Workyard is purpose-built for construction and trade contractors, with HVAC, electrical, plumbing, concrete, drywall, and roofing among its most common verticals. The platform's core promise is accurate labor data: techs carry the Workyard app on their phones, which captures GPS arrival and departure, routes driven, mileage, and which cost codes hours should be tagged to. When a tech drives from a maintenance call to an install, the app auto-prompts a cost code change, keeping job-level labor costing honest without relying on memory or end-of-day timesheets.
For HVAC owners, this matters in two places. First, payroll - Workyard's data flows into QuickBooks, ADP, Gusto, Sage 300 CRE, Foundation, Paychex, and Rippling with overtime and cost codes already applied, removing hours of weekly manual reconciliation. Second, job profitability - because every hour is geotagged and cost-coded, owners can see true labor margin on new installs, maintenance agreements, and service calls, and can quickly spot jobs where field drift is eating profit. The scheduler, document uploads, and crew notes give supervisors a complete picture of what happened on each job.
Workyard is a mid-market favorite: larger than Busybusy and ClockShark's typical small-shop customer, but lighter-weight than Arcoro/ExakTime. Pricing is transparent ($6/user/month Starter plus a $50 base, or $13/user/month Pro for job costing and deeper payroll integration), which makes comparison easy. The main gap is that Workyard is time & workforce management, not a full payroll engine, so HVAC shops still need Gusto, ADP, QuickBooks Payroll, or Paychex sitting downstream.