Home builders & remodelers
Powerful Residential Construction Management Software
Beam's construction management software for home builders and remodelers helps you impress your clients, improve your project profitability, and streamline your back office.
- Job costing, progress invoicing, and change order management
- Client payment, expense management, and banking built-in
- Subcontractor management and online bill payment
Streamlined job costing for home builders & remodelers
Beam consolidates your data from email, spreadsheets, shared drives, and accounting software into one simple hub, enabling you to manage your projects more efficiently and increase profitability.
From precise estimating to detailed job costing, receipt capture, and seamless online payments—Beam provides the tools that home builders need to manage every aspect of residential construction. Stay on top of your budgets, improve communication with your team, and ensure every project runs smoothly from start to finish.
Project management
Change orders
Files & notes
CRM
Vendors
Estimates
Financials
Bills & expenses
Invoices
Payments
Contracting
Schedule of values
Payment schedules
Retainage
Compliance
Lien waivers
Licenses
Create estimates faster and win more residential jobs
Beam simplifies the process of creating and sending detailed estimates directly from your phone or computer, specifically tailored for home builders and residential construction projects.
Track when potential clients open your estimate emails or view the estimate page, allowing you to follow up at the perfect time and secure more jobs in your local market.
Once your estimate is approved, capture e-signatures seamlessly through the client portal, ensuring quick approvals and moving your residential projects forward without delays.
Accept payments from homeowners online
Impress your customers with Beam’s invoices and convenient payment portal. Avoid time-consuming drives to pick up and deposit paper checks.
- $5 per online bank transfer
- 3% credit and debit card fee
- Optionally, pass card fees to your customer
- Track payments outside Beam
Add your contract & change orders
Choose between milestone, progress, and time & materials billing.
Create and send an invoice
Choose amounts, attach files, and add custom memos. Beam will send a personalized email and reminders near the due date.
Get paid
Payments are deposited in your bank account within 1-3 business days after the customer clicks “Pay”.
Bill payment built for residential contractors
We know that strong communication and prompt payment is key to retaining your best subcontractors. Switch to Beam's online bill payment solution to be your trade's favorite GC.
We do the heavy lifting by sending payment notifications to your subcontractors and requesting bank information when needed.
Add your subcontracts
Add milestone, progress, or time & materials subcontracts for each of your trades.
Add or request bills
Consolidate mailed and emailed invoices on Beam. Ask subcontractors to invoice you on Beam for faster processing & payment.
Schedule payments
Once scheduled, subcontractors receive notifications to track payment status or securely add their bank information.
With Beam, you set the rules
Set customized approval workflows between bookkeepers, project managers, and owners to keep residential construction projects on track.
Beam reconciles invoices with original contracts and approved change orders, ensuring accurate payments and preventing overpaying. This creates transparency and accountability between your team members, reducing the risk of costly errors and ensuring smoother project management.
Capture receipts on the field to automate expense management
Stop spending hours each week collecting and categorizing receipts. Give your team Beam Cards to capture receipts and categorize expenses right after every purchase, right from their phones.
The Beam Card is a Visa card designed to help your team save money & time.
- No annual fees
- 0% APR with autopay²
- 1% cash back
- Issue up to 50 cards to teammates
- Set individual credit limits
Apply & issue Beam Cards
Fill out the online application and issue physical and virtual cards to teammates. Configure credit limits to control spend.
Make purchases & capture receipts
After each purchase, teammates will receive a notification to upload their receipt and categorize the expense to a project and cost code.
Track profitability & invoice faster
With expense management on autopilot, your office will spend less time chasing down receipts, giving them more time to track profitability and send invoices.
Automated budgeting for residential construction
In residential construction, it's easy for project costs to spiral out of control due to manual tracking and delayed reporting. Without clear visibility, expenses can exceed budgets before you're even aware.
With Beam, you can track spending by accounting codes and compare estimated vs. actual costs in real time. Create budgets directly from your estimates, and automatically update them with approved change orders, so you're always working with the most accurate data.
Beam’s automated budgeting saves your team hours each month, helping you avoid costly surprises and keep your projects profitable.
Bookkeeping made easy
Import your existing vendors, customers, chart of accounts, and projects from your accounting software.
Beam automatically syncs invoices, bills, and payments directly into your accounting software.
That means less manual data entry, fewer errors, and a happier accountant.
Time is money. Save both.
Join hundreds of contractors that trust Beam to organize project finances and stay on budget.
