Specialty Trade Contractor
Bids, jobs, per-classification crew labour, change orders, progress billing and lien waivers for a specialty trade sub working under GCs.
A simpler alternative to Procore, Buildertrend, Sage 100 Contractor, Knowify, and DocuSign for 4-15 people— Konduit Pro is $10 a seat, published.
A complete back office for an electrical, plumbing, concrete, framing or HVAC-install subcontractor working for general contractors. Bid invitations come in on a public form — with the submitter's name and email on the record — and get a Bid #; won bids become jobs against a subcontract record with its own schedule of values; crew hours are logged per worker, per day, per classification on the Labor Log, which prices a Time & Material billing, rolls up as crew hours and labour cost on the subcontract, and doubles as the certified-payroll record; change orders route through an internal approval gate and the priced authorisation is drafted for you to review and send — nothing is emailed to the GC on its own; progress billings go out by phase with retainage taken off the bottom; and lien waivers are tracked per payment until they are exchanged for the cheque. Daily logs, crew dispatch and a punch list close the loop from bid to closeout.
See inside
These are real screenshots of the template — click around the live version to try it yourself.
What’s included
Install Specialty Trade Contractor and this is exactly what lands in your workspace — pre-built and populated, ready to rename or extend:
Plus 257 sample records so you can see it working before you add your own.
What it replaces
- A shared spreadsheet of bid invitations that nobody updates after bid day
- The crew's paper time sheets — the ones you re-type into a certified payroll form every week, by employee, by classification, by day
- The running T&M / extra-work sheet in Excel — date, job, hours, signed Y/N — that decides whether the extra work gets paid for
- Change orders tracked in a text thread with the superintendent — the single biggest profit leak in the trade
- Excel schedules of values re-typed into an AIA form every month
- A folder of scanned lien waivers with no register behind them
- Paper daily logs in a truck that never make it back to the office
Who it’s for
Built for 4-15 people in construction who want to run their operations in one place instead of stitching together a task app, a spreadsheet, a form tool, and a document generator. Everything below is a real, working setup — not a screenshot. Install it, then make it yours.
A simpler alternative to Procore, Buildertrend, Sage 100 Contractor, Knowify, and DocuSign
- Procore — built for the general contractor: drawings, RFIs, submittals and BIM. Priced and scoped for the GC's side of the jobsite, not the sub's.
- Buildertrend / CoConstruct — residential remodel and custom home builders, not subs bidding to GCs.
- Sage 100 Contractor / Foundation — real construction accounting, but heavy to implement and not where your crew lives day to day.
- A pile of spreadsheets — free, until an unauthorised change order eats a job's margin.
Frequently asked questions
Is it free to use this template?
The template is free to explore. When you install it, you get a 14-day Pro trial with no credit card required — so every automation and feature works while you evaluate. When the trial ends your workspace simply drops to the free plan; nothing is deleted and you're never charged unless you choose to subscribe.
Can I change it?
Completely. Every space, list, field, table, and automation is yours to rename, add to, or delete. The template is a head start, not a cage.
Is this a good Procore alternative?
For a small team, yes. Specialty Trade Contractor covers the core of what Procore, Buildertrend, Sage 100 Contractor, Knowify, and DocuSigndo — without the enterprise price tag or the weeks of setup. You get a working system today, it runs on the free plan while you evaluate, and you only pay when you outgrow it. The trade-off: it’s deliberately simpler than the incumbents, which is the point.
What is Konduit?
One platform for running a business: tasks, a real database, forms, automations, documents, and reporting — instead of renting five separate tools. Templates like this one give you a working setup in minutes.
How do I get started?
Preview it live to click around, then “Use this template — 14-day free trial” to install it into your own workspace and start adding your real data.
Ready to run on Specialty Trade Contractor?
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