How Buildinghost
See how our platform helps construction companies manage their projects, costs and teams — all in one place.
5 min
To your first project
20 days
Free access
8+
Modules in the platform
3
Roles and permissions
Step by step
Four steps to full control
From registration to running your projects properly — the process is quick and intuitive.
2 minutes to get going
Register for free
Create an account with an email and password. Enter your company details — name, company number, address and country of establishment. The system automatically puts you on a 20-day free trial with full access to every feature.
- No credit card at registration
- 20-day trial with full access
- Your company profile is created automatically
- Immediate access to all features
Register for free
5–10 minutes to configure
Set up your company
Add your team members with their roles and access rights. Enter your workers, subcontractors and suppliers. Tailor the expense categories to how your business actually works.
- 4 roles: Administrator, Manager, Accountant, Supervisor
- Invite team members by email
- A database of workers and their rates
- A register of subcontractors and suppliers
Set up your company
Get the work organised
Create your first project
Enter each site as its own project, with a name, address, client, planned budget and deadline. The system tracks real costs automatically and compares them against the planned budget in real time.
- Detailed description and site address
- Planned budget and deadline
- Statuses: Planning, Active, Paused, Completed
- Visual progress against plan
Create your first project
Keep control in real time
Manage and analyse
Record costs and hours and upload documents straight from site. Track the financial health of every project from the central dashboard, with charts and reports.
- Dashboard with consolidated financials
- Alerts when a budget is exceeded
- Reports on costs, labour and materials
- Access from any device, anywhere
Manage and analyse
The full feature set
Everything a construction company needs
Eight integrated modules working together for full visibility and control over your projects.
Project management
One place for all your sites. Set budgets and deadlines, and follow progress on a visual bar.
- Unlimited active projects (depending on plan)
- Planned vs actual budget in real time
- Statuses: Planning / Active / Paused / Completed
- Filter and search by client, status, date
- Photo gallery for the site
- Share a gallery with clients by link
Cost control
Full visibility over the finances of every project. Categorise costs, attach invoices and get automatic warnings when a budget is being exceeded.
- 8 categories: Materials, Labour, Machinery, Transport and more
- Attach photos of invoices and documents
- Costs by supplier and subcontractor
- A chronological history of every cost
- Warnings at 80% and 100% of budget
- Comparative analysis across projects
Workforce management
Track your workers, record hours by project and calculate pay automatically. Full control over labour costs.
- Worker profiles with hourly rate
- Record hours worked by project and date
- Automatic pay calculation
- Days present and absences
- Labour cost report by project
- A history of every payment
Subcontractors and suppliers
A central database of all your business partners. Track contract sums, amounts paid and what is still owed for each counterparty.
- Detailed profiles with contact information
- Contract sum, paid and outstanding for each
- Linked to specific projects
- A history of every settlement
- Attach contracts and documents
- Quick access to contacts from a mobile device
Document handling
Put an end to lost documents. Keep every invoice, contract, permit and photograph in one secure place, tied to the project it belongs to.
- Upload files straight from a phone
- Photograph documents with the camera
- Categories: Invoices, Contracts, Permits, Photos
- Fast search by type, project, date
- Link documents to a specific project
- Secure cloud storage
Calendar and planning
A full monthly view of everything committed. Plan meetings, set deadlines, and never miss an important date again.
- Monthly view with colour markers by type
- 4 types: Meeting, Deadline, Reminder, Other
- Link an event to a specific project
- Start and end time for every event
- A panel of upcoming events
- Quick one-click adding
Reports and analysis
Make informed decisions with detailed financial reports. Follow trends, compare projects and find where things can improve.
- Summary dashboard with key indicators
- Cost breakdown by category, with charts
- Planned vs actual budget comparison
- Labour cost reports by period
- Top projects by cost and progress
- Real-time visualisations and charts
Photo gallery
Document visual progress on site. Upload photographs from the site and share them with clients through a protected link.
- Unlimited photos per project
- Organisation and captions
- Share with clients through a public link
- Option to set an expiry on the link
- Mobile upload from the camera
- Full-screen photo view
Permissions and access
Role-based access for the whole team
Four roles with different levels of permission. Each team member sees only what they need to.
Administrator
Full control — manages the company, the subscription, the users and all data.
- All access rights
- Manage users and roles
- Manage subscription and payments
- Delete data
- Company configuration
Manager
Runs projects, records costs, works with workers and documents.
- Create and edit projects
- Record costs and hours
- Manage workers
- Upload documents and photos
- Access to reports
Accountant
Focused on the financial side — reviews and records costs and documents.
- View all projects
- Record costs
- Manage documents
- Access to financial reports
- No deletion rights
Supervisor
Site supervision — records hours worked and follows progress on site.
- View projects
- Record hours worked
- Upload photos
- Limited access to finances
- No administrative rights
Technology and security
Secure, dependable infrastructure
Encrypted data
All data is stored encrypted. Row Level Security guarantees that nobody can reach another company’s data.
Cloud platform
Runs in the browser — no installation, no updates to apply. Access from computer, tablet and phone at any time.
24/7 availability
Our infrastructure is built for high availability. Your data is with you — even from a site with no office.
Your data
Your data belongs to you. At any time you can download a full archive of everything you have entered.
Alerts and warnings
The system warns you automatically about budget overruns, approaching deadlines and important project changes.
Regular updates
The platform keeps developing. New features arrive automatically at no extra cost to you.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Answers to the questions we are asked most
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