Planned
Glysten Construction is planned for small builders and remodelers: the job, its estimate, the proposal your client accepts, the change orders they approve and the invoices you send, with the costs already in your books. Much simpler than the big construction suites, on purpose.
Planned: nothing on this page is built yet, and none of it has a date.
How it will work
The loop a small builder actually runs, one screen per job, and every screen asking for the fewest things that work.
Three questions: its name, the client and the address. A lead is simply a job whose status is Lead; winning it makes it Active.
Every line a quantity, a unit and a unit cost under a trade, your own list to start from. Overheads sit at the foot as percentages, and markup goes on each line or once at the bottom. Past prices come back as you type, with their range. The client sees prices, never your cost or markup.
Upload a plan PDF, set its scale with two clicks on a known dimension, and measure a length, an area or a count straight into an estimate line.
The estimate, printed with your logo and terms, sent as a link. The client presses Accept, and that sets the contract and the budget.
A change order is a description, a trade and a price, sent as a link for the client to approve. On a cost-plus job, "bill a cost" makes the change order and its invoice in one step.
Bill a payment on the contract, approved changes, or both, sent as a link that shows when the client has seen it. Each invoice goes to Glysten Books as a draft, and shows Paid once Books records the payment.
One row per trade: budget, spent, left. What was spent comes from the books by itself, and only people allowed to see costs see it.
Who uses it
Estimates, proposals, change orders and invoices, managed in Construction. The ledger stays in Glysten Books, where the invoices arrive as drafts for someone with Books to post.
An employee can have Construction without Books, and sees what a job has cost only if their access says so.
Proposals and change orders reach them as links to accept or approve, and each invoice as a link that shows when they have seen it. A client portal, one page per job, comes later.
After the first release
Percent complete per trade makes the invoice, holding back the job's retainage, released with one button.
Choose a trade and some subcontractors; each gets a link and types one number.
Tasks with a start, a number of days and what each starts after, drawn as a Gantt chart.
An allowance the client chooses against, with the difference becoming a change order by itself.
Left out on purpose: daily logs and photos, RFIs and submittals, purchase orders and subcontracts, a subcontractor portal, messaging and lender draws.
With Glysten Books
Most builder software sits in front of an accounting package and syncs to it. Construction is planned on the engine Glysten Books runs on, so there is nothing to sync.
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Questions
Not yet. It is planned, and nothing is built. This page describes how it is planned to work; leave your name with the form on this page and we will write to you when it opens.
It keeps to the loop a small builder runs: the job, the estimate, the proposal, the change orders and the invoices. Every screen asks for the fewest things that work, and daily logs, RFIs, submittals, purchase orders and a subcontractor portal are left out on purpose.
It is planned to be sold on its own, on the same engine as Glysten Books with the accounting kept out of sight. Its invoices become drafts in the books, and each job's costs come from the books, so nothing is typed twice and nothing has to sync.
Yes, that is planned: an employee can be given Construction without Books, and sees what a job has cost only if their access says so.
Glysten Technologies, LLC, in Portland, Oregon, which also makes Glysten Books.
