General contractors carry more moving parts than any other trade. You are coordinating subcontractors across multiple phases, managing your own crew alongside them, tracking materials and labor against a fixed bid, keeping permits and inspections on schedule, and communicating progress to an owner who is watching every dollar. When any one of those threads drops, it costs money and damages the relationship. Without a system designed for that level of complexity, something always falls through.
IRONGRID is general contractor software built around the real demands of multi-trade project management. Use it as your GC software for work order creation, subcontractor coordination, and phase-based job tracking, your general contractor CRM to keep client records and project history organized, and your contractor field management software to keep labor hours and material costs tied to every job. Construction management software that gives your whole team, office and field, a single place to see the truth about every project.
Built for the way general contracting businesses work
Every tool you need to run your jobs from first call to final payment.
Full Work Order Management
Create and manage work orders for every phase of a project. Set schedules, assign team members, track status, and maintain a clear record of every job from start to finish.
Subcontractor & Partner Management
Maintain a searchable database of your subcontractors and vendors. Attach partners to work orders, track their invoiced amounts, and manage the full subcontractor relationship.
Cost Calculations & Budget Tracking
Build custom cost formulas that factor in labor hours, materials, and subcontractor costs. Track budgets against actuals on every project so you always know where margins stand.
Multi-Phase Project Checklists
Break projects into phases and subtasks across every trade. Track demolition, framing, rough-ins, inspections, finishes, and punch lists, all tied to the same work order.
Warehouse & Inventory Management
Track tools, equipment, and materials across your warehouse and jobsites. Know what you have, where it is, and what needs to be ordered before it holds up a job.
Analytics & Project Reporting
See labor hours, material costs, and project performance across your entire operation. Make smarter decisions on bidding, staffing, and resource allocation.
How general contracting businesses use IRONGRID
A commercial tenant buildout kicks off with a signed contract. The project manager opens IRONGRID and creates the work order, breaking the project into phases: demo, framing, MEP rough-ins, insulation, drywall, finish work, and punch list. Each phase is assigned to the responsible party: your framing crew for structural, the electrical sub in the Partners database for the rough-in, the HVAC sub for the mechanical work. Everyone knows their phase, their schedule, and their deliverables before the demo crew shows up.
Through the project, the superintendent logs daily labor hours, tracks materials delivered to the site, and attaches inspection documentation to the work order as each phase passes. The project manager can see cost actuals building against the bid in real time. When the final punch list is complete and the certificate of occupancy is in hand, the office generates the final invoice from the work order with the full project cost breakdown and sends it the same day the job closes.
For GCs with repeat commercial clients (property developers, restaurant groups, retail chains with ongoing buildout programs), IRONGRID keeps every project in a linked client record. When the same developer starts a new location, their contact details, preferred subcontractors, and project history are already in the system. A new work order takes minutes to create and the project history gives you real data on labor rates and material costs to sharpen your next bid.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about using IRONGRID for general contracting businesses.
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