Workyard
GPS-verified time tracking, scheduling and live labor cost reporting built for construction contractors.
By Workyard · 4.2/5 verified-buyer score
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Construction contractors with 5-500 hourly field workers who need defensible time records
- Electrical, HVAC, plumbing, restoration and specialty trade crews running multiple job sites daily
- Owners who want live labor cost and cost-code visibility to protect job margins
- Payroll and office administrators who must cut manual timesheet processing before each pay run
- Firms needing FLSA overtime and break documentation with a full timecard audit trail
Ideal size: 5-500 field workers people · Growing contractor or trade business running multiple crews and jobs
Not for
- Office-only or desk-based teams with no field workforce to track
- Enterprises wanting deep finance, procurement and project-accounting modules in one suite
- Contractors who will not allow smartphone GPS location tracking of crews
- Buyers wanting a free forever tier rather than a 14-day trial
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
About 1 week
~7 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$5,000/yr
Starts at $72 · Per user, per month, billed annually (monthly billing also available): Starter from $6/user/month; Pro, Autopilot and Enterprise quoted by sales.
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Buyer Score
out of 5 · verified buyers
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
14-day free trial, no credit card required; minimum seat counts not published
Add-on costs
- Smart Forms (digital forms and data collection with AI form conversion), priced separately from core plans
Company & support
Who is behind Workyard, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- 2017 · 9 yrs in business
- Headquarters
- Not recorded
How you get support
- PhoneAll plans
- EmailNot listed
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsNot listed
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Not stated
US-based product experts support customers online and by phone in English and Spanish, with hands-on phone support from the customer success team listed from the Starter plan up. Integration technical support is also listed on Starter; larger rollouts get a dedicated account manager.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Workyard sits relative to every other solution in the database. Toggle axes to compare on cost, speed, friction, or buyer score.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Workyard ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Autopilot tier adds AI Time Keeping: a time assistant that finds and fixes a full pay period of timecards (admin review before payroll) and a Project Time Tracking Agent that detects work site visits and allocates time. The Smart Forms add-on includes an AI converter that turns uploaded paper forms into digital forms. No model provider, BYOK option or per-action AI audit log is documented.
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Industry verdicts
How Workyard speaks to each vertical it serves — same data, sector lens.
ConstructionWin bids, run sites, keep projects on margin.
Best for in Construction
- General and specialty trade contractors running multiple concurrent job sites
- Electrical, HVAC, plumbing, restoration and home-service crews
- Contractors with 5-500 hourly workers paid weekly or biweekly
- Owners who need GPS-verified timecards and a defensible audit trail
- Firms that must allocate hours to projects and cost codes for job costing
Not for
- Design, engineering or purely office-based construction roles
- Contractors already standardized on a full construction ERP for field time
- Crews unwilling to carry smartphones or be GPS-tracked
- Organizations wanting a general-purpose HR suite for salaried staff
Workyard states it is 100% focused on contractors and built with 50,000+ construction workers, and its published customers include electrical, HVAC, restoration and home-service trades. Core fit is field time capture: GPS-verified clock in/out, geofences, break and overtime rules, supervisor-led clock-in, scheduling, job costing by project and cost code, and payroll/accounting sync. The Autopilot tier and Smart Forms add-on extend it to automated time allocation, meal-break compliance, incident reporting and digital inspections.
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Workyard is a construction operations platform for contractors, combining GPS-verified mobile time tracking, scheduling, job costing and labor compliance in one app. It targets payroll accuracy, FLSA overtime and break rules, and live project labor costs, and syncs time to payroll and accounting systems such as QuickBooks, ADP and Gusto. Starter pricing begins at $6 per user per month billed annually, with Pro, Autopilot and Enterprise tiers quoted by sales. Workyard reports 50,000+ workers and 10,000+ contractors.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Workyard cost?
Published Starter pricing is $6 per user per month billed annually, with monthly billing also available. Pro, Autopilot and Enterprise (which adds custom integrations, large rollout support and scalable pricing) are quoted by sales, and Smart Forms is sold as a separate add-on. A 14-day free trial is offered with no credit card required.
How long does it take to get crews live?
Workyard is designed to require no training to get started, and the vendor says integrations connect in minutes. In practice, expect field clock-in to be usable within days of signup, with payroll and accounting sync following once employee and project data are imported. Integration technical support is included, and higher tiers add a dedicated onboarding specialist.
Which payroll and accounting systems does it connect to?
Workyard exports time for payroll to QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, ADP, Gusto and others, and imports employee data from payroll systems. Pro and above import and sync jobs and cost codes from accounting systems, and Autopilot states compatibility with major ERP systems including Sage, NetSuite, ComputerEase and Foundation plus a developer API with 60+ endpoints.
How does the GPS and time tracking work for field crews?
Workers clock in and out from the Workyard mobile app. The platform tracks entry and exit times by address, detects driving and travel time with mileage, shows live crew locations, and supports geofences, supervisor-led crew clock-in, facial-photo verification and a time clock kiosk to prevent time theft. Higher tiers add automatic clock-in at geofences and automatic time allocation to projects.
Does Workyard have SOC 2, ISO 27001 or other security certifications?
The available Workyard compliance material covers labor law compliance, such as FLSA recordkeeping, overtime calculation and meal and rest break documentation, rather than published security certifications. No SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP or AI management certification claim appears on the pages reviewed, so buyers with security review requirements should request documentation from the vendor directly.
What AI capabilities are included?
The Autopilot tier includes AI Time Keeping: a time assistant that finds and fixes a full pay period of timecards, and a Project Time Tracking Agent that detects work site visits and allocates time to projects automatically. Changes are reviewed by admins before going to payroll. The Smart Forms add-on includes an AI converter that turns uploaded paper forms into mobile digital forms. Workyard does not disclose which model provider it uses.