Home builders & remodelers
Powerful software for home builders & remodelers
Beam's construction management software 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
Job costing from one simple hub
Beam unifies the data in your shared drive, email, spreadsheets, and accounting software so that you can move faster and build a more profitable business.
From estimating to job costing, receipt capture, and online payments—Beam has the right tools to improve your residential construction business.
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 professional estimates faster and win more jobs
Beam makes it easy to create and send detailed estimates from your phone or computer.
Track whenever a customer opens your estimate email or page so that you can follow-up and win more jobs.
Then, capture e-signatures from customers upon approval in the client portal.
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
Configure approval workflows between bookkeepers, project managers, and the business owner.
Invoices are reconciled against your original contracts and approved change orders to make sure you don't overpay.
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.
Project budgeting on autopilot
Track spend by accounting codes and compare estimate vs. actuals. Stop waiting for manual reports to understand profitability.
Create budgets directly from your estimate and update your budget with change orders in real-time.
Beam's automated budgeting saves your office hours a month.
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 simplify their construction financials.
