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Sitewise vs Buildertrend

Buildertrend is built for home builders. If you also do service work or need real profitability tracking, here's how Sitewise compares.

At A Glance

Sitewise vs Buildertrend

FeatureSitewiseRecommendedBuildertrend
Monthly Cost$99-449/mo + $45-59/seat$99-499/month (company)
Residential Projects
Commercial Projects✗ Limited
Job Costing DepthReal-time, comprehensiveBasic tracking only
Mobile App ReliabilityFull offline, reliableCrashes, limited features
Inventory ManagementMovements + stock on handBasic material tracking
QuickBooks IntegrationPush + payments backBasic, single-user limited
Service Work✓ Full capability✗ Not designed for it

Buildertrend Is Built For Home Builders. What If You Do More?

Sitewise handles residential and commercial projects with the same system. Manage a kitchen remodel in the morning and a commercial buildout in the afternoon on the same workflows, the same job costing and the same reporting. No workarounds required.

Know Your Real Profitability, Not Just Basic Tracking

Sitewise provides real-time job costing that aggregates labor, materials, equipment, and overhead automatically. See profitability update as the work happens, not weeks later when you are reconciling spreadsheets.

Stop Fighting Your Accounting Integration

Sitewise pushes customers, vendors, invoices and bills into QuickBooks Online, with projects landing as sub-customers so the numbers arrive job by job. Payments recorded in QuickBooks flow back and mark the document paid. Nothing else is ever changed from the QuickBooks side, so there is exactly one source of truth for the job.

What If You Do Service Work Too?

Sitewise handles project work and service work in one platform. Raise a work order, put it on a crew, and have them close it out from the phone, on the same system that runs your construction jobs.

A Mobile App Your Field Team Will Actually Use

Sitewise mobile was built for the field from day one, and it works with no signal at all. Basements, rural lots, anywhere the bars run out. Crews walk the job, start and finish work orders, clock in and out against GPS, capture photos and collect a signature, and every bit of it syncs the moment they are back in range.

Feature By Feature

Job Costing, Compared

FeatureSitewiseRecommendedBuildertrend
Real-time cost tracking✗ Delayed
Budget vs. actual alerts
Phase-level P&L✓ Project-level P&L✗ Limited
Cost code tracking
WIP reportingOn the roadmap
Historical cost databaseOn the roadmap

Why Contractors Switch To Sitewise

“We were paying $8,000/month for ServiceTitan. Sitewise gives us everything we need for about $1,000.”

Outgrew Basic Tools

“Contractor Foreman couldn't handle our growth. Sitewise scales with us.”

Tired Of Overpaying

“We were paying $8,000/month for ServiceTitan. Sitewise gives us everything we need for about $1,000.”

Implementation Nightmares

“Procore took 9 months to implement. We were live on Sitewise in 3 days.”

Mobile That Works

“Buildertrend's app crashed constantly. Sitewise works even in basements with no signal.”

Outgrew Basic Tools

“Contractor Foreman couldn't handle our growth. Sitewise scales with us.”

Tired Of Overpaying

“We were paying $8,000/month for ServiceTitan. Sitewise gives us everything we need for about $1,000.”

Implementation Nightmares

“Procore took 9 months to implement. We were live on Sitewise in 3 days.”

Mobile That Works

“Buildertrend's app crashed constantly. Sitewise works even in basements with no signal.”

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