Construction software for Xero,
eleven products compared on the sync.

Brisbane-based, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, and positioned across a wide contractor field: civil, roofing, remedial, HVAC, electrical, concreting and both commercial and residential. If you run genuinely mixed work rather than one job type, that breadth is useful rather than diluted.

What the Xero integration actually does. The widest object list on this page. Invoices, contacts and tracking categories move in both directions. Timesheets go out to Xero. Pay runs, accounts, tax rates, receipts, payments, journals, employees and credit notes come back in. BuildLogic’s own page describes automatic syncs running several times through the day with a manual sync available, and frames it as sending invoices, timesheets and purchase orders across “and back again”.

The honest limitation. It publishes no pricing, so comparing the total cost means a sales call, and MYOB is not named anywhere as an alternative ledger. The breadth that makes it useful across trades also means the residential money trail, fixed-price contracts, claims against contract stages, client selections, is one configuration among many rather than the spine of the product.

The most common starting point for an Australian sole trader or small builder whose real problem is quoting. Estimating and takeoff are the core, job management sits on top, and every tier includes unlimited users, so putting the whole team in does not raise the bill.

What the Xero integration actually does. The best-documented integration here, and the only one whose direction you choose per object during setup. Purchase orders push to Xero as bills, customer invoices push as sales, and bills raised in Xero come back as imported bills. Contacts sync both ways, with defined behaviour for creating, linking and relinking. Up to two Xero tracking categories are applied, typically job ID and a costing category, which is what makes job-level reporting work in the ledger. Syncs trigger on a purchase order marked part received or received and on an invoice marked invoiced, or on a manual push.

The honest limitation. The integration is strong; the product around it is estimating-led. If your week is being eaten by supplier invoices, progress claims and not knowing where a job sits financially, the sync will move that work to Xero faster without reducing it. The VIABUILD and Buildxact comparison takes it dimension by dimension.

Australian and New Zealand, aimed at residential, fitout, manufacturing and production, and specialty or commercial trades. Tendering is treated as a first-class part of the workflow, which most residential products do not bother with.

What the Xero integration actually does. The longest synced-object list of any listing we read, and the only one that names support for multiple Xero organisations, which matters if you run more than one entity. Bills, invoices, contractor and client credit notes, contacts, tax rates, employees, rates of pay, tracking categories and timesheets. Nexvia’s own material describes two-way syncing with Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks; the App Store listing itself lists the objects without using the words one-way or two-way, so confirm the direction of the ones you care about.

The honest limitation. No published pricing, so it cannot be compared on cost without a call. And spanning four segments means the residential workflow is one configuration among several. If you tender competitively across mixed job types that breadth is the point; if you build houses on fixed-price contracts it is weight you carry.

We publish this page, so read this entry with that in mind and make us prove it in a trial. VIABUILD is for Australian residential builders, project and custom, who want the build run in one connected system while Xero stays the ledger, and who would rather pay one platform price than assemble a stack.

What the Xero integration actually does. Native and two-way, and deliberately narrow on the cost and revenue trail rather than broad across every Xero object. Approved supplier bills push across as draft bills with tracking categories applied, so cost lands against the right job in your accounts rather than as a lump. Approved progress claims and variations push as Xero invoices. Contacts stay aligned across the two systems. Because the same coded actuals also feed cost tracking, budget against committed against actual stays current as bills land. The full object list is on the Xero integration page.

The honest limitation. The accounting integration is Xero only. There is no MYOB integration today, so if your ledger lives in MYOB the honest answer is that Buildxact, Nexvia or Evolve are the ones to look at rather than a roadmap promise from us. We are also early to market compared with most of this list.

Melbourne-built, and priced by the number of active projects rather than by seats: from $123 a month including GST for one active project, rising to $499 for unlimited, with unlimited users on every tier and no lock-in. For a builder running one or two jobs who wants the whole team inside the system, that is a cheap way in.

What the Xero integration actually does. Invoices, contacts, quotes, tracking categories and purchase orders move in both directions, with accounts and credit notes coming in from Xero. The listing describes synchronising purchase orders, expenses, progress claims and contacts. Progress claims reaching Xero matters more than it sounds: a connector that only handles cost leaves the revenue side being typed twice.

The honest limitation. Oddly, Wunderbuild names no accounting integration at all on its own features or pricing pages. The detail above comes from its Xero App Store listing. That is a marketing gap rather than a product one, but it means a builder evaluating from the website alone would never know the integration exists, and it is worth confirming the current object list directly.

An international platform with a commercial idea that fits a real problem: external users, field workers, subcontractors, suppliers and clients, are unlimited and free, and you pay only for internal seats.

What the Xero integration actually does. A genuinely two-way sync with an unusual mapping. Projects map to Xero customers, cost codes map to Xero products and services, and subs and vendors map to suppliers. Once that is aligned, bills and invoices raised in Buildern push automatically to Xero, and changes made in Xero come back. Note what that mapping implies: job-level reporting comes from the customer record rather than from tracking categories, which is a different shape from most of this list and worth understanding before you commit a chart of accounts to it.

The honest limitation. Tracking categories are not documented on the listing, and it prices in US dollars. Progress claims tied to contract stages, GST and BAS are things you configure toward rather than things the product assumes. Test that on your own contract and your own claim schedule.

The largest residential construction platform by installed base, built in the United States for homebuilders and remodellers, and strongest on the client-facing side: selections, warranties, client communication and the sales pipeline.

What the Xero integration actually does. Buildertrend is more careful in its own words than most third-party articles are on its behalf. Asked whether the sync is two-way, its Xero page answers: “Yes, there is two-way sync for certain information. Some data including contacts from jobs, invoices, subs, vendors and bills can transfer automatically from Buildertrend to Xero. Additionally, financial data comes back to Buildertrend from Xero.” Setup requires linking cost codes to Xero products and services and jobs to Xero contacts. Note the hedges, “certain information” and “some data”, and ask which objects apply to you.

The honest limitation. The integration is described in United States terms. Buildertrend’s own overview of it lists “calculate sales tax for transactions”, and sales tax is not GST. It says nothing about tracking categories or BAS. None of that means it cannot work for an Australian builder, but it does mean GST treatment and the BAS path are the first two things to test on a connected trial organisation rather than assume.

Australian, and built for field service and maintenance work: quoting, technician scheduling, inventory, recurring maintenance and fleet. Simpro pitches itself at businesses from five to 200 staff. If you run service and maintenance alongside projects, it covers ground the residential products on this page do not.

What the Xero integration actually does. Its listing is the most explicit about direction, which is a good sign. Two-way for customer, supplier and contractor contacts, invoices and credits, supplier invoices, payments, tax rates and credit notes. One-way from Simpro to Xero for timesheets, inventory journals, manual journals, accounts and tracking categories. That last one matters: tracking categories are pushed out, not synchronised, so Xero is downstream of Simpro on job coding rather than a peer.

The honest limitation. It is not residential construction software. Progress claims against contract stages, variations, client selections and retention are not the problems it was built for, and a builder buying it for a fixed-price housing contract will be configuring around the grain all the way. Pricing is quote-only.

Australian, and aimed at volume residential builders: end to end from sales through to post-handover maintenance, with AI-assisted accounts payable, vendor compliance and real-time variation tracking. If you run a large pipeline of homes, this is a serious contender.

What the Xero integration actually does. Unknown in detail, and we will not guess. Evolve names its integrations plainly, “Xero, MYOB, Microsoft Dynamics, Framework, Databuild, Constructive, Salesforce, LinkSafe, and more”, but publishes no object list, no direction and no Xero App Store listing we could find. That is not a criticism of the integration, which may well be excellent. It means the object-by-object question in the verification section below is the whole conversation for this one.

The honest limitation. Nothing about the integration is publicly checkable, and pricing is not published either. Both are answerable in a sales conversation, but it does mean Evolve cannot be shortlisted from a desk the way most of this list can.

The one to beat if you build homes at volume. ClickHome segments its own market at 20 to 200 homes a year and 200-plus, and describes itself as the dominant choice among Australia’s HIA Top 20 builders.

What the Xero integration actually does. None that we could find, and this is the single most useful fact on the page for a builder who assumed otherwise. ClickHome’s own integrations page lists its finance and ERP connections as Databuild, Beams, BusinessCraft, Constructor and Utecture. Xero is not among them, and neither is MYOB. Those five are construction ERPs, which tells you the shape of the customer it expects: a volume builder whose ledger is already a construction-specific system, not Xero.

The honest limitation. If you build at volume and you intend to stay on Xero, this is the wrong product, and no amount of feature comparison changes that. If you are large enough that moving off Xero to a construction ERP is on the table anyway, it belongs on your shortlist and this page is not the right one to be reading.

Australian builders who want estimating, job costing and accounting in one system rather than a construction product bolted onto a separate ledger. Around forty years in Australian building offices, with accounting, job cost reporting and payroll integration inside the product.

What the Xero integration actually does. There is no Xero integration to describe, and that is by design rather than by omission. Databuild describes itself as “a complete estimating and accounting system”. It is the ledger. Data moves via what it calls sophisticated import and export routines using XML, CSV and other ASCII formats, which is a file transfer, not a sync. Tellingly, both ClickHome and Evolve list Databuild as a finance system they integrate with.

The honest limitation. If you are searching for construction software that works with Xero, Databuild is answering a different question: replace Xero rather than sit on top of it. That is a legitimate choice with a real cost, retraining whoever does your books and migrating history. The VIABUILD and Databuild comparison covers what happens to a price book and years of job history in a move.