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Software for construction companies, module by module

From quote to invoice: pick a module and see what's inside.

Bouwflow bundles eight modules into one package, from your first quote to your post-calculation. Almost nobody uses all of them: you switch on what you need and leave the rest alone.

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What makes software for construction companies different

Software for construction companies is built for the way a building job really runs: around sites rather than isolated customers, around bills of quantities rather than product lists, and around a crew that isn't behind a desk all day. A general invoicing or accounting program can't do that, or only half of it.

In practice it replaces a pile of separate tools. Most contractors start with Excel for the costing, WhatsApp for the schedule, a folder of site photos and an accounting package that only tells them something after the fact. That holds up until you're running five sites at once. After that nobody knows which version of the bill of quantities is the right one.

What to look at when you compare

  • Does it work on site too? If your crew doesn't log its own hours and photos, someone in the office ends up retyping them anyway.
  • Does it know your paperwork? Progress claims, reverse-charge VAT and price revisions aren't edge cases in Belgium, they're daily business.
  • Does the line run all the way to your margin? A quote you can't lay next to your real costs afterwards tells you nothing about what the job earned.
  • Does it talk to your accountant? Otherwise you've just moved the retyping one link down the chain.

That's what Bouwflow is built on. The modules above live in the same system, so a signed quote becomes a site with a schedule, work orders and invoices, and at the end you see per project what you kept. More than a thousand construction professionals work with it today.

Frequently asked questions about software for construction companies

There isn't one, it depends on your work. An installer with ten work orders a day needs something different from a general contractor dealing with progress claims and price revisions. Look mainly at whether your whole chain fits inside it, from costing to invoicing, and whether your crew can handle it on site.

Start from whatever hurts most today, not from the longest feature list. Then check whether the package talks to your accountant, whether your people use it on site, and whether you can see your margin per job afterwards. In Bouwflow modules switch on separately, so you don't have to overhaul everything at once.

There are free tools for individual pieces, like an invoicing tool or a scheduling board. As soon as you want sites, hours, purchasing and invoicing to work together, you end up with paid software. What Bouwflow costs is further up this page.

No. Modules switch on and off separately, and hardly any customer has all of them running. Most start with quotes, work orders and invoicing, then add inventory or scheduling when they're ready for it.

Yes. You log in through your browser without installing anything, and your crew works on site with the OnSitePro app. Office and site look at the same data that way.

Contractors who work site by site, from general contractors and installers to roofers, facade builders and joiners. There's an overview per sector on expertises.