BuildOps is a broad commercial field-service platform. SitewideOps is built for specialty trade contractors and goes deepest where the money lives: schedules of values, WIP, AIA progress billing, and certified payroll, at flat per-crew pricing.
BuildOps is a well-regarded commercial field-service and construction platform that spans several trades: HVAC, mechanical, electrical, and roofing among them. It is a mature, enterprise-scale product, and its service-operations breadth is a real strength.
SitewideOps is built for specialty trade contractors — roofing, mechanical, electrical, glazing, concrete — and because it is config-driven, estimating structures, cost codes, workflows, and forms adapt to how your shop runs instead of you bending to a fixed mold. That project-delivery focus is why the project-side financial controls run deep: schedule-of-values billing, cost-to-cost WIP, AIA G702/G703 pay applications with retainage, certified payroll, and a dimensional GL your controller can reconcile.
Focused on the project-controls capabilities a commercial contractor bills and bonds against. Where a BuildOps detail cannot be verified cleanly, we say so rather than guess.
| Capability | SitewideOps | BuildOps |
|---|---|---|
| Config-driven: adapts to your trade without a buildout | ✓ | Multi-trade commercial platform |
| Schedule of values (SOV) billing | ✓ | Varies by plan |
| AIA G702/G703 progress billing with retainage | ✓ | Varies by plan |
| Cost-to-cost WIP schedule (dept × location) | ✓ | Varies by plan |
| Certified payroll (WH-347) | ✓ | Varies by plan |
| Source-document job-cost ledger (committed vs actual, EAC) | ✓ | Job costing included |
| Dimensional GL that maps to your accounting system | ✓ | Varies by plan |
| RFIs, submittals, change orders into revised contract | ✓ | Varies by plan |
| Crew-based dispatch + weather-aware outlook | ✓ | Scheduling & dispatch included |
| Native mobile field app (offline) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing model | $180 per active crew / month, $1,200 minimum, unlimited users | Varies by plan |
Comparison reflects general product positioning as of September 2026; verify current capabilities with each vendor.
The project-side depth lands where the money lives: the reports you bill, bond, and close the books against.
Cost-to-cost work-in-progress by department and location, over/under billing, and month-end snapshots, computed from source documents, not estimates.
Bill against a schedule of values, generate G702/G703 pay applications with retainage held and released, and draft the AR invoice automatically.
WH-347 reports come from the same crew hours that hit job cost, with no separate certified-payroll spreadsheet to reconcile.
Estimate by cost code, department, and location with reusable assemblies, structured around your catalog, not a fixed template.
Dimensional general ledger by project, location, department, and cost code, designed to map cleanly into any accounting system's chart of accounts.
You pay by crew, not by seat. Office staff, PMs, and field techs all work in the system without per-user math.
Weighing the two? BuildOps is an established, enterprise-scale vendor with a large ecosystem. If a big installed base and a broad marketplace of integrations matter most to you, that is a fair reason to pick it. Where SitewideOps wins is depth of project financial controls, a platform that configures to your trade instead of the other way around, and flat per-crew pricing. We'd rather lay the tradeoff out than oversell.
See how SitewideOps runs your whole job, from the first bid to the final pay application.
Anyone interested gets a free 21-day demo account: the full product, every feature, no credit card.