BuildControl vs JobTread
JobTread is an estimating-led system for residential and specialty contractors, with a published price. BuildControl is built around the documents of a commercial job. Here is the honest version.
Switching from JobTread?
What comes across, and how. Your history stays in JobTread for as long as you keep your account there.
- Your jobs and open items. Export your job list and your open tasks, RFIs or submittals from JobTread as CSV files and bring them in under Projects, Import from CSV. Every row is shown before anything is saved, and closed items stay behind.
- Your contacts. Export your contacts from JobTread to a spreadsheet and import the CSV under Contacts. BuildControl reads the columns and fills in people you already have instead of adding them twice.
- Your job files. Connect your Dropbox and each job folder comes in. Build Registers from Files then makes the RFI, submittal and change order logs from the file names, with every file attached.
- Your subs and owners. Invite them to the job. They don't need a paid seat, and they see only what you share with them.
- Help if you want it. A Job Setup Session puts your first job on it with you, start to finish.
JobTread’s price
$199 a month with one internal user included, then $20 a month for each internal user from the 2nd to the 10th, less at higher counts. 20% off on an annual plan. No contract and no setup fees. Vendor, subcontractor and customer portal users cost nothing and are unlimited.
Checked November 10, 2026 on JobTread’s pricing page.
Who JobTread is for
- Residential and specialty contractors who sell the job with an estimate and a proposal.
- Teams that want estimating, budgets, proposals and invoicing in one place, connected to their accounting.
- Owners who like a published price with no contract.
Where JobTread is better
- Estimating and proposals. JobTread’s catalog, estimate and proposal workflow is deeper than ours.
- Sales to a homeowner: proposals they sign online and a customer portal built for it.
- A longer track record and accounting integrations we do not have yet.
Where BuildControl is the better pick
- No charge for your own team. JobTread charges for each internal user after the first; we do not charge per person at all.
- Commercial paperwork first: RFIs, submittals, change orders, daily logs, pay applications with a continuation sheet, and lien waivers.
- A 30-day trial, so you can run real jobs on it before you are charged anything.