Does JobTread charge per user?

Yes. JobTread charges $199 a month plus $20 per internal user, with tiered breaks — $15 each for users 11–20, $10 for 21–30 and $5 for 31 and above. Subcontractors, vendors and customers are free. WorkHoist charges no per-user fee; the price is flat within your user band.

Does JobTread have RFIs and submittals?

Yes, built as custom forms — JobTread’s help documentation lists RFIs and submittals among the form types you can create. WorkHoist has RFIs and submittals as first-class records with their own fields and status, which is what lets you report across jobs.

Does JobTread have a punch list?

JobTread handles punch lists as checklists inside tasks. WorkHoist has punch items as their own record type.

Is JobTread cheaper than WorkHoist?

At many sizes, yes, and it changes three times. On monthly billing JobTread is cheaper at 6–11, 16–17 and 41–63 internal users; WorkHoist is cheaper at 2–5, 12–15, 19–40 and 65–75 and level at 1, 18 and 64. On annual billing, against our annual price, JobTread is cheaper at 1, 6–12, 16–20 and 41–73. Portal users are free on both.

What accounting software does JobTread work with?

QuickBooks Online. JobTread’s published integration list names QuickBooks Online as its accounting integration. WorkHoist sends invoices, payments, expenses, bills and bill payments to QuickBooks Online too, one way, when you click Send; its P&L and WIP also export to CSV.

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 JobTread?

JobTread has the strongest answer of any vendor we compare, and it is worth saying plainly. They publish an open query API with the full schema documented, and you do not need an account to read the documentation — jobs, customers, vendors, documents, tasks, cost items, cost codes, daily logs, time entries and payments are all queryable, with filtering and pagination. Two catches are documented: grant keys expire after three months of inactivity, and the documentation states that a rate limit exists without ever quantifying it. If getting your records out in a structured form is what you care about, JobTread is ahead of us here.

WorkHoist vs JobTread: an honest comparison

If you’re a contractor weighing JobTread against WorkHoist, this page is written by the team behind WorkHoist — read it with that in mind. Every claim about JobTread comes from JobTread’s own pricing page, feature pages and help documentation, linked at the bottom. There’s a section on where JobTread is the better choice, and on price they beat us at most team sizes. We’ll show you that math rather than hide it.

Last updated 17 October 2026

The short answer

Choose JobTread if you build or remodel homes, your client experience is the product — selections, allowances, warranties, financing — and you want a system you can shape to your own process with custom forms and fields.

Choose WorkHoist if you run commercial-style controls on a mid-size crew and you want RFIs, submittals, punch lists and equipment as real records you can report across, not forms you configured yourself.

Both publish their prices. That’s rarer in this market than it should be, and it means you can do this comparison on what the software actually does.

Where the two products actually differ

JobTread covers the same ground as WorkHoist on paper. The difference is in how each one is built, and it shows up the first time you try to report across a job.

RFIs and submittals

JobTread handles both through its custom forms feature — their help documentation lists RFIs and submittals among the things you can build a form for. WorkHoist has RFIs and submittals as their own record types, with their own fields and status. The practical difference is what happens when you ask “what’s outstanding across all six jobs?” A form is a document. A record answers the question.

Punch lists

In JobTread, a punch list is a checklist inside a task — their own getting-started guide describes using task checklists for punch lists at closeout. In WorkHoist a punch item is its own record. If closeout is a formal stage of your work rather than a to-do list, that distinction matters.

Equipment

JobTread’s documented approach to material tracking is custom fields plus a configured custom view inside the job budget. WorkHoist keeps equipment as an asset register in its own right, independent of any one job’s budget. Equipment, and everything else described on this page, is on every plan — the bands change how many people log in, not what the product does.

Job financials

Both do budgeting, job costing, change orders and POs. WorkHoist adds AR aging, budget-against-actual and cash-flow views as built-in reports rather than something you assemble.

AI and automation

JobTread publishes AI tools for budgets, formulas and forms — features built into their product. WorkHoist exposes the system over MCP on every plan, so an AI assistant can read your jobs and write to them in plain language: log an expense, create a lead, pull AR aging. Every read and write tool works on every plan. One is AI inside the product; the other is access to the product from outside it. If that distinction means nothing to you today, it may in a year.

The honest summary: JobTread gives you primitives and flexibility. WorkHoist gives you structure. Neither is simply better — but if your work involves commercial-style controls, structure is what you end up building by hand in the other system.

How each one prices

JobTread is cheaper at 6–11, 16–17, 41–63 paid users, month to month. Prices verified 17 October 2026.

JobTread

JobTread publishes its price, which we respect and which most of this market doesn’t do. JobTread charges $199 a month, plus $20 a month per internal user, with tiered breaks that apply per band:

JobTread’s base is $199 a month, or $159 on annual billing. No contract, no setup fee, implementation and training included, and a 30-day money-back guarantee on monthly plans. Subcontractors, vendors and customers don’t count as users.

JobTread’s published per-user pricing
Internal users	Monthly, per user	Annual, per user
1	Included	Included
2–10	$20 each	$16 each
11–20	$15 each	$12 each
21–30	$10 each	$8 each
31+	$5 each	$4 each

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 every feature is on every plan.

The number is on our pricing page.

Where JobTread is cheaper than WorkHoist

Run those two against each other and the answer changes three times, because our price steps where theirs climbs. JobTread is cheaper at 6–11, 16–17 and 41–63 internal users:

1–5 users: JobTread $199–$279 against our $199. Level at one user, dearer after that.
6–11 users: JobTread $299–$394 against our $399. Cheaper than us.
12–15 users: JobTread $409–$454 against our $399. We’re cheaper, narrowly.
16–17 users: JobTread $469–$484 against our $499. Cheaper than us.
18–40 users: JobTread $499–$679 against our $499. Level at 18, then we’re cheaper.
41–63 users: JobTread $684–$794 against our $799. Cheaper than us.
64–75 users: JobTread $799–$854 against our $799. We’re cheaper above 64.

On annual billing, against our annual price, they’re cheaper at 1, 6–12, 16–20 and 41–73 users. If price is your deciding factor, that’s your answer, and we’d rather you got it here than after a demo. What you don’t get for the difference is the structure described above.

What implementation costs

JobTread includes implementation and training for every customer, with no setup fee and no contract.

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 JobTread
Feature	JobTread	WorkHoist
Published price	Yes	Yes
Priced on	Base fee + per internal user, tiered	Flat fee by user band
Per-user fees	Yes	No
Bill changes when you hire	Yes	Not within your band
Sub, vendor and client access	Unlimited, free	Included
RFIs	Custom forms	First-class records
Submittals	Custom forms	First-class records
Punch lists	Checklists inside tasks	First-class records
Equipment register	Custom fields in job budget	Standalone register, every plan
Accounting integration	QuickBooks Online, built in	QuickBooks Online: sends invoices, payments, expenses, bills and bill payments, one way
Supplier integrations	Home Depot, SRS, PoolCorp, QXO, Heritage	None
AI capabilities	AI tools for budgets, formulas and forms	Read and write access over MCP on every plan
Implementation and training	Included for everyone	Free for first 25 customers
Best fit	Home builders, remodelers, pool and outdoor living	Contractors running commercial-style controls, with crews of roughly 5 to 50

Where JobTread is the better choice

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

Price, at many sizes.

Shown above. Month to month JobTread costs less than WorkHoist at 6–11, 16–17 and 41–63 users; on annual billing, against our annual price, at 1, 6–12, 16–20 and 41–73.

Residential client experience.

Selections and allowances, homeowner financing, warranty management, customer portals, online payment collection. If your client is a homeowner who wants to pick tile and pay online, JobTread has spent years on exactly that. WorkHoist has a client portal, but it’s read-only and covers one project per client — and WorkHoist has none of the rest.

Estimating depth.

Takeoff, a cost catalog, bid requests, contracts with eSignatures. If your day starts in an estimate, JobTread’s toolset is real and WorkHoist’s is thinner.

Supplier integrations.

Home Depot, SRS Distribution, PoolCorp, QXO, Heritage Pool Supply. For material-heavy trades those are worth actual money in time saved, and WorkHoist has no equivalent.

QuickBooks beyond sending.

JobTread has a built-in QuickBooks Online integration you enable yourself. WorkHoist sends invoices, payments, expenses, bills and bill payments to QuickBooks Online one way, when you click Send, and never reads anything back from QuickBooks. If you need records to come back from QuickBooks into the job tool, that is not WorkHoist.

Onboarding for everyone.

JobTread’s implementation and training are included for every customer. WorkHoist’s are free for the first 25 and paid after that.

If two or more of those describe you, talk to JobTread. 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 a smaller team and a younger product. WorkHoist doesn’t do takeoff, eSignatures, selections, homeowner financing or payment collection, connects to accounting only by sending to QuickBooks Online, one way, has a short integration list and no supplier integrations at all. WorkHoist’s client portal is read-only and covers one project per client. If any of those is load-bearing for your business, WorkHoist is not the right answer today.

Questions contractors ask

Does JobTread charge per user?: Yes. JobTread charges $199 a month plus $20 per internal user, with tiered breaks — $15 each for users 11–20, $10 for 21–30 and $5 for 31 and above. Subcontractors, vendors and customers are free. WorkHoist charges no per-user fee; the price is flat within your user band.
Does JobTread have RFIs and submittals?: Yes, built as custom forms — JobTread’s help documentation lists RFIs and submittals among the form types you can create. WorkHoist has RFIs and submittals as first-class records with their own fields and status, which is what lets you report across jobs.
Does JobTread have a punch list?: JobTread handles punch lists as checklists inside tasks. WorkHoist has punch items as their own record type.
Is JobTread cheaper than WorkHoist?: At many sizes, yes, and it changes three times. On monthly billing JobTread is cheaper at 6–11, 16–17 and 41–63 internal users; WorkHoist is cheaper at 2–5, 12–15, 19–40 and 65–75 and level at 1, 18 and 64. On annual billing, against our annual price, JobTread is cheaper at 1, 6–12, 16–20 and 41–73. Portal users are free on both.
What accounting software does JobTread work with?: QuickBooks Online. JobTread’s published integration list names QuickBooks Online as its accounting integration. WorkHoist sends invoices, payments, expenses, bills and bill payments to QuickBooks Online too, one way, when you click Send; its P&L and WIP also export to CSV.
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 JobTread?: Yes. WorkHoist migrates up to 25 open jobs with their subcontractors, POs and contacts, from spreadsheets or any system we can export from — including JobTread, provided you can export your data from it.
What happens to my data if I leave JobTread?: JobTread has the strongest answer of any vendor we compare, and it is worth saying plainly. They publish an open query API with the full schema documented, and you do not need an account to read the documentation — jobs, customers, vendors, documents, tasks, cost items, cost codes, daily logs, time entries and payments are all queryable, with filtering and pagination. Two catches are documented: grant keys expire after three months of inactivity, and the documentation states that a rate limit exists without ever quantifying it. If getting your records out in a structured form is what you care about, JobTread is ahead of us here.

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