Sage Construction Add On

Maximise Sage's Potential for Tracking Projects

Construction projects need more than Sage. Add LiveCosts and get end-to-end tracking and reporting on your construction projects.

Our Mision

We are a Sage Accounting Partner

See why thousands of construction contractors around the world choose LiveCosts to track their project costs with Sage Accounting.

Why Livecosts & Sage?

LiveCosts works seamlessly alongside Sage Accounting to enhance project cost management for construction businesses. While Sage Accounting handles the overall financials, LiveCosts specialises in tracking detailed project costs, budgets, and real-time progress.

By integrating the two, users can ensure accurate and up-to-date cost tracking on each project, while maintaining financial transparency and sync with their accounting systems.

This combination allows teams to manage project finances efficiently, providing actionable insights and improving decision-making without compromising the integrity of the accounting data in Sage.

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Are you struggling with?

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No Job Costing

Sage is not designed to manage job budgets and construction workflows. A plugin is a great way to add the parts you need

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Limited Reporting

 LiveCosts enhances Sage with real-time project reporting, enabling efficient, instant reporting and collaboration

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Disconnected Workflows

Key project data often has to be manually kept in spreadsheets, increasing the risk of errors and inefficiencies.

Construction Procurement

Sage manages your accounts. LiveCosts manages what happens before a cost gets there, POs, quotations, approvals, deliveries, each one tied to a project budget from the start.

Benefits of procurement from LiveCosts:

Track Project Costs on Mobile

Project manager can forward purchase requests, record labour, confirm deliveries, or upload invoices to LiveCosts with our mobile app. Every update flows into the project budget in real time, and syncs to sage once approved.

Benefits of Mobile Cost Tracking:

Smart Invoice Processing

Stop rekeying supplier invoices into Sage.

LiveCosts automatically extracts supplier invoice data, matches it against the related purchase order and delivery, allocates costs to the correct project and budget, then syncs approved invoices to Sage in a single click.

Benefits of Invoice Extration:

Real Time Project Reporting

See where every project stands anytime.

LiveCosts combines committed costs, actual spend, and project income to give you a live view of budget performance, profitability, and cost to complete. While Sage remains your accounting system, LiveCosts provides live financial visibility.

Benefits of Live Reports:

Ready to get started?

Discover how easy it can be to track and control costs in real time.

Sage FAQs

How does this work with Sage ?

Essentially LiveCosts takes over Procurement and invoice processing for the purpose of ensuring all costs that arrive into the business are assigned to a project budget. Bills are then posted from LiveCosts to Sage.

What about tracking categories ?

On set up we import your Sage Tracking Categories ( Departments, Projects & Cost Codes ) meaning they can be used when posting from LiveCosts to Sage. Sage tracking categories can also be aligned to LiveCosts projects

Can i import my Sage Data ?

Yes, on set up all tax rates, accounts, tracking categories, suppliers can be imported in bulk. We support Sage Accounting an Sage 50 UK syncing

What about Income ?

Sales invoices can be imported from Sage and applied directly to projects in Livecosts. We will monitor invoices for payment updates which automatically update Livecosts with the latest payment information.