Contractor Foreman Pricing: Plans, Cost and QuickBooks Sync

Contractor Foreman starts at $49 per month for a single user, but that number is the annual plan divided by twelve. The company publishes annual and quarterly billing only, so there is no month to month option, and the plan tiers are seat brackets rather than feature tiers: Basic covers 1 user, Standard 3, Plus 8, Pro 15 and Unlimited has no cap. Job costing and the QuickBooks sync are on every plan. What moves your price is how many people log in.

Every price below was read from contractorforeman.com and knowify.com in September 2026. Vendors change pricing, so confirm on their pages before you buy. We sell a bank statement converter, not construction management software, so we have no reseller stake in either tool.

Contractor Foreman pricing at a glance

Here is the published annual pricing. The monthly figure is what the annual total works out to per month, and the annual figure is what actually gets charged at renewal after the 30 day free trial.

The quarterly option, and why the $49 headline is not a monthly price

This is the detail that catches people out. Contractor Foreman's pricing page offers a toggle between Annual and Quarterly. There is no monthly plan. If you want the shortest commitment available, you are looking at quarterly, and quarterly costs meaningfully more per month. The Basic plan is not sold on quarterly billing at all, so the cheapest way in on a short commitment is Standard.

Those savings figures are Contractor Foreman's own, and the arithmetic checks out: Unlimited at $415 per month on quarterly billing is $4,980 a year against $3,984 on annual, a difference of $996. So the real decision is not which features you need, it is whether you are confident enough to commit for a year. Committing saves between $324 and $996 depending on your seat count.

What actually changes your bill: seats, not features

Most construction software prices by feature tier, so you upgrade when you need change orders or purchase orders. Contractor Foreman does not work that way. Look at the plan descriptions and the difference between Basic, Standard, Plus, Pro and Unlimited is the user count. That has two consequences worth planning around.

First, a two person office pays $105 per month rather than $49, because Basic covers exactly one user. If you are a solo contractor who wants a bookkeeper in the system too, price Standard, not Basic. Second, growth is expensive in steps rather than smoothly. Going from 8 users to 9 moves you from Plus at $1,997 a year to Pro at $2,654, a jump of $657 for one seat. If you are near a bracket edge, count carefully who genuinely needs a login, since field staff who only submit time may not each need one.

The QuickBooks integration

Contractor Foreman states that it integrates with QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop and Zapier, and it positions that sync as removing double entry. Supporting both Online and Desktop is genuinely useful, because a lot of contractors are still on Desktop for the item level cost codes and will be until they are pushed off.

Worth being clear about what the sync does and does not solve. It moves invoices, bills, payments and job data between the two systems so you are not typing everything twice. It does not populate your accounting file with historical bank and card activity, and it does not fix a QuickBooks file that is months behind. If your card spend never made it into QuickBooks in the first place, syncing a project management tool on top of it just moves an incomplete picture around faster. Get the underlying ledger complete first, then judge whether the software is telling you the truth about margins.

That is usually a conversion job rather than a software job. QuickBooks bank feeds reach back only about ninety days, and reconnecting does not extend that, so any job that started earlier has costs that have to be imported. Converting the PDF statements to a .qbo file and importing them through Web Connect works with no date limit, which is why it is the practical route for backfilling a season of job costs before you start reporting on them.

Payment processing rates

Contractor Foreman publishes its payment processing rates, which most competitors do not. If you plan to collect progress payments or deposits through the platform, these are part of your real cost.

The ACH cap is the number to notice. At 1% with a $10.00 ceiling, a $40,000 progress payment costs about $10.30 to collect by ACH against roughly $1,160 on a credit card. On construction sized invoices, steering clients to ACH is worth real money, and the difference dwarfs the subscription. Canadian rates are listed separately at 2.9% plus $0.30 with no ACH option.

Contractor Foreman vs Knowify pricing

Knowify is the other QuickBooks centric option contractors shortlist, and it prices on a different axis, so a like for like comparison needs care. Both sets of figures below were read from the vendors' pricing pages in September 2026.

The honest read: if job costing is the reason you are shopping, Contractor Foreman is dramatically cheaper at the entry point, because Knowify puts job costing on Advanced at $329 per month billed yearly. But Knowify's Advanced plan includes ten users, so compare it against Contractor Foreman Plus at $166 per month for up to eight, or Pro at $221 for up to fifteen. At ten seats the gap narrows a lot, and Knowify additionally offers monthly billing, which Contractor Foreman does not. A solo contractor should look at Contractor Foreman Basic. A ten person shop that wants the option to leave after a month should price both properly rather than trusting the headline.

Is Contractor Foreman worth it if you already have QuickBooks?

QuickBooks already does job costing. QuickBooks Online Plus and Advanced include the Projects feature, and QuickBooks Desktop does it through Customer:Job with item level cost codes. If all you need is revenue, cost and margin per job, you can get that from the accounting file you are already paying for, and adding $588 to $3,984 a year buys you nothing on that specific question.

What Contractor Foreman adds is the operational layer QuickBooks has no opinion about: estimates and proposals, change orders, purchase orders and approvals, scheduling, daily logs, crew time capture from a phone, and a client facing portal. Those are field problems, not accounting problems. The reasonable test is to ask which of your current headaches are actually accounting headaches. If the answer is that you cannot tell what a job made, fix the bookkeeping. If the answer is that change orders live in text messages and nobody knows which crew is where tomorrow, that is what this category of software is for.

One adjacent cost worth budgeting for if you run subcontractors: collecting and tracking their insurance certificates. General contractors carry real exposure when a sub's coverage lapses mid job, and most teams still chase renewals by email. Dedicated certificate of insurance tracking software handles the expiry monitoring and follow up, which is a different job from project management and usually a separate line item.

How to price it for your own shop

1. Count logins, not headcount. Only people who actually sign in consume a seat, so decide whether field staff need accounts before you pick a bracket.
2. Check which bracket that seat count lands in: 1, 3, 8, 15 or unlimited. Being one seat over a boundary is what makes the bill jump.
3. Decide annual or quarterly. Annual saves $324 to $996 a year depending on the plan, and Basic is annual only.
4. Add processing costs if you will collect payments through the platform, and assume clients pay by card unless you actively steer them to ACH.
5. Use the 30 day trial with one real job, including the QuickBooks sync, rather than a test job. A sync that looks fine on dummy data can surface duplicates against a real chart of accounts.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Contractor Foreman cost per month?

On annual billing, Contractor Foreman costs $49 per month for Basic with 1 user, $105 for Standard with up to 3 users, $166 for Plus with up to 8, $221 for Pro with up to 15, and $332 for Unlimited. Those per month figures are the annual totals divided by twelve, billed as $588 to $3,984 a year.

Does Contractor Foreman offer monthly billing?

No. The published options are annual and quarterly. The advertised $49 per month is the annual plan expressed monthly, not a month to month price. On quarterly billing Basic is not offered, and Standard is $132 per month billed as $395 quarterly, so the shortest commitment also costs the most per month.

Is there a free trial of Contractor Foreman?

Yes. Contractor Foreman advertises 30 days free, after which the plan you selected renews at its published rate. The pricing page words it as free for 30 days and then the annual or quarterly amount at renewal, so cancel inside the window if you do not want the full term charge.

Does Contractor Foreman integrate with QuickBooks?

Yes. Contractor Foreman states that it integrates with QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop and Zapier, and describes the sync as eliminating double entry. Supporting Desktop as well as Online matters for contractors who stayed on Desktop for item level cost codes.

Which Contractor Foreman plan includes job costing?

All of them. Unlike Knowify, which places job costing on its Advanced plan, Contractor Foreman's tiers differ by how many users are included rather than by feature set. That makes Basic at $49 per month billed annually the cheapest published route to job costing among the two, if one login is genuinely enough.

What are Contractor Foreman's payment processing fees?

In the United States, 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction on Visa, Mastercard and Discover, 3.9% plus $0.30 on American Express, and 1% plus $0.30 on ACH bank transfers with a $10.00 maximum. The ACH cap makes bank transfer far cheaper than cards on large progress payments.

Contractor Foreman vs Knowify: which is cheaper?

At the entry point Contractor Foreman, at $49 per month billed annually against Knowify Core at $99 per month billed yearly, and Knowify's job costing requires Advanced at $329. At ten users the comparison is closer, because Knowify Advanced includes ten seats while Contractor Foreman Pro covers fifteen at $221 per month.

Do I need Contractor Foreman if I already use QuickBooks?

Not for job costing alone. QuickBooks Online Plus and Advanced include Projects, and QuickBooks Desktop handles job costing through Customer:Job. Contractor Foreman earns its cost when the problem is operational: change orders, purchase order approvals, scheduling, daily logs and field time capture.

Software pricing pages are written to make the smallest number the most visible one. With Contractor Foreman the smallest number is real, it just describes one user on an annual commitment. Count your logins, pick the billing term deliberately, and the rest of the decision is about field workflow rather than cost.

Whichever tool you land on, it reports on the data underneath it. If your QuickBooks file is missing months of card and bank activity, no construction platform will tell you what a job made. More on that here: QuickBooks job costing software and which plans include it, setting up job costing in QuickBooks, bank statement conversion for construction companies and catching up months of bookkeeping from statements.