Smart Contractor 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Smart Contractor

4.4

(18)

Pricing

Starting at $99.00 per year

About Smart Contractor

Smart Contractor is an integrated construction management solution for small and midsize construction companies. It includes applications for estimating, project management and scheduling, contact management, job costing, invoicing and more.

The solution offers on-premise, cloud-based and mobile access to users and is suited to companies doing residential and light commercial work that can include new, restoration or remodeling construction.

The enterprise-level applications in Smart Contractor offer document and project management features, that allow contractors to centrally store project designs, bills and related construction documents at one place. The estimating tools help to build project estimates, fetch data from National Construction Estimator and track costs categorized by labor, material, equipment and subcontract. It provides a built-in accounting module that helps to generate invoices, record payments and give a snapshot of billing summary, among others.

The on-premise version of Smart Contractor is available on a perpetual license basis while the cloud-hosted solution is available on a per user per month subscription basis.

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Smart Contractor Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $99.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$99.00

per user, per year

Plan includes:

Contracts
Customer Relationship Management(CRM)
Documents
Estimating
Project Management

Pro

$149.00

per user, per year

Plan includes:

Contracts and Documents
Critical Path (CPM) Scheduling
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Estimating
Free Software Updates
General
Phone and Internet Conferencing
Project Management
Purchasing
Unlimited Technical Support by Email

Complete

$249.00

per user, per year

Plan includes:

Accounting
Contracts
Critical Path Scheduling
Customer Relationship Management
Documents
Estimating
Project Management
Purchasing
Quickbooks Integration

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Smart Contractor 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 Smart Contractor
Accounting
Accounting Integration
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Audit Trail
Bid Management
Billing & Invoicing
Bills of Material
Budgeting/Forecasting
Buyer Management
Cash Management
Change Order Management
Client Tracking
Commercial
Construction Breakdowns
Contact Management
Cost Database
Cost-to-Completion Tracking
Document Management
Forecasting
For Residential
General Ledger
Historical Database
Invoice Management
Job Costing
Job Management
Overrun Reporting
Payroll Management
Percent-Complete Tracking
Production Cost Tracking
Project Management
Proposal Generation
Purchase Order Management
Quotes/Estimates
Reporting/Analytics
Sales Approval
Sales Pipeline Management
Scheduling
Time Tracking
What-if Analysis
Work Order Management

Smart Contractor User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

50%

44%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.2

Value for money

5.0

Customer support

4.7

Functionality

4.3

Samantha H.

Verified reviewer

Construction

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2024

Smart Contractor is great

The system is easy to use! The support is very helpful.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What I like most about Smart Contractor was the support. The tech support is great.

Cons:

I have not found anything I like least yet about Smart Contractor!

Nancy B.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed November 2010

Best Construction Software on the Market

For a small to medium sized construcition company this is the absolute best choice of software available. The program is simple to use, flexible and has a wide range of comprehensive reports. But the thing that makes this product stand out from the rest is the unsurpassed customer service. I have had many situations where I have contacted the members of the Smart Contractor team with questions or requests for enhancements to the program to meet special needs of our business and they have been incredible. They help me find ways to use the program more effectively and have even made several additions to the program to fulfill my requirements, imagine getting that kind of service from one of the box software companies (not likely). The team at SC is curteous, easy to reach and responsive to their customers needs, rare qualities in a company today. The product is perfect for our needs and knowing there is a knowledgable and responsive team behind it makes it a perfect choice.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Pros:

This is by far the best construction software I have found. I tested at least 8 products ranging in price from $400 to $8,000 and Smart Contractor was the hands down winner. We run a general construction company with about 15 employees. I needed to track job costs and invoice customers as well as run reports for specific purposes like gathering workers comp information and vendor statement reconciliation. Although SC has the ability to be linked to Quickbooks, I am running it as a stand alone program and it is meeting all my needs. I did not want to use a double entry accounting software for job costing. I wanted the flexibility that SC allows by not requiring that everything flow through to general ledger accounts (although this is possible) SC is easy to use, intuitive, and has the absolute best customer service of any product I have ever used. It is simple to use yet provides all the information we need to evaluate job profitability and generate estimates and invoices.

Cons:

Absolutely none. I only wish I had found it sooner as it has already helped us make management decisions from the information we have gathered using SC.

Tom M.

Construction

Used unspecified for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2015

Horrible Execution, Great Idea

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is a good database and creates professional looking estimates and invoices.

Cons:

The help section awful. I mean horrible. They provide minimal videos that get you started and excited about their product. The problem is that there are no videos to explain anything beyond the most basic functions. The help section of the software is deplorable and in order to learn how to do any process you have to search several items and put them together. Generally you still need to call support (which I will admit was very helpful, but if they were not I would have demanded a refund as the program would not work otherwise) to have them explain it and often the reason we could not get the software to work was because of a programming glitch or problems with smartcontractor communicating with Quickbooks. We have not used several of the functions we were told the software has simply because there are no instructions on how to use them unless you want to spend more (a lot more) money having them teach you what smartcontractor should have included instructions for, you are out of luck.

Tyler G.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed March 2010

Good Luck in Finding a Better Solution

I have been really happy with my decision on purchasing Smart Contractor. I looked around and demoed (even bought) quite a few products and none had the power that SC does at even close to the price. Is more complexity better? no way. This program has all the flexibility and features my company needs while being pretty intuitive in using and operating. I won't outgrow it and have not even thought about even looking at another program because I got what I needed with SC.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Pros:

Extremely Flexible set up and organization Powerful Integration of all related systems and has great coordination of each system Super easy to make changes, updates, change orders, etc Love how you can set up banking options and automatically produce a AIA draw request with one button Everything is based off of the estimate. This is the BEST way to organize the information as it all relates to the bottom line! Powerful reporting that gives a large number of options for printed forms which are very customer friendly. My clients think they look very professional and this makes me look better than the competition Integration with quickbooks. Quick and easy using a program most people already use or know Competitive Pricing

Cons:

There are almost too many options in how you set up your estimate, all of which related to how to process and bill a job. The learning curve on how to set up your estimates so it is easy to track and bill takes a couple of jobs to get it to the level of detail you realistically want to track

Daniel N.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed July 2009

Smart Contractor is an awesome business management software.

Definitely I would recommend this software to other construction companies (just not in my area because I don't want the competition!)

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Pros:

Smart Contractor is an awesome business management software. The features of Smart Contractor are endless. The program's ability to manage a project has increased our companies volume by 30%. Smart Contractor has also limited my estimating mistakes by its ability to directly write the proposal from the job estimate. Smart Contractor also allows our company to monitor, adjust, and repetitively perform the same project time and again. It has allowed us the opportunity to break down jobs by phase and make appropriate adjustments price wise to control profits. Now we can see where we make money and more importantly, where we are not. Smart Contractor's flexibility is great. Everything in the program can be adjusted to fit your companies set-up. The support staff at Smart Contractor has been second to none!!! I've never had a problem go unsolved. Their willingness to take in feed back and better the program is amazing.

Cons:

This program did not come with already established pricing catalogs -- that sounds like a disadvantage, but those catalogs are often not up to date.

dave k.

Verified reviewer

Construction

Used unspecified for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2015

Smart Contractor? Could be Smarter!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The support after the sale is second to none. This company genuinely cares to help me and my employees. They are patient with us.

Cons:

The software lacks ease of use. They market it as easy to use, but in fact it is difficult to use. Sometimes they treat us as if we are suppose to know programming. Most of the time when we are stuck, they log in and do for us what we cannot do, rather than teach us to do it ourselves. They offer teaching for a price, but that is BS. If it is so easy to use, why do they have to charge us to teach us. Obviously it is not that easy if they are not willing to take the time to teach us for free. The scheduling portion is poorly designed, and difficult to use.

Eric F.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed August 2011

Great program and even better support

I would recommend this software to any contractor. My company is very small, so the initial investment was not easy. But, it has paid for itself many times over because of the speed and accuracy I now have in preparing bids.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Pros:

After trying and using other software, I new there had to be something better. I finally found it. Smart Contractor has all the features I need in my general contracting business. I almost enjoy estimating now. The program makes it easy to estimate and is extremely adaptable to any type of job. Once you enter an estimate, the program can automatically create purchase orders, proposals, contracts, integrate with quickbooks and more. The more I use it the more features I find I can use. The customer support is far better than I've experienced with any software company. I first downloaded the software on a Saturday. Within an hour Bill was on the phone and spent more than an hour to help me get up and running. When I've had some technical problems Dan has responded immediately. They have been very impressive.

Cons:

None (except that it does not do the job for you)

Jake L.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed March 2010

Project Management Simplified

Good software that simplifies life as an estimator/ project manager. I would recommend it to others.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Pros:

Smart Contractor has simplified my life as a small business owner. I have been able to template projects that we bid often and copy as many or as few details from a previously bid project which allows me to create very detailed proposals in 1/4 the time. From the estimate I create request for quotes, purchase orders, work orders, schedules, payment schedules, and all necessary contract documents. All with the click of a mouse button. Also on the project management side you can create invoices, change orders, receive payments, enter labor hours, track actual costs and much more. Any questions that I've had have been answered very promptly by their customer service staff.

Cons:

I think a formal training (webinar or something similar) to show all that the product can do as well as show you how to do it would be useful.

Felipe F.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed February 2013

Love this

I would recommend this to anyone, great software, great price, great service.!!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Pros:

-easy to use once you understand how it works -fast estimating once info is logged in the system -the ability to make it do what works for your business. Very flexible!! -great price for what you get. -one of the best things that this has is CUSTOMER SUPPORT!! I was very very impressed with the time and patience they spent and had with me once they had a chance to call me back. Witch was fast as well. Dan Fellman was great!! -i feel that this program will help me keep organized, professional, award me more jobs, and make me more money and have less mistakes. Also will really let me know how much money we are actually making on every job.

Cons:

Really not many cons worth even talking about.

Roe C.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed March 2010

Great product for a growing company

I would recommend Smart Contractor to any construction compant that would like to spend less time estimating and more time making money. SC has stream lined my company and will pay for it's self in very little time.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Pros:

I was in the market for a program that would create schedules for my projects. I found Smart Contractor surfing the web and it had everything I was looking for and more. The integration with Quickbooks was a snap thanks to a fantastic support group. Integration was done online via go to meeting with a tech to ensure everything was installed properly. My e-mails and phone calls were returned very quickly, Dan Fellman is very knowledgable and will make you installation a smooth process.

Cons:

None really.... There is a bit of a learning curve, but nothing a bit of practice and use can't cure.

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