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Streamline your excavation projects with Knowify

Excavation software

Simplify running your earthworks and excavation business

With tools to help you win new excavation projects, manage projects and teams, stay on-budget, and get paid faster, Knowify makes running and growing your excavation business easier than ever.

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Stay organized

Keep your team in-sync on one complete platform that helps you manage projects large and small.

Work faster

From planning to execution to collecting final payment, Knowify helps your office and field teams work more efficiently, spending less time on data entry.

Grow your business

Estimate more accurately, stay on-budget as you work, and understand the big picture of your business finances.

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Effortless budgeting and estimating

Create multi-phase budgets in minutes, with automated cost tracking by category. Speed up planning with reusable job templates tailored to your projects. Quickly markup budgets for profit and generate client-ready proposals in under a minute.

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Powerful CRM and proposal tools

Organize leads, bids, and contracts with a customizable workflow. Create detailed proposals with full control over formatting and line items. Track proposal activity, get notifications, and enable clients to request revisions electronically for a seamless experience.

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Stay on top of changes, progress, and schedules

Easily create and send change orders, collect feedback, and invoice in minutes. Track job progress with automated daily logs featuring photos, notes, and labor details. Plan projects your way with flexible scheduling tools to assign teams and resources efficiently.

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Efficient equipment management and tracking

Track equipment usage and costs by adding tools like mixers and compactors to Knowify. Schedule equipment for specific operators, teams, or job phases with precision. Maintain accurate records to streamline scheduling and ensure proper costing for every project.

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Real-time cost tracking and profitability insights

Automatically allocate labor, material, equipment, and subcontractor costs to the right job and phase. Manage subcontractor expenses like your internal team. Monitor real-time WIP and profitability to ensure projects stay on budget and adjust as needed.

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Streamlined invoicing and payment solutions

Generate AIA pay apps, including G702 and G703, in minutes for fixed-price contracts. Get paid faster with payment integrations like Square, Intuit, and PaySimple. Manage all invoices from one screen to track payments, overdue amounts, and send reminders effortlessly.

Tackle every excavation project with ease

Whether you self-perform all of your work, or hire subs to supplement your team, Knowify helps you coordinate the many moving parts of your projects.

Manage your team

Use Knowify’s powerful team scheduling, time tracking, and task management tools to keep projects on-schedule, especially when your team is self-performing work alongside subs.

Manage your subs

With tools for tracking subcontractor costs, managing licenses, handling submittal requests, and more, Knowify helps you work with subcontractors as if they’re part of your own team.

The #1 QuickBooks integration for excavation businesses

You’re an excavation contractor, not an accountant. That’s why Knowify’s cloud-based software offers complete integration with the QuickBooks family of products, eliminating double-entry and giving you back valuable time. We provide earthworks excavation software truly built for your needs.

Knowify's earthworks excavation software integrates directly with your accounting software and other key tools:

Knowify is designed specifically for QuickBooks Online. This isn’t a basic connection – it’s a two-way sync that keeps your financials and team completely accurate and aligned. Every transaction, from creating a customer invoice, to purchase orders, bills, and expenses, automatically syncs.

Get paid faster and easier while offering an exceptional customer experience. Knowify integrates directly with QuickBooks Payments, allowing your clients to pay invoices online instantly using ACH or credit card, and getting you money faster.

Allow your field and office teams to track time accurately, and send that data directly to QuickBooks Online Payroll. Knowify supports complex payroll needs, eliminating most of the admin work your office staff takes on, and ensuring compliance. No more manual time entry – everything flows seamlessly.

For excavation contractors with more than one business, Intuit Enterprise Suite and Knowify provides a robust, scalable solution. Get advanced job costing, detailed customized reports, and valuable insights powered by an AI assistant. Intuit Enterprise Suite ensures that all of the project data across multiple business entities rolls up into a single platform.

Easy to use software for excavation contractors, starting at $99/month`

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Frequently asked questions

While Knowify isn’t exclusively software for excavation contractors, it is designed specifically for trade contractors at small and medium sized businesses. It has all the features a small excavating business needs to save time when handling their daily operations, whether you’re tackling a large commercial job or following-up on small residential excavation job. Unlike some other software that’s built for general contractors or homebuilders, Knowify is focused on providing excavation contractors with access to user friendly tools that the entire company can use to save time and stay on the same page – whether they’re office staff on a laptop or out at the job site on their mobile device.

From their mobile phone! Knowify’s mobile app is available on iOS and android devices, and allows your crew to see key job details and equipment history, log expenses, take photos, log their time (with location-tracking), and much more. All the job site data your collected while working on the mobile app throughout the day gets automatically organized into daily reports that project managers can easily understand, improving communication for everyone involved.

Yes, Knowify offers a complete free 14 day trial, with no credit card or commitment required, so you can ensure that it’s the best software for your business. Knowify also offers free demos with our product experts, based in the U.S. and Canada.

When creating a new project in Knowify, you’ll have the option to choose from the following contract types to build you budget and send proposals to your customers, depending on your subscription tier:

  • Fixed-price
  • Fixed-price with AIA invoicing
  • Cost Plus/Time & Materials
  • Unit-based invoicing
  • Maintenance contracts

Each of the contract types above have future implications throughout the project lifecycle, from estimating, to sending invoices, all the way through collecting payment. Knowify automatically manages documents, adjusting your invoices to fit the specific needs your contract requires, so you can spend less time formatting and doing math, and more time collecting from your customers. For applicable formats, Knowify will automatically factor change orders into your invoicing schedule, so you don’t have to worry about over or under-billing.

The Knowify web app and mobile app are both available in English and Spanish on all mobile devices.

Knowify allows you to create budgets and estimates with pinpoint accuracy. For companies that require visual takeoff tools, or that are already using a 3rd party takeoff tool, Knowify has an import function to bring materials and project phases into a budgeting system. Visual documents like autocad files, vector pdfs, and paper plans can be uploaded as documents to the project plan in Knowify and shared with teams in the office and field.