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Contractor Foreman

Score8.4 out of 10

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What is Contractor Foreman?

Contractor Foreman is an online construction management software for contractors and boasts users among contractors in more than 75 countries.

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Screenshot of The client portal that lets customers to stay in the loop and know what is going on during all phases of the project.
Screenshot of The custom dashboard which allows users to see the data that matters most to them.
Screenshot of Stats that keep users informed to help them make use of data.
Screenshot of The lead manager, that helps close deals without letting leads fall through the cracks.
Screenshot of the Files & Photos screen, where making up plans can be done with Contractor Foreman.
Screenshot of Time Cards, that display who is where and what they are doing.
Screenshot of the project schedule screen.

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Screenshot of The client portal that lets customers to stay in the loop and know what is going on during all phases of the project.

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Contractor Foreman has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 100 ratings of Contractor Foreman's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Change orders

    A change order (or variation order) is a component of the change management process in which changes in the scope of work (or project brief) agreed to by the client, contractor and architect are implemented.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Dashboards

    Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Standard reports

    The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.

    Category average: 8

Areas for Improvement

  • Pay calculation

    Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.

    Category average: 7.2

  • Off-cycle/On-Demand payment

    Provide employees access to wages accrued during the pay period before the end of the pay cycle.

    Category average: 7

  • Support for external payroll vendors

    Support for external payroll vendors is the ability to integrate with 3rd-party payroll services.

    Category average: 7.3

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Contractor Foreman.
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#1 most frequent

Construction

50.0%

12 installations of 24

“The system allows me to schedule the boots where I need them, track financials, easily manage projects, perform progress/AIA billing, invoicing, and so much more.”

— Project Manager, AGI Construction (1-10 employees)
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#2 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

16.7%

4 installations of 24

#3 most frequent

Educational Services

4.2%

1 installation of 24

Reviews

What users are saying about Contractor Foreman.
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Great overall construction management software for a great price.

Jeff ReeseView profile
Business Operations Manager in Corporate at Live Free Carpentry and Home Improvements LLC (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Contractor Foreman is our central hub for Project, Employee, and Operations management for the entire company. One of the best things it does is handle project management and estimating in one place. It's nice to have a customer start as a lead, be 'escalated' up to a full project, and have a single spot where everything is tracked.

Pros

  • Project Management for Construction.
  • Estimation for construction work and CSV import of large datasets from estimation software like Handoff.
  • Employee time and location management.
  • Cost codes and financial breakdowns.

Cons

  • Timecards in rural areas are really difficult to handle. I know CF just released an offline timecard beta, which is a step in the right direction, but it would be nice to have offline data in the app and to have all timecards be offline until clockout, when they try to sync back to the server. The current beta doesn't work for us because it creates multiple timecards when the guys are in and out of signal.

Return on Investment

  • Contractor Foreman offers a great price for everything it handles. It saves us a lot of time by having a single source of truth for each project.
  • The one downside is that it doesn't have enough ORG level data; you have to manually calculate total projects rather than it showing you the "CEO View" so to speak.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Buildertrend, JobTread and Xactimate

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, ChatGPT, Microsoft 365 Copilot

Buy It.

Selicio AlvaradoView profile
Project Manager in Professional Services at AGI Construction (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Contractor Foreman for everything. As a small but scaling Commercial GC Company, we needed structure. We are growing from a husband-and-wife team into a boots-on-the-ground team with project managers for multiple projects and project sizes. The system allows me to schedule the boots where I need them, track financials, easily manage projects, perform progress/AIA billing, invoicing, and so much more. I run the entire business through Contractor Foreman and look forward to the new features rolling out.

Pros

  • Invoicing
  • Payment tracking.
  • Customizable
  • User Friendly.

Cons

  • In the CDB, I'd like to be able to create a line item with a specified percentage, and when I pull that line item into an estimate or proposal, I'd like the system to automatically calculate it based on that contract value. (Example, Contingency line is always going to be 15% of the contract value).
  • I'd like to be able to rearrange "blocks" on a page when I'm getting ready to send or print it. Lots of dead space on pages. Estimates 4 pages in total when it could be 2.
  • I'd like to be able to create budget summaries. Where the line items are grouped into their respective master format categories, and the category has the sum of all the line items in that category.

Return on Investment

  • It's been amazing so far. IT is extremely helpful to us to streamline and create new processes.

Usability

Contraction Organization at your finger tips

Incentivized
Sommer Wood-LiveseyView profile
Project Manager at McAneny Builders LLC (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This platform helps streamline productivity by keeping all the jobsite information in one location that can be accessed remotely. Builds to schedules and estimates. Gain approval for budgets from customers and request estimates from subs all in one area. Employees are able to clock in and check off to-dos from their phones. Different style access to the website and app allow supervisors to monitor employees involvement and production. The website is easy to use with a ton of resources for asking questions or figuring out how to achieve a task and if the task hasn’t been yet added, the creators are open to suggestions and always updating the tools of the platform.

Pros

  • Estimates
  • Schedules
  • Organization
  • Updating for new tools
  • Time clocks
  • To-dos check list
  • Monitoring production across the company

Cons

  • They are good at answering questions or offering other options.
  • I wish the calendar could be printed quicker for sharing with customer. It capable of doing month to month but a full project in a customer view would be better

Return on Investment

  • The lack of needing to go to an office to father hardcopy information in a city that has the biggest land mass is highly positive since the drive time could be over an hour one way when it could be on your phone at any needed moment

Usability

Alternatives Considered

CoConstruct

Other Software Used

OneDrive

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Incentivized
Jorden Hancock
Estimator at Rosenboom Enterprises (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We've been using Contractor Foreman for a little over two years now for everything from Timecards to Project Management. It helps organize each project P&L.

Pros

  • The timecards are one of the most efficient uses on Contractor Foreman.
  • The customer support is a huge plus.
  • The ability to separate all the different details of each project.

Cons

  • Being a little more customizable on the PDF templates.
  • Changing the dollar and change amounts to include more decimal points to get more accurate numbers.
  • Allow for changing to the markups to add decimals.

Return on Investment

  • We can easily track our expenses.
  • Contractor Foreman helps us keep up with each Projects change orders.

Usability

Contractor Foreman

Incentivized
Bill GarrettView profile
President in Corporate at J Daw LLC (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We started using Contractor Foreman for daily time reporting and daily logs. Being able to upload drawings is an added benefit we use. Built in safety meetings and incident reports are also great.

Pros

  • Time sheets
  • Daily logs
  • Cloud access to drawings

Cons

  • Submittal module, I just don't like how it works
  • Estimates module, I have no need for this as I use EBM
  • Interface with Quickbooks, I had trouble pulling old data correctly

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Procore

Other Software Used

QuickBooks Online, Procore, AirDroid Business

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