Zaras for General Contracting
Draws, change orders, and lien waivers on the same record as the schedule.
Crew months barely move across a general contractor’s year, and three separate months tie for the peak — this is a trade without a season. What moves is the job: money released against completed work, a number that resets every time someone signs a change, and a balance that is still open long after the last sub drove away.
What carries job to job: the schedule of values the signed change the waiver.
A draw submitted against completed work, a change priced and signed before anyone starts, and waivers matched to the draw that paid them — three different jobs, one operating record.
Change order signed
An owner change priced and signed before the sub sets foot on it.
Waivers collected
Subcontractor lien waivers matched to the draw that paid them.
A change nobody wrote down becomes a draw that will not reconcile, and a draw that will not reconcile is a job that finishes without finishing. Zaras runs both engines from the same record.
The money side, which runs on completed work rather than elapsed time.
The scope side, which is where draws go wrong.
The record, not the clipboard — every job from the estimate to paid, with nothing re-keyed into a second system.
Schedule-of-values tracking — what is complete, by line, with photographs attached.
Draw submission and reconciliation — every draw tracked against what was actually released.
Retainage balances — the balance that outlives the punch list, visible until it is paid.
Change orders priced and signed — scope changes priced and signed before anyone starts the work.
Lien waiver collection — subcontractor waivers matched to the draw that paid them.
Sub commitments and scheduling — subs committed to the revised scope, not the original one.
Permit and inspection dates — dates recorded on the job, findable months later.
Invoicing, payments, QuickBooks sync — billing pulls straight from the record the draw opened, no separate system to reconcile.
Contract → draw → change → closeout → paid — every job, one record.
Plans and prices are public on the pricing page — no sales call to get a number.
Yes. Invoices and payments flow straight into QuickBooks — no double entry, no bookkeeper fights.
It’s yours, both directions. Customers, open draws, and retainage balances come in with you when you join — and everything exports, any time.
Yes — commercial work with per-project draw schedules and NET-terms billing lives on the same record as your residential book.
General contractors running 1–40 crews — from an owner-operator to a multi-truck shop.
We onboard a limited number of shops at a time. Request an invite, fit is reviewed within 24 hours with a reply either way, and accepted shops get guided onboarding — pricebook and customer list loaded with you, not dumped on you.
Private beta
Every plan runs the full operating system for General Contracting — draws, change orders, retainage, lien waivers, scheduling, invoicing, payments. Pick the size that fits the crews you run today.
$49/ month
One office, one draw board. Submit the draw against what is actually complete, price the change before anyone starts, match the waiver to the draw that paid it — the record keeps the schedule of values and the change desk straight.
from$149/ month
The draw board and the change desk, run from one record. Every job walking in with its own schedule of values already straight.
Free trial first, month-to-month after — cancel anytime. Full plan detail on the pricing page.
