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Buildertrend

Residential and commercial construction management / job costing SaaS · HQ Omaha, NE, United States

✓ Xero✕ MYOB✓ QuickBooks
✓ Sold in Australia
Official Buildertrend site

Pricing

Quote only

Not publicly listed - custom quote only. Unlimited users and projects with 10% off when paying annually; routes to custom-quote questionnaire and sales call

Full pricing as published by the vendor when we last checked. The starting price is converted to your chosen currency as a guide (≈). Confirm on their site before you buy.

What it does

All-in-one construction management for builders, remodelers, GCs and specialty/trade contractors: estimating/takeoff, budgets and job costing, PM, specs/selections, change orders, RFIs, warranty, schedules, sub/vendor management, reporting, client portal, supply marketplace

Integrations

QuickBooks, Xero, Sage Intacct, Gusto, Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Bluebeam (official marketplace). No native MYOB

Public ratings: the good and the bad

Public ratings as shown on each site when checked (2026-11-09). We link to them; we don't copy reviews.

What people like

  • +Clients like being able to follow build progress
  • +Good for communication

What people don't like

  • –Clunky calendar for logging hours
  • –login and loading failures after updates
  • –awkward for occasional trade users
  • –Updates often break the app

What tradies say

BuildertrendSteep learning curve / admin burden
“Get ready to also make it someone’s entire job to manage buildertrend for the first year while everyone figures out how the hell to use it”

Construction (posted in r/Construction; 4-year user); country not stated

Source: Reddit · 2025-08-13

BuildertrendOutdated software; weak integrations
“buildertrend software is way out of date compared to others that are on the market. Integrations with zapier, better integrations with QuickBooks, integrations with Google etc are all lacking”

Home builder (similar size to OP, ~15 houses in progress); country not stated

Source: Reddit · 2025-08-13

BuildertrendConstant UI layout changes
“They constantly changed the layout, like moving the "Delete line item" button from the right to the bottom, then somewhere else later on”

Smaller construction company; country not stated

Source: Reddit · 2025-08-27

ProcoreBuildertrendToo expensive / too much work for small GC
“procore, used 5,6 years ago, too much work for my office, charged me over $10K for 1 year. Too much for me. Buildertrend, tried couple months, quite for the same reason as procore”

General contractor (projects $200k–$1m); country not stated

Source: Reddit · 2026-02-25