Sage for Construction
Add LiveCosts to Sage, and supercharge your construction accounting software.
- Perfect integration with Sage means quick setup and live reporting
- Keep Sage Accounting up-to-date with a one-click-sync from LiveCosts for supplier invoices, customer invoices and contact info
- Receive payment updates for your sales invoices direct to the LiveCosts projects
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.
What is Sage?
Sage Accounting is a comprehensive, market-leading cloud-based accounting solution tailored for small to medium-sized enterprises. It offers a wide range of financial management tools, allowing businesses to handle invoicing, payroll, bank reconciliation, and financial reporting efficiently through an intuitive interface. Sage Accounting supports real-time data access, enhancing decision-making capabilities.
Sage offers solutions for managing accounting, HR, payroll, payments, assets, construction, real estate, and enterprise systems.
Integrating LiveCosts with Sage Accounting provides end-to-end reporting on procurement, purchase orders, deliveries, and invoices at the construction project level, creating a highly efficient construction cost management software system.
Sage Accounting for Construction
What is a construction accounting software?
LiveCosts is a simple construction cost tracking system that is tailored to the unique requirements of a construction company or contractor.
From the office to the job site, LiveCosts provides simple workflows that tracks commitments / costs in real time against your construction project budget. When combined with Sage thats a powerful construction accounting software solution.
Track Construction Budgets
Budget Tracking
Sage Accounting is an amazing accounting software but was not designed for construction. LiveCosts was designed and built by people from the construction industry to solve the industries unique project accounting problems.
From construction purchase orders, to requests for quotations, and site deliveries to name a few, LiveCosts adds the construction context to Sage Accounting. And with dedicated permission sets the whole team can be contribute.
Benefits of budget tracking in LiveCosts
- Assign your costs to project budgets
- Involve the whole team
- Produce project specific reports in seconds
Mobile Cost Tracking
On the Go
Tracking project costs is a team game. Use the LiveCosts iOS/Android App to give your team the permissions to create purchase orders from the site, track labour costs and receive delivery updates which your office team can see (and approve) in real time.
Benefits of Mobile Cost Tracking
- Track purchase orders from the job site
- Record time against a project budget
- Record onsite deliveries in real time
E-Invoicing
Invoice extraction
LiveCosts is the only construction budget management software with a user-friendly invoice extraction tool.
Streamline your invoice processing and allocation with our simple workflow and a single-click will send to Sage Accounting.
Benefits of Invoice Extration
- Auto-Extract Invoice Data and post to Sage Accounting
- 3 way match invoices to Purchase Orders and Deliveries
- Replace manual data entry into Sage Accounting
Project Reports
Instant Reports
LiveCosts’ construction project tracking software lets you see in real time what is currently committed, what is outstanding, and what is billed.
You can access data for profit margins and costs to complete and also get an at-a-glance view of over billings and under billings for your clients.
Benefits of Project Reports
- Track construction cost progress in real time
- Easier way to track daily expenses
- Accurate financials on individual jobs, and across all jobs
How LiveCosts Helps Construction Businesses
There’s a tangible benefit – it’s helped save us accountancy costs, which is really good. I haven’t got to wait for an accountant to tell me how my business is doing.
Nat Macauley
Managing Director, JCM Fine JoineryLiveCosts runs throughout our whole company now, right from site staff recording deliveries, and site admin staff being able to track costs – especially labour costs – to here at the office being able to track POs, to the management being able to look at the overall picture for jobs.
Derek Byrne
Financial Controller, Apollo GroupBefore we had LiveCosts, our biggest problem was the accuracy on the margins of jobs. LiveCosts has saved us at least 6 days a month, and probably more.
Trish Coleman
Office Manager, IFES Electrical ServicesPopular Features
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