Construction Cost Control & Earned Value Software

Committed. Earned. Invoiced. Control happens in the first two.

Every commitment, every valuation of work delivered, every crew hour and every variation, reconciled against budget the day it happens. True cost position and earned value months ahead of the invoices, with forecasts you can defend to a board.

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Overruns stopped at the commitment, not found at the final account

Construction cost control software protects margin by recording every commitment the day it is made and reconciling it against budget continuously, months before the invoice arrives. Archdesk captures purchase orders, subcontracts and contract values at the point of commitment, allocates them to cost codes automatically, and tracks delivered value against them as the work progresses. Job costing runs on the same live numbers: every crew hour and material delivery coded to its job the day it happens, not when the invoices arrive. The monthly CVR (cost value reconciliation) comes straight from these records, produced rather than assembled.

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Margin protected during delivery

Budget versus actual and estimate versus actual run at cost code level, with variance alerts and profit projections that update as the numbers move.

The true position, months before the invoices

Commitments and valuations of delivered work feed earned value and cost-to-complete forecasting, with CPI, SPI, schedule variances and unbilled revenue tracked alongside any custom KPI you define. Every metric runs at project level and across the whole portfolio.

Nothing gets spent without a signature

Invoicing, payment certification and retention go through multi-level approvals with custom logic, including NEC contracts.

Changes priced before they land

Change order impact tracking puts every variation against its cost lines, so scope movement is approved and in the forecast, not discovered at the final account.

Control happens at committed and earned, not invoiced

By the time an invoice arrives the money is already spent. Archdesk reconciles commitments, crew hours and delivered value against budget the day they happen, so the forecast is one you can defend to a board.

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Real-time Job Costing

Every cost lands on its job the day it happens: labour, materials, equipment and subcontractors. Nobody waits for the ledger to find out where the project stands.

Live job cost dashboard

Automated cost code allocation

Purchase order monitoring

Subcontractor payments and payment notices

Budget Control

Budget against actual on every cost code, with change orders showing their impact the day they are raised, not at the final account.

Budget vs actual analysis

Change order impact tracking

Cost code management

Commitment tracking

Cost Forecasting

Earned value and cost-to-complete keep the forecast live, so the outcome is managed during delivery rather than reported after it. CPI and SPI are computed from the same records, so performance indices are always current, for each project and across the portfolio.

Earned Value Management with CPI and SPI

Cost-to-complete forecasting

Cash flow projections

Trend analysis and custom-defined KPIs

Financial Control

Invoices, payments, retentions and commitments go through approval before they hit the numbers, so nothing is spent unseen.

Invoice management and payment certification

Retention (retainage) tracking

Commitment monitoring

Multi-level approvals with custom logic

Procurement Control

Every purchase order, supplier payment and subcontract tracked from order to delivery, with contract values monitored against what has been committed.

Purchase orders across purchasing modes

Materials, supplier and subcontractor cost control

Contract value monitoring

NEC contract support

Cost Reporting & Analytics

Reports come straight from the live numbers: CVRs, cost and schedule variances, unbilled revenue, progress payments and performance metrics for every stakeholder, with nothing to rebuild at month-end.

CVR, cost and schedule variance reports

Unbilled revenue and progress payment reports

Custom report builder

Real-time dashboards at project and portfolio level

Estimate vs. Actuals Analysis

The estimate you won with sits beside the cost you are actually carrying, at cost code level, with variances flagged as they open up.

Side-by-side estimate comparison

Cost code level variance alerts

Profit projection updates

Historical performance tracking

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Frequently Asked Questions: Construction Cost Control

What is cost control in construction?

Cost control is managing the money while it can still be influenced: recording every commitment the day it is made, valuing work as it is delivered, and reconciling both against budget continuously. By the time an invoice arrives the money is already spent, so control happens at committed and earned, not invoiced.

How does Archdesk track committed cost?

Purchase orders, subcontracts and contract values post to their cost codes at the point of commitment. The gap between committed and invoiced stays visible per line, so the true cost position is known months before the invoices arrive.

Does Archdesk support earned value management?

Yes. Delivered value is tracked against commitments and budget, feeding earned value, cost-to-complete forecasting, CPI and SPI, computed from the same live records at project level and across the portfolio, alongside any custom KPI you define.

How does the monthly CVR get produced?

The CVR (cost value reconciliation) comes straight from the live commitment, valuation and cost records, produced rather than assembled. Cost and schedule variances, unbilled revenue and progress payment reports build from the same numbers, with nothing rebuilt at month-end.

How are variations kept out of the base budget?

Change order impact tracking puts every variation against its cost lines when it is raised, so scope movement is approved, priced and in the forecast rather than discovered at the final account. Approvals run through multi-level workflows, including NEC contract support.