Miter - A BusyBusy alternative built for contractors

BusyBusy is a GPS time tracking and field management app with an optional payroll add-on. Miter is a connected construction workforce management platform that unifies time tracking, payroll, HR, and expenses.The core difference is that busybusy stops at the captured hours, while in Miter those same hours live in one system with payroll, HR, benefits, and expenses, so they’re entered once and become fully burdened job costs, not just time on a timesheet.

Not natively. BusyPayroll runs through Gusto and handles standard W-2 payroll and taxes, but certified payroll, prevailing wage, and union payroll are typically routed to third party partners such as Payroll4Construction.

Miter handles all three natively. Because payroll runs inside Miter, certified payroll pulls straight from the hours your team worked, generating federal WH-347 and state-specific formats per job and per week. Prevailing wage rates apply automatically, and union pay and fringe reporting are handled with classifications, fringe offsets, and reciprocity between locals. Export filing-ready PDFs or upload directly to LCPtracker, eMars, eComply, Elation, and state portals, all without routing payroll to an outside service.

Yes. Miter integrates with QuickBooks Online and Desktop, Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage Intacct, Foundation, Acumatica, NetSuite, Premier, Viewpoint Spectrum, Vista, and more. When you run payroll, Miter generates configurable ledger entries with job, cost code, and cost type detail that sync to your accounting system.

To learn more, browse the integrations that Miter supports.

No. Switching from busybusy is one of the simpler migrations because busybusy is a time-tracking-only tool. There’s no payroll history or complex benefits data to move. Your employee records, job data, and timesheet history are all imported in bulk using Miter’s standard CSV templates. If your export needs reformatting, Miter’s team builds a translation file that automatically converts it.

Every new customer gets a dedicated Launch Manager, a 1:1 implementation contact who meets with you weekly and guides you through data migration, system configuration, and a shadow payroll run before you go live. Most contractors are fully live in 8–12 weeks. You keep using busybusy until your Miter go-live date, so there’s no gap in operations.

Yes. Miter is built for prevailing wage, Davis-Bacon, and union jobs. It handles classifications from apprentice to journeyman, base and fringe rates set per classification, complex fringe packages with offsets that lower payroll taxes, and reciprocity between locals. Contractors running 5 to 10 prevailing wage jobs at once use Miter to keep each job on the right rate determination, apply the correct rates, and generate certified payroll per job from the payroll they’ve already run.