Know What a Project Actually Costs — Without a Construction Platform

Every approved expense is assigned to a project and cost center automatically, with budget vs. actual visibility whenever you check — no Buildertrend or Knowify required.

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The manual process breaking your workflow

Manual document processing creates bottlenecks at every stage of the accounting workflow.

Project costs live in a spreadsheet that’s out of date the moment someone forgets to update it.

By the time a project’s numbers get reconciled at month-end, an overrun has already happened.

Assigning an expense to the right project and cost center means someone re-keying it after the fact.

A full construction management platform is a lot to adopt just to get job-costing visibility.

Nobody can say which project is actually profitable without pulling a manual report.

ClarionOps eliminates all of this — one workflow from submission to accounting sync, with approval controls at every step.

Job costing without adopting a construction platform

ClarionOps assigns every approved expense to a project and cost center as part of the same workflow that extracts, maps, and syncs it to QuickBooks — no separate system, no re-entry. Each project carries its own budget, and spend-vs-actual is available whenever you check, broken down by category and vendor.

  • Every expense assigned to a project and cost center automatically
  • Budget vs. actual per project, broken down by category
  • No construction PM platform to adopt or pay for separately
Project budget — spend vs. actual
Downtown Remodel — Budget$25,000
Materials$11,200
Labor (time entries)$7,220

What changes when you automate

The same work — done by the workflow, not by hand.

Before
After

Spreadsheet-tracked project costs, updated by hand

Every approved expense assigned to a project and cost center automatically

Budget overruns discovered at month-end

Budget vs. actual per project, visible whenever you check

A full PM platform just to get job costing

Job-costing visibility built into the same workflow that processes your expenses

No breakdown of what’s driving project cost

Spend by category and vendor within each project

The full workflow, automated

Every submission moves through the same pipeline — from submission to accounting sync.

01

Submit

Upload a photo, forward an emailed invoice, or enter your own — like hours worked.

02

Extract

If it’s an image, structured data is pulled automatically — vendor, dates, amounts, line items.

03

Approve

A project manager may review first. Accounting always reviews before anything moves forward.

04

Map & Sync

Once approved, entries map to your QuickBooks vendors and accounts and sync directly.

Control built into every step

Automation does not remove control — it enforces it.

Role-Based Approvals

Define who reviews what. Only authorized approvers can advance entries through the workflow.

Full Audit Logs

Every document, mapping decision, approval, and rejection is logged with timestamp and user.

Controlled Posting

Nothing reaches your accounting system without passing through the defined approval workflow.

Review Before Approval

Approvers see the full submitted document — vendor, amounts, line items — before signing off. Mapping to QuickBooks happens as its own step, after approval.

Connects to your accounting system

The workflow layer sits between your documents and your accounting system. Approved entries sync automatically.

QuickBooks Online

Bills, purchases, and vendor credits sync directly. Vendor and account mapping resolves against your actual QuickBooks data.

Built to Extend

The mapping and approval workflow is designed to connect to additional accounting platforms. QuickBooks Online is available today.

Approval Before Sync

Nothing posts to your accounting system without explicit approval. The integration layer enforces the approval workflow as a gate.

Who this workflow serves

Built for teams where document volume is real and bookkeeping bandwidth is limited.

Project-Based Businesses

Construction firms, agencies, consultancies, and field service teams that need job-costing visibility without adopting a construction PM platform.

Finance Teams on QuickBooks

Accounting staff who need budget vs. actual per project without building a manual reporting process.

Project Managers & Controllers

The people accountable for a project’s numbers, who need to know where it stands before month-end, not after.

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