Choosing your tools
Choose software that wins work, runs jobs, and keeps customers updated. Use this guide to compare the tools, price, and day-to-day fit on a real job.
Use the matched price and includes tables below. Confirm any tool that is not listed before choosing a plan.
Test construction software on a real job before you choose.
Use a job with an estimate, schedule change, field update, and client decision.
Bring your team. Ask your office, project manager, trade, supplier, and homeowner what they need to see.
Work through the job. Enter the inquiry, estimate, schedule, field update, change, and client decision in the project tools.
Check each view. Check what the office, project manager, trade, supplier, and homeowner can see.
Compare the results. Compare pricing, access, and customer communication before you choose.
Getting-started project help explains the steps.
HHM Core PM team · Updated October 6, 2026
Capture the inquiry, measure the job, and build the estimate, proposal, and contract. Check that customer details follow the job through each step.
Build the schedule, budget, and material plan from the signed work. Track deliveries, trades, daily logs, photos, time, changes, and selections with the job.
Finish inspections and punch items, then keep warranty requests and repair notes with the home. Test the parts of the system your crew will use every day.
Use a real job to see how each tool fits your crew. Buyer research lists missing features and repeated work among common reasons small contractors switch software. See Sources and references.
Set up cost codes, templates, and your team. Check what you can bring over from your current system, then start with the tools your team will use.
Test it on site. Your job stays up to date when the crew can quickly add photos, daily logs and notes.
Compare growing per-user costs with feature tiers, including HHM's plan matrix. Review HHM Intelligence drafts before you use them and decide who approves the work.
HHM Core PM gives each role a clear phone menu and shortcuts. Clients, trades, and suppliers do not use team seats.
Test a phone with poor signal, in sunlight and with one hand. Check readable contrast, document access and photo upload reliability with large images.
Try voice dictation for logs and photo capture before you choose. HHM Core PM has a clear mobile menu, inspection photo capture, voice dictation, and phone level and camera measurement on supported devices.
Check notification controls as part of the field test. HHM works in a phone browser and in the HHM mobile app, with push notifications you control.
Ask how calendar, email, phone, texts, payments, and lead sources connect to customer details. HHM Connect runs on HighLevel. HHM Core PM keeps forms, chat, calendar, business phone, follow-up, and review requests with the lead, estimate, schedule, and job.
Ask what accounting details sync and which way they move. With your approval, HHM Core PM can use QuickBooks fields and Facebook, Instagram, and Google lead sources. Past messages and appointments can appear on the lead when available.
Test supplier catalogs, photo tools, and exports before you choose. HHM Core PM imports supplier catalog CSV files and exports project CSV files. Review HHM Intelligence drafts before you use them in quotes, punch items, or projects.
Compare the same team size and monthly billing. We use each company’s lowest published plan with estimates and client e-signature, scheduling, daily logs, change orders, a client portal, and bids. If a vendor does not publish a price, we say so.
| Team members | HHMMatched plan: Growth | JobTreadMatched plan: Single plan | BuildertrendMatched plan: Quote only | Houzz ProMatched plan: Pro | ProcoreMatched plan: Quote only | Contractor ForemanMatched plan: Monthly tier by team size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $197/moGrowth, unlimited team seats | $199/moSingle plan | Quote only, no published priceQuote only | $199/moPro | Quote only, no published priceQuote only | $139/moStandard, up to 3 users |
| 3 | $197/moGrowth, unlimited team seats | $239/moSingle plan | Quote only, no published priceQuote only | $299/moPro | Quote only, no published priceQuote only | $139/moStandard, up to 3 users |
| 6 | $197/moGrowth, unlimited team seats | $299/moSingle plan | Quote only, no published priceQuote only | $449/moPro | Quote only, no published priceQuote only | $199/moPlus, up to 8 users |
| 10 | $197/moGrowth, unlimited team seats | $379/moSingle plan | Quote only, no published priceQuote only | $649/moPro | Quote only, no published priceQuote only | $279/moPro, up to 15 users |
| 15 | $197/moGrowth, unlimited team seats | $454/moSingle plan | Quote only, no published priceQuote only | $899/moPro | Quote only, no published priceQuote only | $279/moPro, up to 15 users |
| Includes | HHM Growth | JobTread Single plan | Buildertrend Quote only | Houzz Pro Pro | Procore Quote only | Contractor Foreman Monthly tier by team size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimates with e-signature | Yes | Yes | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page |
| Scheduling | Yes | Yes | Not listed on pricing page | Yes | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page |
| Daily logs | Yes | Yes | Not listed on pricing page | Yes | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page |
| Change orders | Yes | Yes | Not listed on pricing page | Yes | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page |
| Client portal | Yes | Yes | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page |
| Bids | Yes | Yes | Not listed on pricing page | Yes | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page |
| Clients/trades/suppliers free (no seat) | Yes | Yes | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page |
| Marketing built in (forms, chat, calls, follow-up, booking, reviews) | Yes | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page |
| Free leads (one lead, one contractor, never shared) | Yes | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page | Not listed on pricing page |
HHM Growth is $197/mo with unlimited team seats. Bids start at Growth. HHM Starter is $97/mo and includes the same project tools without bids. HHM Pro adds Council review and Portfolio Risk Radar.
Houzz Pro Teams, from $399/mo with unlimited users, is an alternative to Pro. Teams adds email marketing and a custom website; those do not establish the full marketing bundle listed above.
The table shows only what the checked pricing facts confirm. Confirm a tool with the vendor when it is not listed. Contractor Foreman tiers use its published user caps, but these pricing facts do not confirm feature inclusion. Procore lists annual contracts and does not publish a monthly price.
Prices and terms as published by each vendor on October 5, 2026. Check the vendor's site for current pricing. Sources: HHM pricing, JobTread pricing, Buildertrend pricing, Houzz Pro pricing, Procore pricing, Contractor Foreman pricing.
Write your top five problems and your must-haves. Pick one real job (small remodel is ideal).
Set up cost codes, one template and your people.
Run the lead-to-estimate path on a new inquiry. Send a proposal to a friendly client.
Use the schedule, daily logs, photos and time clock in the field.
Test a change order, a purchase order and a delivery. Run one inspection or punch cycle.
Start free with Portal Basic to try it on a real job.
Check the basics first: unit-priced lines with units and material/labor splits, templates that scale, reusable cost codes, and measurement tools with clear limits. Then check that clients can read the proposal, change orders stay organized, and the approved estimate carries into the budget.
Yes if you have one or two jobs and enjoy it; the cost appears in re-entry, version control, field access and client access.
Read the spreadsheet alternativeCompare tools that capture your own inquiries with lead programs that provide opportunities. Ask who owns the lead, whether it is shared, how many contractors receive it, and what you pay.
Ask what it drafts, who approves it, what details it can see, when clients can see it, and what happens if it fails.
HHM Intelligence prepares drafts for your team to review before sharing. If a draft fails, PM tells you so you can try again.
No. Clients, trades and suppliers don't count as team seats.
Use QuickBooks with your accountant. HHM Intelligence can prepare drafts for your team to review.
PM moves the scheduled-task start, needed-on, and order-by dates together. Your team approves the purchase order and confirms delivery with the supplier.
Yes, items and categories.
HHM Intelligence drafts. Your team decides.
Clients see the drafts and documents you choose to share.
Contractor-generated and contractor-funded leads stay with you and remain separate from HHM advertising leads.
Their assigned jobs and the work needing attention. [See the project manager dashboard](/software/dashboards).
The job details you publish for them. [See the homeowner dashboard](/software/dashboards).