Everything Workyard does for labor — plus the rest of the job.

Let us be fair to Workyard: its GPS time tracking is one of the better implementations on the market. Accurate geofenced clock-in/out, mileage, and crew scheduling that ties hours to jobs and pushes clean numbers into payroll — for a contractor whose bleeding point is inaccurate or padded timecards, that alone can pay for the software. Electrical and multi-crew contractors in particular like it as a labor-and-time backbone.

The honest boundary is scope. Workyard is built to answer "who worked, where, for how long, and what did that labor cost." It is not built to run the project — there is no daily reporting of any depth, no RFI or change-order log, no AIA billing, no QA/QC hold points, no safety recordkeeping, and no weld mapping. Those live in whatever other systems you are also paying for.

Field PM includes a GPS-geofenced time clock too, so you get the same accurate field hours — but those hours are one input into a full construction platform. The foreman files a five-minute daily report (or dictates it and AI fills the form): crew, hours, quantities installed, equipment, weather, photos. Those hours hit cost codes and immediately drive productivity (units per man-hour), an S-curve, and a running margin forecast. Time tracking tells you what labor cost; Field PM tells you whether the job is winning or losing while you can still act on it.

On top of that sit the workflows a project contractor is contractually and legally required to run: RFIs and change orders that roll into the budget, submittals, AIA G702/G703 progress billing with retainage, QA/QC inspections with e-signature hold points, an automatic OSHA 300 safety log, and drawing-linked weld mapping for mechanical and piping scopes. That is the difference between a labor tool and a project system.

The real comparison is not "Field PM vs Workyard on time tracking" — it is "Field PM alone vs Workyard plus a separate PM/billing/QA/safety system." A contractor running Workyard for time almost always has a second tool (or a pile of spreadsheets) for daily reports, job costing rollup, billing, and compliance. Every seam between those tools is double entry and a place where the number goes wrong.

Field PM collapses that into one login and one dataset: the same field hours Workyard captures, plus the reporting, costing, billing, quality, and safety that surround them. Unlimited foremen, QA/QC, safety, and subs are free, so putting the whole crew on it is not a per-seat decision.

Choose Workyard if your single problem is accurate field time and labor cost, you already have project management and billing handled elsewhere, and you want a best-in-class time backbone to feed them.

Choose Field PM if you want the field hours and the whole project in one place — daily reports, cost-code productivity, RFIs, AIA billing, QA/QC, safety, and weld mapping — with a GPS time clock included and the field on for free. Confirm current Workyard features and pricing on their site; this page reflects publicly available information and our own product. Try Field PM free for 30 days on a real project first.