Australian builders and subcontractors have told us the same story for years: the estimate is tight, the job starts well, and then – somewhere between purchase orders, deliveries, and invoices – cost visibility fades. Spreadsheets multiply. Variances arrive late. Margins get tighter.
Today we’re changing that. Buildsoft is proud to announce that we are now a licensed reseller of LiveCosts in Australia, bringing a real‑time job cost control platform to your delivery phase and complementing Cubit Estimating.
What is LiveCosts?
LiveCosts provides real‑time job cost management to give construction professionals full financial control over their projects, with instant insights into how your actual job costs compare to your planned budget, construction-specific procurement workflows, automated invoice data capture and matching, and flexible time tracking.
The LiveCosts platform integrates with leading accounting systems including Xero, QuickBooks, and Sage, and extends to the field via a mobile app to make raising Purchase Orders, logging labour and receiving deliveries even easier – helping finance stay in step with what’s happening on site.
Better together with Cubit Estimating
On their own, both tools are strong; together, they solve a longstanding gap. Cubit Estimating helps you produce fast, accurate quantities and estimates – 2D, 3D, or BIM as the project demands – while LiveCosts carries that structure forward into delivery through financial visibility and control. That means the accuracy you rely on in your estimating and tendering stages continues when the job is live. Instead of re‑entering data or rebuilding budgets in spreadsheets, the numbers you trusted from your estimate underpin procurement decisions, approvals, and payments on site. The result is full financial control with earlier visibility of variances and risk and instant clarity on the profitability of a project. It also provides a cleaner feedback loop for your next estimate.
To make that handover simple, we’ve built a custom integration from Cubit Estimating to LiveCosts. Job and project data flows across with minimal effort, preserving rate and scope integrity and reducing double entry. In practice, that means a smoother start, a better workflow, and a faster road to profitability from day one.
As the local partner, Buildsoft will provide Australian-based front-line technical support for LiveCosts customers in Australia, so you can trust that we have your back when you need help or advice on how to best achieve your goals.
Why this matters now
With labour tight, materials volatile and compliance demands rising, builders and contractors can’t afford to discover drifting costs at the end of the month. Through this partnership, we’re extending the solutions we can offer to solve the issues like this that our customers face every day in their work, and give real‑time visibility of budgets, commitments and actuals so they can make decisions earlier, protect margins, and deliver projects with confidence.
Get started
with a demo
If you’re curious how this would look for your jobs, we’ll show you how it can enhance your workflows and give you more opportunity to do your best, most profitable work. Click the link below, register for a demo, and get ready to build with confidence – from first estimate to final invoice. 
