The General Contractor · $99.99/mo

Now let other people build it.

You've got the work. You can't do it all yourself, so subs are the only way up. But subs mean certificates of insurance, W-9s, 1099s, scope fights, "he said / you said," and paying people you're not totally sure are covered.

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Cancel anytime Sub logins never use a seat Payments settle to your own Stripe account
6tabs in the sub portal, and nothing else
0seats a subcontractor login uses
30days of warning before a COI lapses
5read-only logins each vendor gives its own foremen

That's why most contractors stay small. Growth feels like risk.

One sub's coverage lapses and you find out after the claim. A scope gets fuzzy and a job goes sideways. January arrives and 1099s are a shoebox. So you cap the crew and turn down the big jobs, not because you can't do them, but because you can't carry the risk of the people doing them.

Give every sub their own door, and growth stops being a gamble.

Everything in the Contractor plan, plus the subcontractor side

Every sub, their own door.

  • Invite a sub to only their scope, they see their jobs, their agreement, their schedule. Nothing else.
  • Build a vendor network, keep a directory, and take applications through a public form you can drop straight into an ad.
  • Rate every sub after a job, build a scored bench so you know who to call first. The rating is private and the sub never sees it.
  • Post a job to the bid board, collect prices and start dates, and award one. The rest are declined for you.
  • Phases & a timeline, break a job into phases and assign a vendor to each, with the scope they need to see.
  • Insurance that warns you before it burns you, a nightly check emails you when a certificate falls inside 30 days of lapsing, and again every week until it is replaced.
  • W-9s on file, 1099 totals in January, export the numbers your accountant needs without the shoebox.
  • Record what you paid every sub, by check, bank transfer or any other method. However the money moved, the amount lands in their 1099 total.
  • Write your own automations, the Contractor plan has the fixed six to switch on; on GC you write the rules yourself.
  • More than one client on a job, an owner and a property manager on the same project, each with their own portal login.

North Mech is the cheapest price on the board and their coverage has lapsed. You find that out here, before you award it, instead of after somebody falls off a ladder.

The line the software draws

What you see. What your sub sees.

One job, two logins. The sub portal is not your console with buttons hidden, it is a different set of screens, and the boundary is checked on every request rather than set by a switch somebody can flip by accident.

On one jobYou, in the consoleYour sub, in the sub portal
Job name, address and statusYesYes
The scope you wrote for themYesYes
Their dates on siteYesYes
The documents you filed for them, and whether each is signedYesYes
What you have paid them, and what is outstandingYesYes
Their certificate of insurance and W-9YesThey upload them
Your client's name and the client's documentsYesHidden
What you are charging the clientYesHidden
Another sub's agreement or priceYesHidden
Your private rating of themYesHidden
Every other job in your companyYesHidden

None of this is a preference you have to remember to set. A sub who is not on a job cannot open that job at all, even holding the link.

Why it's double

This isn't more features. It's a different life.

The Contractor plan takes the business out of your head. The GC plan takes the work off your hands, safely. That's the whole difference, and it's worth every dollar the first time a lapsed COI doesn't become your problem.

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The bid board

One scope out. Three prices back.

Five stops from "I need a price on this" to "it is awarded and attached to the job", and the software files the closing paperwork.

  1. Post the scope

    A title, the trade, the date you need it done, and a budget if you want to name one. It can hang off a job or stand on its own while you are still pricing the work.

  2. Choose who sees it

    Invite named vendors off your bench, or open it to your whole bench. A vendor you did not invite does not see the request at all.

  3. They answer with a price and the dates they can be there

    Nothing is ever read out of an uploaded PDF. A number guessed off a scan is a real financial error, so the sub types the number they mean and you compare numbers, not attachments.

  4. Compare on one screen

    Every price sits on a row with that vendor's insurance status beside it, so a lapsed certificate turns up next to the number instead of turning up after the work is booked.

  5. Award one

    The winner is marked, the other prices are declined for you, the request closes, and the vendor is attached to the job. One tap, four things filed, nobody left waiting on an answer you forgot to send.

Electrical and plumbing share a week on purpose. Each of those two vendors opens Timeline in their own portal and sees one row: their phase, their dates, and the scope note you wrote for them.

Phases and the timeline

Break the job up the way you actually build it.

A general contractor is not running one job. You are running six trades who all believe they start Monday, and the timeline is where that gets settled once instead of six times by phone.

A phase is a name and two dates. Add them in the order you build, change the order when the weather does, and leave the dates off until you know them. A phase with no dates says so rather than guessing.

A vendor goes on a phase, not on the job. Each assignment carries their role on that phase, the scope note you wrote for that trade, and a budget. The scope note has a switch that decides whether they see it. The budget has no switch, because their copy never carries it.

Your sub opens Timeline and sees their rows. The phases they are on, those dates, that scope. Not the whole plan, not the trade before them, and not one number about what anybody else is charging you.

Paying subs

What one sub costs you, and what we take.

Subcontractor management is mostly a money question. Here is one vendor on one job, from the day you put them on a phase to the file your accountant opens in January.

What happensWhere it happensAmount
You put Delta Electric on the rough electrical phase Your console. You write their role, their scope note and a budget only you can see. not yet
Delta asks for a draw Their portal, from the job you assigned. Their screen reads Waiting on your GC until you act, and they can take the request back while it is still there. $4,000.00
You settle it Your Subcontractors queue. Paying the request moves their screen from Waiting on your GC to Paid, and the amount is filed against them. $4,000.00
The money moves your way By check, bank transfer, or whatever you already use. Servora records what you paid and is never in the middle of it, so there is nothing here for a sub to connect and nothing of yours to wait on. $4,000.00
January A CSV per sub: what you paid them, whether their W-9 is on file, and whether they crossed that tax year's IRS reporting threshold. The filing stays with your accountant. $18,400.00year to date
What Servora takes out of any of it Nothing. We are not a party to the payment and we never touch it, so there is no fee of ours to take out of it. $0.00

Every payment you record puts its amount in that sub's 1099 total, so the year-end number is right however you actually paid them. See what the two plans cost.

Straight answers

What GCs ask before they switch

What does a sub actually see?
Six tabs and nothing else: the jobs you assigned them, the bid board if you opened it to them, the phases they are on, their schedule, their insurance and W-9 uploads, and the extra logins they can hand their own foremen. Inside a job they get the job name, the address, the scope you wrote for them, the documents you filed for them with the status of each, their dates, and what you have paid them. They never see your client, what you are charging, or another sub. That separation is enforced on every request, not by trust.
Do subcontractors sign their agreement in Servora?
No, and we would rather tell you here than let you find it in week two. E-signature is built for your client: they sign on their phone and the file locks with their name, the time, and the IP stamped into it. A sub sees the documents you filed for them and whether each one is signed, and their portal says plainly that you will send the agreement over to sign. Nobody is left hunting for a button that was never built.
Do subcontractor logins eat my seats?
No. Seats count your internal team only. Subcontractor logins are free and unlimited on the GC plan, and each vendor company can hand out up to five read-only logins to its own foremen at no cost to you.
Does Servora verify insurance coverage?
We track each certificate and its expiry date. A nightly check emails you when a sub's certificate is inside 30 days of lapsing or has already lapsed, and it reminds you once a week until the certificate is replaced. Reviewing the coverage itself, limits, endorsements, and project requirements stays with you.
Can I pay subs through Servora?
You pay them the way you already do, by check or bank transfer, and record it here. Servora keeps the record rather than moving the money, so there is no account for your sub to connect and nothing of yours sitting in a balance. Every amount you record lands in that sub's 1099 total.
Do you file my 1099s?
We track what you paid each sub, flag who crosses the year's IRS reporting threshold ($600 through tax year 2025, $2,000 for payments made in 2026) and who is missing a W-9, and export year-end totals as a CSV. Thresholds change by tax year, and the filing itself stays with your accountant.
What does the GC plan add that the Contractor plan does not have?
Three tools in your console (Vendors, Bid board, Subcontractors), three more sections inside every job (Timeline, Subcontractors, Bids), the subcontractor portal itself, an eight-step government-contracting playbook, automations you write yourself instead of the fixed six, and more than one client of record on a single job. Everything in the Contractor plan comes with it.
Can I move between the two plans?
Yes. Upgrading or downgrading takes effect right away and Stripe prorates the difference. A card is required to start and there is no free trial.

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The decision

Two plans. The difference is who does the work.

If you carry the tools, the Contractor plan is the whole business in one place. The moment other people are on your jobs, you need the half that keeps them straight.

You do the work

Contractor

Leads, estimates, e-signature, invoices, deposits, scheduling, photos, messages, and a client portal in your colors. Everything to run your own jobs.

$39.99 /mo

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Other people do the work

General Contractor

Everything above, plus the vendor directory, the bid board, phases and a timeline, insurance and W-9 tracking, 1099 totals, sub payments, and automations you write yourself.

$99.99 /mo

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Five team seats are included on both plans, then $15 a month for each additional block of five. Subcontractor logins are free and never count against them. See the full pricing page, or open the product tour and walk the sub portal first.