budget4cast 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

budget4cast

4.4

(15)

Pricing

Starting at $49.00 per month

About budget4cast

budget4cast is a cloud-based construction project budgeting platform that allows businesses to plan project budgets, track costs and cash flow, and forecast future costs. budget4cast is designed to provide project managers with the budgeting and task management tools for full customization, accuracy, reliability, and efficiency of any construction project. Features include budget planning, change order management, KPI monitoring, cashflow management, document management, cost estimation, funding source management, dashboard reporting, and more.

With budget4cast, project managers have access to all budget data in a single dashboard. Users can customize budget codes, work breakdown structures, and project reports. Utilizing auto forecast functionality, budget4cast is able to automatically generate forecast costs based on current costs. All actual and forecast costs can be tracked and compared to other costs and budget amounts. For earned value management, project managers are able to track project over/under, estimated cost at completion, and cash flow predictions.

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budget4cast Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $49.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$49.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Attach Pdf’s for Invoices and Contracts
Change Orders
Contracts
Customized Dashboard
Customized Reporting
Earned Value Management
Estimated Costs
Integration With Payment Systems
Invoices
Reallocations & Contingency Logs

Standard

$79.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Attach Pdf’s for Invoices and Contracts
Cash Flow Reports Per Budget Group and Overall
Change Orders
Contracts
Customized Dashboard
Customized Reporting
Earned Value Management
Easy Set up
Estimated Costs
Integration With Payment Systems

Premium

$99.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Attach Pdf’s for Invoices and Contracts
Capital Funds
Cash Flow Reports Per Budget Group and Overall
Change Orders
Contracts
Create Unlimited Funding Sources
Customized Dashboard
Customized Reporting
Detailed Reports Across All Funding Sources
Earned Value Management

Enterprise

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

Attach Pdf’s for Invoices and Contracts
Branding Options Available
Capital Funds
Cash Flow Reports Per Budget Group and Overall
Change Orders
Contracts
Create Unlimited Funding Sources
Customized Dashboard
Customized Reporting
Detailed Reports Across All Funding Sources

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budget4cast Features

Popular features found in Construction Management
Budget Tracking
Contract/License Management
Contractor Management
Equipment Tracking
Estimating
Inventory Management
Mobile Access
Reporting & Statistics
Subcontractor Management
Task Management
Timesheet Management
More features of budget4cast
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Tracking
Audit Trail
Cash Management
Change Order Management
Document Management
Expense Management
Forecasting
Job Costing
Multi-Company
Multiple Projects
Project Management
Self-Service Reporting
Status Tracking
Strategic Planning
Workflow Management

budget4cast Integrations

Xero

QuickBooks Online

BILL Accounts Payable & Receivable

budget4cast User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

53%

33%

13%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.0

Functionality

4.0

Have you used budget4cast and would like to share your experience with others?

Verified

Reviewer

Real Estate

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed March 2021

Good product for low cost. Minimal features for essential purposes

Budget4Cast helped organizing projected expenses against actual expenses. Very helpful in keeping a large project organized!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Clean interface, very low cost compared to competitors, simple to use, great future potential

Cons:

Laborious initial deployment and very limited reporting options as of now

Reasons for choosing budget4cast

B4C was best value for cost

Reasons for switching to budget4cast

I needed greater stability of data.

Andrew E.

Verified reviewer

Construction

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

budget4cast Review

Software is meant to be increase efficiency, and Budget4Cast checks that box with flying colors.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Budget4Cast is a one-of-a-kind software solution that allows simple and efficient, yet powerful and comprehensive management of project financials. It meets the needs of our development projects both small (<$5M) and large (>$100M) and it’s simplicity allows us to spend more time managing the project, and less time wasted on remedial data entry tasks.

Cons:

It's a catch 22, because the software is so easy to use and efficient, sometimes there are features that we wish existed but do not. Reporting exports could be a bit more professional and customizable to allow for them to be used client facing.

Reasons for switching to budget4cast

Needed something that was more efficient. Wanted to spend less time using the software, and more time managing projects.

Rachel C.

Verified reviewer

Hospitality

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Easy to use Budgeting software

overall a positive experience. Able to work around most of the deficiency of the system.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to implement and use. Did not have all the levels of approvals in similar software.

Cons:

Not enough options for reporting and not strong in accounting features

Reasons for choosing budget4cast

Cost and we did not need all the extra features from the other software.

Reasons for switching to budget4cast

Ease in use

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review! We will continue to improve our reporting capabilities, and I really appreciate your feedback. Also, we do offer some integrations with common accounting software. Let's discuss if you have some time.

Replied November 2020

Geoff A.

Verified reviewer

Construction

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

B4C - Review

Overall I like the software, however my previous software was so restrictive that it seems like a major improvement. There are a few functional issues that make the software not too user friendly. But at the same time, it is customizable and changeable to allow for quick corrections and creation.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I love the flexibility to update and make changes to entries on contracts and payables.

Cons:

I don't like the project summary page, it has way too much information and then at the same time not the essential information that I need for my uses. It doesn't even fit on the default page size.

Reasons for switching to budget4cast

Yardi is an accounting software, and works well as one. But the checks and balances prohibited a flow that was efficient in terms of time spent on the program.

Vendor Response

Geoff, thanks for your review. There are ways to pare down the amount of info on the Project Summary. I would be more than happy to go over some of that. Just send me a Contact Us form, and I'll get right back to you!

Replied November 2020

Tanner B.

Verified reviewer

Construction

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Tanner Brown, NV5

I primarily use Budget4Cast as an Owner's Rep, tracking the budget and giving monthly reports on budget health, current change orders, pending change orders, reallocations of savings/overruns. Sharing budget viewing permissions adds a great level of transparency. And of course having a intuitive tool to generate draws is especially useful.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The report generation and disbursement register tools are most useful to me. Being able to upload documents during data entry and download them as attachments to budget reports or draws is a major time saver.

Cons:

Moving between modules causes some lag as the contents populate, which is dead time waiting for data entry fields to be useable. This is especially noticeable on larger projects where Actual Costs can take just enough time to load that it's annoying. It's also tough to track a single budget with two separate funding sources. My solution has been to run a separate budget for each funding source, which is not ideal.

Reasons for switching to budget4cast

It was a directive from our management. I'm pretty sure our [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] had some stake in the company at the time, but I didn't mind since B4C was much easier than the Xcel budgets I had been using previously.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the great review, Tanner. budget4cast does offer a Funding Sources add-on, that I'd be more than happy to offer a free trial for you to look at.

Replied November 2020

Wilford P.

Verified reviewer

Commercial Real Estate

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Construction Budget Consistently up to Date

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We love several things about the software. The first thing is that budget4cast is easy to use and user friendly. As we enter any expense, the system automatically calculates the project balances. All of our users can also log in from anywhere (from the office or the project) and add any expenses and see in real-time the balance remaining on the project. For years we've been using excel to organize and keep track of our budgets, but of course, budget4cast is more efficient, and you can see results in real-time.

Cons:

I only dislike one thing, I wish that there was a small memo or note spot to add or leave a note along the way.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the great review! I'm glad you love our app. There is support for adding notes to both actual and forecasted costs that you enter. Please reach out if you need any assistance in using these.

Replied November 2020

Ryan B.

Verified reviewer

Construction

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Budget4cast Review

Very positive experience. It was easy to learn and work with the system. Additionally, my clients/stakeholders who are given access to the system find it easy to use as well.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This platform is an extremely user-friendly to track and manage cost information with relatively low risk for user-error or lost data.

Cons:

It is much more cumbersome and time-consuming to manipulate or edit bulk data compared to a spreadsheet-based system. Additionally, it would be nice to monitor commitment/contract status within the software, without needing to download a .csv export.

Rebecca S.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

B4C Review

Overall this has been a great program for our company.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

B4C was great in taking our existing work and implementing it into the program. Software is quite user friendly and has been a great addition to our team.

Cons:

Selecting dates (especially previous years) is cumbersome and we have reported it to B4C. Haven't seen an improvement yet. The auto forecasting feature proves to be confusing to users if used incorrectly. Always have to be aware if this feature is on/off.

Ranette C.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2021

B4C Software = Project Manager's Dream

Setting up a project is easy, you simply transfer those line items from one project to the next. I can't say enough good things about this software, this is the second employer where I have used budget4cast. I loved it so much that I suggested we use it to my supervisor and now the entire team of project managers loves using it to!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Budget4cast is extremely user-friendly and has all the tools to track a project budget. The ability to import invoices and contracts keeps everything you need in one place. The auto forecast tool helps reserve expenses you know will need to be paid without showing those funds as available. Reports are easy to read and export.

Cons:

I honestly can't think of anything I don't like.

Vendor Response

Thanks so much for the great feedback, and for being a loyal customer!

Replied January 2021

Anna M.

Verified reviewer

Construction

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Great Platform for Managing Project Budgets

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Managing reports is always necessary and Budget4Cast easily allows reports to be created, sorted as needed, simplified or detailed, etc according to the needs or desires of the client. It is also very easy to pull down the data into an excel/csv file to work with the raw information and run analysis as needed.

Cons:

A feature to allow an upload of a new project budget would be an exceptional addition to the program. Inputting budgets is manual currently and time consuming depending on the level of detail and extent of budget coding.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review. We will look at your feature enhancement suggestion.

Replied November 2020

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