Is this only for builders, or does it work for a trade business?

It works for a trade contractor running their own jobs — electrical, plumbing, concreting, carpentry, civil, fitout. You get the same estimating, scheduling, timesheet and invoicing tools; you just run them across your own work rather than a whole build.

Can my crew use it without paying per person?

Yes. Only office users take a seat. Everyone on the tools — apprentices, labourers, leading hands, subbies you engage — can clock time, read the program and add site records without a seat.

Do I have to use it as a subcontractor to a builder?

No, and either way works. You can run your own jobs end to end, and when a builder sends you an RFQ or a task through SiteStride you can respond from the same account.

What about my existing price list?

Import your rates and materials by CSV, group them into assemblies for the work you do repeatedly, and set markups per category so quoting is a few clicks after the first setup.

Does it handle GST and Australian invoicing?

Yes. Estimates, variations, progress claims and invoices all handle Australian GST, and everything exports to PDF or CSV for your bookkeeper.

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Run your trade business off one job record

Quote from your own rates, program the crew, capture hours and photos on site, and invoice off real numbers. Built for electrical, plumbing, carpentry, concreting, civil and fitout contractors working across multiple sites.

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What trades get out of it

Most trade businesses lose money in the gaps — the quote that wasn't priced off real rates, the hours nobody wrote down, the variation that never got signed. SiteStride closes those gaps.

Quote work in minutes, not evenings

Build a priced estimate from saved rates and assemblies — labour, materials, margin and GST separated. Send it as a branded quote and convert the accepted one straight into a job.

Timesheets that match the job, not the week

Your crew clocks time against the actual task on the actual job — timer on the phone or a weekly grid at the ute. Hours roll straight into labour cost so you know the true margin.

Crew scheduling you can hand out

Assign each task to a person or a gang, see who's on what this week in the planner, and export a clean PDF program for the builder or head contractor.

Variations that actually get paid

Raise a variation on site with photos, get it signed digitally, attach an invoice number and keep the full audit trail for when the claim gets questioned.

Built for the ute and the scaffold

Installable mobile app with offline site access, geotagged photos, QR site sign-in and a site diary you can fill in one-handed between jobs.

Hands-free with your gloves on

Say "SiteStride" and add a task, log an RFI, dictate a diary entry or move a date — without taking your gloves off or getting off the ladder.

How a job runs

Price it

Estimate from your own rates, mark up per category, send the quote.

Program it

Turn the accepted quote into a job and lay the crew's tasks on a schedule.

Run it

Timesheets, photos, diary entries, POs and variations all land against that job.

Claim it

Progress claim or invoice off real actuals, with variations already signed.

What changes in the first month

Know the margin on every job before it's finished, not after
Stop chasing timesheets on scraps of paper and group chats
Never lose a variation because nobody wrote it down
One contact list for your subbies, with licence and insurance expiry reminders
Unlimited site users — every apprentice and labourer is free
Send the head contractor a professional program and claim on time

Getting paid for extras, without the argument

Unpaid variations are where trade businesses quietly lose their margin. The sequence below is the one that survives a head contractor's payment schedule, and SiteStride keeps every step attached to the job it belongs to.

1
Capture it on the day
Log the instruction in the site diary with a photo and who gave it — before the work starts, not at claim time.
2
Price it as a variation
Raise the variation off your own rates so the extra carries the same margin as the original quote.
3
Get it signed
Send it for digital signature and keep the signature audit trail: who signed, when, from where.
4
Claim it with the progress claim
The signed variation is already on the job, so it lands in the claim with its invoice number instead of being argued about later.

Pricing the original job well is half the battle — see our guide to estimating a build and SiteStride's estimating tools.

Questions from trades

Is this only for builders, or does it work for a trade business?: It works for a trade contractor running their own jobs — electrical, plumbing, concreting, carpentry, civil, fitout. You get the same estimating, scheduling, timesheet and invoicing tools; you just run them across your own work rather than a whole build.
Can my crew use it without paying per person?: Yes. Only office users take a seat. Everyone on the tools — apprentices, labourers, leading hands, subbies you engage — can clock time, read the program and add site records without a seat.
Do I have to use it as a subcontractor to a builder?: No, and either way works. You can run your own jobs end to end, and when a builder sends you an RFQ or a task through SiteStride you can respond from the same account.
What about my existing price list?: Import your rates and materials by CSV, group them into assemblies for the work you do repeatedly, and set markups per category so quoting is a few clicks after the first setup.
Does it handle GST and Australian invoicing?: Yes. Estimates, variations, progress claims and invoices all handle Australian GST, and everything exports to PDF or CSV for your bookkeeper.

Put your next job on it

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