CONTROLQORE FOR SIDING CONTRACTORS.
Generic accounting software can't separate cost per square of field wall from the linear foot cost of corners and trim, price four product lines from four cost histories, or put a dollar figure on a wind day. ControlQore can.
ControlQore for siding contractors uses cost codes by product line, meaning vinyl, fiber cement, engineered wood, and metal panel, so each of the four is priced from its own cost history rather than one blended average. Inside each product line, field wall is tracked as cost per square and detail work is tracked as cost per linear foot by detail class: corners, penetrations, trim packages, transitions, and gables. Substrate acceptance, spec compliance records, and cover-up photos carry their own cost code and their own line on the schedule of values. Access and weather days are coded per elevation. The WIP schedule is produced monthly from cost-to-cost percentage complete.
The difference isn't the report list. It's which rate you're reading. Squares of field wall set the pace the bid remembers, and corners, trim, and transitions set the pace the job runs at, so a single blended cost per square describes neither and calibrates the next estimate against a number that never existed. Siding contractors at $1M to $5M net 5.5 percent before taxes on the SPM 48-trade benchmark, among the thinnest floors of the 48, against a CFOS target of 10 percent net at that band. Gross margin at that band runs 21 percent, a figure derived from the nearest comparable trade rather than measured on siding books, against a target of 23 percent. Two points of gross on labor forward work is the whole difference, and it comes out of rates you can read in week two.
THE NUMBERS GENERIC SOFTWARE MISSES.
WHAT IT IS.
ControlQore is a job costing and WIP platform for contractors that tracks cost by job and cost code, so a siding subcontractor can read cost per square of field wall and cost per linear foot of detail work against the estimated rates every week while the elevation is still open.
One cost history can't price four businesses. Vinyl, fiber cement, engineered wood, and metal panel systems run different material costs, different crew skills, different fastening specs, and different warranty regimes. Blended history misprices all four, and the most mispriced line wins the worst work, because a rate that's too low is the rate that wins bids.
WHERE IT GOES WRONG.
Four Product Lines, One Blended Cost Per Square
QuickBooks job tracking shows total labor cost by job. Vinyl, fiber cement, engineered wood, and metal panel all post into that total even though they carry different material costs, different crew skills, and different fastening requirements. The blended cost per square that comes out of it's too high for one line and too low for another, and the line it's too low for is the line that keeps winning work. ControlQore reports cost per square by product line against the estimated rate weekly.
Detail Work Priced at the Field Wall Rate
Field wall goes fast. Corners, penetrations, trim packages, transitions, and gables go slow, and they're skilled linear foot work rather than square footage. A bid priced on field wall squares donates the architecture, and because the hours all post to one code, the donation never appears as a loss on any single job. Tracked separately, the linear foot rate by detail class is a bid input, and the elevation with 40 corners gets priced like the elevation with 40 corners.
The WRB and Flashing Seam Undocumented
Siding installs over a weather resistive barrier and a flashing system somebody else installed and somebody else integrated at the windows. Those scope seams are where leak liability surfaces years after cover-up, and the envelope rule is unforgiving: the trade that touched the wall last explains it first. Without written scope boundaries, formal substrate acceptance, and photos before cover-up, a claim in year seven has no record to argue with.
Manufacturer Spec Compliance Treated as Free QC
Clearances, gapping, and fastener schedules aren't suggestions. They're warranty conditions, and siding installed outside the book kills the product warranty and leaves the installer carrying the tail alone. Documenting compliance takes crew hours and supervision time, and when those hours have no cost code, the company pays for its own cheapest insurance out of margin and can't tell you what it cost.
Wind Days and Access Priced by Feel
Cladding hangs outside. Wind days stop lifts and swing stages, cold windows constrain some products, and multi-story access is a priced logistics problem rather than a rounding error. When lifts, scaffolding, and swing stages post to one equipment total and weather days are never documented, the difference between commercial elevation work and residential square footage stays invisible in the bid.
WHAT WE BUILD.
SPM builds ControlQore cost codes for siding clients by product line first: vinyl, fiber cement, engineered wood, and metal panel. Labor, material, and equipment post to the product they belong to, and each code points at the corresponding line in the estimate. After a few jobs per line, each product has its own production history and its own material cost trend, so the four get priced as the four businesses they are. Variance over 10% for two consecutive weeks triggers a review while the elevation is still open.
Inside each product line, field wall carries a cost per square code and detail work carries linear foot codes by class: corners, penetrations, trim packages, transitions, and gables. Both rates are compared weekly to the estimated rates from the bid. That's what turns detail density from an explanation at closeout into a number in the next estimate, and it's the difference between a bid that carries the architecture and one that eats it.
Written scope boundaries at the WRB and flashing seam, formal substrate acceptance before install, spec compliance records including fastener schedules and batch records, and photographs before cover-up each get a cost code, and the QC scope gets its own line on the schedule of values. The hours are billed in the month they're spent rather than absorbed into the installed rate. The record outlives the memory of everyone who was on the wall, which is the point.
Lifts, scaffolding, and swing stages are coded per elevation rather than into one job total, so the access cost of a five story facade is separable from the access cost of a two story one. Weather days are documented as they happen, with the elevation and the product affected. When the schedule slips and the GC asks why, the answer is a log rather than a recollection, and the next bid on that building type carries an access number with history behind it.
The WIP schedule is produced monthly from cost-to-cost percentage complete by job. Underbilled positions, meaning work performed but not yet billed, are visible immediately and trigger a corrected pay application, which is what keeps elevation milestone billing current against retainage of 5 to 10 percent. Overbilled positions flag jobs where billing has outrun the work performed. On the building's most visible surface, punch scrutiny is heavy, and the last 5% of a job is where a thin net gets finished off.
FLAT MONTHLY FEE. NO SOFTWARE INVOICE.
Three tiers, priced by your trailing twelve month revenue. ControlQore comes with Strategic, and it never appears as its own line item on an SPM invoice. Which tier you're in depends on how much of the work you want off your desk.
Pricing
| Last 12 months revenue | Monthly fee |
|---|---|
| Up to $1M | $1,900 to $2,900 |
| $1M to $3.5M | $2,600 to $3,900 |
| $3.5M to $6.5M | $3,800 to $5,700 |
| $6.5M to $9.5M | $5,100 to $7,100 |
| $9.5M to $12.5M | $6,100 to $8,500 |
| $12.5M to $15.5M | $7,400 to $11,000 |
| $15.5M to $18.5M | $9,400 to $13,500 |
| $18.5M+ | Quoted individually |
Range reflects the three tiers below. Which one you're in depends on how much of the work you want off your desk. No payroll. No hidden line items.
You stop guessing.
You get the CFO work. Job costing built against the way you estimate, a 13 week cash forecast, monthly WIP, and a meeting every month that ends in decisions rather than a report.
Your bookkeeper keeps doing the books.
You stop touching the books.
Everything in Core, and we run the bookkeeping and the controllership as well. Nobody in your office is answering coding questions or chasing a reconciliation at month end.
We do the books. No payroll.
Every job shows its margin while it's still running.
Everything in Executive, plus the job costing and WIP platform set up, loaded with your cost codes, and managed for you every month. You never have to learn it.
We do the job costing.
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