Every project under control, from contract to final claim.
Job and project management for builders: subbies, variations, RFIs, progress claims and compliance in one place. Unlimited users, one flat price based on your projects.
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Dashboard
Morning, Sarah
Thursday, 7 May · priority queue
WIP
$42.8k
Outstanding
$9.9k
Net cashflow
$18.6k
Projected margin
24%
Cashflow
Next 60 days
Priority queue
Click in, clear out
- Collect
Collect overdue invoices
INV-0231 Civic St is 14 days overdue
- Field
Run today's jobs
3 scheduled, Taylor's SWMS still pending
- Clients
Follow up sent quotes
Lot 42 variation sent 8 days ago, no reply
- Unlimited users on every plan
- Free AroFlo migration
- GST + ABN + BAS
- Works on site, offline
- No lock-in, month to month
- Made in Australia
You're not short on work. You're short on control.
A dozen projects, a stack of subbies, and the details living in texts, spreadsheets and someone's head. That's where the margin goes.
Variations vanish
Agreed on site, promised on a call, missing from the claim. Every lost variation is pure margin gone.
Blowouts show up late
POs, bills and subbie claims live in five places, so a job loses money quietly for weeks. You find out at close-out. Too late.
Paper chases every start
SWMS, inductions, tickets. Chased by text, signed on a ute bonnet, filed nowhere. One missing form stands a crew down.
And the software taxes you
Tradie apps stop at job cards. Enterprise platforms start at five figures. Both charge per seat. Footing is built for the gap between.
One screen. Today's work, sorted.
Overdue invoices, quotes awaiting acceptance, today's field jobs, supplier responses, all surfaced as actions, not notifications. Each card has one verb: Open. No dashboards-of-dashboards.
- Real-time WIP, outstanding receivables, 60-day cashflow
- Priority queue across jobs, quotes, suppliers, safety
- Status badges with no decorative noise
- Click any row, land on the work
Dashboard
Priority queue
Collect
1 overdue
Open action
Clients
1 quote
Open action
Field
2 jobs
Open action
Suppliers
1 response
Open action
Next actions
3Collect overdue invoices
INV-0231 Civic St, 14 days overdue
Resolve safety blockers
1 expired SWMS on Northbank
Review supplier responses
2 RFQs answered this morning
The week, planned in one look.
Week and month views of every scheduled job, colour-coded by status. Click a day and see exactly what's on: job numbers, statuses, what's blocked. The field crew works the same jobs from an offline-first PWA, so the plan and the site never drift apart.
- Week and month calendar views
- Click a day: every job and its status at a glance
- Statuses from scheduled to invoiced, colour-coded
- Offline-first work-order PWA for site
Today
Schedule
May 2026
9 jobsTuesday, 5 May
3 scheduled jobs
Frame inspection
Scheduled
Electrical rough-in
In progress
Cladding
On hold
Know the number before it blows.
Every job carries a live budget by trade. Raise a PO or book a bill and committed, actual and remaining move that second. Subbie claims track against their work orders, over-limit spend routes to an approver, and cash timing shows when you're fronting money. The view the big-end-of-town platforms charge five figures for.
- Live budget vs committed vs actual vs remaining, by trade
- Subbie claim register: submitted → certified → paid, retention held
- Spend approval limits per role, with an audit trail
- Pay-when-paid gap: see when you're being the bank
Money & risk
Job cost control
Civic St 27 fit-out
78% committedPlumbing
Approaching$142.5k of $150.0k · $7.5k left
Electrical
Under$118.0k of $200.0k · $82.0k left
Materials
Over$46.2k of $45.0k · -$1.2k over
Awaiting approval
WO-00118 · Joinery · $18,000
Over Scott's $10k limit · routed to CM
Pay-when-paid gap
Fronting $41kSWMS signed on the glass, on site.
SWMS, JSA and induction templates are pre-loaded the day you sign up. The crew signs them off on their phone on site, and the signature is stored with the time and date. Inductions gate a subbie's first job, and expiry tracking keeps every ticket current.
- SWMS, JSA and induction templates pre-loaded on day one
- Signed off on glass on site, stored with time and date
- Inductions gate a subbie's first job until they're done
- Expiry tracking keeps certs and tickets current
Money & risk
Safety
Frame inspection · Lot 42
Job cannot close until safety pack is complete.
Blockers
Inductions & licences
Ari Patel
Induction
Mia Chen
Working at heights
Taylor Jones
SWMS
Prove the job, don't just finish it.
Give the client a live link to their job: current stage, quotes, variations and the photos you choose to share, never your costs. So they stop ringing to ask. At handover, one tap builds a branded pack from the job. Walk-the-room defect capture and daily site diaries are on the way.
- Client portal link: live progress and approved updates, never your costs
- Branded handover pack PDF, built from the job
- Bulk defect capture with photo proof (coming soon)
- Daily site diary and % complete (coming soon)
On site
Site to sign-off
Defects · Lot 42
12 closed · 3 openScuffed paint · level 2 meeting room
Assigned: Painter · photo attachedFixed, verify
Cracked tile · lobby entry
Assigned: Tiler · photo attachedOpen
Door closer adjustment · suite 3
Assigned: Carpenter · photo attachedClosed
Site diary · today
Mia · 4:12pmLevel 2 frames complete, plasterboard delivered. Sparky starts rough-in tomorrow.
68% complete · 1 blocker
Client portal
SharedStatus, photos & reports on a share link. Costs never shown.
Invoice on-site. Get paid without the chase.
The accepted quote flows into the invoice, so you're not re-keying the basics. Send it with a Pay Now link and the client pays from their phone in seconds. Overdue invoices flag themselves, so you chase from a list, not from memory.
- Invoice sourced from the accepted quote, numbered in sequence
- Pay Now links (Stripe) so clients can pay in seconds
- Two-way Xero sync (coming soon)
- Overdue invoices flagged automatically, so nothing slips
Money & risk
Financials
WIP
$42.8k
Outstanding
$9.9k
Net cashflow
$18.6k
Projected margin
24%
Cashflow
Next 60 days
WIP by job
Every client, every dollar they owe you.
One ledger of everyone you bill: outstanding, overdue, last invoice, last payment. Click an account and see the lot, every project, job, quote and photo from every visit. Stop asking 'when were we last here?' and stop chasing money from memory.
- AR ledger by account: outstanding, overdue, settled
- Full project, job and quote history per client
- Reminder runs for overdue accounts in one click
- Custom fields for whatever your business tracks
Accounts
Clients you bill
$51.3k
Outstanding
$9.4k
Overdue
31
Active accounts
AR ledger
Outstanding by account
Northbank Homes
Company · 3 projects
$38.4k
Harbor Build Co
Company · 1 project
$12.9k
Mason & Row
Individual · 2 projects
$0
Works where the work happens.
The crew doesn't sit at a desk. Footing installs straight from the phone's browser, runs without signal, and gets out of the way. Three taps to clock on, two to sign off, one to file a photo. SWMS gates the job before anyone swings a hammer.
- Installs from the phone's browser, no app store
- Works on site with zero signal, syncs when you're back
- SWMS sign-off before the job starts, not after
- Photos, notes and timesheets land on the right job, every time
3 jobs today
Next · 10:00 Frame inspection
Today
3 jobs · Tue 12 May
Frame inspection · Northbank Lot 42
42 Harbour Dr, Northbank
Hot water replace · Civic St 27
Cladding photo handover
The full job, end to end.
Quote to close-out on one platform. Every module earns its place. No add-on tax.
Jobs & scheduling
Week and month schedule views. Job statuses end to end. Field Today list.
Quoting on-site
Line items, GST, e-signature, PDF. All from the ute.
Invoicing & GST
Auto-generate from jobs. Progress claims. Stripe payment links.
Job cost control
Budget vs committed vs actual by trade. Live remaining, over-budget flags, drill-down to every dollar.
Subbie claims & work orders
Claim register per work order: submitted → certified → paid. Retention, variations, over-claim blocks.
Spend approvals
Authority limits per role. Over-limit POs and bills queue for approval. Append-only audit trail.
Clients, sites & contacts
Multiple sites per client. Photos per site. Custom fields.
Compliance forms
SWMS, JSA, induction sign-off. Gates on the job, not after.
Timesheets & activity
On-site timers, materials, work-order PDFs, full audit trail.
Projects & Gantt
Templates, dependencies, public share links for clients.
Variations & RFIs
Track scope creep. Quote variations. Log every RFI.
Handover gate
Won jobs can't hit site until scope, contacts and allowances are complete. Transition pack PDF included.
Defects & snagging
Walk the room, assign to trades, fix with photo proof. Coming soon.
Site diary & status
Daily logs, % complete and blockers, so anyone can answer “where's this job at?”. Coming soon.
Xero sync
Two-way invoices, payments and supplier bills. Coming soon.
Client & subbie portals
Scoped views for every trade and the client. Users are unlimited, so everyone's free.
Procurement & POs
Purchase orders, supplier RFQs, response tracking.
Admin financials
P&L by job. Cash timing, pay-when-paid gap, estimate-vs-actual close-outs.
Want the detail? Every pillar has its own page.
View all featuresBring your own ChatGPT or Claude.
Footing speaks MCP, a USB port for AI. Plug your workspace into the AI you already pay for, and it can answer from your real jobs, draft your paperwork, and chase what's overdue. Plain English in, work out. No extra AI subscription.
Try one. This is a live mock of a real session.
Two minutes to connect
- 1Open ChatGPT or Claude and add Footing as a connector
- 2Paste your workspace URL and API key from Settings
- 3Ask away. It sees your jobs, not anyone else's
Role-based access still applies: the AI can only see and do what your login can.
What's still outstanding from Northbank?
Northbank Homes has 2 invoices open, $16,240 total:
INV-0231 is past your 7-day reminder cadence. Want me to queue a reminder?
What can it actually do?
The full workspace is on the wire: 82 tools today. Ask, act, or automate.
Ask anything
Every job, budget, claim, quote, invoice, supplier, safety form and timesheet is queryable in plain English.
- “Which jobs are over budget right now?”
- “How far has the plumber claimed on Lot 42?”
- “Which accounts are overdue, worst first?”
Get work done
It can create quotes, invoices, jobs, POs and reminders: drafts first, sent only when you say so.
- “Quote this takeoff and send the RFQ to both suppliers”
- “Log 6 hours against the Civic job”
- “Snooze the Lot 42 reminder to Monday”
Wire it up
Webhooks push events out (invoice paid, SWMS expiring, RFQ overdue) to whatever you script next.
- Overdue invoice → message in the office chat
- SWMS expiring → text the subbie
- Quote accepted → job template spun up
Can Footing actually do that? Yes.
Two dozen more, already shipping.
- Automatic GST on every line
- ABN lookup & validation
- E-signature quote acceptance
- Offline-first PWA for the field
- Stripe Pay Now links on invoices
- AroFlo customer-initiated importer
- Full data export. Your data, always.
- MCP API for AI assistants
- Unlimited users on every plan
- Live budget vs committed vs actual by trade
- Remaining budget visible from the field
- Subbie progress-claim register
- Retention held & released per claim
- Spend approval limits with audit trail
- Pay-when-paid gap per job
- Payment terms & cash-timing forecast
- Progress-claim invoicing
- Induction & SWMS sign-off gates
- SWMS signed on glass, stored with time & date
- One-request command centre: WIP, cashflow, safety
- Estimate → delivery handover gate
- Estimate-vs-actual close-out reports
- Branded handover pack PDF
- Money-free client portal links
One tool. The whole job.
Quote on Monday, get paid on Friday. Every step lives in Footing. No app-hopping, no double entry, no losing the thread between site and office.
- 01
Quote on site
Build a line-item quote on the phone, GST and ABN auto-filled. Client signs with their finger.
- 02
Schedule the crew
Put the job on the calendar. The crew sees it on their Today list, and the SWMS is gated to start.
- 03
Run the work
Field techs work jobs offline-first. Photos, timesheets, materials and safety sign-offs, all in one place.
- 04
Invoice from the job
Progress claim or full invoice, pulled from what was actually done. Stripe link auto-attached.
- 05
Get paid
The Pay Now link closes the loop and payments land against the job. Two-way Xero sync is on the way, with CSV export in the meantime.
One simple price. Unlimited users.
Priced by the projects you run, not the people you add. Staff, subbies, clients, architects and certifiers are all free, on every plan. AUD, ex GST.
Starter
Up to 5 active projects
For builders running a handful of concurrent jobs.
- Every feature included
- Unlimited users
- Easy migration from your current tools
- Email support
Builder
Up to 20 active projects
For builders coordinating subbies across many sites at once.
- Every feature included
- Unlimited users
- Easy migration from your current tools
- Priority support
Scale
Unlimited active projects
For builders running a large or fast-growing project book.
- Every feature included
- Unlimited users
- Easy migration from your current tools
- Priority support
Enterprise
Custom, priced on construction value
For builders who need SSO, an SLA and a dedicated success manager.
- Everything in Scale
- Single sign-on (SSO)
- Uptime SLA
- Dedicated success manager
All prices AUD, ex GST. Annual prices are per month, billed yearly. No lock-in either way.
Every plan includes
- The full product: plans differ by project volume and support, never by features
- Unlimited users: staff, subbies, clients, architects, certifiers
- Easy migration from your current tools
- 14-day free trial, no card required
- No lock-in: month to month, cancel anytime
- Full data export, always
The per-seat tools punish you for growing.
Same 10-person builder, priced side by side. Footing is one flat monthly price by active projects; every user you add costs nothing. AUD ex GST, from each vendor's public pricing, July 2026.
| Footing | AroFlo | Sitebook AU | JACK | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat, by projects | Per user, POA | Base + per user | Base + per user |
| 10-person team / month | $299 flat | POA | ~$699 | ~$880 |
| Cost of the 11th user | $0 | from ~$39/mo | $50/mo | $59/mo |
| Setup & onboarding fees | $0 | from $1,450 | By quote | $0 |
| Subbie claims & retention | ||||
| Free subbie & client access | ||||
| Sign up today, no sales call | ||||
| One-click migration in | ||||
| Works with ChatGPT & Claude | ||||
| Self-host for free | ||||
| Xero sync | Soon |
Footing
$299 flat10-person team / month
- Pricing model
- Flat, by projects
- Cost of the 11th user
- $0
- Setup & onboarding fees
- $0
- Subbie claims & retention
- Free subbie & client access
- Sign up today, no sales call
- One-click migration in
- Works with ChatGPT & Claude
- Self-host for free
- Xero sync
- Soon
AroFlo
POA10-person team / month
- Pricing model
- Per user, POA
- Cost of the 11th user
- from ~$39/mo
- Setup & onboarding fees
- from $1,450
- Subbie claims & retention
- Free subbie & client access
- Sign up today, no sales call
- One-click migration in
- Works with ChatGPT & Claude
- Self-host for free
- Xero sync
Sitebook AU
~$69910-person team / month
- Pricing model
- Base + per user
- Cost of the 11th user
- $50/mo
- Setup & onboarding fees
- By quote
- Subbie claims & retention
- Free subbie & client access
- Sign up today, no sales call
- One-click migration in
- Works with ChatGPT & Claude
- Self-host for free
- Xero sync
JACK
~$88010-person team / month
- Pricing model
- Base + per user
- Cost of the 11th user
- $59/mo
- Setup & onboarding fees
- $0
- Subbie claims & retention
- Free subbie & client access
- Sign up today, no sales call
- One-click migration in
- Works with ChatGPT & Claude
- Self-host for free
- Xero sync
Prices checked July 2026 against each vendor's public AU pricing, ex GST where stated; '—' means partial or not published. Footing shown on the Builder plan: $299/mo flat, up to 20 active projects, unlimited users. Sitebook AU: Site Pro $299 + $50 per user beyond 2 included, plus a quoted setup and training fee. JACK: $349 with 1 full user included + $59 per extra full user (mobile-only users $10). AroFlo doesn't publish subscription pricing (Capterra AU lists from $39 per user/month); its Smart Start onboarding starts at $1,450 per its FAQ. Subbie claim retention: AroFlo documents head-contract retention only; Sitebook and JACK don't document retention. Footing's two-way Xero sync is rolling out. Verify before switching.
Switch in a weekend.
Switching tools usually means losing your history. Not here. Free AroFlo migration is built into onboarding: one click and your data comes across with you. On something else? CSV import works today, with Buildxact, ServiceM8, simPRO and Tradify importers on the way.
- 01
Connect your account
One click during onboarding points Footing at your AroFlo account. Other tools export to CSV. That works too.
- 02
Choose what to bring
Tick the records you want across: everything, or just the last few years. You stay in control.
- 03
Watch it import
Footing pulls it all in and shows progress as it runs. Most builders are fully moved over a weekend.
- Clients
- Sites
- Jobs
- Quotes
- Invoices
- POs
- Timesheets
- Documents
- Photos
Your data. Your server. Your call.
Most builders let us host it. But Footing is source-available, so if you'd rather run it on your own kit, you can. Same software either way, and your data is always exportable.
Got an IT person?
Send them the GitHub link. It's one command to install on a basic server. They'll have you running before lunch.
Read the install guideYou build software?
Fork it, ship a feature, send a pull request. Same code we run for paying customers. No paywalled features, no premium tier.
View on GitHubSensible answers.
When can I sign up?
Right now. Signup is fully self-serve: no demos, no sales calls. Create an account with your email, verify it, add your business details (ABN, GST, address), and you're into your workspace in a few minutes. Prefer to run it yourself? The same software is on GitHub, ready for your own server.
How does the free trial work?
Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, no card required. Kick the tyres on your real projects, and if it's not for you, walk away having paid nothing. After the trial, plans start at AU$129 per month (ex GST) with unlimited users. Month to month, cancel anytime. One trial per workspace.
How does pricing work? What counts as an active project?
One flat monthly price based on how many projects you're running at once: up to 5 on Starter, up to 20 on Builder, unlimited on Scale. An active project is one you're currently delivering; completed and archived projects don't count toward your limit, and their history stays in your workspace. Users never affect the price: staff, subbies, clients, architects and certifiers are all free to add, on every plan.
Is it really free if I host it myself? What's the catch?
Yes, free. Footing is source-available: the full code is on GitHub. Run it on your own server (or hand it to your IT person) and pay us nothing. The only catch: you can't take the code and launch your own competing hosted Footing service for two years. After that, even that restriction lifts. Nothing in the license stops you using it to run your own building business, forever.
How does switching from AroFlo work?
The AroFlo migration is free on every plan and built into onboarding: one click and Footing pulls your clients, sites, jobs, quotes, invoices, POs, timesheets, documents and site photos across. A full 5-year history takes about an hour; most builders switch over a weekend. If anything doesn't come through cleanly, we'll bring it across by CSV. Coming from Buildxact, ServiceM8, simPRO or Tradify? CSV import works today, and one-click importers for those are on the roadmap.
Can my whole team use it?
Yes, and it costs nothing to add them. Users are unlimited on every plan: office staff, supervisors, field crew, subbies, clients, architects, certifiers. Invite people by email during setup (or later from settings), each with a role: Office, Technician, or Contractor. Access follows the role, so subbies only see the jobs they're assigned to. Bigger teams can organise people into crews (office, field, sales) with leads and members.
Can I see budget vs actual while the job's running?
Yes, live. Set a budget per trade when the job's won (it can seed from the quote) and every PO, bill and timesheet posts against it as it happens. Each line shows committed, actual and remaining, flags approaching or over, and drills down to the documents behind the number. Over-limit spend routes to an approver with a full audit trail, and close-out compares estimate to actual, line by line.
Can my client see how the job's going?
Yes. Send them a share link and they get a live, curated view of their job: current stage, approved updates, quotes, variations and the photos you choose to share. No login, nothing to pay, never your costs or margins. Subbies get their own scoped portal too, with their work orders and claims. Everyone works off the same picture without ringing the office.
Does it work on the phone? On site with no signal?
Yes. Footing installs straight from your phone's browser, no app store. Your crew can clock on, take photos, fill out forms, and sign off jobs even with no signal. Everything syncs the second they're back in range.
Does it handle GST, ABN and BAS properly?
Yes. GST goes on every line automatically. ABN lookups validate against the ABR. Invoice numbering, BAS-friendly exports, AU date formats, AUD everywhere. Built in Australia for Australian builders, not US software with a currency switch.
Will it sync with Xero or MYOB?
Two-way Xero sync (invoices and payments) is rolling out. It's on the roadmap, not live on day one yet. In the meantime CSV exports work today, and MYOB is also on the way. Once it lands, your bookkeeper sees what site finished without double entry.
Can I use ChatGPT or Claude with my Footing data?
Yes. Footing speaks MCP (Model Context Protocol). The easy way to think about it: MCP is a USB port for AI. Open ChatGPT or Claude on your desktop, plug Footing in once, and ask in plain English: “what's outstanding from Northbank?”, “show me every job over $20k still in quote”, “draft a follow-up for the overdue invoices”. It uses the AI you already pay for, against your real jobs, no extra subscription. If you're technical, the same connection is a JSON API for your own scripts and automations.
Who's behind Footing?
A small Australian team, starting with builders in Adelaide. We got tired of paying $55 a head for software that still lost variations, so we built our own and put it on GitHub.
Build on a solid footing.
Get paid for every variation, catch the overspend before it happens, and switch off at night. Start free, no calls, no demos, no card. One flat price from AU$129/month after your 14-day trial, with unlimited users and no lock-in.