Scope needs a boundary
Describe the added, deleted, or substituted work in client-facing language while keeping staff-only context private.
Construction change order software
Control every scope change before it changes the job.
ProBuilder OS keeps each residential construction change attached to the active project. Teams can separate client-facing scope from internal notes, record the exact price and schedule impact, issue a frozen revision with supporting files, and retain the client’s decision without rewriting project history.
- Keep changed scope, cost impact, schedule impact, and evidence together
- Issue the exact revision the client will review
- Retain authenticated approval, rejection, correction, and void history
Homeowner portalLafayette Guest House
Project statusIn progress · 42%
Target completionOctober 16, 2026
Residential-firstPurpose-built workflows
Role-awareProtected team and client views
ConnectedOne lead-to-project history
After the original agreement
A text-message approval is not a controlled project change.
A client request, field condition, plan revision, or selection can affect several parts of a residential job at once. When the changed work, price, time, evidence, and decision live in different places, the team cannot reliably tell what was approved or which version the client reviewed.
Every impact needs one record
Record a positive, negative, or zero cost impact beside the number of schedule days added, reduced, or unchanged.
The decision needs evidence
Freeze the exact issued content and retain the revision, file list, delivery, and authenticated client response.
Connected capabilities
Everything important stays attached to the work.
Use focused workflows for each responsibility without creating another isolated source of truth.
Client-facing scope and private notes
Keep the description the client will review separate from internal coordination, risk, and pricing notes that never enter the client revision.
Explicit cost and schedule impact
Record additions, credits, or no-cost changes and the related number of schedule days without hiding either consequence in a comment thread.
Controlled supporting files
Attach existing project files only after they are securely uploaded and deliberately published for client access.
Exact issued revisions
Issuing freezes the client scope, cost impact, schedule impact, and file list into a fingerprinted revision. A resend delivers that same revision instead of silently replacing it.
Authenticated client decisions
Clients approve or reject the active issued revision from their protected project experience, and the response remains bound to that revision.
Correction and financial continuity
Start a corrected draft without altering the prior issue, retain void history, and reflect approved additions or credits in projected project revenue.
A controlled change workflow
Draft, issue, decide, and carry the result forward.
Each stage has a clear purpose so field urgency does not erase commercial review or client evidence.
Start this workflow in ProBuilder OS- 1
Describe the change
Record the client-facing scope and reason, exact cost impact, schedule impact, internal notes, and relevant project files.
- 2
Review and issue
Confirm the current working revision and client-visible files, then issue one immutable client revision.
- 3
Capture the decision
Let the authenticated client approve or reject the exact revision and retain the resulting receipt.
- 4
Update the operating record
Use approved cost impact in project revenue and separately review confirmed project dates before changing the operating schedule.
The operating difference
Replace scattered change approvals with one versioned decision record.
Work gets reconstructed.
- Changed work is described differently in texts, emails, and the field
- Price and schedule consequences are reviewed separately
- Attachments are shared without a clear version boundary
- Later edits make the original client decision hard to prove
The record moves with the job.
- One project record explains the exact changed work
- Cost and schedule impacts stay visible together
- Only controlled client-visible files can be issued
- Each response remains attached to the revision the client reviewed
Product rollout clarity
See what works now—and what is coming next.
Start with the connected workflows available today. Planned capabilities stay labeled clearly while ProBuilder OS continues to expand.
- Change-order drafts in Pro and Business workspaces
- Separate client scope and staff-only notes
- Positive, negative, and zero cost impacts
- Explicit schedule-impact days without silent date changes
- Secure client-visible project attachments
- Fingerprinted issued revisions and authenticated client decisions
- Correction, resend, rejection, approval, and retained void history
- Approved change-order additions and credits in projected project revenue
- Configurable multi-step approval routing
- Cost-code allocation for approved changes
- External accounting synchronization
- Schedule-impact scenario planning
Questions, answered
What contractors should know.
What is construction change order software?
Construction change order software keeps post-agreement scope changes, supporting files, cost impact, schedule impact, status, and client decisions attached to the project. It helps the team distinguish a working draft from the exact revision issued for review.
What should a residential construction change order include?
A contractor should identify the project and original agreement, explain why the change is needed, define work added, removed, or substituted, state assumptions and exclusions, record the exact price and schedule impact, identify supporting documents, and specify the approval required before proceeding. Project contracts and local requirements may require additional terms or review.
Can clients approve or reject change orders in ProBuilder OS?
Yes. An authenticated client can approve or reject the active issued revision from the protected client experience. The decision remains tied to the exact revision and its fingerprinted evidence.
Can an issued change order be edited?
The issued revision remains unchanged. If the scope, amount, schedule impact, or file list needs correction, an authorized team member creates a new working draft and issues a new revision while the earlier history remains available.
Does a schedule impact automatically move project dates?
No. ProBuilder OS records the schedule impact as an explicit planning input, but it does not silently move confirmed project dates. The team reviews and updates the operating schedule separately.
Is change order management available now?
Yes. Change-order drafting, controlled issue, client approval or rejection, revision evidence, attachments, corrections, and approved revenue impact are available in Pro and Business workspaces. Planned routing, cost-code allocation, accounting synchronization, and schedule scenarios remain labeled as coming next.
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