JOBPOWER vs Katana

JOBPOWER combines construction accounting, job costing, certified payroll, and document management for contractors and subcontractors. Job costing tracks budgets against actual costs, change orders, lien waivers, equipment expenses, and job reports. Subcontract and purchase order modules connect to accounts payable and job costing to track committed costs, retainage, change orders, and supplier invoice variances. Payroll supports prevailing wage rates, union reporting, garnishments, ACA reporting, W-2s, direct deposit, and job labor burden. With JPMobile, workers or supervisors can enter time by job and cost code; supervisors can approve entries, see GPS clock-in visibility, and send time data to payroll. JP Analytics provides more than 50 reports and dashboards across financials, job management, billing, payables, and payroll. Budgets can be imported from Excel, and estimating data from ConEst and Vision InfoSoft; payroll can import time data from Excel and systems including ExakTime. JOBPOWER is available on Android, iOS, web, and Windows. Its cloud option is hosted for a monthly fee and includes updates, backups, support, and access from internet-connected devices. Pricing is available on request.

Katana is web-based inventory and order management software with barcode scanning, purchase orders, sales orders and stock alerts. Its permanent Free tier costs nothing, requires no credit card and has no expiry date. Free includes 30 SKUs, unlimited users, unlimited integrations and unlimited inventory locations. Core starts at $299 a month, scales with usage and add-ons, and includes unlimited SKUs, users and integrations with one inventory location. Advantage has no listed price and offers custom integrations, custom dashboards and reports, custom automations and workflows, a dedicated Solutions Engineer, SLA-backed maintenance and regular CSM check-ins. Katana is available on the web, with no mobile apps listed. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. The tiers create a clear capacity trade-off: Free allows unlimited inventory locations but limits SKUs to 30, while Core removes the SKU limit and provides one location.