What Contractor Foreman plan do I need for QuickBooks?

Plus, at $166 a month billed annually or $199 month to month. Contractor Foreman’s QuickBooks Online and Zapier integrations are not available on the Basic or Standard plans.

What Contractor Foreman plan do I need for AIA billing?

Pro, at $221 a month billed annually or $279 month to month. Contractor Foreman gates AIA G702/G703 invoicing, submittals, takeoffs and the client portal to Pro and Unlimited.

Is Contractor Foreman cheaper than WorkHoist?

Yes. On annual billing it is cheaper at every size from 1 to 75 users: Contractor Foreman’s annual tiers run $49 for one user, $105 for three, $166 for eight, $221 for fifteen and $332 for unlimited, against WorkHoist’s $169, $339, $424 and $679 across its four bands. Month to month, Contractor Foreman runs $139, $199, $279 and $399 against WorkHoist’s $199, $399, $499 and $799, so the two are level at four or five users and Contractor Foreman is cheaper everywhere else. There is no team size at which we are the cheaper option.

Does Contractor Foreman really cost $49 a month?

Yes for the Basic plan, billed annually at $588, covering one user. Contractor Foreman does not offer Basic month to month, and most of the features contractors compare on start at the Plus plan, $166 a month billed annually or $199 month to month.

How much does WorkHoist cost?

WorkHoist is priced by paid seat band: $199 a month for 1–5, $399 for 6–15, $499 for 16–40 and $799 for 41–75, with custom pricing above that. Annual billing saves 15%, there are no per-user fees, and every feature is on every plan. See pricing.

What happens to my data if I leave Contractor Foreman?

Contractor Foreman documents a custom report builder covering any module — daily logs, estimates, invoices, time cards, change orders, projects, purchase orders and more — with your own choice of columns, filters and date range. Their documentation puts it as: “If the information exists in Contractor Foreman, you can create a Custom Report to extract it.” Reports download as PDF or Excel, their built-in reports also offer CSV, and some payroll reports are CSV only. Files work differently: their documentation says that in Contractor Foreman “files are downloaded, not exported” — you select them, click Download Zip, and the link arrives by email. Structured records in Excel or CSV is a materially better position to leave from than a folder of PDFs.

WorkHoist vs Contractor Foreman: an honest comparison

If you’re comparing Contractor Foreman and WorkHoist, this is written by the team behind WorkHoist — read it with that in mind. Every claim about Contractor Foreman comes from their own plans page, linked at the bottom. We’ll say up front what most comparison pages bury: Contractor Foreman is cheaper than WorkHoist at every team size on annual billing, and never more expensive month to month, and for a lot of contractors that settles it. What this page is for is the question their pricing table doesn’t answer — which plan you’d actually end up on.

Last updated 17 October 2026

The short answer

Contractor Foreman is the most affordable all-in-one in this market and it isn’t close. $332 a month on annual billing, or $399 month to month, buys unlimited users and every feature.

The $49 plan is not that product. It has one user and no daily logs, no change orders, no purchase orders, no time cards and no QuickBooks. Most contractors comparing it to anything else are really comparing Plus at $166 or Pro at $221.

Choose WorkHoist if four seat bands beat five feature tiers for you — every feature is on every plan, so the only question is how many people log in. Choose Contractor Foreman if breadth at the lowest cost matters more and you don’t mind working out which tier you need.

Which plan you’d actually be on

Contractor Foreman publishes its prices, which we respect. What the headline doesn’t show is that features are gated by plan — on their own annual-plan comparison table, 89 of the 325 feature cells with a tick or a cross are marked not included. So the useful question isn’t what it starts at, it’s where the thing you need turns on.

$49 Basic — one user

Basic includes projects, estimates, expenses and invoices. It does not include daily logs, punch lists, change orders, purchase orders, work orders, permits, time cards, the client portal, or any integration — including QuickBooks. It also doesn’t include the 100-day money-back guarantee or any training session. It’s annual-only: Contractor Foreman doesn’t offer Basic month to month.

$105 Standard — three users

Adds punch lists, purchase orders, work orders, permits, bills, online payments, custom fields, audit logs and the Stripe, CompanyCam and calendar integrations. Still no daily logs, no time cards, no QuickBooks, and still no money-back guarantee.

$166 Plus — eight users

This is where most contractors’ shortlist actually starts. Plus turns on daily logs, time cards, change orders, RFIs, job costing reports, equipment and vehicle logs, QuickBooks Online and Zapier — and the 100-day guarantee.

$221 Pro — fifteen users

Adds submittals, AIA G702/G703 invoicing, takeoffs and the client portal. If you run commercial work with AIA billing, Pro is your floor, not Basic.

$332 Unlimited

Everything, unlimited users. This is the plan Contractor Foreman’s value reputation is really built on, and it’s genuinely strong.

None of this is hidden — it’s all on their comparison table. But the number people carry away is $49, and the number most of them would actually pay is $166 or $221. Work out which features you need before you compare anything on price.

How each one prices

Contractor Foreman

Contractor Foreman charges per company, not per user, on five annual tiers: Basic $49, Standard $105, Plus $166, Pro $221 and Unlimited $332 a month. Month to month costs more — Standard $139, Plus $199, Pro $279, Unlimited $399 — and Basic isn’t available month to month at all, so the headline price requires a year up front.

Contractor Foreman’s published plans
Plan	Users	Annual, per month	Month to month
Basic	1	$49	Not offered
Standard	3	$105	$139
Plus	8	$166	$199
Pro	15	$221	$279
Unlimited	Unlimited	$332	$399

WorkHoist

$199 a month for 1–5 paid seats, $399 for 6–15, $499 for 16–40 and $799 for 41–75. Custom above that. Annual billing saves 15%. No per-user fees, and seat bands rather than feature tiers — every feature is on every plan, so nothing is withheld for a higher price.

The number is on our pricing page.

What implementation costs

Contractor Foreman includes private training sessions from the Standard plan up, and a money-back guarantee from Plus up, with conditions: 100 days on annual plans, 30 days month to month.

WorkHoist: onboarding is free for our first 25 customers, and after that it becomes a paid engagement. We’ll move your live work in for you — up to 25 open jobs with their subs, POs and contacts — from spreadsheets or any system we can export from.

Side by side

WorkHoist compared with Contractor Foreman
Feature	Contractor Foreman	WorkHoist
Published price	Yes, five tiers	Yes, four seat bands
Priced per	Company, by user ceiling	Company, by user band
Cheapest plan	$49/mo, 1 user, annual only	$199–$799/mo by seat band
Features gated by plan	Yes — 89 of 325 cells not included	No features on Growth: every feature is on every plan
Daily logs available from	Plus, $166/mo	Included
Time cards available from	Plus, $166/mo	Included
QuickBooks available from	Plus, $166/mo	Every plan: sends to QuickBooks Online, one way
Submittals and AIA billing from	Pro, $221/mo	Included
Client portal	Pro, $221/mo	Read-only, one project per client
Unlimited users	$332/mo	Not offered — bands to 75, then custom
Money-back guarantee	Plus and above, conditions apply: 100 days annual, 30 days monthly	Not offered
AI capabilities	AI takeoffs, AI chat and a project-context assistant	Read and write access over MCP plus an in-app assistant, on every plan
Best fit	Contractors who want maximum breadth for the lowest cost	Contractors who want four seat bands rather than five feature tiers, with crews of roughly 5 to 50

Where Contractor Foreman is the better choice

We’d rather tell you this than have you find out three months in.

Cost, at almost every size.

Shown above. Contractor Foreman’s unlimited plan, $332 a month on annual billing, costs less than WorkHoist’s 6–15 seat band. That is not a rounding difference.

Breadth.

Permits, inspections, service tickets, safety meetings, incidents, retainage, sub-contracts, AIA billing, takeoffs. Contractor Foreman covers more ground than WorkHoist does and charges less for it.

Native mobile apps.

Contractor Foreman publishes iOS and Android apps built for the field.

The guarantee.

100 days is an unusually long money-back window. It applies to Contractor Foreman’s annual plans from Plus up (monthly plans get 30 days) and has conditions — a one-to-one training session and some real data entered — but it’s a real commitment and WorkHoist doesn’t match it.

Multi-language.

Contractor Foreman lets the whole company or an individual user switch language. If your crews aren’t all working in English that’s worth real money.

If two or more of those describe you, talk to Contractor Foreman. We mean that.

Where WorkHoist fits

WorkHoist dashboard showing pipeline, active projects and revenue — Everything in one place — pipeline, projects, financials, equipment. Not four tools with your data split across them.

WorkHoist financials view showing budget against actual cost — Budget against actual cost per job, without exporting anything to a spreadsheet first.

WorkHoist project view showing phases and progress — Where a job actually stands, without calling three people to find out.

What we don’t do yet.

WorkHoist is more expensive, WorkHoist’s integration list is short, and WorkHoist doesn’t offer takeoffs, online payment collection, multi-language, or a money-back guarantee. WorkHoist’s QuickBooks connection is one way: it sends to QuickBooks Online and reads nothing back. WorkHoist’s client portal is read-only and covers one project per client.

Questions contractors ask

What does the Contractor Foreman $49 plan include?: Contractor Foreman’s Basic plan, $49 a month billed annually (it is not sold month to month), covers one user and includes projects, estimates, expenses and invoices. It does not include daily logs, punch lists, change orders, purchase orders, time cards, the client portal, any integration including QuickBooks, or the 100-day money-back guarantee. It is annual-only.
What Contractor Foreman plan do I need for QuickBooks?: Plus, at $166 a month billed annually or $199 month to month. Contractor Foreman’s QuickBooks Online and Zapier integrations are not available on the Basic or Standard plans.
What Contractor Foreman plan do I need for AIA billing?: Pro, at $221 a month billed annually or $279 month to month. Contractor Foreman gates AIA G702/G703 invoicing, submittals, takeoffs and the client portal to Pro and Unlimited.
Is Contractor Foreman cheaper than WorkHoist?: Yes. On annual billing it is cheaper at every size from 1 to 75 users: Contractor Foreman’s annual tiers run $49 for one user, $105 for three, $166 for eight, $221 for fifteen and $332 for unlimited, against WorkHoist’s $169, $339, $424 and $679 across its four bands. Month to month, Contractor Foreman runs $139, $199, $279 and $399 against WorkHoist’s $199, $399, $499 and $799, so the two are level at four or five users and Contractor Foreman is cheaper everywhere else. There is no team size at which we are the cheaper option.
Does Contractor Foreman really cost $49 a month?: Yes for the Basic plan, billed annually at $588, covering one user. Contractor Foreman does not offer Basic month to month, and most of the features contractors compare on start at the Plus plan, $166 a month billed annually or $199 month to month.
How much does WorkHoist cost?: WorkHoist is priced by paid seat band: $199 a month for 1–5, $399 for 6–15, $499 for 16–40 and $799 for 41–75, with custom pricing above that. Annual billing saves 15%, there are no per-user fees, and every feature is on every plan. See pricing.
Can you move our data across from Contractor Foreman?: Yes. WorkHoist migrates up to 25 open jobs with their subcontractors, POs and contacts, from spreadsheets or any system we can export from — including Contractor Foreman, provided you can export your data from it.
What happens to my data if I leave Contractor Foreman?: Contractor Foreman documents a custom report builder covering any module — daily logs, estimates, invoices, time cards, change orders, projects, purchase orders and more — with your own choice of columns, filters and date range. Their documentation puts it as: “If the information exists in Contractor Foreman, you can create a Custom Report to extract it.” Reports download as PDF or Excel, their built-in reports also offer CSV, and some payroll reports are CSV only. Files work differently: their documentation says that in Contractor Foreman “files are downloaded, not exported” — you select them, click Download Zip, and the link arrives by email. Structured records in Excel or CSV is a materially better position to leave from than a folder of PDFs.

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