Sumi for construction
Accounting for contractors, builders and trades.
Materials, labour, subcontractors and retention, with costs per site so you know which jobs pay.
Contractors, builders, electricians, plumbers.
Built for how construction businesses work.
Retention both ways
Retention clients hold from you and retention you hold from subcontractors each have their own account.
Costs per site
Tag materials, labour and equipment hire to each project.
Materials as stock
Cement, rods and blocks tracked as they move to sites.
Site-friendly offline
Record costs on the desktop app without internet; it syncs when you're back.
Ready the moment you sign up.
Choose “Construction and trades” when you set up and Sumi creates all of this for you. Change any of it later.
- Accounts with materials, labour and subcontractors
- Retention owed to you and by you
- Materials tracked as stock
- Dashboard: billed work and costs
- Payroll with PAYE, pension and NHF, and invoices your clients can pay by transfer
Accounts added for construction
- 1150 Retention receivable
- 2150 Retention payable
- 4200 Contract income
- 5300 Subcontractors
- 5310 Site labour
- 6610 Equipment hire
Starter items you can edit
- Labour, per day ₦35,000 per day
- Site supervision, per week ₦150,000 per week
- Cement, 50kg bag ₦11,000 per bag
Plus a full chart of accounts: bank and cash, receivables and payables, VAT and WHT, payroll, equity and overheads.