Open-Source Trades Software

Trades software supports trade businesses with quotes, jobs, scheduling, job site documentation, time tracking, and invoices.

Typical users include trade and construction businesses that want to coordinate office work, job sites, and mobile teams in one shared system.

ERP systems cover business processes across industries.

If you want to cover individual tasks separately, project management offers tools for project planning and invoicing offers software for quotes and invoices. Project time tracking records the effort per job, while employee time tracking records the team's attendance and breaks.

Features

Below is an overview of common features of trades software.

Manage quotes and jobs

Invoices, progress billing, and dunning

Project and job site planning

Mobile app for job sites and customer appointments

Time tracking and work reports

Record measurements, materials, and services

Job site documentation with photos and forms

Customer, supplier, and item data

Interfaces to accounting, DATEV, GAEB, or Datanorm

Reports and job costing

Products

The directory currently lists no open-source products in this category.

Well-known proprietary examples include Bosch OfficeOn, Das Programm, HERO, openHandwerk, plancraft and ToolTime.