Sage 100 Contractor

By audience

General Contracting

• Job cost, AP/AR, payroll and general ledger run on one on-premise database, so committed cost hits the job the moment a subcontract or purchase order is written.
• Issues AIA G702/G703 progress billings and tracks subcontract compliance, retainage and lien waivers against each contract.
• Change orders move from the estimate through the job budget to the owner billing without re-keying.

Specialty Contracting

• Certified payroll and Davis-Bacon reporting come out of the same time entries used for job costing, which is what prevailing-wage subcontractors need at week's end.
• Union fringes, multi-rate and multi-state payroll are handled in the core payroll module rather than in a bolt-on.
• Service Receivables covers work orders, dispatch and service billing for trades that carry a service department alongside contract work.

Accounting & Finance

• Month-end close, WIP and over/under-billing reporting run off live job-cost data instead of an export.
• Job cost, payroll, AP, AR, equipment and general ledger sit in one database, so the controller reconciles one system.
• Role-based dashboards give cost-to-complete and profitability by job without a separate BI tool.

Project Manager

• Project work centres show budget vs actual, committed cost and cost-to-complete per job, updated as invoices and time post.
• Subcontracts, purchase orders and change orders are raised and tracked against the job budget in the same system that pays them.
• Document control carries RFIs, submittals, transmittals and daily field reports alongside the job's financials.

Estimator

• Integrated estimating with assemblies and a takeoff grid builds the bid inside the system that will later run the job.
• An accepted estimate exports straight into the job budget, proposal, subcontracts and purchase orders rather than being re-keyed.
• Unit-cost and assembly price databases are maintained in-house and reused across bids.

By phase

Pre-Construction

• Estimators build takeoffs and bids in the integrated estimating module and issue proposals from them.
• The accepted estimate becomes the job budget, so the pre-construction number is the baseline the job is measured against.

Construction

• Field time posts to certified payroll and to job cost in one operation, so labour lands on the right cost code.
• Progress billing, subcontract payments, change orders and committed-cost tracking run for the life of the job.
• Work centres report budget-vs-actual and cost-to-complete while the job is still running.

Closeout & Operations

• Final billings, retainage release and lien-waiver tracking close the contract out.
• Service Receivables carries the relationship past handover with work orders, preventive-maintenance agreements and service invoicing.