Build a detailed budget in minutes, not hours

Organize costs by section, set your margin per line item, and let the budget drive everything downstream — proposals, invoices, purchase orders and vendor bills all draw from it. No reformatting, no copy-paste.

A construction budget in Foreman, broken into sections with per-line cost, margin and price.

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Organized Estimating

Build section by section, not line by line

Group costs by trade or phase — Permits, Framing, MEP, Finishes — and add line items under each with quantities and unit prices. Foreman does the math and subtotals every section, so clients see a clean breakdown and you see the full cost picture.

Budget sections grouping line items, each with its own subtotal.
Live Job Costing

Committed, billed and actual cost on every line

As purchase orders go out, subs invoice you and crew hours get approved, the numbers land back on the budget line they belong to. You always know what a line was estimated at, what you've committed to spend, and what it has actually cost you.

Committed cost, billed cost and actual cost tracked against every budget line.
Every Dollar Tracked

Every dollar ties back to a budget line

Bill a client, order from a vendor, or log a sub's invoice — each one starts from the budget lines it covers, already priced and itemized. Once you send it, it locks, so what you commit, bill and collect rolls back onto the line it came from and the budget always shows where the money went.

Proposals, invoices and vendor bills listed against the project, each tied to the budget lines it was priced from.

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Kind of obsessed with this honestly. Uploaded plans, had the bid out same afternoon, client signed it online that night. This is how it's supposed to work.
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Roofing contractor
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One of the best software investments we've made for our business. The organization, estimating, and takeoff tools have significantly improved our efficiency and streamlined our workflow.
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Blair Excavation
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One system for the whole job

The estimate, the schedule, the field and the books in one place — so the number you quoted is the number you track all the way to final payment.

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