Clamp vs QuickBooks Online: The books or the job
QuickBooks Online is accounting: bank feeds, payroll, taxes and your accountant. Clamp is the job: estimate at cost, signed milestones, change orders and job costing on its entry plan. Most contractors who compare them end up with both.
Direct answer: QuickBooks Online puts job costing on Plus at $140 a month list; Simple Start is $38. Clamp Solo has job costing, change orders and milestones for $12.50 a month billed annually. Clamp doesn't sync with QuickBooks; your accountant gets an export instead. Choose QuickBooks Projects alone when you want job profit inside your books and don't need proposals, milestones or change orders.
Costed against the estimate line
Estimate against actual
Sample data. A receipt is costed against the estimate line it belongs to, and the job cost review compares what the job spent with what was estimated, by category.
What it costs
| Situation | Clamp | QuickBooks Online |
|---|---|---|
| One person, entry plan | Solo, billed annually: the job workflow with job costing $12.50 a month $149.99 a year | Simple Start: accounting, estimates and invoices, no Projects $38.00 a month $456.00 a year, calculated |
| One person who needs job costing | Solo, billed annually $12.50 a month $149.99 a year | Plus: the first plan with Projects $140.00 a month $1,680.00 a year, calculated |
| Customer portal and e-signatures | Assistant, billed annually $41.67 a month $499.99 a year | Simple Start: estimate accepted from the customer's email $38.00 a month $456.00 a year, calculated |
| A crew of 5 that needs job costing | Teams (up to 10 people), billed annually $83.33 a month $999.99 a year | Plus (5 users) $140.00 a month $1,680.00 a year, calculated Plus plus QuickBooks Time Premium for 5 users $210.00 a month $2,520.00 a year, calculated |
Every Clamp feature, next to QuickBooks Online
Solo includes 28 of Clamp's 44 features. QuickBooks Online's pages show 13 of the 44 in full and 7 in part, across its plans.
Clamp plan
| Feature | Clamp | QuickBooks Online |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Not found |
| 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 found |
| Five-factor lead scoringA clear yes, no, or maybe on a lead before driving out. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundPlus lists Customer AI for leads; no score described |
| 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 | Not foundNo close rate or lead source reports described |
| Daily briefingOverdue invoices, detected trips, follow-ups, appointments, and open proposals in one morning view. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundDashboards on Advanced |
| Estimating | 7 of 7 | 1 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 foundContracts and a deposit on estimates only |
| Itemized estimatesAssembly-based estimates with quantities and rates the contractor can inspect line by line. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Simple Start and upLimited on Free |
| Estimate templatesSave an estimate as a template for work done often. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundNot stated on the estimates Help article |
| Proposals with multiple package tiersGood, better, best packages in one proposal. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundOne estimate, no package tiers described |
| 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 listed is for books, tax and leads |
| 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 found |
| 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 cost rates, not estimated hours |
| Contracts and invoicing | 5 of 5 | 4 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 | ✓ Simple Start and upProgress invoices by percent or line; online deposit |
| 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 | ✓ Simple Start and upAutomatic tax on invoices and sales receipts |
| 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 | ✓ Credit memosApplied to open invoices; plan not stated |
| 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 | Not foundListed as a feature to look for, not described |
| Invoices tied to the contractEvery invoice belongs to the contract or change order it bills. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Every planFree: 2 invoices a month |
| Customer portal | 0 of 6 | 1 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 | Simple Start and upEstimate link with sign and pay page; no job portal |
| 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 | Not foundPhotos on estimates only |
| 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 | ✓ Simple Start and upTyped legal name |
| 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 | NoOne recipient signs |
| 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 | Not found |
| 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 found |
| 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 | App tracks tripsPlan and IRS rate not stated; no job link described |
| Automatic time on siteGPS geofence tracking of hours at the jobsite. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Workforce Elite, $134Separate QuickBooks Time product |
| Receipts and expenses on the jobReceipts logged against the job they belong to. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Plus, $140Receipt photo on an expense; expenses go to a project |
| Purchase ordersCommitted costs captured between the estimate and the receipt. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Plus, $140Not stated for projects |
| 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 | ✓ Simple Start and upUnpaid tab; bill pay |
| Job costing and reports | 3 of 3 | 1 of 3 |
| Job costingWhat the job actually cost, with a variance and catalog learning loop. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | ✓ Plus, $140Projects |
| Accountant export packageA package of the business's records prepared for an accountant. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Accountant access2 accountants; Excel sync on Advanced |
| 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 | Plus, $140Timesheets by project; CSV export not stated |
| Jobsites and teams | 2 of 8 | 1 of 8 |
| Teams: up to 10 linked accountsUp to 10 accounts, including the owner, sharing one business. | ✓ TeamsTeams, $83.33 a month billed annually | ✓ Essentials, $853, 5 or 25 users by plan |
| Role-based permissionsFive roles: owner, admin, staff, contributor, viewer. | ✓ TeamsTeams, $83.33 a month billed annually | Advanced, $340Custom user permissions |
| Unlimited subcontractor linkingSubs share jobsite photos and notes into the business account without consuming a seat. | ✓ TeamsTeams, $83.33 a month billed annually | Not foundW-9 requests and 1099 mapping only |
| 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 | Plus, $140Projects track income and costs, not a schedule |
| 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 | Not found |
| 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 | Not 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 | Not found |
| Job site photosPhotos saved to the project with full-screen viewing. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundPhotos on estimates and receipts only |
| 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 foundNot stated on official pages |
| Cloud backupBusiness data backed up to the cloud and restorable on a new device. | ✓ Assistant and TeamsAssistant, $41.67 a month billed annually | ✓ Cloud softwareData lives in your account |
| 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 appMobile app not on Free |
| Device backup, restore, CSV export, bulk importLocal backup and restore with CSV export and bulk import. | ✓ Every planSolo, $12.50 a month billed annually | Not foundNot stated on official pages |
| 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 foundFree plan needs an account; no card |
| Only in QuickBooks Online | Where QuickBooks Online is ahead | |
| Accounting: bank feeds, reconciliation, reports | Not in Clamp | ✓ Every plan, one bank on Free |
| Payroll | Not in Clamp | ✓ Add-on or bundle, from $6.50 per employee plus a base fee |
| Card and ACH payments on invoices | Your own payment link | ✓ Cards 2.99%, ACH 1% |
| W-9 requests and 1099 mapping | Not in Clamp | ✓ Construction page; 1099 e-filing on Advanced |
| Bill pay by ACH | Not in Clamp | ✓ From Simple Start |
| Accountant seats | Export package | ✓ 2 accountants, 3 on Advanced |
Nothing here matches. Pick All or another filter.
QuickBooks Online column from its pricing page, feature pages and help center, checked October 14, 2026. Not found means not on those pages, not that QuickBooks Online can't do it another way. Partly means something narrower than the Clamp feature. No product was tested against another.
Where each QuickBooks Online answer comes from
- QuickBooks Online Pricing QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- QuickBooks for Construction QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- Create projects in QuickBooks Online or Intuit Enterprise Suite QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- Track hourly labor costs and profitability by project QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- Set up and send progress invoices QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- Create and send estimates QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- Require an e-signature on estimates QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- Create purchase orders in QuickBooks Online QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- Enter and pay bills QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- Create and apply a credit memo QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- Set up and collect sales tax QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- Attach receipts in QuickBooks QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- QuickBooks Time Pricing QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- QuickBooks Payments Pricing QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- QuickBooks Payments rates QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- QuickBooks Payroll Pricing QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
- Automatically track mileage in QuickBooks Online QuickBooks Online, accessed October 14, 2026
Verdict
Clamp may fit when
- You want job costing without paying for QuickBooks Plus: receipts, bills and time on site against the estimate, on the entry plan
- You estimate at direct cost and want your markup applied once on top, visible to you and not to the customer
- You want a proposal with signed payment milestones and change orders the customer signs before the changed work starts
- You want a customer portal where the homeowner signs, sees invoices, photos and the schedule, and answers decisions
- Your bookkeeper is happy with a periodic export of payments, receipts, bills and mileage rather than a live sync
- You work with subs who need the job and schedule without seeing your prices
QuickBooks Online may fit when
- You need accounting software: bank feeds, reconciliation, a chart of accounts and tax-ready reports
- Your accountant works in QuickBooks Online Accountant and wants a seat in your file
- You run payroll, pay subcontractors by 1099, or want W-9 collection in the same system
- You already pay for Plus or Advanced and Projects gives you the job profitability you need
- You want to take card and ACH payments on the invoice through QuickBooks Payments (2.99% invoiced cards, 1% ACH)
- You need a live sync with a job app such as Knowify, JobTread, Houzz Pro, Buildertrend or Housecall Pro, which QuickBooks lists and Clamp does not offer
Before you compare them
- QuickBooks Online is accounting software. Clamp is not: no bank feeds, no general ledger, no payroll, no tax filing. The comparison is the job side against the books side.
- QuickBooks job costing lives in Projects, which its construction page and Help article limit to Plus and Advanced. Plus is $140 a month at list price. Clamp's job costing is on Solo at $19.99 a month or $149.99 a year.
- QuickBooks publishes monthly list prices with no annual contract and a 50% off for 3 months promotion. Twelve-month totals on this page are twelve times the list price, calculated. The promotion is not used in any total.
- A QuickBooks estimate is a priced document the customer accepts from their email. It does not show your cost against your price or a markup line; QuickBooks' estimates Help article does not mention markup, revisions or change orders.
- Clamp's estimate is built at direct job cost with the markup applied once on top, and the same lines carry through to the proposal, the milestones, each change order and the job cost review.
- QuickBooks Projects can carry estimates, invoices, expenses, bills and timesheets, with hourly labor cost rates you set per employee. Estimate versus actual on the project dashboard is stated for Advanced, not Plus. Clamp reviews actual against the estimate by category on every plan.
- Progress invoicing in QuickBooks is made from an accepted estimate by percentage or by line. Clamp bills from milestones tied to job events, each with a checklist of evidence, as the stage starts.
- QuickBooks' Payments pricing page prints no card or ACH rate; its payment rates page does: 2.99% on invoiced cards and digital wallets, 3.5% keyed, 2.5% on a card reader or Tap to Pay, 1% ACH, 'accurate as of 09/18/2026'. The Payments page also lists a Solopreneur plan at $20 a month that the main pricing page does not show.
- Clamp has no QuickBooks sync. The accountant export is a periodic package of CSV files, not a connection. If you need transactions to land in QuickBooks on their own, that is a reason to stay with a product that syncs.
- "Not found" on this page means not found on QuickBooks' current pricing page, construction page, Payments pricing and rates pages, Payroll pricing page, QuickBooks Time pricing page or the Help articles cited. It does not mean QuickBooks cannot do it another way. Neither product was tested against the other.
Workflow
| Feature | Clamp | QuickBooks Online |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A job workflow: lead, estimate, proposal, change orders, invoices, job costing. Not accounting software | Accounting: income and expenses, bank transactions matched and recorded, reports, bill pay, with estimates and invoices built in |
| Bank feeds, reconciliation, general ledger | Not offered. Payment accounts in Clamp only label rows in the accountant export; Clamp does not track their balances | Automated bookkeeping that matches and records transactions, with general business reports from Simple Start; one bank connection on Free |
| Accountant access | The accountant export: CSV files of customer payments, receipts, bills and mileage for a period, with a summary and a cross-check (every paid plan) | Access for 2 accountants on Simple Start, Essentials and Plus, 3 on Advanced; accountants use the free QuickBooks Online Accountant |
| Payroll, W-9s and 1099s | Not offered. Clamp does not pay vendors or track W-9s, 1099s, insurance certificates or lien waivers | Payroll is sold separately or bundled (from $6.50 per employee a month plus a base fee); W-9 requests to subs and 1099 box mapping on the construction page; free 1099 e-filing on Advanced |
| Estimate at cost, then markup | Every line at direct cost; the markup from your overhead and profit goal goes on once, and the customer sees the price | Estimates are product and service lines at price; cost against price and markup are not mentioned in the estimates Help article |
| AI estimate draft | A draft at direct cost from a plain-language description, then your markup (3 free credits, then 25 or 50 a month by plan) | Not found on the pricing or construction page; the AI features listed are categorization, tax and anomaly tools |
| Estimate acceptance and deposit | Proposals signed in the customer portal (Assistant and Teams); the deposit is the first milestone | Status updates when the customer accepts or declines from their email; the construction page describes a deposit amount the customer can pay online |
| 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 total shown before signing | Not found on the pricing page, construction page or estimates Help article; the construction FAQ lists change order tracking as a feature to look for |
| Customer decisions after signing | A Decisions needed list: needed by, what it blocks, who owes the answer, the resolution | Not found on the pages cited |
| Progress billing | Milestones tied to job events, each with a checklist of evidence; billed as the stage starts | Progress invoices from an accepted estimate, for the whole estimate, a percentage or by line item; no plan limit stated in the Help article |
| Job costing: which plan | Every plan, from Solo at $149.99 a year | Projects on Plus ($140 a month list) and Advanced ($340); not on Free, Simple Start or Essentials |
| Job costing: what it holds | Receipts costed against the estimate line, vendor bills and purchase orders, time on site at the loaded rate, returns; reviewed against the estimate by category at close | Estimates, invoices, expenses, bills, checks and timesheets assigned to a project; project reports with income, expenses and profit margin; estimate versus actual on the dashboard stated for Advanced |
| Labor cost on the job | Time on site logged per job by role at the loaded labor rate, or detected when you leave the site; no GPS clock or geofence | Hourly cost rate per employee (wage plus employer taxes, overhead added by hand) applied to timesheets tracked to the project, on Plus and Advanced; field clock-in is QuickBooks Time, sold separately |
| Receipts and vendor bills | A receipt is costed against an estimate line and shows over or under; bills allocate to jobs, link to purchase orders and can hold retainage | Bills, checks and expenses assigned to a project, with billable items passed to a later invoice; bill pay with free ACH on Simple Start and up ($0.50 per standard ACH over the allotment) |
| Business mileage log | Automatic trip detection, confirmed per trip, attached to the job, at the IRS rate for its date | The mobile app 'automatically tracks trips from start to finish', categorized business or personal afterward; the Help article does not state which plans include it or mention the IRS rate. QuickBooks Time Elite shows how far employees travel on the clock |
| Customer portal | Sign proposals and change orders, see milestones, invoices, photos and the schedule, answer decisions (Assistant and Teams) | Customers accept estimates and pay invoices and deposits online; a portal that holds signed change orders, milestones and decisions was not found on the pages cited |
| Payments | Not processed by Clamp: add your own payment link and record what was paid against the invoice | QuickBooks Payments on the invoice from Simple Start: 2.99% invoiced cards and digital wallets, 3.5% keyed, 2.5% card reader or Tap to Pay, 1% ACH, instant deposit 1.75% more; no monthly fee stated |
| Team and subs | Up to 10 accounts on Teams, plus unlimited free sub invites who see the job and schedule, never your prices | 1 user on Free and Simple Start, 3 on Essentials, 5 on Plus, 25 on Advanced; QuickBooks Time users are $10 or $12 each a month on top |
| Sync between the two | No QuickBooks sync. The accountant export is a periodic CSV package your bookkeeper imports or reviews | Third-party integrations from Simple Start, not on Free; the construction page lists Knowify, JobTread, Houzz Pro, Buildertrend and Housecall Pro as apps that sync |
| Free use | One free AI estimate on clamppro.com and 3 free AI credits in the app; the first month of Solo is free on monthly billing | A Free plan with 1 user, 2 invoices a month, no mobile app and no integrations; a 30-day free trial on paid plans; 50% off for 3 months |
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 pages and documentation. | Clamp's own statement |
| QuickBooks' construction page and Projects Help article both limit Projects, which is where its job costing lives, to Plus and Advanced. | Verified against a published source |
| QuickBooks publishes monthly list prices, '50% off for 3 months', and 'No annual contract'. Its construction page shows '+10% off annual price' without detail, so no annual QuickBooks price is used here. | Verified against a published source |
| One person who needs job costing, twelve months: QuickBooks Plus is $1,680 at list price (calculated); Clamp Solo is $149.99 billed annually. Plus includes the accounting Clamp does not do. | Calculated from published prices |
| Five people with job costing and field time tracking, twelve months: QuickBooks Plus with QuickBooks Time Premium is $2,520 (calculated from $140 plus $20 base plus $10 per user); Clamp Teams is $999.99 for up to 10 accounts. The plans are not equivalent. | Calculated from published prices |
| QuickBooks Payments rates are on its payment rates page, not its Payments pricing page: 2.99% invoiced cards and digital wallets, 3.5% keyed, 2.5% card reader or Tap to Pay, 1% ACH, 'accurate as of 09/18/2026'. Clamp does not process payments. | Verified against a published source |
| Clamp does not sync with QuickBooks. This is Clamp's own statement and no integration is claimed. | Clamp's own statement |
Switching
- Do not cancel QuickBooks because you adopted Clamp. Keep the ledger where your accountant works; move the job records.
- Ask your bookkeeper whether a periodic CSV package of payments, receipts, bills and mileage fits how they close the month. If they require a live sync, Clamp is not the fit.
- If you pay for Plus only to get Projects, work out whether Simple Start or Essentials plus Clamp covers what you use; the ledger, bank feeds and accountant seats stay on every paid QuickBooks plan.
- Name your payment and deposit accounts in Clamp the way your bookkeeper names them in QuickBooks before the first export.
- If you take cards on QuickBooks invoices today, set up a payment link for Clamp's invoices and portal, since Clamp does not process payments.
- Finish open jobs where they started; start new ones in Clamp, and keep invoicing in one place per job so a payment is never recorded twice.
Questions
Do I need another contractor app if I already use QuickBooks Online?
Not necessarily. QuickBooks Online may cover your needs alone; another app is worth it only when you need job workflows your accounting setup doesn't provide. Clamp adds connected estimates, proposals, milestones, change orders and job-cost records. It does not sync with QuickBooks, so decide which system owns each record and how your bookkeeper will receive the export.
What records does Clamp export for a QuickBooks bookkeeper?
Clamp's accountant export gives CSV files of customer payments, receipts, bills and mileage for a chosen period, with a summary and a check that the files agree. Your bookkeeper can review or import them while QuickBooks stays the general ledger. It is a manual handoff, not a live connection, which matters if you want records to move on their own.
Which QuickBooks Online plans include contractor job costing?
QuickBooks Online has job costing through Projects on Plus and Advanced; Simple Start and Essentials do not include Projects. A project collects invoices, expenses, bills and timesheets and reports income, expenses and margin. QuickBooks' documentation places the project dashboard's estimate-versus-actual view on Advanced, so don't assume every Projects plan reports the same way.
How much is QuickBooks Online if I need job costing?
QuickBooks Online Plus is $140 a month at list price for five users and includes Projects job costing; Advanced is $340 a month for 25 users. The advertised 50% discount lasts three months, and payroll costs extra. Clamp has job costing on Solo at $19.99 a month or $149.99 a year, but it does not replace QuickBooks accounting.
Does Clamp sync invoices and expenses with QuickBooks Online?
No. Clamp does not sync invoices or expenses with QuickBooks Online; it provides an accountant export package instead. That matters if you want records to move between the job and the books without a manual handoff. If a two-way accounting connection is a requirement, Clamp is the wrong fit for it today.
Sources & provenance
- QuickBooks Online Pricing QuickBooks (Intuit) (official source)
- QuickBooks for Construction QuickBooks (Intuit) (official source)
- Create projects in QuickBooks Online or Intuit Enterprise Suite QuickBooks Help (official source)
- Track hourly labor costs and profitability by project in QuickBooks Online QuickBooks Help (official source)
- Set up and send progress invoices QuickBooks Help (official source)
- Create and send estimates QuickBooks Help (official source)
- QuickBooks Time Pricing QuickBooks (Intuit) (official source)
- QuickBooks Payments Pricing QuickBooks (Intuit) (official source)
- QuickBooks Payments rates QuickBooks (Intuit) (official source)
- QuickBooks Payroll Pricing QuickBooks (Intuit) (official source)
- Automatically track mileage in QuickBooks Online QuickBooks Help (official source)
- Clamp Pricing Clamp Research
- The Clamp Method Clamp Research
- How to track what a job costs before you pay it Clamp Research
- The accountant export Clamp Research
Changes: Oct 14, 2026: Initial draft. Verified QuickBooks Online plan list prices, user counts, the Free plan limits, the 50% off for 3 months promotion and 'No annual contract' on the pricing page; Projects job costing limited to Plus and Advanced on the construction page and the Projects Help article; progress invoicing, estimates, hourly labor cost and automatic mileage Help articles; QuickBooks Payments rates (2.99% invoiced cards, 3.5% keyed, 2.5% card reader, 1% ACH) on the payment rates page; payroll bundle pricing; QuickBooks Time Premium and Elite pricing. Clamp's no-sync statement and the accountant export are cited from Clamp's own guides. Draft for owner review. Direct answer rewritten price first (owner ruling 2026-10-14).; Oct 14, 2026: Published after owner approval; FAQ structured data on.