Less work for your crew. Less cleanup for your office.
QuickBooks Time
- Manual clock-in and project tagging on every punch — errors pile up
Workyard
- Geofenced auto clock-in & out — nothing to remember
- Job site auto-detected — no project to pick
Why contractors choose Workyard over QuickBooks Time
Most contractors land on QuickBooks Time because it came with QuickBooks — not because it's built for the field. Workyard puts everything from the field to QuickBooks on autopilot.
Summit Builders
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Lincoln HS — Gymnasium
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Why Customers Choose Workyard
Job costs that are right — without the office chasing
QuickBooks Time
- Hours tagged to jobs by hand every punch — no automatic allocation
Workyard
- Job site hours and driving auto-allocated
- Cost codes tailored to each worker's role and project
Superior GPS accuracy and reliability
QuickBooks Time
- GPS drift and location inaccuracy are among its most-cited complaints
- Rigid geofences need constant manual correction
Workyard
- Custom polygon geofences for any site shape
- Continuous tracking captures drive time & mileage automatically
An app your crew will actually use
QuickBooks Time
- A dated, hard-to-navigate app is its top complaint in field reviews
- Clock-in/out bugs — entries vanish or sync wrong
Workyard
- Clean, modern app built for the field — minimal training
- Stable clock-in that keeps working offline
Keep QuickBooks — without the lock-in
QuickBooks Time
- QuickBooks-first — fewer native options if your stack changes
Workyard
- Native sync to QuickBooks Online & Desktop — and 20+ more systems
- Employees, jobs and cost codes stay in sync — no re-keying
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.
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Riverside Plaza
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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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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
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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
Owner · 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 QuickBooks Time the better choice for my crew?
QuickBooks Time is a familiar, general time clock that's tightest with QuickBooks — and free if you're on QuickBooks Payroll Elite. Workyard is built for construction crews: accurate GPS, hours auto-coded to the job, and an app the field actually uses — and it still syncs natively to QuickBooks. If you just need basic time inside the QuickBooks ecosystem, QB Time is convenient. If GPS accuracy, automatic job costing, and crew adoption matter, that's where Workyard pulls ahead.
Isn't QuickBooks Time free with my QuickBooks Payroll?
If you're on QuickBooks Payroll Elite, QB Time is bundled — so the line item looks free. The real cost shows up elsewhere: GPS drift and a dated app mean crews fight to clock in, and the office spends hours a week correcting manual project tags and bad locations. Workyard isn't free, but most teams more than recover the difference in saved admin time and accurate, auto-coded hours. Weigh the all-in cost, not the line item.
Does Workyard sync with QuickBooks as well as QuickBooks Time does?
Yes — natively, to both QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop. Verified hours flow in coded to the right job and cost code, and employees, jobs and cost codes stay in sync — no CSV exports, no re-keying. You keep the QuickBooks workflow you rely on; you just drop the dated time app in front of it. And unlike QB Time, Workyard also connects to Sage, ADP, Foundation and 20+ others if your stack changes.
Is Workyard's GPS really more accurate?
It's the single most common reason contractors switch from QuickBooks Time. QB Time's GPS drift and rigid geofences are among its most-cited complaints — teams report spending 30+ minutes a week correcting locations. Workyard uses continuous, polygon-geofenced GPS that holds up on real job sites, and it's private by design: location isn't tracked once a worker clocks out.
Will my crew actually use it?
Yes — Workyard auto-clocks crews in by GPS geofence and keeps the app clean and simple, so adoption sticks even with workers who don't like apps, and it works offline when signal drops. QuickBooks Time's dated app is its top complaint among field workers. Don't take our word for it — compare QuickBooks Time's and Workyard's public app-store reviews.
What does QuickBooks Time do better than Workyard?
Two things, honestly: it's part of Intuit, so the QuickBooks integration is as native as it gets and it's free if you're on QuickBooks Payroll Elite; and it's a familiar brand millions already use. If you're a small shop that just needs basic hours inside QuickBooks, that convenience is real. Contractors switch to Workyard when GPS accuracy, job costing, and crew adoption matter more than the bundle.
How hard is it to switch from QuickBooks Time?
Days, not months — and you keep QuickBooks. We connect your QuickBooks, import your people, jobs and cost codes, and get crews capturing time. You can run both in parallel during a trial, and we'll walk your exact QuickBooks setup in a 15-minute demo.
Does Workyard handle payroll and job costing?
Yes. Verified hours and job costs sync to QuickBooks and 20+ payroll and accounting systems, coded to the right job and cost code — no CSV exports or re-keying.