Top 5 Software for Managing Construction Change Orders
In a perfect world, you’d get a construction plan, come up with a cost estimate, and deliver it under budget and within the deadline every
May 26, 2025
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Bauwise equips construction executives with the financial visibility and control to prevent budget overruns and protect profits.
Automatically updates budgets and forecasts based on commitments, change orders, real-time accounting data, and live PM input—cutting manual work and improving accuracy. Provides timely insights into forecasts, budgets, profit margins, change orders, and cost estimate deviations throughout the project lifecycle.
Automatically updates transactions from integrated accounting software. Compares actuals to cost forecasts to ensure budget accuracy and spot overruns. Captures actuals for all commitments, including purchase orders (POs) and contracts. Provides drill-down into any level of transaction or cost line for full visibility.
Easily integrates with any accounting tools, including Dynamics 365 Business Central, Odoo, SAP, QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, Procounter, and more. Syncs financial data across platforms, eliminating double entries and data-related errors.
Centralizes subcontractor data, tracking progress submissions via online payment application management, actuals against commitments, contracts, and purchase order progress. Enables faster work approval and external workforce control, eliminating unnecessary email exchanges and missed updates.
Uses AI-powered invoice reading to extract data directly from invoice files. Automatically detects and applies approval workflows based on the role hierarchy. Enforces approval limits, automatically restricting invoices that exceed the set threshold. Supports invoice splitting across budget lines to ensure the project stays within budget limits.
Tracks all project change orders, version histories, approval records, and logs. Enables version comparison and spots unbilled changes. Prevents scope creep, miscommunication, and lost accountability across teams.
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Yes. You can import existing budgets, commitments, and actuals into Bauwise and pick up from where the project currently stands. Our team will support you in mapping the data and configuring the platform to match your ongoing workflows—no need to start from scratch. This enables you to continue the project without delays or the need to manually rework existing data.
Yes. We support flexible coding systems that allow you to import budgets using several options, including basic copy and pasting, as well as Excel and CSV file uploads.
Yes. Bauwise supports integrations with major accounting systems like Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Odoo, SAP, QuickBooks, Xero, and more. Our team has vast integration experience and can suggest options even for less common tools. We’ll review your accounting software setup to confirm the feasibility and configure the best-fit integration.
Yes. You don’t need to integrate an accounting system to use Bauwise. You can upload your general ledger transactions using an Excel spreadsheet—just drag and drop, and Bauwise will automatically link actuals to your budget, or take advantage of Bauwise’s invoice approval workflow, which generates the transactions internally from submitted invoices.
Yes. Bauwise enables you to split any project into multiple subprojects—by construction phase, client budget, buildings, or cost categories—while maintaining a comprehensive and unified project dashboard. Bauwise consolidated dashboard displays cost forecasts, profitability, actuals, construction progress, and margin deviations across all subprojects.
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