QuickBooks Contractor Edition
Manage job costs with QuickBooks Enterprise
Your end-to-end solution for construction projects, from initial estimates to professional quotes to tracking throughout. Get a free demo and quote.
QuickBooks Enterprise Contractor Features
Get an all-in-one solution with powerful job cost tracking and the flexibility to work from anywhere with cloud access.
Intercompany transactions*
Intercompany transactions help you manage multiple business entities more efficiently. Easily establish and track relationships between entities via one dashboard. Track transactions by assigning assets and liabilities accounts. Bulk transactions will help you reduce manual entry. You can also create intercompany transactions reports for better insight on completed historical transactions.
* Available with QuickBooks Enterprise Platinum and Diamond subscriptions
Cash flow hub
Get a single dashboard to monitor your incoming and outgoing cash flow. Track invoices, sales receipts, credit memos, payments, and more. Manage expenses by tracking paid and upcoming vendor bills, and consolidate multiple reports without manual calculations.
Bill and PO workflow approvals*
Manage cash flow, boost transparency, and help protect against fraud with customizable bill and purchase order workflow approvals that create a digital audit trail for each transaction. Delegate with confidence while keeping oversight. One dashboard lets you maintain cash flow oversight and track bills and POs that need approval. Employees get timely reminders so they don’t miss an approval deadline. Customize your workflow approvals your way, or use out-of-the-box templates to make it easy to set up approval flows that cater to your business.
* Available with QuickBooks Enterprise Platinum and Diamond subscriptions
Job costing
QuickBooks Enterprise has the most robust job costing of any QuickBooks product, with special features designed for construction & contractors as well as for professional service companies. Accurate job costing helps you stay on top of costs and cash flow. You’ll be able see which jobs are making money and which aren’t, so you can make adjustments before it’s too late.
Customized chart of accounts
Get more insight into your business and easier preparation for tax season with the Contractor Chart of Accounts. Make informed decisions now and plan for the future with immediate access to important information like your work in progress, overages and shortages, labor, materials, and more.
Estimates
Turn estimates into invoices, billing by service items, percent complete, or dollar amount. View estimates versus actuals by job so you know what you can invoice for right now.
Work Orders
Create work orders from estimates and turn them directly into invoices so you get paid accurately and quickly.
Change order functionality
Keep your clients in the loop and easily manage change orders. Track and highlight changes to existing estimates. View all change orders for each job and their resulting cost impacts.
Flexible billing rates
Assign different billing rates to your employees based on the job, difficulty of the task, an employee’s experience level, and other criteria. Easily bill one rate for your foreman and another for your workers.
Employee time tracking*
Easily track time, save on payroll, and manage your team on the go. Get time tracking software for construction, landscaping, home healthcare, and more. No matter how big or small, see how QuickBooks Time can help your business thrive.
* Available with QuickBooks Enterprise Diamond subscriptions
Task management
Never miss a deadline or a milestone. Schedule to-dos, reminders with due dates, and more right from a built-in calendar. Reduce errors and keep your jobs on track.
We don't just sell QuickBooks, we make it work for your specific business
Why Fourlane
Fourlane, the #1 Elite QuickBooks Solution Provider and Reseller, has helped thousands of clients with their financial systems, accounting software, and ERP system challenges. As industry and product experts for the most widely used accounting and ERP software solutions, we make sure our clients are buying the right software at the best price and recommend the best platform with a focus on our clients’ long term success.
“Fourlane’s broad expertise in all of Intuit’s products gives them the ability to provide exceptional service to QuickBooks’ users. As a QuickBooks Solution Provider, we count on solutions Fourlane provides to small- and mid-sized businesses all over the country.”
-Simon Pass, Intuit Reseller Program Sales Leader
Consulting and Advisory
We can help with every aspect of QuickBooks, including system design, inventory, business process, workflows, & more.
Data Conversion and Migration
With thousands of QuickBooks conversions, Fourlane is the most trusted company for converting your data to QuickBooks.
Setup and Implementation
Whether you need a simple QuickBooks install or a multi-user, cloud solution with external integrations, we can help.
Programming and Integration
Extend QuickBooks with custom apps and integrations, giving you a cost-effective alternative to more expensive ERP systems.
Reporting and Business Intelligence
Whether you need reports using the tools included in QuickBooks or a complex, custom-built, we’ve got you covered.
File Optimization and Review
From database stability to ledger tie-outs, our file review will give you an in-depth look into the health of your QuickBooks data.
Customized Product Training
We’ll create customized training and documentation specific to your business, processes, and industry.
QuickBooks Contractor Reports
QuickBooks Enterprise lets you see how you're doing at every phase of the job with key reports.
Job status
Keep track of all your jobs with one report. See which jobs are pending, awarded, in progress and closed along with start, projected and actual end dates.
Job costs by job
View a summary of job-related expenses for each job so you can see where your money is going.
Cost-to-complete
By job, see the percentage complete and cost to complete so you can cut costs if you need to, or discuss cost over-runs with your client before it’s too late.
Unpaid bills by job
By job, quickly get a handle on the bills that have not been paid so you can gain a realistic view of your true job costs and stay on top of your accounts payable.
Expenses not assigned to jobs
Make sure nothing slips through the cracks. Get visibility into all your expenses that are not currently assigned to a job.
Billed/unbilled hours by person and job
See how much time each worker has spent on each job. Add billable hours to your next invoice and minimize hours you can’t rebill to your clients.
Open purchase orders by vendor
View all of your open purchase orders by vendor and keep track of what items you’re waiting on to finish a job.
Industry-specific report bundles
With Advanced Reporting, our most powerful QuickBooks reporting tool, you won’t need to sort through hundreds of reports to find the right one. We’ve bundled together the reports that our contractor customers have found the most useful.
Customer Story
Fourlane guides Hotsy Pacific through a QuickBooks conversion and business process renovation
Hotsy Pacific has been a Bay Area provider of industrial cleaning equipment and pressure washers for 30 years. When their controller decided to retire, and corporate headquarters required a bookkeeping renovation, the Hotsy Pacific team looked to Fourlane to lead them though a transition from BusinessWorks to QuickBooks Enterprise.
Industry Experts
A Partner That Understands Your Business & Industry
Fourlane’s consultants have worked with thousands of businesses within virtually every industry to help tailor QuickBooks to fit the unique needs their industry requires. Whether you run a small retail store, an international manufacturing business, a residential construction company, a law firm, a software company, or a fast growing nonprofit, we’ve seen it, done it, and can help.
- Accounting & Finance
- Advertising & Marketing
- Agriculture
- Biotech & Pharmaceuticals
- Computer / IT Services
- Computer Software
- Construction & Contracting
- Distribution & Wholesale
- eCommerce
- Education
- Energy / Utilities
- Engineering
- General Business
- Government
- Healthcare / Medical
- Health & Beauty
- Insurance
- Legal
- Logistics / Transportation
- Manufacturing
- Media / Publishing
- Nonprofit
- Professional Services
- Real Estate
- Restaurant / Hospitality
- Retail
- Telecommunications
Fourlane DRIVETM
At Fourlane, we have a proven client engagement process that helps ‘drive’ long-term success.
1. Discover
We begin by understanding your systems and current processes to discover root issue and potential challenges.
2. Right Fit
Receive open and authentic communication from our team on which products are right for you.
3. Inform
Our comprehensive and informative project scoping process is designed to eliminate any potential road blocks.
4. Vision Implementation
Your project commences with the end goal of getting the right data to make informed business decisions.
5. Endless Execution
Our ongoing review of systems & output to ensure processes are being followed and your investment is being executed.
QuickBooks ERP READINESS
QuickBooks Mid Market Solutions
QuickBooks isn’t just for small businesses; we make it work for medium-sized enterprises as well by utilizing the API for integrations and apps. However, if you’ve hit a ceiling in what QuickBooks can do for your growing business, Fourlane is just one of a small handful of firms that have bridged the gap between QuickBooks and ERP systems.
Most firms in the ERP space are either IT or accounting focused but don’t understand the system AND the financial piece – we know both and can help. Fourlane has consultants certified in QuickBooks and other ERP software such as NetSuite and Acumatica.
What Our Clients Are Saying
What Our Clients Are Saying
“Fourlane is a stellar organization as a whole. They are in it for the long haul and it shows.”
“I put my company’s future in Fourlane’s hands, and they delivered! Thank you!”
“I enjoyed my experience with Fourlane and would recommend them for software conversion.”
