Industries — Construction
Job costing dashboards for contractors who are tired of guessing which jobs make money.
Orivian builds QuickBooks-connected dashboards and reporting systems for construction and contracting businesses — so job profitability, crew performance, and cash flow are visible without a spreadsheet rebuild every month.
Where construction reporting breaks down
The same bottlenecks show up on almost every job site.
These are the patterns Orivian sees most often when auditing reporting for construction and contracting businesses.
Job costing lives in three places
QuickBooks class reports, a bookkeeper's spreadsheet, and a foreman's notebook all track job costs slightly differently — and none of them agree by the time a job closes.
Profitable jobs and busy jobs look the same
Without a per-job margin view, a crew that's constantly working can still be running the thinnest margin in the company — and nobody notices until the numbers are pulled apart manually.
Change orders don't make it back into the numbers
Scope changes get approved in the field but tracked inconsistently in accounting, so the job costing report understates what a job actually cost — or what it should have billed.
AR aging gets reviewed monthly, not weekly
Progress billing and retainage mean cash can be tied up for months. Without a live AR view, collections follow-up happens reactively instead of on a schedule.
Reporting depends on one person
Usually a bookkeeper or office manager manually rebuilds job cost and crew reports from CSV exports every month — a process that breaks the moment that person is out.
What Orivian builds
Dashboards and systems built around jobs, crews, and cash.
Every build starts with the decisions you need to make — which job to bid next, which crew to staff up, whether cash covers payroll.
Job profitability dashboard
Every active and closed job ranked by margin, pulling directly from QuickBooks class or job tracking — no manual reconciliation required.
Crew and foreman-level views
See which crews are actually profitable, not just busy, with labor, material, and overhead rolled up per job and per crew.
AR & collections dashboard
Overdue invoices and retainage ranked by urgency, with automated reminders so follow-up happens on a schedule instead of by memory.
Owner cash flow view
A single view of cash position, upcoming payroll, and outstanding receivables — built for a five-minute Monday morning check, not a full P&L read.
Monthly reporting automation
Recurring reports that generate and deliver on a schedule, replacing manual CSV exports and rebuilt spreadsheets.
QuickBooks-connected dashboards
Delivered through DashEase or a scoped custom build, depending on how many jobs, crews, and reporting views you need.
A related result
14 monthly reports, 4 decisions that mattered
A real audit for a multi-crew field service contractor found fourteen reports being pulled every month — four of them, including a job costing report nobody had opened in months, were the only ones actually driving a decision.
Read the audit findings →Related
Related pages for contractors
QuickBooks Dashboards
Turn QuickBooks job and class data into owner-ready dashboards.
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Orivian's QuickBooks reporting product for job and crew-level dashboards.
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Automate AR follow-up, retainage tracking, and overdue invoice reminders.
Learn more →7 QuickBooks Dashboard Examples
See job profitability, AR, and cash flow dashboards built from real patterns.
Learn more →Custom Software
Build scheduling, change-order, or internal tools beyond what a dashboard covers.
Learn more →Home Services
Dispatch, routing, and job profitability for multi-crew field service businesses.
Learn more →FAQ
Common questions from contractors
Can QuickBooks show job costing by crew automatically?
QuickBooks can track job costs through classes or projects, but the native reports are built for accountants, not for a five-second read on which crew is profitable. Most contractors end up exporting class reports to a spreadsheet to compare crews side by side. A connected dashboard pulls the same underlying QuickBooks data but presents it as a ranked, always-current view instead of a report you rebuild every month.
What's the fastest way to see if a job is actually profitable?
The fastest path is a job profitability dashboard that rolls up labor, materials, and overhead against billed revenue for each job, updated automatically from QuickBooks. Without it, most contractors are comparing job cost reports manually against invoices — a process that takes hours and usually happens after the job has already closed, when it's too late to adjust.
Do you build custom software for construction companies, or just dashboards?
Both. Many contractors start with a QuickBooks-connected dashboard through DashEase for job profitability, cash flow, and AR visibility. If the business needs something QuickBooks and a dashboard can't cover — a custom scheduling tool, a change-order workflow, or an internal portal — Orivian scopes that as a custom software project.
Find out which of your jobs are actually making money.
A free operations audit maps your current job costing and reporting setup against the decisions it should be driving — no cost, no commitment.