Acumatica Construction Edition: Built for Contractors, Delivered by Experts
Acumatica Construction Edition is built for general contractors, specialty contractors, and construction firms that need job costing, project management, and financials in one connected system. Xcellerated Solutions implements it for construction companies across Utah and the US.
What Is Acumatica Construction Edition?
Acumatica Construction Edition is a cloud-based ERP built specifically for construction companies. It connects your project management, job costing, subcontract management, and accounting in one platform. Every change order, every subcontractor invoice, every cost posted on a job flows directly to your financials without someone manually re-entering it at month-end.
Most construction companies hit the same wall at some point. Their project management tool does not talk to their accounting software. Job costs are not visible until the project is nearly done. Change orders get approved over email with no audit trail. AIA billing takes days to produce because the numbers live in three different places.
Acumatica Construction Edition is built to close those gaps. Your project team and your finance team work from the same data. Job cost visibility is live, not reconstructed at the end of a job. And the compliance and billing workflows construction companies actually need are part of the platform, not workarounds built on top of a generic ERP.
Built for How Construction Companies Actually Run
General Contractors
You manage multiple subcontractors, track costs across dozens of line items per job, and need AIA billing that does not take two days to produce. Acumatica handles all of it in one system with a full audit trail on every change.
Specialty Contractors
You work across multiple trades and job sites, often under tight compliance requirements. Acumatica tracks costs by job, phase, and cost code, and keeps your subcontractor documentation in the same system as your financials.
Home Builders
You need lot tracking, options management, and buyer deposits handled in the same system as your construction costs and draw schedules. Acumatica's residential construction capabilities cover the full build-to-close cycle.
Construction Management Firms
You manage projects on behalf of owners and need clean cost reporting, owner billing, and retainage tracking without building it manually in spreadsheets for every job.
Acumatica tracks costs by job, phase, cost code, and cost type in real time. Labor, materials, equipment, and subcontractor costs post to the job as they are incurred, not when someone gets around to entering them at the end of the week.
Your project managers see live budget-versus-actual data without calling the accounting team. Your finance team closes faster because the numbers are already in the system. And you are not finding out a job went over budget after the work is done.
Change orders are where construction projects lose money. Work gets done, the paperwork follows weeks later, and by then the original contract value and the actual scope are a long way apart.
Acumatica manages the full change order cycle inside the platform. A change is requested, reviewed, priced, and approved with every step documented. When a change order is approved, the revised budget updates automatically. Your team is not chasing paper or rebuilding the job budget in a spreadsheet every time scope changes.
AIA progress billing is standard in commercial construction and one of the most time-consuming things a construction company's billing team does if they are not running a system that handles it natively.
Acumatica generates AIA billing documents directly from your job cost data. Schedule of values, completed work to date, stored materials, retainage calculations, all pulled from the system rather than assembled manually from multiple sources. What used to take two days takes a fraction of the time.
Xcellerated Solutions implements Acumatica's subcontract management module for construction companies managing multiple subs across multiple jobs. Subcontract commitments, compliance documentation, lien waivers, and payment applications are tracked in the same system as your project costs.
You know which subs have outstanding compliance items before you process a payment. Retainage is tracked automatically against each subcontract. And your project team does not need a separate system to manage sub documentation.
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What Changes After Moving to Acumatica Construction Edition
BEFORE:
- Job costs not visible until the project is close to finished
- Change orders tracked over email with no audit trail
- AIA billing takes two to three days to assemble from multiple sources
- Subcontractor compliance documentation managed outside the accounting system
- Month-end close requires exporting data from project management into accounting
- Retainage tracking done manually in spreadsheets per job
AFTER:
- Live budget-versus-actual by job, phase, and cost code updated as costs post
- Change orders requested, priced, and approved inside the system with a full audit trail
- AIA billing generated directly from job cost data in a fraction of the time
- Subcontractor compliance, lien waivers, and payment applications tracked in one place
- Project management and financials in one system with no export and reimport step
- Retainage tracked automatically against each subcontract and released on approval
What Construction Companies See After Go-Live
Job cost visibility before a project closes
When costs post to the job as they happen, your project managers and finance team see the same numbers without a delay. Construction companies moving from disconnected systems typically find that over-budget jobs surface earlier, when there is still time to act, rather than at final billing.
Faster billing cycles
AIA billing that pulls directly from the system rather than being assembled manually cuts billing cycle time significantly. For construction companies billing multiple jobs per month, that time adds up.
One system for field and office
Acumatica’s mobile access lets field supervisors report costs, manage daily logs, and track progress from the job site. The data your back office needs is captured at the source, not reconstructed from paper at the end of the week.
Why Construction Companies Choose Xcellerated Solutions
Xcellerated Solutions is an Acumatica Certified Partner based in Kaysville, Utah. We implement Acumatica Construction Edition for general contractors, specialty contractors, and construction management firms across the Mountain West and nationally.
We know construction. The billing workflows, the compliance requirements, the way job costs need to be structured for project managers versus the way finance needs to see them. We configure the system around how your business actually runs, not around what is easiest to set up.
You work with the same team from the first scoping call through go-live and post-launch support. There is no handoff to an implementation team you have never met after the contract is signed.
Frequently Asked Questions About Acumatica Construction Edition
See Acumatica Construction Edition on a Live Implementation
The fastest way to know if it fits your operation is to see it configured for a construction company like yours. Book a free 30-minute consultation with our team and we will walk you through how the platform handles your specific workflows, whether that is AIA billing, subcontract management, job costing, or multi-entity reporting.
Xcellerated Solutions is based in Kaysville, Utah. We serve construction companies across the Mountain West and nationally.