Pricing
One platform price,
published rather than quoted.
What VIABUILD costs an Australian residential builder, what one price includes, what actually moves the bill, and the questions worth asking any provider before you sign. Every figure on this page is the published rate, in Australian dollars, excluding GST.
01 / The direct answer
What VIABUILD costs
The Business plan is $555 per month, including three users, with additional users at $65 per month each. Paid annually it is $5,994 for the year, a saving of ten per cent, which also includes done-for-you migration from any platform and a personal or team training session every month for twelve months. On the self-serve flow there are seven days free and a first month at $199 before the plan rolls to the standard rate. All prices are in Australian dollars and exclude GST.
Projects are unlimited and are never a billing input. Every module is on every plan. Enterprise and franchise network pricing is quoted rather than published, because those engagements vary by users, divisions, reporting and integration work, and a published number would be a guess. If you are a single-entity residential builder, the Business plan is the plan.
That is the whole answer. The rest of this page is the part that decides whether the number is good value for your business, which is a different question and worth keeping separate.
02 / What you get
What one price includes
The reason a flat platform price is worth arguing for is that modular pricing quietly charges a builder for connecting their own data to itself. Six things that are in the price rather than beside it.
Every module, on every plan
Estimating and takeoff, purchase orders, scheduling, cost tracking, client selections, progress claims, variations, the ViaSite field app and site safety. There is no estimating tier and no claims tier, because a builder who cannot claim cannot run a job.
Oryn across every module
The intelligence layer is not an add-on line. Invoice reading and coding, purchase order matching, takeoff measurement and variance alerts are part of the platform rather than a separately priced AI package that gets metered per document.
Three users, then a stated rate
The Business plan includes three users and extra users are $65 per month each. The rate is published rather than negotiated, so you can work out what your real team costs before you talk to anyone.
Unlimited projects
Pricing does not move with how many jobs you have live, how many you archive, or how much contract value runs through the system. A builder with two jobs and a builder with twelve pay the same platform price.
The Xero integration
The two-way sync with Xero, including bills, progress claims and tracking categories, is part of the platform. Integrations that are charged as a connector are a common way for a published price to become a different real price.
Onboarding and training
Setup sessions and personalised training are included rather than sold as an implementation package. Annual plans add done-for-you migration from any platform and a personal or team training session every month for twelve months.
03 / The variables
What actually moves the bill
Six inputs, in the order they matter. Everything not listed here is fixed, which is the point of a platform price.
How many people need to be in it
The only variable on the Business plan. Three users are included and each additional user is $65 per month. The honest question is not how few seats you can get away with, it is who has to re-key something because they were left outside the system.
Monthly or annual
Monthly is $555 per month with no lock-in. Annual is $5,994 paid in full for the year, a saving of ten per cent, in exchange for a twelve-month commitment that is non-refundable. Annual also carries the free done-for-you migration and the monthly training sessions.
Whether you migrate yourself
Done-for-you migration of suppliers, cost codes, products, assemblies and templates comes with the annual plan. On monthly you self-migrate with the import tools and support, which costs time rather than money. Whichever way you go, most builders run both systems in parallel until they are confident.
The one physical product
Branded QR site signs are $285 each. They are hardware, not a subscription tier, and they are optional. Nothing else in the platform is charged per item, per document or per project.
What you keep running alongside
You still need Xero, because VIABUILD does not replace your accounting ledger and does not try to. Anything else you keep paying for after the change is a real part of the total, and it is the line most software evaluations forget to add up.
The size of the business, eventually
Enterprise and franchise network pricing is quoted rather than published, because the shape of those engagements varies with divisions, users, reporting and integration work. If you are a single-entity residential builder, the Business plan is the plan.
One structural point sits under all six. Software pricing models are behavioural, not just commercial. A per-project price makes a builder hesitate before putting a small job in the system. A per-document price makes an administrator forward fewer invoices. A per-user price makes a business leave the estimator, the supervisor or the bookkeeper outside the system, and every person outside the system is a person re-keying a number that already exists. Whatever you buy, and from whoever, work out what the pricing model will make your team stop doing.
04 / The comparison
How this compares with running point tools
We are not going to publish a table of competitor prices. Vendor pricing changes between releases and regions, tiers get renamed, and a figure quoted here today would be wrong within a quarter and unfair in the meantime. What we can do is set out the arithmetic honestly, so you can run it with current numbers you have collected yourself.
Add what you currently pay for estimating or takeoff, job management or scheduling, a site or field app, a safety and induction product, document storage, and any client portal. Note which of those charge per user and which charge per project, then price your actual team and your actual live job count rather than the example on the pricing page. That gives you a defensible monthly figure for the stack.
Then add the part that never appears on an invoice. Every seam between two tools is a place where a number is entered twice and where the two copies eventually disagree. The hours spent re-keying quantities into a budget, budgets into purchase orders, approved variations into a claim, and claims into the ledger are a real cost with a real hourly rate attached, and they scale with the number of jobs rather than the number of subscriptions. That cost is the subject of the Reconstruction Tax, and it is usually larger than the licence line it sits beside.
Two honest caveats on our side of that comparison. A single connected system is only cheaper if you actually use the modules you are paying for, so a builder who wants estimating alone and nothing else will find a point tool better value. And consolidating means one migration and one learning curve rather than none, which is a real cost in the first month. The software evaluation checklist and the choosing construction software guide are both written to be used against every vendor on your shortlist, including this one.
05 / Before you sign
Six questions worth asking any provider
These are the questions that separate a monthly price from a first-year total. Ask them of us as readily as of anyone else, and prefer a demonstration to a reassurance.
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Ask what the price is after the discount ends
Introductory pricing is normal and not a problem in itself. What matters is the rate you are on in month thirteen, and whether it is written down anywhere you can point at later. Our published rate is $555 per month on the Business plan, and it is on this page for exactly that reason.
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Ask what triggers a bigger bill
Per-user, per-project and per-document models all sound modest at the point of sale and behave very differently as a builder grows. Price your real shape, not the shape in the example. A builder with six live jobs and five people is a different bill under three different models.
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Ask what the lock-in actually is
A twelve-month term is a fair trade for a discount and should be described as one. What you want to establish is whether the term is a term or an auto-renewing term, what notice period applies, and what happens if you need to reduce seats mid-term.
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Ask what you can export, and in what format
The important test is not whether an export exists, it is what comes out. Jobs, budgets, purchase orders, invoices, claims, variations, contacts and documents should all leave in a format you can open. Ask to run the export during the trial rather than being told it is available.
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Ask who does the setup and what it costs
Implementation fees are where a published monthly price and a first-year total drift apart. Establish whether onboarding is included, whether migration is included, who builds your cost code structure and price book, and how long the vendor thinks it takes.
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Ask what support looks like on a bad Friday
Not the SLA in the contract, the actual behaviour. Who answers, in which time zone, and whether a builder in Australia with a claim due gets a person or a queue. This is the question most worth asking an existing customer rather than a salesperson.
06 / How to start
How Founding Members are onboarded
Self-serve signup is currently paused. VIABUILD is running the Founding Builders Programme, a small group of Australian residential builders onboarded in cohorts to help shape what gets built next. It is worth being plain about why that changes the buying process. Every Founding Member gets personal onboarding, direct access to the founders and a genuine say in the roadmap, and that is only true if the cohort is small enough to deliver it.
You apply, and if a cohort has capacity you are onboarded into it. If it does not, you join the Founding Waitlist and are invited into the next one in order. Founding Members hold founding pricing for as long as they remain a customer, which is the trade for joining before the product is a household name and for putting up with being early.
The pricing on this page is the standard published pricing. It is here rather than hidden precisely so that a founding rate can be measured against something, and so nobody discovers what the platform costs after they have already moved their data across. What the onboarding itself involves is on implementation, and moving across from an existing platform, including running both systems in parallel, is on migration.
Where your data lives, how it is isolated and how it is encrypted is set out on security and data hosting, and it is a fair thing to read before you commit rather than after.
07 / FAQ
Common questions.
The Business plan is $555 per month, which includes three users, with additional users at $65 per month each. Paid annually it is $5,994 for the year, a saving of ten per cent, which also includes done-for-you migration from any platform and a personal or team training session every month for twelve months. On the self-serve flow there are seven days free and a first month at $199 before the plan rolls to the standard rate. All prices are in Australian dollars and exclude GST. Enterprise and franchise network pricing is quoted rather than published, because those engagements vary by users, divisions, reporting and integration work.
Per platform, with a stated seat rate on top. The Business plan is one flat platform price that includes three users, and each user beyond that is $65 per month. Projects are unlimited and are never a billing input, so a builder running twelve jobs pays the same platform price as a builder running two. That matters more than it sounds. Per-project pricing punishes the builder who wins work, and per-document pricing punishes the builder who puts everything in the system, which is exactly the behaviour the system needs in order to be useful.
Monthly billing has no lock-in. You cancel and it stops at the end of the current month. Annual billing is a twelve-month commitment, paid upfront and non-refundable, which is what pays for the ten per cent discount, the free done-for-you migration and the twelve months of training sessions. Those are the two honest options rather than a single default. If you are not yet sure the platform fits how you build, take monthly, prove it on a live job, and move to annual later when the answer is obvious.
It is your data and it comes with you. Jobs, budgets, purchase orders, supplier invoices, progress claims, variations, contacts and documents can be exported. The wider point is worth making about every vendor, not just this one. The reason to check export before you buy rather than after is that the moment you need it is the moment your leverage is lowest, and an export that only produces a summary PDF is not an export. Ask to run it during a trial. How data is stored and where it is hosted is covered on the security page.
Because self-serve signup is paused while the Founding Builders Programme runs. We onboard in small cohorts so every Founding Member gets personal onboarding, direct support and a genuine say in what gets built next, and demand currently exceeds onboarding capacity. Applications that cannot be onboarded immediately join the Founding Waitlist and are invited into the next cohort in order. Founding Members hold founding pricing for as long as they remain a customer. The pricing on this page is the standard published pricing the programme is measured against, so nobody has to guess what it becomes later.
That is arithmetic you should do yourself rather than take from a vendor page, including this one. Add up what you currently pay for estimating, job management or scheduling, a field or site app, a safety or induction product, document storage, and anything charged per project or per user across those. Then add the part nobody invoices you for, which is the hours spent re-entering the same number into each of them and reconciling them when they disagree. We will not publish a table of competitor prices, because vendor pricing changes between releases and regions and a number we quote today would be wrong within a quarter. Get current pricing from each vendor directly, put it beside the published figures above, and the comparison answers itself.
You still need Xero and it is billed by Xero, not by us. That is deliberate rather than a gap. VIABUILD runs construction management, Xero runs accounting, and the two-way sync between them carries bills, progress claims and tracking categories so nothing is entered twice. Replacing a builder’s general ledger is a different product with a different risk profile, and a construction platform that also wants to be your accounting system is asking you to migrate two things at once. The integration itself is part of the platform price and is not charged as a connector.
Seven days free on the self-serve flow, with nothing to pay, and it is the full platform rather than a limited tier. That distinction matters when you are evaluating. A trial that hides the modules you are actually worried about tells you nothing about the decision you are making, so the useful trial is one where you set up a real job, price a real variation, raise a real claim and forward a real stack of supplier invoices. The software evaluation checklist sets out how to run a trial so it produces an answer rather than an impression.
Setup sessions and personalised training are included on every plan rather than sold as an implementation package, and the annual plan adds a personal or team training session every month for twelve months. Most builders are operational within about five business days, though the honest variable is not the software, it is how tidy your cost code structure and supplier list are when you arrive. The implementation page sets out what the first weeks look like, and the migration page covers moving across from an existing platform and running both in parallel until you are confident.
08 / Keep reading
What to read before you commit
Onboarding, migration and security are the three pages that decide whether a price is a good price, plus the vendor-neutral checklist to use against everyone on your shortlist.
A published price, and a product that has to earn it.
VIABUILD is the Construction Operating System for Australian residential builders. Estimating, procurement, scheduling, claims and live cost control on one data model, with Oryn inside every module. Bring a real job and judge it on that.