What is construction management software?
Construction management software is the system a contractor uses to plan, track, and document a project — budgets and job costing, daily reports, schedules, RFIs, submittals, change orders, progress billing, safety, and QA/QC — in one place instead of across spreadsheets, email, and paper. The right tool depends on your role: general contractors mainly coordinate other trades, while self-perform contractors also need cost-coded field productivity, which most GC-centric platforms handle poorly.
Field PM is built for the self-perform side. It treats the field as the source of truth: the hours and quantities a foreman logs are the same numbers that drive the budget, the forecast, and the bill — no rekeying between the field and the office.
Built from the field up, not the office down
Most platforms were designed for the office and bolted a field app on afterward. Field PM was designed the other way: a five-minute daily report (or a voice report) captures cost-coded time, installed quantities, photos, and safety at the crew level, and everything upstream — productivity, margin forecast, AIA billing — is computed from that. It is the difference between a system your crews actually use and one they avoid.
What Field PM includes
- •Cost-coded daily reports — manhours and installed quantities from a phone
- •Job costing and productivity — performance factor and productivity index by cost code
- •Budget, S-curve, and manpower-loading forecasting
- •AIA G702/G703 progress billing with schedule of values and retainage
- •RFIs, submittals, change orders, and drawings
- •Cross-tenant GC ↔ subcontractor communication and reporting
- •OSHA safety logs, JSAs, toolbox talks, and incident reporting
- •QA/QC inspections, hold points, weld mapping, and NDE for industrial scopes
- •Service & dispatch module, tool tracking, and time clock
- •Two-way accounting sync (QuickBooks, Sage, Xero, NetSuite, Acumatica)
Who it is for
Field PM fits self-perform commercial and industrial contractors and the GCs who work with them — electrical, mechanical/HVAC, piping and welding, concrete, civil, and specialty trades. One multi-trade platform covers every scope you self-perform, from a single commercial job to utility-scale industrial work (solar, BESS, substations, oil & gas).
How it compares
Procore and Buildertrend are strong for large GCs and home builders respectively; Field PM's edge is self-perform cost control and published pricing. Compare against JobTread, Contractor Foreman, and Fieldwire, or see the full comparison library.
Frequently asked questions
What is construction management software?+
Construction management software is the system a contractor uses to plan, track, and document a project — budgets and job costing, daily reports, schedules, RFIs, submittals, change orders, progress billing, safety, and QA/QC — in one place instead of across spreadsheets, email, and paper. The best fit depends on your role: general contractors coordinate many trades, while self-perform contractors also need cost-coded field productivity, which most GC-centric platforms handle poorly.
What is the best construction management software?+
There is no single best — it depends on the work. Procore and Autodesk Build target large general contractors; Buildertrend and CoConstruct target home builders and remodelers. Field PM is built for self-perform commercial and industrial contractors that need cost-coded field data, productivity tracking, and AIA billing without paying enterprise prices — and it is multi-trade, covering electrical, mechanical, piping, concrete, civil, and structural scopes.
How is Field PM different from Procore?+
Procore is a broad, GC-oriented platform priced for large general contractors, and many self-perform subs pay for far more than they use while still lacking real productivity tracking. Field PM gives self-perform contractors the field-ops and job-costing core they actually run on — daily reports, cost-coded productivity, AIA billing, RFIs, change orders, and GC communication — at published, per-project-friendly pricing.
Does construction management software work on mobile in the field?+
It should — that is where the data is created. Field PM has native iOS and Android apps: crews log cost-coded hours and quantities, capture photos, fill safety and QA/QC forms, and file daily reports from a phone, offline if needed, with voice dictation. Foremen, QA/QC, safety, and subcontractors are always free.
Can one platform handle both project work and service work?+
Field PM does. Beyond project management and job costing, it includes a service and dispatch module for contractors who also run service calls and maintenance — so you are not paying for and switching between two systems. See the service dispatch software page for details.
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