Clamp vs Contractor Foreman: Broad construction administration, or a focused residential job workflow on a phone
Contractor Foreman is broad construction administration at a low entry price: purchase orders, bid management, permits, submittals, AIA-style billing, Gantt scheduling and two-way QuickBooks sync. Clamp is a focused residential job workflow on a phone: estimate at cost, signed milestones, customer decisions, change orders and job cost review.
Direct answer: Contractor Foreman starts at $49 a month, billed annually only, for one user; month to month starts on Standard at $139 for three users. Clamp has change orders, job costing and mileage on every plan from $12.50 a month billed annually, and $83.33 covers up to 10 people. Choose Contractor Foreman when you need purchase orders, bid management, permits, submittals, AIA billing and two-way QuickBooks sync.
Estimate at cost, by trade
Milestones in the portal
Sample data. The estimate is built by trade at direct cost with the markup applied once, and the customer portal shows the milestones a client signs and pays against.
What it costs
| Situation | Clamp | Contractor Foreman |
|---|---|---|
| One person, entry plan, billed annually | Solo, billed annually $12.50 a month $149.99 a year | Basic, billed annually $49.00 a month $588.00 a year |
| One person, billed monthly | Solo, billed monthly $19.99 a month $239.88 a year, calculated | Standard, billed monthly (Basic is annual only) $139.00 a month $1,668.00 a year, calculated |
| A crew of 3, billed annually | Teams (up to 10 people), billed annually $83.33 a month $999.99 a year | Standard (up to 3 users), billed annually $105.00 a month $1,264.00 a year |
| A crew of 5 that needs job costing and a client portal | Teams (up to 10 people), billed annually $83.33 a month $999.99 a year | Plus (up to 8 users), billed annually $166.00 a month $1,997.00 a year, calculated |
Every Clamp feature, next to Contractor Foreman
Solo includes 28 of Clamp's 44 features. Contractor Foreman's pages show 21 of the 44 in full and 10 in part, across its plans.
Clamp plan
| Feature | Clamp | Contractor Foreman |
|---|---|---|
| CRM and leads | 3 of 5 | 0 of 5 |
| Email remindersEmail reminders before appointments, follow-ups, and scheduled installs, deliveries, and inspections. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | PartlyPlan not stated. Crew schedule texts and emails; expiration reminders |
| Customer appointment remindersHomeowners get an email before an appointment, with confirm and reschedule built in. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | Not foundReminders go to crews, not clients |
| Five-factor lead scoringA clear yes, no, or maybe on a lead before driving out. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundLead stages and sources; custom fields only |
| Lead reportingClose rate, revenue won, open pipeline, close rate by lead source, and lost leads by reason, on Home and the stats screen, with CSV and PDF export. Revenue by source does not exist; see _excluded. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | PartlyPlan not stated. Lead stats by source, stage and timing; no close rate |
| Daily briefingOverdue invoices, detected trips, follow-ups, appointments, and open proposals in one morning view. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | PartlyPlan not stated. Dashboard of widgets you pick |
| Estimating | 7 of 7 | 2 of 7 |
| Design agreementsPaid preconstruction sits in the document chain, so planning work is paid work. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundDocument Writer contracts and warranties |
| Itemized estimatesAssembly-based estimates with quantities and rates the contractor can inspect line by line. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Estimates; 1build pricing not on Basic or Standard |
| Estimate templatesSave an estimate as a template for work done often. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Estimate templates (KB title only) |
| Proposals with multiple package tiersGood, better, best packages in one proposal. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | PartlyPlan not stated. Optional items, selections and options (KB titles only) |
| AI estimating from a plain-language job descriptionDescribe the job in plain words and get an itemized draft: assemblies, quantities, researched baseline rates, with the contractor's own saved rates taking over once set. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundAI assistant for takeoffs only |
| Remodel and new-home estimatingOne estimator covers remodels and new homes and detects which one a description is. Detect is the default job type; a contractor can pick Remodel or New home per estimate, or set Kind of work to Remodeling to turn the choice off. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundResidential and commercial templates; no job-type detection |
| Labor hours on estimatesEstimated labor hours, shown as a range, on every labor line, with an allowance for setup, cleanup, and material runs (15% by default) the contractor can change in Settings or per estimate. A planning figure; it never appears on proposals, PDFs, or the portal. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundLabor pricing in the cost database; no hour ranges |
| Contracts and invoicing | 5 of 5 | 3 of 5 |
| Payment schedulesSplit a proposal into a deposit, milestone payments, and a final payment, then invoice each one from the signed contract. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Schedule of values and progress invoicing; deposits not stated |
| Sales tax on documentsAdd a sales tax rate or a flat amount to invoices and other documents, with collected tax totaled by quarter and year. The contractor enters the rate; Clamp does not look rates up. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | PartlyPlan not stated. Tax rates by location; no tax report found |
| Customer credits and refundsApply a customer's credit to an open invoice, record a refund, or adjust a balance, with the history kept on the job. Recorded only; Clamp moves no money. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundKB credit article did not load; offline payments recorded |
| Change orders that update the contractScope changes get written up and tied to the original contract, so verbal changes stop costing money. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Contract amount updates on approval |
| Invoices tied to the contractEvery invoice belongs to the contract or change order it bills. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Progress, AIA and time and material invoices |
| Customer portal | 0 of 6 | 2 of 6 |
| Password-free customer portalThe homeowner opens a link. No account, no password, no app to install. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | PartlyPlan not stated. Client Portal per contact; no-account access stated only for estimate links |
| Unlimited documents and photos shared to the portalShare job documents and photos to the customer portal without a count cap, subject to per-item size limits. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Pick files and photos to share; limits not stated |
| E-signing on the homeowner's phoneDocuments get signed on the homeowner's own phone, no account required. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Estimates by link, no account; change orders |
| Several signers on one documentSend one document to up to five people, each signing their own line, see who has signed, and remind anyone who has not. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | Not foundCourtesy copies on estimate approvals only |
| Project updates and decisions in the portalPost project updates to the customer's portal and ask the customer to make a decision, which they answer from their phone. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | PartlyPlan not stated. Approvals of estimates, change orders, RFIs and submittals |
| Not delivered email handlingWhen a customer email Clamp sends bounces, the document is marked Not delivered so the contractor can fix the address and resend, or copy the link to text it. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | Not foundKB troubleshooting article only; body did not load |
| Expense tracking | 5 of 5 | 3 of 5 |
| Automatic GPS mileage trackingBackground trip detection, route maps, IRS rates, trips linked to the job that caused the drive. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundVehicle logs record mileage for maintenance |
| Automatic time on siteGPS geofence tracking of hours at the jobsite. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | PartlyPlan not stated. GPS and geofenced time cards; automatic clock-in not stated |
| Receipts and expenses on the jobReceipts logged against the job they belong to. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Expenses; receipt photos not stated |
| Purchase ordersCommitted costs captured between the estimate and the receipt. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. One-click bill from a PO |
| Accounts payable and vendor billsVendor bills tracked and surfaced in the attention flows, with first-class vendor records. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Bills tied to POs and subcontracts |
| Job costing and reports | 3 of 3 | 2 of 3 |
| Job costingWhat the job actually cost, with a variance and catalog learning loop. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Original and revised budgets; job costing reports |
| Accountant export packageA package of the business's records prepared for an accountant. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | QuickBooks syncTwo-way, Online and Desktop |
| Time reporting with CSV exportReported labor time with a time-tracking CSV export for payroll preparation and per-person rate decomposition. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Time card reports; Gusto export |
| Jobsites and teams | 2 of 8 | 7 of 8 |
| Teams: up to 10 linked accountsUp to 10 accounts, including the owner, sharing one business. | ✓ TeamsTeams, $83.33 a month billed annually | ✓ Standard, $105Up to 3 users; feature pages say unlimited users |
| Role-based permissionsFive roles: owner, admin, staff, contributor, viewer. | ✓ TeamsTeams, $83.33 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Custom roles, four access levels per feature |
| Unlimited subcontractor linkingSubs share jobsite photos and notes into the business account without consuming a seat. | ✓ TeamsTeams, $83.33 a month billed annually | Not foundSub project access exists; seat use not stated |
| Jobsites tab: jobs and schedule in one placeA Jobsites tab with Jobs and Schedule views. With Assistant each job has its own screen with its schedule, photos, and updates, and the Schedule view holds every install, delivery, inspection, appointment, and follow-up; Teams adds the crew and subs on each job, shaped by role. Subs invited to a job use it free and see their own jobs grouped by builder. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Projects |
| Job scheduleSchedule installs, deliveries, and inspections on each job, with the contractor, a supplier, or nobody yet on each item, and see them all in the Jobsites tab. Putting crew or subs on an item is the Teams shared schedule. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Gantt scheduling per project |
| Shared job scheduleOne schedule for the business: installs, deliveries, and inspections visible to the team, with clash notes when dates collide. | ✓ TeamsTeams, $83.33 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Gantt and crew schedule; no clash alerts found |
| Punch listsThe small final items that close a job out, tracked per job and shareable as a text message or a PDF. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Punchlists, sent as PDF |
| Job site photosPhotos saved to the project with full-screen viewing. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ IncludedPlan not stated. Files and Photos, with markup |
| Backup and offline | 3 of 5 | 2 of 5 |
| Full job workflow, offlineLeads, design agreements, estimates, proposals, change orders, and invoices on the phone, working without a connection. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundOffline use not stated |
| Cloud backupBusiness data backed up to the cloud and restorable on a new device. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ Cloud softwareWeb and mobile app |
| Business portal: read-only web viewA read-only view of the business in a browser. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ Web app |
| Device backup, restore, CSV export, bulk importLocal backup and restore with CSV export and bulk import. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | PartlyCSV import and export of some records |
| No account required to startThe app opens to local use; an account is needed only for server features or subscribing. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundStarts from a 30-day trial on the plans page |
| Only in Contractor Foreman | Where Contractor Foreman is ahead | |
| Plan takeoffs | Not in Clamp | ✓ Measure plans and link quantities to estimates |
| Bid management and subcontracts | Not in Clamp | ✓ Vendor bid invites, convert to a PO or subcontract |
| AIA G702 and G703 billing with retainage | Payment schedules, no AIA forms | ✓ Schedule of values and retention tracking |
| Two-way QuickBooks sync | Accountant export package | ✓ QuickBooks Online and Desktop |
| Gantt scheduling | Shared job schedule, no Gantt | ✓ Dependencies, critical path, baselines |
| Built-in payments and client financing | Your own payment link | ✓ Stripe card and ACH; SweetPay financing |
Nothing here matches. Pick All or another filter.
Contractor Foreman column from its pricing page, feature pages and help center, checked October 14, 2026. Not found means not on those pages, not that Contractor Foreman can't do it another way. Partly means something narrower than the Clamp feature. No product was tested against another.
Where each Contractor Foreman answer comes from
- Contractor Foreman Pricing Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Contractor Foreman Features Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Client Portal Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Change Orders Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Estimates Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Integrations Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Leads Manager Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Opportunities Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Invoices Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Schedule of Values Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Time Cards Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Equipment and Vehicle Logs Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Custom Roles and Permissions Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Users Allowed Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Punchlists Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Purchase Orders Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Bills Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Expenses Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Files and Photos Gallery Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Document Writer Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Scheduling Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Crew Schedule Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Calendar Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Notifications Manager Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Dashboard Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Standard Reports Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Job Costing Reports Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Projects Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Directory Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Sub-Contracts Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- 30-Day Free Trial Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
- Contractor Foreman Knowledge Base Contractor Foreman, accessed October 14, 2026
Verdict
Clamp may fit when
- You run two- to ten-person residential jobs from a phone and want one job record from the first call to closeout
- You estimate at direct job cost and apply your markup once from your overhead and profit goal
- You want the signed proposal, milestones, customer decisions and change orders on every plan without a feature matrix to decode
- You want time on site and business mileage captured automatically and costed against the job
- You work with subs who need job access without seeing your customer prices
- You want a plain-language AI draft of the estimate at direct cost to start from
Contractor Foreman may fit when
- Your jobs need purchase orders, bid management, subcontracts, retainage or AIA G702 and G703 billing
- You track permits, submittals, RFIs, inspections, daily logs and safety meetings
- You schedule on a Gantt chart and sync it to Google or Outlook calendars
- You want two-way QuickBooks Online or Desktop sync and a Gusto time card export
- You want GPS-verified, geofenced crew time cards
- You want plan takeoffs, a real-time material cost database and client financing on estimates
- You want the lowest published entry price for one user on annual billing
Before you compare them
- Contractor Foreman is a broad construction administration platform with 47 published modules. Clamp is a shorter residential job workflow with the documents and tracking records a remodel needs. Many Contractor Foreman modules have no Clamp equivalent, and Clamp does not try to match them.
- Contractor Foreman's strongest documented advantages are purchase orders, bid management, subcontracts, permits, submittals, daily logs, Gantt scheduling, AIA-style billing with retainage, GPS time cards, takeoffs and two-way QuickBooks sync.
- Clamp's advantage is the connected residential job: lead qualification, an estimate at cost with the markup applied once, proposal milestones, customer decisions, change orders, automatic time and mileage, and the estimate-against-actual review, on every plan.
- Contractor Foreman Basic is published at $49 a month for annual billing only; on monthly billing the first plan is Standard at $139. Clamp Solo is $19.99 monthly or $149.99 a year.
- Contractor Foreman's pricing page lists user bands per plan (1, 3, 8, 15, unlimited). Its feature pages say plans include unlimited users with no per-user charges. Both are quoted here; ask Contractor Foreman which applies.
- The pricing page's plan-by-feature check marks are icons that could not be read as text, so this page does not state which Contractor Foreman plan includes the client portal, change orders or job costing. The only readable plan note is that Basic and Standard do not include Local Material Database pricing.
- Contractor Foreman processes online payments through Stripe. Clamp records payments and can show your own payment link in the customer portal.
- Clamp is not accounting software, not a geofenced crew time clock and does no takeoffs. Contractor Foreman documents all three.
- "Not found" on this page means not found on Contractor Foreman's current pricing, features, integrations and feature pages. It does not mean Contractor Foreman cannot do it another way.
- Neither product was tested against the other. No speed or accuracy claim is made.
Workflow
| Feature | Clamp | Contractor Foreman |
|---|---|---|
| Estimate at cost, then markup | Every line at direct cost; the markup from your overhead and profit goal goes on once | Bulk and line-item markups, a cost items database, and real-time material and labor pricing from 1build (Local Material Database pricing not included on Basic and Standard) |
| AI estimates | A draft at direct cost from a plain-language description, then your markup (3 free AI credits, then 25 or 50 a month by plan; an estimate is 1 credit, a revision half) | No AI estimating was found on the estimates or features pages; the pricing page describes a built-in AI assistant for takeoffs |
| Plan takeoffs | Not offered | Upload plans, measure quantities and link them to estimates |
| Paid design agreement | A design agreement document on every plan | Proposal and cover sheet templates for residential and commercial work; a dedicated paid design agreement was not found on Contractor Foreman's pricing, features or estimates pages |
| Proposal e-signature | Proposals signed in the customer portal (Assistant and Teams) | Clients review and sign estimates by link without an account; signatures carry timestamps and IP addresses |
| Change orders | A change order on every plan: priced and billed, e-signed in the portal on Assistant and Teams, with its effect on the contract shown before signing | Change orders signed electronically; the contract amount updates automatically on approval; change order requests can be combined. The plan that includes them was not readable on the pricing page |
| Progress billing | Milestones tied to job events, each with a checklist of evidence; billed as the stage starts | Schedule of values, progress invoicing, AIA-style G702 and G703 invoicing with retention tracking, and time and material billing |
| Customer decisions after signing | A Decisions needed list: needed by, what it blocks, who owes the answer, the resolution | Clients approve estimates, change orders, RFIs and submittals in the portal; a decision list with due dates and what each blocks was not found on Contractor Foreman's pricing, features or client portal pages |
| Customer portal | Sign proposals and change orders, see milestones, invoices, photos and the schedule, answer decisions (Assistant and Teams) | Approvals with a trail, contract totals and balances, pay by card or ACH, progress photos, schedule, file uploads, full or read-only access per contact. The plan that includes it was not readable on the pricing page |
| Payments | Not processed by Clamp: add your own payment link and record what was paid | Online payments through Stripe, card or ACH from the portal; SweetPay client financing on estimates; processing fees were not found on the official pages |
| Job costing | Every plan: receipts, vendor bills, time at the loaded rate, mileage and returns, reviewed against the estimate at close | Real-time job costing with original and revised budgets, fed by time cards, bills and purchase orders, with job costing reports. The plan that includes it was not readable on the pricing page |
| Crew time | Time on site logged by role, or detected automatically when you leave a job site; no geofencing | Time cards with GPS verification, geofencing and automatic breaks; one-click export to Gusto |
| Business mileage log | Automatic trip detection, confirmed per trip, at the IRS rate for its date | Equipment and vehicle logs record mileage, tolls and service history; an automatic IRS-rate trip log was not found on the features page |
| Purchase orders, bids and subcontracts | Vendor bills and receipts against the job; no purchase orders, bid management or subcontract documents | Purchase orders tied to bills, bid management with vendor invites and conversion to a PO or subcontract, sub-contracts and retainage |
| Permits, submittals, daily logs and safety | A punch list and job photos; no permit, submittal, RFI, daily log or safety modules | Permits with dates, fees and inspections; submittals; daily logs; inspections; incidents; safety meetings; forms and checklists |
| Scheduling | A shared job schedule your crew and subs confirm (Teams); no Gantt chart | Gantt chart project scheduling, crew schedule, service tickets, and Google and Outlook calendar sync |
| Team and subs | Up to 10 accounts on Teams, plus unlimited free sub invites who never see your prices | User bands by plan on the pricing page: 1, 3, 8, 15 or unlimited; feature pages say unlimited users with no per-user charges. Vendors can bid without an account |
| Accounting | An accountant export package; no ledger, payroll, bank feeds or tax filing | Two-way sync with QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop; Gusto time card export; Xero listed as coming mid-2026 |
What was and was not tested
What was compared: Hands-on testing of either product. Neither was tested against the other, and no speed or accuracy claim is made. Documented, not tested.
| Statement | Basis |
|---|---|
| Published by Clamp, using each product's own pricing, features, integrations and feature pages. | Clamp's own statement |
| One person, billed annually: Contractor Foreman Basic is $588 a year and Clamp Solo is $149.99. Basic is the lowest published entry price among the construction administration platforms Clamp has compared, and it covers far more modules than Solo. | Verified against a published source |
| One person, billed monthly: Contractor Foreman shows Basic for annual billing only, so the first monthly plan is Standard at $139 a month for up to 3 users ($1,668 a year, calculated). Clamp Solo is $19.99 a month ($239.88 a year, calculated), with the first month free. | Calculated from published prices |
| Five people with job costing and a client portal, billed annually: Contractor Foreman Plus is $1,997 a year for up to 8 users; Clamp Teams is $999.99 for up to 10 accounts. Whether Plus is the plan that includes the portal and job costing could not be read from the pricing page. The plans are not equivalent: Plus includes administration modules Clamp does not offer. | Calculated from published prices |
| Contractor Foreman's pricing page shows the Plus, Pro and Unlimited money-back guarantee as 100 days in one section and 30 days in another. Both figures appear on the same page on 2026-10-14. | Verified against a published source |
Switching
- Export your projects, estimates, invoices, change orders and client list from Contractor Foreman before you cancel; Basic and annual plans renew at the published annual price.
- Do not assume Contractor Foreman history can be imported into Clamp; confirm formats first.
- If you depend on QuickBooks sync, purchase orders, AIA billing or GPS time cards, those have no Clamp equivalent; decide how you will handle them before you switch.
- Save your cost items database somewhere you can re-enter the ones you use as Clamp rates.
- Finish open jobs where they started; start new ones in Clamp.
Questions
How much do Contractor Foreman and Clamp cost for a five-person crew?
A five-person crew fits Contractor Foreman Plus, $166 a month billed annually for up to eight users, or Clamp Teams, $83.33 a month billed annually for up to 10 accounts. Contractor Foreman adds purchase orders, bid management, submittals and AIA billing that Clamp does not have, so weigh those office functions alongside the subscription price.
What is Contractor Foreman's cheapest plan, and can I pay monthly?
Contractor Foreman Basic is $49 a month for one user, sold only on annual billing at $588 a year. Month-to-month billing starts with Standard at $139 a month for up to three users. Standard billed annually shows as $105 a month, but the annual total on the pricing page is $1,264, so budget from the annual total rather than the rounded monthly figure.
What can homeowners approve and pay through Contractor Foreman's client portal?
Contractor Foreman's client portal lets homeowners approve estimates, change orders, RFIs and submittals, see financial totals, photos and schedules, upload files, and pay invoices by card or ACH, with full or read-only access per contact. Its pricing page does not make clear which plan includes the portal. Clamp's portal and e-signing start on Assistant and are included in Teams.
When would a small remodeler need Contractor Foreman's extra features?
A small remodeler needs Contractor Foreman when the work calls for purchase orders, bid management, submittals, AIA billing or retainage, not just estimates and invoices. It also covers remodeling basics such as change orders, time cards and a client portal. Clamp is a narrower residential workflow and does not replace those construction-administration tools.
Do Contractor Foreman and Clamp sync with QuickBooks?
Contractor Foreman publishes a two-way connection with QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop, while Clamp provides an accountant export package instead of a sync. Contractor Foreman also documents a Gusto time-card export. Clamp does not replace accounting, payroll, bank feeds or tax filing, so automatic transfer to the books is a real reason to choose Contractor Foreman.
Sources & provenance
- Contractor Foreman Pricing Contractor Foreman (official source)
- Contractor Foreman Features Contractor Foreman (official source)
- Client Portal Contractor Foreman (official source)
- Change Orders Contractor Foreman (official source)
- Estimates Contractor Foreman (official source)
- Integrations Contractor Foreman (official source)
- Clamp Pricing Clamp Research
- The Clamp Method Clamp Research
Changes: Oct 14, 2026: Initial draft. Verified against Contractor Foreman's pricing page (Annual and Monthly tabs, Basic shown for annual only), features page, integrations page and the client portal, change orders and estimates feature pages on 2026-10-14. Plan-by-feature check marks on the pricing page could not be read as text, so plan inclusion for the client portal, change orders and job costing is marked not readable. Contractor Foreman's breadth, GPS time cards, QuickBooks sync and AIA billing are credited. Direct answer rewritten price first (owner ruling 2026-10-14).; Oct 14, 2026: Published after owner approval; FAQ structured data on.