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# BuildOps Review 2026: Pricing, Features and Who It’s For

_Published: September 2, 2026_  
_Author: Komal Gurbani_  

![](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/feature-2-1024x559.png)

BuildOps is the answer most often given when a commercial electrical contractor outgrows software that was built for residential service. It is unusually direct about that positioning — “Most platforms started in residential and stretched to fit. BuildOps starts with the complexity of commercial work” — and the product backs the claim.

It is also the least transparent platform in the category on price, and that is the single biggest thing to know before you book the demo.

## BuildOps Pricing at a Glance (2026)

| **Published price** | **None.** The pricing page is a form headed “Get Personalized Pricing” |
|---|---|
| **Entry tier** | Not published |
| **Per-user cost** | Not published |
| **Free trial** | Not offered — the route in is a discovery call and a personalised demo |
| **What happens after you submit** | BuildOps states: quick discovery within 24 hours, then a personalised demo |

buildops.com/pricing, read 1 September 2026.![What BuildOps publishes versus what it withholds - capability documented in detail, no price, no entry tier, no per-user rate and no free trial](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/01-published-vs-withheld.png)We are not treating this as a scandal — enterprise software often prices this way. But it has a practical consequence: you cannot compare BuildOps against Knowify, FieldCamp or anything else on cost without going through a sales process first, and you cannot budget for it at all until you do.

## Even the Software Directories Cannot Get a BuildOps Price

It is worth establishing that this is not a case of us failing to look hard enough. GetApp negotiates pricing data from vendors as a matter of course and publishes a starting figure for most of this category. Against BuildOps it lists **no pricing info**. Knowify’s entry plan, by contrast, sits on its own pricing page at $99 per month for one user. FieldCamp publishes every plan, every included user count and every per-user rate on [our pricing page](https://fieldcamp.ai/pricing/).

The directories also quietly register the consequence. On BuildOps’ own [GetApp listing](https://www.getapp.com/operations-management-software/a/buildops/), the products GetApp surfaces as alternatives with better value for money are [Housecall Pro](https://fieldcamp.ai/reviews/housecall-pro/) at 4.7 from about 2,700 reviews, [Jobber](https://fieldcamp.ai/reviews/jobber/) at 4.6 from about 1,400, and Limble at 4.8 from 757. Two of those three are residential-led service platforms that would be the wrong shape for staged commercial project work, so this is not a shortlist you should act on. It is a useful illustration of something else: when a platform publishes nothing, the comparison still gets made, just without it in the room.

## Overall Rating: 7.5/10

Genuinely built for commercial work rather than adapted to it, with the deepest ERP integration in the category and a clear, honest product story. Marked down entirely for pricing opacity and the absence of any self-serve route — you cannot evaluate this product without talking to someone.

## What 828 Users Actually Rate BuildOps

BuildOps carries two different reputations, and which one you hear depends entirely on who you ask. On [GetApp](https://www.getapp.com/operations-management-software/a/buildops/), where the reviewers are the people who bought and administer the software, BuildOps scores **4.4 out of 5 across 177 verified reviews**. On the two app stores, where the reviewers are the technicians who open it every morning, it scores **3.1 out of 5 across 467 ratings** on the [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/buildops-commercial-trades/id1459667206) and **3.1 across 184 ratings** on [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buildops).

That is 651 field ratings averaging 3.1 against 177 buyer reviews averaging 4.4. A gap of more than a full star between the office and the van is the most useful thing in BuildOps’ public record, and it tells you exactly where to push in a demo.

| **Source** | **Who reviews there** | **Rating** | **Volume** |
|---|---|---|---|
| GetApp | Buyers, administrators, office staff | 4.4 / 5 | 177 verified reviews |
| Apple App Store | Field technicians | 3.1 / 5 | 467 ratings |
| Google Play | Field technicians | 3.1 / 5 | 184 ratings |

GetApp, Apple App Store and Google Play listings for BuildOps, read 2 September 2026.The buyer-side detail supports the same reading. GetApp’s sub-scores are strongest exactly where an administrator would feel them: **ease of use 4.5, customer support 4.5, value for money 4.3**. The star distribution is genuinely good, with 102 five-star and 60 four-star reviews against 8 three-star, 3 two-star and 4 one-star. The pros GetApp surfaces are all back-office wins, and they are specific rather than vague: permissioning visibility across departments so financial data stays clean, invoice generation and distribution, a payments screen showing every invoice for one customer. One reviewer, a business analyst, says she learned the system in a week.

The complaints cluster somewhere else. GetApp groups the negative feedback under customer support, invoicing, service calls, data management, and, named explicitly, **frequent bugs and glitches**. Read that alongside a 3.1 on both app stores and a current release note whose headline improvements are faster performance and more reliable sync, and the shape of the problem is consistent: the platform is well designed, and the field client is where the friction lives.

None of this makes BuildOps a weak platform. Nine out of ten of its GetApp reviewers gave it four or five stars. What it does mean is that the demo you need is not the office walkthrough BuildOps will offer you first.

## Who Is BuildOps For?

- **Best for:** commercial electrical, mechanical and specialty contractors running projects and service together, at a scale where a construction ERP is already in place.
- **Also good for:** contractors doing switchgear, tenant buildouts and data centre installs — BuildOps names those three specifically.
- **Also good for:** teams where dispatch correctness matters because electricians hold different certifications and sending the wrong one stops a cutover.
- **Not the right fit for:** residential-led service businesses. BuildOps says so itself; commercial “isn’t an add-on” is the whole positioning.
- **Not the right fit for:** anyone who needs to know the price before committing to a sales cycle, or who wants to trial software before buying it.

## At a Glance: BuildOps Quick Facts

| **Category** | Commercial contractor platform — service, projects and financials in one system |
|---|---|
| **Best known for** | Commercial-first design and deep ERP integration |
| **Customer base** | “Trusted by 1,500+ commercial contractors across North America” |
| **ERP integrations** | Sage, Viewpoint (Vista) and QuickBooks — two-way, into job costing and payroll modules |
| **AI** | OpsAI, described as “built in, not bolted on” |
| **Trades served** | Commercial electrical, plumbing, mechanical, fire protection |
| **Pricing** | Not published |
| **Recognition** | Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers, fourth consecutive year |

All rows read from buildops.com on 1 September 2026.

## Who Actually Uses BuildOps

BuildOps positions itself around commercial trade contracting, and its reviewer base broadly agrees — with one wrinkle worth knowing before a demo. GetApp reports that **56% of BuildOps reviewers work in construction**, and that the single most frequently cited use case is **HVAC, at 52% of reviewers**. After construction, the industries appearing most often are mechanical and industrial engineering, facilities services and utilities.

So the centre of gravity of the customer base — and therefore of the roadmap, and of the peer references a salesperson will reach for — sits closer to mechanical and HVAC service than to the other trades BuildOps names. That is not a criticism of the product; it is a reason to ask for reference customers in your own trade, at your own size, running your own mix of projects and service. BuildOps names customers publicly on its industry pages, which is more accountability than most vendors in this category offer, so those references exist. Ask for them by name.

One more datapoint from the same source is worth sitting with. The integration BuildOps reviewers mention most often is not Sage and not Viewpoint — it is **QuickBooks Online**, which those reviewers rate 4.6 out of 5 for the quality of its BuildOps integration. If construction-ERP depth is the reason BuildOps is on your shortlist, note that the most-used connector in its own review base is the one every competitor also has.

## The Good and The Bad: BuildOps Pros & Cons

### What works

- **The ERP integration is the real differentiator.** Sage, Viewpoint and QuickBooks, syncing field data — time tracking, POs, invoicing — directly into job costing and payroll modules, both ways. Almost nothing else marketed to electrical contractors connects to a construction ERP at all.
- **Certification-based dispatch.** Dispatch is matched to the electrician by skills, certifications and availability. On commercial work where a cutover slips because the wrong tech arrived, this is not a nice-to-have.
- **Margin drift is flagged while the job is live.** BuildOps frames the problem exactly as contractors experience it: “You find out a project lost money after the final AIA billing goes out.” Live labour and material tracking is the answer they give.
- **Commercial-first, and honest about it.** “Most platforms started in residential and stretched to fit.” That is an accurate description of most of this category and a fair claim for them to make.
- **Named customers with attributable quotes** — Jolma Electric, RBT Electrical, Holmes Electric and Paragon Electrical are all named on the electrical page, which is more accountability than most vendors offer.

### What falls short

- **No published pricing at all.** Not a range, not a starting figure, not a per-user rate. Every comparison you want to make requires a sales cycle first.
- **No free trial and no self-serve path.** The only route in is discovery call, then demo.
- **Deliberately not for residential-led shops.** If half your revenue is same-day service calls, this is the wrong shape and BuildOps would probably agree.
- **The ERP strength implies the buyer.** Sage and Viewpoint integration is valuable precisely because you already run Sage or Viewpoint. If you run QuickBooks alone, a large part of what you are paying for is not addressed to you.
- **Claimed outcomes are not quantified publicly.** The site references a reduction in administrative work without a figure attached in the page copy we read.

## How We Reviewed BuildOps

We read BuildOps’ commercial electrical product page and its [pricing page](https://buildops.com/pricing/) on 1 September 2026 and built the product half of this review from those two sources plus their published FAQ answers. Where BuildOps publishes no number, whether price, per-user cost or contract length, we report that rather than estimating it.

For the user-sentiment half we used three third-party sources, all read on 2 September 2026: BuildOps’ GetApp listing for buyer-side reviews, sub-scores and the star distribution, and its Apple App Store and Google Play listings for field-side ratings, version history and release notes. We quote no G2 or Capterra score, because both returned an HTTP 403 to our requests on both days and we do not reproduce ratings we have not read at source.

The 7.5/10 is our own assessment against five criteria: pricing transparency, fit for the stated buyer, depth in the core workflow, what sits behind add-ons, and how honestly the product describes its own limits.

## What is BuildOps?

### What it promises

In BuildOps’ own words: “From switchgear and tenant buildouts to data center installs, BuildOps connects service, projects, and financials in one AI-native platform. Built for commercial electrical, where sending the wrong electrician or a late invoice can stop a project cold.”

### The reality

It delivers on that, and the shape of the product matches the shape of the claim. The catch is not capability — it is that BuildOps is sold, not bought. There is no way to try it, price it or size it without entering a sales process, which suits a contractor making a considered platform decision and frustrates one doing early comparison shopping.

## BuildOps Features: What Works (And What Doesn’t)

### 1. ERP and financial sync

The standout. Sage, Viewpoint and QuickBooks, with field data flowing into job costing and payroll modules in both directions. If you run a construction ERP, this is the reason to shortlist BuildOps.

![BuildOps syncing time tracking, purchase orders and invoicing both ways into Sage, Viewpoint and QuickBooks job costing and payroll](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/02-erp-sync.png)![BuildOps as the source of record pushing job values into an ERP general ledger, with service revenue, accounts received, materials cost and accounts payable posted as credits and debits](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/03-erp-source-of-record.png)

### 2. Certification-based dispatch

Dispatch matched by skill, certification and availability rather than by who is free. Directly aimed at the commercial failure mode where an uncertified tech arrives and the cutover slips.

![BuildOps dispatch board scheduling five technicians across a working day, each job labelled with its number and work type such as electrical inspection or preventive maintenance](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/04-dispatch-board.png)

### 3. Live job costing

Labour and materials tracked as the job runs, flagging margin drift before the post-mortem. This is the same argument FieldCamp makes about reading margin mid-build, and both are right about the problem.

![A BuildOps replacement quote priced at 8,438 dollars showing labour and material lines with unit cost, markup and margin percentage on every row](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/05-quote-margin.png)

### 4. OpsAI

Positioned as embedded rather than added: it recaps the day, calls out risks and gives each role a next step. BuildOps is explicit that it is “built in, not bolted on,” which is a fair swipe at bolted-on AI elsewhere.

![BuildOps OpsAI analysing the dispatch board and returning an optimise dispatch summary with a recommended action](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/06-opsai-optimize-dispatch.png)

### 5. Mobile field capture

Techs log time, parts and photos on mobile, synced to the office when the work order closes. Automated PO scanning and mobile document scanning are named as time-savers.

![BuildOps mobile work order closeout on job 1702, with required photo, inventory, equipment and purchase order sections and a prompt asking whether the visit completed the assigned work](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/07-mobile-work-order-closeout.png)

### 6. Templated workflows and forms

Build workflows matching the commercial work you actually do, with step-by-step jobsite forms so compliance requirements are followed and the job closes out on completion.

![BuildOps files and drawings for a hotel project at 65 percent complete, listing drawings, specifications, answered RFIs, approved submittals and signed contracts](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/08-files-and-drawings.png)

### 7. Asset history

Generators, panels and replacement parts logged by techs with full history per job, per location and across multi-site projects.

![BuildOps asset record for rooftop unit RTU-11 showing install date, expected and remaining lifetime, and a dated service history naming the technician on each visit](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/09-asset-service-history.png)

### 8. Reporting

Custom reports built from any data input in the platform, with configurable dashboards.

## The Mobile App Is the Part to Test Before You Sign

BuildOps has shipped a field app since **29 May 2019**, and it is actively maintained: version 3.80.0 landed on **1 September 2026**, and the Android build was updated on 29 August. The app is free, requires iOS 16 or later, weighs roughly 185 MB, and Google Play reports **10,000+ installs**. Set against the 1,500-plus contractors BuildOps claims, that reads like a genuinely deployed field client rather than a token one, though the Play figure is a bucketed floor and counts Android only.

What the app store record actually tells you, though, is in the ratings rather than the changelog. **3.1 out of 5 from 467 ratings on iOS, and 3.1 from 184 on Android**, is a middling score for a professional tool nobody downloads by choice. And the current release notes lead with faster performance and more reliable sync, the language a vendor reaches for when sync has been the complaint.

This matters more here than it would for an office-only product, because on commercial electrical work the app *is* the system. If your field technicians will not use it, the live job costing never happens, the asset history never gets written, and the ERP sync has nothing to push into Sage. Every claim in the section above depends on the field capture underneath it.

So make the mobile app a condition of the deal rather than a footnote. Put it in the hands of two of your own field technicians for a week, on a real job, in a basement or a riser where signal drops, and ask what happens to a half-finished work order when it does. A platform the office loves and the field tolerates is a platform whose data you cannot trust six months from now.

## Who BuildOps Is Really For

BuildOps publishes dedicated pages by trade — commercial electrical, mechanical, plumbing and fire protection — and in the commercial conversation it is one of two names that comes up in almost every shortlist, alongside ServiceTitan.

![BuildOps field reports for a school project at 76.5 percent complete, logging employees, total hours and unproductive hours per visit alongside a daily report of work completed, delays and safety concerns](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/10-field-daily-report.png)The fit is strongest for a contractor running staged project work and service together, at a scale where finance already sits in Sage or Viewpoint, and where dispatch has to respect who is qualified rather than only who is free. Switchgear, tenant fit-outs and data centre work are the examples BuildOps itself reaches for. The fit is weakest for a shop whose revenue is mostly same-day service, or one that wants to evaluate software without a sales cycle.

The question worth answering before the demo: does your back office run a construction ERP? If yes, BuildOps is doing something almost nobody else in this category does. If no, you are shortlisting it for a strength that does not apply to you — and that single question will save you more time than any feature comparison.

## What to Ask on the BuildOps Demo

Because there is no trial and no published price, the demo is the entire evaluation. Ten questions that get you what BuildOps does not publish:

- **The all-in monthly cost for your exact headcount**, office seats and field seats priced separately, and what that becomes in year two.
- **Minimum contract length and minimum seat count.** Both, explicitly, in writing.
- **What implementation costs**, how long it takes, and who does the data migration.
- **Which ERP modules the sync actually writes to** in Sage or Viewpoint, field by field, and which direction each one flows.
- **Whether it produces a formal G702 and G703**, or hands progress billing to the ERP. Ask this one directly: the published feature set references AIA billing without committing to the forms.
- **What the mobile app does with no signal** in a basement or a riser, and what reconciles when it reconnects.
- **Certification-based dispatch failing.** Ask them to put an uncertified tech on a job live in the demo and show you what the system does.
- **Two reference customers in your own trade**, at your size and revenue mix, by name.
- **What sits behind an add-on** rather than inside the plan being quoted.
- **How you get your data out** if you leave, in what format, on what notice, at what cost.

If a vendor will not answer the first two before a second call, that is itself information.

## BuildOps Alternatives

The platforms most often weighed against BuildOps fall into three groups, and which group you belong in is decided by the same question as the rest of this review: how much of your revenue is bid contract work.

**Contract-led, with published pricing.** [Knowify](https://fieldcamp.ai/reviews/knowify/) is the closest like-for-like on the work itself, handling fixed-price and AIA jobs from its entry plan, at a price you can read before you speak to anyone. It is smaller in scale and has no construction ERP integration, which is precisely the trade. The two go head to head in our [Knowify alternatives](https://fieldcamp.ai/alternatives/knowify/) guide.

**Service-heavy at enterprise scale.** [ServiceTitan](https://fieldcamp.ai/reviews/servicetitan/) is the other name in every commercial conversation and, like BuildOps, publishes no pricing at all, so the same sales-cycle problem applies twice over; see [ServiceTitan alternatives](https://fieldcamp.ai/alternatives/servicetitan/) for what that costs you. [Service Fusion](https://fieldcamp.ai/reviews/service-fusion/) sits a tier below on both price and depth.

**Lighter service platforms.** [Jobber](https://fieldcamp.ai/reviews/jobber/) and [Housecall Pro](https://fieldcamp.ai/reviews/housecall-pro/) are the two GetApp itself puts forward against BuildOps on value, and both publish their pricing, but both are built around the service call rather than the staged project. If your work is genuinely commercial, read [Jobber alternatives](https://fieldcamp.ai/alternatives/jobber/) and [Housecall Pro alternatives](https://fieldcamp.ai/alternatives/housecall-pro/) before you shortlist either.

And **FieldCamp**, for contractors who want the monthly admin drafted for them without an enterprise contract or a sales cycle to find out the price. We do not produce AIA G702 or G703 forms and we do not integrate Sage or Viewpoint, so if either is the requirement, BuildOps or Knowify is the honest answer. The full head-to-head is in our [BuildOps alternatives](https://fieldcamp.ai/alternatives/buildops/) guide, and [our pricing](https://fieldcamp.ai/pricing/) is published in full if you want to compare before anyone calls you.

**Want to know the price before the sales call?**

FieldCamp publishes every plan, every included user count and every per-user rate. Book a walkthrough and we will model one of your own commercial jobs — the GC as payer, the staged invoices, a variation mid-build — on your data rather than a demo dataset.

[Book a 15-minute call](https://calendly.com/jeel-fieldcamp/30min "Book a Demo Now")

## Frequently asked questions

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### How much does BuildOps cost?

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**Not published.** The pricing page is a form headed “Get Personalized Pricing”; the stated process is discovery within 24 hours, then a personalised demo. No entry tier, no per-user rate, no free trial — so any cost comparison needs their sales process first.

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### Does BuildOps integrate with Sage and Viewpoint?

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Yes — Sage, Viewpoint and QuickBooks, syncing field data (time tracking, POs, invoicing) into the ERP’s job costing and payroll modules, both ways. Very few platforms sold to electrical contractors connect to a construction ERP at all.

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### Is BuildOps good for electrical contractors?

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It is built for commercial electrical specifically — switchgear, tenant buildouts, data centre installs. Strongest where projects and service run together and a construction ERP is already in place. Weak fit for residential-led service, which BuildOps effectively acknowledges.

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### Does BuildOps offer a free trial?

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No. The published route in is a discovery call, then a personalised demo.

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### What is OpsAI?

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BuildOps’ embedded AI, described as “built in, not bolted on.” It recaps the day, flags risks and gives each role a next step, working from the jobs, crews and data already in the platform.

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### What is the difference between BuildOps and Knowify?

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Same buyer, different scale, opposite transparency. Knowify publishes full pricing from $99/month for one user and does AIA from its entry plan. BuildOps publishes nothing, targets larger commercial construction, and integrates Sage and Viewpoint. ERP in place → BuildOps. Need the price first → Knowify.

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### How many contractors use BuildOps?

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The site states **1,500+ commercial contractors across North America**. BuildOps has also been named to Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers for a fourth consecutive year.

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### Does BuildOps handle AIA billing?

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It references AIA billing directly — “you find out a project lost money after the final AIA billing goes out” — and progress billing is in its published feature set. Confirm the exact form handling you need during the demo.


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