What's CrewCost?
CrewCost is a modern construction accounting software built specifically for general contractors. It replaces generic tools and complex ERPs with a single cloud-based system that manages your accounting, job costing, time tracking, and accounts payable in one place.
Instead of juggling spreadsheets, manual bill entry, and disconnected job cost reports, CrewCost gives you real-time visibility into your budgets, committed costs, labor, and profitability. It’s easy to adopt, works out of the box, and was created by contractors who needed a simpler, more accurate way to manage construction financials.
Key Benefits
CrewCost gives your construction business a complete financial foundation designed to control costs, protect margins, and simplify daily operations.
Track estimated vs. actuals, understand cost impacts instantly, and stay ahead of budget issues.
Handle retainage, progressive billing, and committed costs without manual workarounds or custom setup.
Automatically ingest bills, match them to budgets and contracts, and route them for approval, all in one place.
Use mobile time tracking to connect crew hours directly to job budgets and prevent overruns.
Because CrewCost is 100% cloud-based, your team can work from the office, field, or home, no servers or VPNs.
Start using CrewCost quickly without long implementations, custom deployments, or outside consultants.
Benefit Categories
The table below groups the main benefits into three practical categories. Each category highlights how these insights help your firm improve financial performance, optimize team efficiency, and make better decisions every day.
Category
What It Solves
Key Benefits
Job Costing & Profitability
Slow or unclear job performance visibility
Real-time job cost tracking, automated WIP, estimate vs. actual insights
Construction Accounting
Processes too complex for generic systems
Retainage management, progressive billing, committed cost controls
Accounts Payable Automation
Manual bill entry and limited compliance oversight
Automated bill intake, OCR, approval routing, contract + budget matching
Time Tracking & Labor Control
Missing or inaccurate field labor data
Mobile crew time tracking, labor-to-budget integration
Cloud Access & Ease of Use
Tools that are hard to deploy, maintain, or access
Fast onboarding, unlimited users, accessible from anywhere
Connected Financial Operations
Disconnected job costing, accounting, and field tools
One system that keeps budgets, costs, and labor fully in sync
CrewCost brings together everything you need to manage your jobs and your financials—without the complexity of traditional construction software or the limitations of generic tools.
See also
You can explore these pages to continue:
Start using CrewCost: Learn the essential steps to set up your account and begin using the platform.
Dashboard Overview: Learn how to navigate and use CrewCost's platform.
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