Less work for your crew. Less cleanup for your office.
Connecteam
- Relies on crews remembering to clock in and pick the right job
Workyard
- Geofenced auto clock-in & out — nothing to remember
- Job site auto-detected — no project to pick
Why contractors choose Workyard over Connecteam
Connecteam is a general-purpose deskless workforce app. Workyard is built for contractors, with job costing, reliable on-site GPS, and hours that automatically code to jobs and flow into payroll and accounting.
Summit Builders
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Lincoln HS — Gymnasium
TODAY
7h 38m
COST CODE
03-310Concrete
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Based on 181 customer conversations
Why Customers Choose Workyard
Payroll & construction accounting, deeply integrated
Connecteam
- Connects mostly through Zapier — no native construction payroll or accounting depth
Workyard
- Verified hours and job costs sync to Sage, QuickBooks, Foundation, ADP & 20+
- Coded to the right job and cost code — no re-keying
Real job costing — not just hours
Connecteam
- No cost-code functionality at all
- Project hours don't roll up into job costs
Workyard
- Every hour auto-coded to the job & cost code
- Live labor costs on every job
Superior GPS accuracy and reliability
Connecteam
- Captures location at clock-in/out only — not continuous
- Drive time and mileage between sites go uncaptured
Workyard
- Custom polygon geofences for any site shape
- Continuous tracking captures drive time & mileage automatically
Better site documentation
Connecteam
- Forms aren't tied to the job — crews can clock out without finishing them
- No integrated expense card — field spend tracked outside the app
Workyard
- AI form builder — digitize any form, inspection or report in minutes
- Enforce form capture based on activity rules
- Integrated expense card captures spend & receipts
Your complete operating system for the jobsite.
Workyard connects the office, crew, and jobsite in one intelligent platform, automating the capture, correction, and completion of everything needed to run profitable jobs.
Job site
From manual time tracking to jobsite automation
Hours and job progress captured automatically as crews arrive, take breaks, travel between sites, and finish work.
Try it free Summit Builders
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Riverside Plaza
On site · GPS verified
Today's schedule
1:00pBlock D · Slab prep
Today so far
Break tracked12:14p · 30 min
Moved to Block D12:44p · Slab prep
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Operations
Schedule work. Control cost as work happens.
Schedule work, communicate it to crews, and track progress in real time to stay on top of costs and budget.
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Job #1 · 00012
7:00–11:30a
Slab pour
Riverside Medical · 123 Walker St
Job #2 · 00012
12:30–3:00p
Framing
Lincoln HS Gym · 500 Sky Rd
Job #3 · 00018
3:30–5:00p
Punch list
Cedar Lane Reno · 88 Pine Ave
Back office
Run your office on trusted field data
Verified hours and job costs flow directly into payroll, accounting, and ERP systems. No re-keying. No chasing mismatches.
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One app for the whole field. Time is just the start — Workyard captures and connects everything your crews do on site.
- Time
- Location
- Schedule
- Job progress
- Forms
- Expenses
What you'll achieve in your first 30 days.
Real numbers from 4,000+ contractors who closed the gap between the field and the office.
- 5–18%
- Cut from labor costs
- Rounded times, buddy punches, forgotten clock-outs — eliminated.
- 12+ hrs
- Saved on payroll prep, weekly
- What used to take a day now takes minutes
- 100%
- Of hours tied to a job
- GPS auto-allocates every hour to a project — bill T&M accurately, protect margin on fixed-price.
Real customers that transformed their field operations.
$5K saved per week QuickBooks crashed twice and wiped our hours. We switched to Workyard, plugged it into our accounting, and started saving roughly $5,000 a week almost immediately.
Victor Rodriguez
HR Field Manager · Synaptic Solar · 50-200 employees
No more over-budget projects If a worker stays clocked in when they shouldn't, we blow the budget on a fixed-price job. With Workyard, every minute we bill is a minute we actually paid for.
Brian Mata
Operations · Wagler Custom Homes · 200-500 employees
6× growth We were losing money on every job — couldn't bill clients accurately or pay our guys right. Workyard fixed that. Six times the business later, the margins finally make sense.
Vinny Gondim
Owner · Mainsail Painting · 20-50 employees
California compliance, to the minute California wants it down to the minute — exact clock in, exact clock out. Workyard is the only tool we've found that delivers that without fighting the crews.
James Monzello
Owner · Green Wall Tech · 50-200 employees
+30% in reimbursements We've improved leaps and bounds in the accuracy of our job costing. We hand clients a complete bill every 30 days with a full audit trail — that's where the 30% lift came from.
Kelly Adreani
Owner · Earned Run · 50-200 employees
National Paving
$1,500/mo recovered from one worker Workyard will save me $1,500 in inflated payroll costs from one guy alone. Guys would round to a 7 a.m. arrival time. Now I can see 7:18, 7:14 actual arrival times on site.
Dan Hausmann
Owner · National Paving · 20-50 employees
Payroll: 4 hrs → under 1 Payroll went from four hours weekly to less than one hour. The accuracy and the time saved have been game-changing for us.
Kathi Smith
Vice President · D&S Electric Group · 11-20 employees
$150K saved in 6 weeks Workyard helped us track time more accurately than we'd ever managed before. We estimated $150,000–$200,000 in yearly payroll savings — and surpassed our yearly target in the first six weeks.
April Callaway
Operations · AV Decking · 50-200 employees
Zero payroll issues in 3 months Mondays used to be brutal — employees lining up at my door over payroll mistakes. Three months on Workyard, not a single issue.
Dana Almaraz
Director · Allied Restoration · 20-50 employees
Workyard is my admin team Five-person team, thirty clients, no admin support. Workyard became my admin team — every hour, every invoice, every job, all in one place.
Bill Kapaldo
Owner · Construction Punch Services · 11-20 employees
Time theft eliminated Before Workyard, I had no way of knowing if a worker was where they said they were. Now I see the exact moment they leave the shop and arrive at the job site.
Brenda Tait
Office Manager · Pro Home and Sunrooms · 11-20 employees
Hundreds of hours saved weekly I've saved hundreds of hours a week by not having 20 supervisors moving against each other. I've never been able to consolidate time like that before.
Shiloh Hoggard
Operations Manager · Accord Group · 20-50 employees
$123K saved with Smart Forms When our insurance inspector came for a pre-audit, I handed him my phone. He'd never seen fleet maintenance tied to timekeeping like that — that's where the $123K in insurance savings came from.
Melina Pheabus
Office Manager · TR3 Group · 20-50 employees
Falcon Drilling & Blasting
Paperwork → digital forms Tracking time and paperwork was a nightmare — timecards by email, safety forms by text, repair requests dropped off on paper. Workyard pulled it all into one place.
Brittany Konitzer
Operations · Falcon Drilling & Blasting · 50-200 employees
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FAQs
What contractors ask before switching
Is Workyard or Connecteam the better choice for my crew?
Connecteam is a capable, low-cost all-in-one app for general deskless teams across many industries. Workyard is built specifically for contractors — real job costing and cost codes, continuous GPS that holds up on site, and hours that flow straight into construction payroll and accounting. If you want a cheap general team app with chat and training, Connecteam is strong there. If job costs, GPS accuracy, and construction integrations matter most, that's where Workyard pulls ahead.
Isn't Connecteam a lot cheaper?
Up front, yes — Connecteam is free for small teams and a few dollars per user after that, and Workyard costs more. The fuller picture is total cost: Connecteam's free tier caps at a handful of users, and scaling past it means buying separate hubs, so costs can climb quickly. More importantly, at 50+ workers Workyard's automatic job allocation and accurate GPS save the office hours every week and cut payroll leakage — savings that typically outweigh the per-seat difference. Compare all-in cost at your crew size.
Connecteam does everything — chat, forms, training, scheduling. Why switch?
It's true Connecteam bundles a lot. The question is what your team actually uses day to day — most contractors lean on two or three modules. For the core that matters on a job site — accurate time, GPS, job costing, and clean data flowing into payroll and accounting — Workyard goes deeper because it's built only for construction. You trade breadth you may not use for depth where it counts.
Does Workyard do job costing and cost codes?
Yes — and it's a real gap for Connecteam. A worker can tag a project per punch in Connecteam, but it has no cost codes and those hours don't roll up into labor cost by job. In Workyard, every GPS-verified hour is auto-coded to the right job and cost code, and labor cost updates in real time on every job — so you catch overruns while you can still act.
We're already trained on Connecteam — is switching hard?
It's one of the easier switches. Workyard's auto clock-in by GPS means there's almost nothing for crews to learn — they download the app and it just works. We map your jobs, import your people and cost codes, and you can run both in parallel during a trial. Days, not months.
What does Connecteam do better than Workyard?
Three things, honestly: price (a free tier and lower per-seat cost), all-in-one breadth for general teams (built-in chat, training, and company-wide communication), and deeper shift-scheduling tools like recurring templates and shift swaps. If those are your priorities — especially across a non-construction workforce — Connecteam is a strong fit. Contractors switch to Workyard when construction depth and data accuracy matter more.
Will my crew actually use it?
Yes — Workyard auto-clocks crews in by GPS geofence and keeps the app simple, so adoption sticks even with workers who don't like apps, and it keeps working offline when signal drops. Workyard's GPS is private by design, too: location isn't tracked once a worker clocks out. Don't take our word for it — compare Connecteam's and Workyard's public app-store reviews.
Does Workyard handle payroll and integrations?
Yes — natively. Verified hours and job costs sync to Sage, QuickBooks, Foundation, ADP and 20+ payroll and accounting systems, coded to the right job and cost code — no CSV exports or Zapier glue.