Job cost by home
Budget vs. actual by cost code per lot. Variance flags before month-end close.
For Residential Accounting
Available on request
Job cost by home, draws for the bank, waivers before you pay.
Residential accounting lives in QuickBooks, a draw spreadsheet, and a sub COI list someone updates when they remember. Accounting seats on AOS roll out with your back office on request — job cost by home, draw packages, lien waiver gates, and 1099 prep on one record.
Job cost posting by home
Draw package generation
Lien waiver lifecycle by trade
1099 prep across subs
Your reality today
QuickBooks, three banks, a spreadsheet, your weekend.
Residential accounting runs on QuickBooks, the bank's portal, a sub list in Excel, and an owner who wants their billing this Friday. The reconciliation is your team's overtime.
Bank draws by paper.
Pay app + waiver + photo evidence — printed, signed, scanned, emailed. Per draw. Per bank. Per home. Five hours each.
Sub AP without waiver gate.
Sub invoice comes in. You pay it. Three weeks later, the title company holds closing because a waiver wasn't on file.
Owner billings ad-hoc.
Cabinet allowance overage — $4K. Calculated by hand. Emailed to the owner. Tracked in QuickBooks separately from the home's cost.
Allowance reconciliation at closing.
Allowance overruns total $18K across six homes at year-end. Found in QuickBooks during the close. By then, the cost is sunk.
What AOS does for you
Residential accounting on one home record.
Residential accounting seats are available on request. Job cost, draw assembly, waiver gating, and owner billings roll out with your team — we don't claim full back-office replacement on every signup.
Draw package generation
Milestone pay apps, waivers, photos, and lender forms assembled per draw — not retyped from QuickBooks.
Lien waiver lifecycle
Conditional and unconditional waivers per trade and draw period. Held AP queue when something's missing.
Owner billings and allowances
Owner billings live per home. Allowance overages route as change-order requests.
Allowance tracking
Allowances per room per home. Overages show daily, not at year-end.
1099 prep
Sub payment history across the portfolio — ready for year-end filing.
On request
Residential accounting seats roll out with your team
Per home
Job cost and draw packages by lot
Waiver gate
Payments held until waivers match
SOC 2-aligned
Security controls aligned to industry standards; full audit trail
Related roles on the build team
Built for the whole build team, not just one seat.
AOS gives every role on the build team a screen tuned to their workflow — sharing the same record with the GC, the subs, the owner, and the design team. See how it fits the rest of your build team, or start at the residential builders overview.
For the Residential Owner / Builder →
Backlog by community, gross margin per home, and an early-warning queue across active builds.
For the Residential Project Manager →
Selections tied to budget, change orders with homeowner approval, and draw schedule against lender milestones.
For the Residential Superintendent →
Daily logs with weather, trade scheduling by zone, punch with photos, and homeowner walk-through support.
Work alongside other parts of the project? AOS also fits commercial general contractors, owners and developers, and architecture firms on the same shared record.
Close the month without retyping every draw.
30-minute walkthrough — job cost by home, draw assembly, and waiver gating on the workflow we're rolling out with residential accounting teams.