comes with residential schedule, budget and checklist templates; set up the next job that starts, invite its subs, and run it alongside whatever you use today. Jobs already in progress can finish where they are.
A 30-day trial with no credit card, or a 20-minute demo on a job that looks like yours.