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Most specialty contractors already run their business in QuickBooks, so job costing in QuickBooks feels like it should be straightforward. It rarely is. QuickBooks was built for general accounting, not project-based construction work, so job costing takes deliberate setup. A clean setup only gets you halfway.

The job costs QuickBooks

Travel time pay for construction workers trips up more contractors than almost any line on the timesheet. The rule is usually clear. The hard part is proving what happened: which employee drove where, when the workday started, and how many hours belong on the check. 

This guide is for specialty

For contractors running overtime-heavy crews, the qualified overtime deduction is one of the more consequential tax changes to land in years. Widely known as the “no tax on overtime” break, it was signed into law through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025.

The Big Beautiful Bill Act

Davis-Bacon overtime rules create more problems for construction payroll teams than any part of prevailing wage compliance. Workers are paid one and one-half times the base wage for hours worked over 40 in a workweek. The wages on your certified payroll are only as accurate as the hours and classifications

Plexxis ERP was built to run a specialty contractor’s whole business on one system, from preconstruction and estimating through purchasing, finance, accounting, and project management. Its labor numbers, though, are only as reliable as the hours that reach them. 

Complement Plexxis with accurate time tracking from the source. Automatically feed

Procore helps run the project. Drawings, RFIs, submittals, daily logs, job costing, and project management all live in one place. Procore time tracking is part of that picture too, with Timesheets and Timecards that let teams record crew hours against jobs and cost codes right inside the platform.

However, inaccuracies

Geofence time tracking is supposed to close the door on off-site clock-ins. Draw a virtual boundary around the jobsite, and workers can only clock-in when they are physically inside it. Clean, simple and bullet proof. Except it is not.

GPS signals drift. They bounce off steel framing, concrete facades, and

The construction industry averages only around 6% profit per job, according to industry benchmarks from FMI Corporation. At that margin, a single project with untracked labor costs or disputed billing doesn’t just hurt that job. It can erase the profit from two or three others.

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CMiC is a strong construction ERP: accounting, job costing, project management, payroll and more, relied upon by thousands of contractors.

One area that can complement CMiC is accurate time capture and cost code tracking, prior to data entering CMiC. Some contractors track time and cost codes with foreman time-entry solutions

1099 reporting is how a business tells the Internal Revenue Service about the payments it made to people who are not on its payroll, most often independent contractors and subcontractors. 

In construction, that work happens on nearly every project, which makes it a routine part of running a compliant business. 

The cost of employee absenteeism in construction looks straightforward on paper: one worker doesn’t show up, one worker’s wages aren’t paid for the day. One less pair of hands. Except that’s not how construction works. 

On a jobsite with multiple trades working at once, crews are sequenced. One absent worker