Pricing
Two plans. $39.99 or $99.99 a month.
Choose Contractor for your own jobs. Choose General Contractor when you also manage subcontractors, bids, compliance, and pay requests.
Contractor
Solo operators & small crews
$39.99/mo
or $399.90/year, two months free
- Unlimited projects and clients
- Up to 5 team seats included, with per-permission control
- Lead capture and custom intake forms you build
- Estimates, e-signatures and a locked, stamped paper trail
- Invoices, deposits and receipts, with every payment recorded
- Branded client portal with your logo & color
- Scheduling, photos, messaging & change orders
- Recurring service jobs: one folder, one visit log, one billing stream
- Job costs and profit, against what you billed and against the bank
- Materials tracker with reusable lists you pull onto any job
- Checklists, a time clock and who-was-on-site, each off until you switch it on
- Six built-in automations you switch on yourself, and a review request when you mark a job complete
- Client and payment exports as CSV, any job's documents as a zip
Most complete
General Contractor
You manage subcontractors
$99.99/mo
or $999.90/year, two months free
- Everything in Contractor
- Vendor portal, invite a sub to one job and their own scope
- Vendor network, applications & a bid board
- Project phases & timeline with vendor assignments
- Insurance certificates & W-9s tracked, warned before a lapse
- Record what you paid each sub, by any method, against their 1099 total
- 1099 year-end totals, exported as a CSV
- Messaging dashboard: groups per audience, an employee board, send-to-all
- Sub payment requests, and a private rating subs never see
- Write your own automations, past the built-in six
- More than one client on a single job
- Government-contracting playbook
Growing the crew? The first 5 seats are included. Beyond that, seats are added in blocks of 5 at $15/mo per block, on either plan. Subcontractor logins are not seats and are never counted.
Contractor vs General Contractor
The line, drawn exactly.
The extra $60 a month buys one subject: the people you hire but do not employ. Thirteen capabilities stay shut until the plan reads General Contractor, and this is all thirteen.
| What you get | Contractor$39.99/mo | General Contractor$99.99/mo+$60.00 a month |
|---|---|---|
| On both plans, at $39.99 | ||
| Unlimited jobs and unlimited clients | Yes | Yes |
| Five team seats, then blocks of five at $15/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Intake forms you build, shared as a link, a QR code or an embed | Yes | Yes |
| Estimates and change orders, signed on a phone, stamped and locked | Yes | Yes |
| Invoices, deposits and receipts, with every payment recorded | Yes | Yes |
| A branded client portal for every client | Yes | Yes |
| Schedule and dispatch, job photos, job messaging | Yes | Yes |
| Checklists, gear, the handbook, workflows, roles and pay levels | Yes | Yes |
| Recurring service jobs, with the visit log and the billing stream kept apart | Yes | Yes |
| Job costs, a materials tracker, and profit shown against billed and against the bank | Yes | Yes |
| The six built-in automations, shipped switched off | Yes | Yes |
| What the extra $60.00 opens | ||
| The subcontractor portalEvery sub you invite gets a login of their own, and it never counts against your seats. | No | Yes |
| A scope written for one subThey read the words you wrote for them. Never your client, never your price, never another sub. | No | Yes |
| Vendor directory and applicationsThe companies you hire, plus a public form a sub fills in to ask for a place on your bench. | No | Yes |
| Bid boardPost a scope, invite your bench or open it up, collect prices and start dates, award one. | No | Yes |
| Bids compared on the jobEvery price for that job in one column, next to who says they can start when. | No | Yes |
| Insurance and W-9 on fileA certificate and a W-9 per company, and a warning before the coverage lapses. | No | Yes |
| Record what you paid a subCheck, bank transfer or any other method, filed against that sub and their 1099 total. | No | Yes |
| 1099 totals at year endWhat you paid every sub across the year, exported as a CSV for your accountant. | No | Yes |
| Phases, a timeline, a vendor on eachCut the job into phases and put a company against each one. | No | Yes |
| The messaging dashboardGroups per audience and an employee board. Clients, employees and subs are never in one conversation, and the server refuses it, not just the screen. | No | Yes |
| Automations you write yourselfContractor has the fixed six to switch on. General Contractor writes its own rules on top. | No | Yes |
| More than one client on a jobAn owner and a property manager on the same project, each with their own view. | No | Yes |
| The government-contracting playbookThe registration and bidding steps for public work, kept inside the app. | No | Yes |
Upgrading is a switch inside your account. Stripe prorates it and the thirteen rows open the same minute. Downgrading works the same way in reverse.
Add-ons & done-for-you
Only pay for what you turn on.
Optional extras and services, never bundled into your monthly bill.
ConsultingOperators who've done the work, on your problem. Priced per session, see services →
Vendor network build-outThe GC plan already ships the directory, the applications inbox and the bid board. This is us filling the bench for you. See what it does →
Custom softwareBespoke builds on the platform you're standing in. Quoted, see services →
Leaving VuseDesk
No long-term contract.
Export the records made available for export before closing the account. Clients and payments come out as CSV, and any job's documents download as a single zip.
Pricing questions
Before you start.
Is there a free trial?
No. A card is required to start, and billing begins when you activate the workspace. A sample job is seeded for you on the first login, and the product tour runs in your browser with no account and no card if you want to look first.
Can I change plans?
Yes, from inside your account, in either direction. Stripe prorates the switch and it takes effect right away. Everything you have already built carries over, and on an upgrade every subcontractor you invite gets their own scoped login.
Which plan should I pick?
If you do the work yourself or run a small crew, the Contractor plan is everything you need. If you hire and manage subcontractors, and need to track their insurance, W-9s, and 1099s, choose General Contractor. You can upgrade from inside your account anytime. If you are not sure, walk the product tour and open the subcontractor view: if you would be in those screens every week, you want General Contractor.
Do you take a cut of what my clients pay me?
No. VuseDesk does not process your payments at all, so there is nothing for us to take a cut of. You get paid the way you already do, by card, check, bank transfer, cash or your own processor, and VuseDesk records it against the invoice. No cut, no markup, and no third party between you and your money.
Do I pay per client or per project?
No. Clients and projects are unlimited on both plans. You only pay more if you add team seats beyond the first five, and subcontractor logins are not team seats.
What happens if I cancel?
Your workspace switches to read-only, so nothing is lost. There is no countdown on it and we do not delete it on a schedule. Clients and payments come out as CSV files, and any job's documents download as a single zip. When you want the account removed, ask us and we remove it.
Do subcontractor logins use my paid seats?
No. Seats only count your internal team. On the GC plan, every subcontractor you invite gets their own login scoped to the jobs you assign them, and nothing counts it against your seat count.
Does VuseDesk file my 1099s?
VuseDesk tracks what you paid each sub, flags who crosses the year's IRS reporting threshold and who's missing a W-9, and exports year-end totals as a CSV for your accountant. The filing itself stays with your accountant or tax software.