You've tried these
QuickBooks
Sage 300
Foundation
Viewpoint Vista
Procore

Here's what they're missing.

Construction Accounting

Every dollar.
Every jobsite.
Accounted for.

Ledger tracks change orders, AIA billing, certified payroll, and retention holdbacks across every active job — so GCs and specialty subs stop bleeding margin on spreadsheets nobody trusts.

Built for contractors running $5M–$80M in annual revenue. Not a general ledger with a hard hat on.

340K+
Pay apps processed
$4.2B
Job costs tracked
2.1%
Avg. margin recovered
Construction site at dawn with heavy equipment and steel framework — industrial jobsite
Retention Due
$184,200
Job #C-2847 · 31 days overdue
Change Orders
14 approved
+$312K contract value
Cert. Payroll
WH-347 Filed
47 workers · 3 projects
AIA G702/G703Certified PayrollRetention HoldbacksChange Order TrackingJob Cost ReportsPrevailing WageSchedule of ValuesLien WaiversOver/Under BillingWH-347 ComplianceT&M TicketsERP IntegrationAIA G702/G703Certified PayrollRetention HoldbacksChange Order TrackingJob Cost ReportsPrevailing WageSchedule of ValuesLien WaiversOver/Under BillingWH-347 ComplianceT&M TicketsERP Integration
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Ledger wins

6/ 6 features

Job Costing

Real-time cost-to-complete visibility across every active job — not a report you run at month-end.

QuickBooks
Ledger
Real-time cost-to-complete

QuickBooks

Month-end batch update only

Ledger

Live as invoices post

Phase/cost code granularity

QuickBooks

Up to 3 cost code levels

Ledger

Unlimited nested cost codes

Labor burden allocation

QuickBooks

Manual entry or flat rate

Ledger

Automatic by trade & jurisdiction

Subcontractor committed cost tracking

QuickBooks

Requires manual reconciliation

Ledger

Auto-reconciled against contracts

Over/under billing alerts

QuickBooks

Not available

Ledger

Threshold-based alerts by job

ERP integration

QuickBooks

CSV export only

Ledger

Native two-way sync

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$4.2B
Job costs tracked
across active projects
340K
AIA pay apps processed
without a single manual form
2.1%
Avg. margin recovered
vs. spreadsheet-managed jobs
18 min
Certified payroll run
down from 6 hours manually
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