Return on investment
What does SubMark have to save you to pay for itself?
Every software ROI calculator you have ever used starts by assuming how much time you are going to save. We are not going to do that. We do not know your office.
So this one runs backwards: our published price, divided by your rate.
You would pay
$366 /month
$249 for your company and the first 3 office users, plus 3 × $39. Your field crews and invited subs: $0.
$305 a month equivalent on annual billing.
Break-even
6.7 office hours/month
At your rate, that is what the subscription costs in office time. Give your office back that much and SubMark has paid for itself.
Across 21 working days: 19 minutes a day.
Or one change order
10.9 months covered
One change order of that size equals that many months of the subscription.
Gross, not margin — the billed amount against the price, nothing else.
Arithmetic only. Monthly price ÷ your rate = hours. Change order ÷ monthly price = months. No assumed savings rate, no efficiency multiplier, no industry average. See the full price list.
14-day free trial, no card needed.
Where the hours are
Four places a sub’s office hours go
We are not going to tell you how long these take you — you already know. What follows is what each one looks like on a spreadsheet, and what SubMark does with it instead. Hold every line against the hours in the box above.
Draw week
Rebuilding the draw from last month’s spreadsheet
Copy forward the schedule of values, re-type last month’s percentages, add the approved change orders by hand, reconcile retainage held to date — then do it again for the next GC with a different deadline. In SubMark the schedule of values is already there, approved change orders are added to it automatically, and the retainage held on each draw is recorded as you log it. You still submit on the GC’s own form.
Schedule of values and draws →Every Monday
Chasing the signature on last week’s extra work
The foreman wrote the extra work on a paper tag. The tag is in his truck, the superintendent who waved it through is on another job, and the hours are three weeks old before anyone prices them. In SubMark the office prices the T&M tag and the GC’s superintendent e-signs it on site, so the authorization exists the day the work happens.
T&M tickets →Month end
Rebuilding the change order log to answer one question
The GC asks what is still outstanding. Somebody opens three spreadsheets, an email folder and a text thread to answer. SubMark keeps change events and change orders on the job with their status, so the answer is a screen instead of an afternoon.
Change order tracking →Quarterly, too late
Finding out a job went underwater after it closed
Labor hours live in a time sheet, committed costs live in a PM’s head, and the comparison happens when the accountant closes the month. SubMark puts the budget on the job and compares it against the labor logged on the daily logs, the bills and the open POs — grouped by cost type, so the comparison is there before the month closes.
Job costing →What this page refuses to do
Three numbers you will not find here
- 01
A percentage of time saved. Nobody has measured SubMark against your office, so there is no honest number to print. The hours figure above is what we have to earn, not what we claim to have earned.
- 02
An industry average. A statistic about the percentage of revenue contractors lose to rework is a statistic about somebody else’s jobs. It tells you nothing about whether your office should buy software.
- 03
A customer’s result. We are young and we say so. When a customer gives us a number we are allowed to repeat, it will appear with their name on it and not before.
What you get instead: the real price, the arithmetic in the open, and a 14-day trial that takes no card — so you can measure the hours in your own office rather than argue about ours.
Fair questions
Why doesn’t this calculator show me a savings number?
Because we would have to make it up. We do not know your office, your GCs, or how long your draw takes today, and any percentage we printed here would be a guess dressed up as arithmetic. What we do know is our price and your rate, so the page divides one by the other and shows the hours SubMark has to give back. You decide whether that is reachable in your office — you are the one who knows.
What exactly does the monthly figure include?
$249 a month covers your company and your first 3 office users, and each office user after that is $39 a month. Foremen, field crews, time-clock users and the subcontractors you invite to your jobs are free, however many of them you have. Every module is included — nothing is held back for a higher tier.
Who counts as an office user in the calculator?
Anyone who runs jobs, money or reporting from a desk: project managers, estimators, admins, accountants, owners. Not your foremen or field crews, and not the lower-tier subs you give portal access to. Those are free, so they never move the number.
What loaded rate should I put in?
Your office rate, not your field rate — wage plus payroll taxes, insurance, benefits and the overhead you carry on a salaried person. A PM on $75,000 with 30% burden is roughly $47 an hour across 2,080 hours. Using a bare wage understates the hours SubMark has to return, which makes the break-even look easier than it is.
Does annual billing change the break-even?
Yes, by a sixth. Annual billing is twelve months at the price of ten, so the monthly equivalent drops by a sixth and so does the number of hours. You pick monthly or annual yourself when you start your subscription in the app, during the trial or at the end of it.
Can I just try it instead of modeling it?
That is the cheaper experiment. The trial runs 14 days and takes no card — pick your trade on the first screen, build one real job, and log a draw and a change order against it. A week of that tells you more about the hours than this page can.
Still pricing it up? The full price list, or everything SubMark does.
Stop duct-taping tools together.
One system for the office and the field: schedule of values and draw tracking, change orders, T&M tags and job costing, in the same place your crews clock in and log the day. Field users and invited subs are free and unlimited.
14-day free trial, no card needed. Set up your company and your first job yourself — or ask for a walkthrough and we'll do it with you.