There's a reason why FOUNDATION® is America's #1 Construction Accounting Software®. Improve efficiency, streamline processes and easily navigate the complexities that come with construction management.

Easy automation for complex payroll

Powerful job cost accounting

Built only for the construction industry

Tracks the actual costs and progress of your job activities against estimates and past performance, with customized detail to zero in on your profit margins. Build job budgets with your own job cost structure, and compare project performance against estimated revenue, costs, labor hours and quantities.

Import from spreadsheets or your favorite construction estimating software.

Copy and modify job cost budgets from past and current projects.

Easily break budgets down into custom cost codes or standard CSI divisions.

Pay your crews on time and with precision — even with multiple prevailing wage, union, fringe and tax rates on each construction project. Enter payroll easily and efficiently with system defaults that complete timecard information in just a few keystrokes — or sync mobile timecards for an even faster experience. FOUNDATION calculates your pay rates, taxes and deductions automatically.

Process multiple states, rates and trades on a single timecard.

Customize timecard screen layouts to align with your timesheets and your data entry. 

Import data conveniently from your favorite timekeeping and field log apps.

Generate all the reports you need in order to help ensure total accuracy and compliance for your projects — from pre-check proofing and WIP reports to pay histories and job costed labor reports.

Sort payroll and tax histories per employee, job and more.

Track workers’ compensation, new hire reporting and EEO minority compliance.

Build and save reports to quickly access frequently used data.

Capture and sync timecards and field data from the jobsite to your construction accounting software. Add the FOUNDATION mobile® app to your devices with unlimited users.

Enter single-employee timecards or grid timesheets for an entire crew at once.

Geotag clock punches with precise employee locations.

Record digital timecard signatures to verify hours and safety compliance.

Manage prevailing wage, Davis-Bacon and union payrolls with automatic calculations and minimal entry. As many rate tables as you use, FOUNDATION keeps them in order.

Easily calculate fringes and deductions based on regular, overtime or special rates.

Set automatic fringe reductions based on hourly or per-pay fringe costs.

Instantly create print or electronic certified payroll reports for numerous state, federal or local agencies.

Integrate job cost accounting with construction document management and tracking for small businesses to mid-size contractors. Track RFCs, RFIs, RFPs and more, all from one place.

Sort and filter job reports by project manager

Monitor project billing and performance.

View graphical executive dashboards.

Manage construction equipment from both a project and an accounting perspective, all from one system.

Capture mileage and equipment hours with user-defined job cost rates.

Monitor operating expenses like fuel, insurance, service and depreciation.

Generate work orders, and schedule routine service and maintenance costs.

Don’t just take our word for it. See why our clients love construction accounting with FOUNDATION®.

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Make Your Accounting Software Work for You

If you’re using a general-purpose accounting application, you may not be running as efficiently as you have the potential to be.

Scheduling a demo is the perfect time to talk through your needs and the challenges you're currently facing. With a toolset of innovative solutions, Foundation Software has been the #1 choice for thousands of construction companies for decades.

There's a reason why Software Advice designated us as a recipient of the Front Runners Award. 

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