Hive Contractors

The CRM built for small contractors

Hive Contractors brings your entire business under one roof. Automate your finances, communication, and project planning—plus vendor collaboration, homeowner updates, timesheets, COIs, receipts, and audits—so you can focus on building.

1 roof
Every job, all in one place
Auto
Receipts & books on autopilot
Real-time
Clients & crews stay in sync
Finances
Estimates
Clients
Planning
Messages
Transactions ✓ 3 matched today
Job costs
$14,280
Unmatched
2 receipts
This month
+$6,200
Home Depot
Lumber — Unit A
$843.20
Kitchen Reno
Jun 27
Ace Hardware
Plumbing supplies
$214.00
Bathroom #2
Jun 27
Shell Gas
Fuel — two vehicles
$112.50
General
Jun 26
Menards
Drywall & fasteners
$389.00
Kitchen Reno
Jun 25
Amazon
LED fixtures — 4× pack
$196.40
Bathroom #2
Jun 24

Connects with the tools you already use

QuickBooks Sync your books
Bank feeds Live transactions
Email Receipts & tracking
Text & calls SMS, MMS, recording
Maps Job-site routing

Why contractors switch to Hive

Built to solve the headaches small contractors actually have

You did not start your business to do data entry at midnight. Hive takes the office work off your plate so you can run more jobs with the same crew and collaborate with homeowners and other jobsite contractors.

Get your evenings back

Receipts, transactions, and books reconcile automatically—so the paperwork is done before you get home.

Never lose a receipt or detail

Every receipt, text, call, and document is captured and tied to the right job. Nothing slips through the cracks.

Get paid faster

Send professional estimates and invoices, collect e-signatures, and turn approved bids into jobs in a click.

Stay compliant

Track certificates of insurance, workers’ comp, and lien waivers so you are always covered at audit time.

Keep clients happy

Homeowners get a live portal and schedule updates, so they stop calling to ask “when are you coming?”

Grow without the chaos

Run more projects, more crews, and more vendors from one place—without adding office staff.

Everything under one roof

One platform for the entire job—from first lead to final payment

Stop juggling spreadsheets, group texts, sticky notes, and a shoebox of receipts. Here is everything Hive does for small contractors and subcontractors, organized by the part of the business it runs.

Finances & bookkeeping

Clean books without an accountant on staff.

  • Expense tracking by project & category
  • Automatic receipt capture (email-in & photo)
  • OCR + AI line-item itemization
  • Live bank sync & transaction matching
  • Payments in and out
  • Print & log checks and deposits
  • Owner distributions & draws
  • Balance sheet & profit-and-loss
  • Client & employee reimbursements
  • QuickBooks-ready books
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Estimates, invoices & docs

Win the bid and get paid faster.

  • AI-assisted estimate building
  • Professional estimate & invoice PDFs
  • Client e-signature on estimates
  • One-click bid-to-job conversion
  • Change orders
  • Bids & proposals
  • Lien waivers with secure public signing
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Leads & clients

Turn inquiries into jobs and keep homeowners happy.

  • Lead capture & pipeline tracking
  • Lead-to-client conversion with de-duplication
  • Client directory & full job history
  • Homeowner portal with real-time status
  • Shared “what’s next” schedule links
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Vendors & compliance

Stay covered and collaborate with your subs.

  • Vendor directory & profiles
  • Vendor-to-vendor bids & payments
  • Certificates of insurance (COI) tracking
  • Workers’ comp verification
  • Insurance agent management
  • Automated audits & document storage
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Projects & planning

Plan the job and keep the crew on track.

  • Project workspaces (scope, docs, costs, address)
  • Drag-and-drop Gantt timeline with dependencies
  • Kanban board view
  • Tasks, milestones, meetings & reminders
  • Calendar sync for meetings
  • Crew scheduling & assignments
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Team & time

Track hours and run payroll without spreadsheets.

  • Mobile time tracking by job
  • Timesheet review & approval
  • Payroll & timesheet payments
  • Per-worker running balances
  • Roles & permissions for your team
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Communication

Every conversation in one place, on the record.

  • Group SMS & MMS threads per job
  • Recorded & transcribed calls
  • AI call summaries with action items
  • Built-in message translation
  • Connected email with mailbox rules
  • Email open tracking
  • Reusable message & email templates
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Photos & timelapses

Every job documented, start to finish.

  • Jobsite photos filed straight to the project
  • Timelapses built from repeat shots automatically
  • Frames aligned and color-matched for smooth playback
  • Faces blurred automatically for privacy
  • Full-resolution originals archived untouched
  • Photos & timelapses shared with homeowners
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Automation & AI

The busywork runs itself.

  • AI receipt reading & itemization
  • Automatic vendor & transaction matching
  • Retailer receipt scraping (Home Depot, Menards, Amazon & more)
  • Turn a text into a scheduled task
  • Call transcription & summaries
  • Address autocomplete & job-site maps
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Mobile & platform

Run the business from your truck.

  • Installable mobile app (PWA)
  • Push & in-app notifications
  • Passwordless passkey sign-in
  • Multi-company account switching
  • Bank-grade security
  • Integrations: QuickBooks, Plaid, Telnyx, Nylas, Maps

Finances

Automation that pays for itself

Receipts, transactions, payments, and payroll consolidate automatically. Your books stay clean and your balance sheet and profit & loss are always one click away.

Receipts on autopilot.
Email and uploaded receipts are parsed, itemized, and linked to the matching bank transaction.
Transactions matched & categorized.
Bank feeds flow in and reconcile against expenses so categories are never a guessing game.
Payments, checks & reimbursements.
Record payments, print checks, and settle client and employee reimbursements with a click.
QuickBooks-ready books.
Distributions, balance sheets, and P&L stay in sync so tax time and audits are painless.
Receipt inbox Forwarded from email · just now
Home Depot
Jun 27, 2025 · #H-44821
$843.20
2×4 lumber (40 pcs) $320.00
Plywood sheets (12) $264.00
Construction screws $89.20
Sandpaper + misc $170.00
Automatically matched
Bank transaction
HOMEDEPOT $843.20
Project
Kitchen Renovation
Category
Materials
Kitchen Renovation job cost $14,280 of $22,000

Communication

Every conversation, on the record

Text and call clients, vendors, and crews from one shared inbox. Calls are recorded and transcribed, messages can be translated, and a text can become a scheduled task in a tap.

Group texting (SMS & MMS).
One thread per job keeps clients, subs, and crew on the same page—photos included.
Recorded & transcribed calls.
Never lose a detail; calls are captured, transcribed, and summarized automatically.
Translations built in.
Message crews in their preferred language and read replies in yours.
Texts become tasks.
Turn an incoming message into a scheduled Hive task with AI—reviewed before it is saved.
Kitchen Renovation
Homeowner, Plumber & crew
Live
G

Mike · Plumbing

Rough plumbing wrapped. Sending photos now 👍

5:14 PM

You

Perfect. Inspection is Thursday — I created the task. ✅

5:17 PM

C

Sarah · Homeowner

When will the cabinets go in? We’re excited!

5:22 PM

You

Next week Tue — just texted you the live schedule 📅

5:29 PM

AI suggested task

“Cabinet delivery” — Tue 7/1 · Kitchen Renovation

Add task Dismiss
Message Kitchen Renovation…

Planning

Schedules your whole crew can actually follow

Plan every job on a drag-and-drop timeline, then share exactly what is coming up with clients and crews. When the plan moves, everyone moves with it.

Gantt timelines
Drag tasks to reschedule, set dependencies, and see the critical path across every active job.
Kanban boards
Move work through stages on a board view your crews understand at a glance.
Shared schedules
Text clients a live "what is next" schedule link so they are never left wondering.
Kitchen Renovation — Timeline
Jul 2025 Share schedule
Jun 23
Jun 30
Jul 7
Jul 14
Jul 21
Jul 28
Demo
Rough plumbing
Electrical rough
Inspection
Drywall
Cabinets & finishes

Automation

The busywork runs itself

Hive's automations quietly handle the data entry that eats your evenings—so the office work is done before you get home.

Receipt capture

Forward a receipt email or snap a photo—Hive reads the vendor, totals, and line items for you.

Vendor matching

Unknown bank charges are matched to the right vendor and project automatically.

Call summaries

Every recorded call is transcribed and summarized so follow-ups write themselves.

Text-to-task

Schedule-worthy messages become draft tasks—dates, times, and assignees included.

"We built Hive because we run a contracting business too. Every feature exists because we needed it on a real job site—not because it looked good in a demo. We don’t do demos."

That’s why we offer Hive free for subcontractors under $200K in revenue—and free up to $400K for subs whose general contractor is signed up for Hive.

Made by Contractors. For Contractors.

Frequently asked questions

Focus on your projects. Leave the busywork to us.

Managing projects is hard enough. Let Hive take care of the finances, the follow-ups, and the schedule.