Kantivo's Construction edition turns the bills you already enter into honest job costs, bills owners on a real schedule of values with a printable payment certificate, and keeps every withheld retainage dollar in sight until you release it. For GCs, subcontractors, and remodelers.
Try It Free for 30 DaysIf job costs live in a spreadsheet that's updated when someone has time, the answer to "is this job making money?" shows up after the job ends — when nothing can be done about it. The data was all there, sitting in the bills; nothing connected it to the job.
Owners hold back 5–10% of every progress payment. Track it nowhere and it becomes a surprise at best — and at worst, released retainage that never gets invoiced because no system remembered it existed.
Bills enter Vendor Hub the same as ever; one tag puts each on a job under a cost code. Costs-by-code, cost-to-date against billed-to-date, and remaining contract all maintain themselves — and the margin number goes red the moment spending outruns billing.
Jobs carry the contract amount and retainage rate; spend lands under CSI-style codes you can seed in one click and extend freely.
Pay applications the way the architect wants them. Lines and previously-billed amounts roll forward from the last application — this period's figures are all you type, and over-schedule lines are refused.
A landscape G702/G703-style PDF per application: continuation table with per-line percent complete, retainage computation, current payment due, and signature blocks.
Withholdings accumulate per job in plain sight. At completion, one click drafts the final invoice for everything held and closes retainage — once, and only once.
Estimates, purchase orders, progress invoicing, time tracking, bank feeds, reconciliation, AI categorization, audit logs — the full Kantivo platform carries the edition. It's a contractor-shaped workflow on real double-entry books, not a job-cost toy.
No — the edition is bundled with Pro and above. That's the comparison against the mainstream tools, where job costing is the headline reason for their priciest contractor tier.
A period with $30,000 of completed work on a 10%-retainage job: Kantivo drafts a $27,000 invoice with the $3,000 withholding itemized, and adds $3,000 to the job's held balance. Release at completion drafts one final invoice for the accumulated total.
It follows the G702/G703 structure — same columns, computation, and signature lines — without being licensed AIA paper. Most private-job owners accept it directly; for contracts that mandate the official forms, the numbers transcribe in a minute.
Today: Job → Cost Code, which serves most small and mid-size operations. The deeper phase hierarchy is on the roadmap — interest from real workflows moves it up.
Planned as the next phase. The current release tracks owner-held (receivable) retainage — historically the side where money gets forgotten.
30-day free trial. Construction edition included.