Question 1

What are the main features to consider when choosing construction time tracking and payroll software?

Accepted Answer

Look for GPS-verified clock-in that works offline, geofencing to confirm crews are on site, a kiosk option for shared job-site tablets, and flexible approval workflows that match how your foremen actually review time. Job costing depth matters too: the best platforms let workers tag hours to a job and cost code at clock-in, then roll those hours into a fully burdened labor cost — wages, taxes, benefits, and union fringes — that flows directly into your ERP without re-entry.
Most important is whether payroll is native or exported. Many time tracking tools, including Workyard, capture hours accurately but hand off to a separate payroll provider like QuickBooks, ADP, or Gusto to process pay. That handoff creates extra steps and no native support for certified payroll or prevailing wage. A platform like Miter that runs payroll natively means time, compliance, and payment all live in one system, entered once and never re-keyed. Explore Miter’s platform.

Question 2

What is the main difference between Miter and Workyard?

Accepted Answer

Workyard is built around GPS time tracking and scheduling. It does those things well: crews clock in from the field, supervisors see real-time location data, and hours are organized by job and cost code. When it’s time to run payroll, Workyard exports that time data to a connected third-party provider — QuickBooks, ADP, Gusto, Paychex, or others — to process pay and file taxes.
Miter starts where Workyard stops. The core difference is that Workyard stops at the captured hours, while in Miter those same hours live in one system with payroll, HR, benefits, and job costing, so they’re entered once and become fully burdened labor costs, not just time on a timesheet. Miter handles direct deposit, federal and state tax filing, certified payroll reports, prevailing wage and Davis-Bacon rate automation, and union fringe tracking — all within the same platform that tracks time in the field. After every payroll run, fully burdened costs sync automatically to your ERP via integrations with QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, Sage Intacct, Sage 300 CRE, Sage 100 Contractor, Foundation, Acumatica, Viewpoint Vista, Viewpoint Spectrum, Jonas Premier, and NetSuite among others.

Question 3

Does Workyard do certified payroll and prevailing wage compliance?

Accepted Answer

Partially. Workyard does generate WH-347 certified payroll reports and supports prevailing wage classifications and Davis-Bacon compliance tracking in-platform. What it does not do is run payroll. Once certified payroll reports are generated in Workyard, contractors still need a separate payroll provider — QuickBooks, ADP, Gusto, Paychex, or others — to actually pay workers, calculate taxes, and issue direct deposits. That means your compliance reporting and your payroll run are split across two systems.
Miter handles the full workflow in one place. When you flag a job as Davis-Bacon or public works, Miter enables certified payroll reporting and links the job to a Pay Rate Group. Any worker clocking time on that job automatically gets the correct prevailing wage rate and fringe calculation applied without manual lookups. After payroll runs, Miter generates the federal WH-347 and state-specific formats per job and per week, directly from the payroll data. Export filing-ready PDFs or upload directly to LCPtracker, eComply, Elation Systems, and state portals, all without routing payroll to an outside service. Learn more about Miter certified payroll.

Question 4

Is it hard to switch from Workyard to Miter?

Accepted Answer

No. Switching from Workyard is one of the simpler migrations because Workyard is a time-tracking-only tool. There is no payroll history or complex benefits data to move. Employee records, job data, and timesheet history are imported in bulk using Miter’s standard CSV templates. If your export needs reformatting, Miter’s team builds a translation file that converts it automatically.
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. During shadow payroll, Miter runs payroll in parallel with your existing system and validates gross pay, taxes, union fringes, and benefit contributions before anything goes live. Most contractors are fully live in 8 to 12 weeks. You keep using Workyard until your Miter go-live date, so there is no gap in operations.

Question 5

Does Workyard run payroll, or just track time?

Accepted Answer

Workyard tracks time; it does not run payroll. Once hours are approved in Workyard, the platform exports that time data to a connected third-party payroll provider to process pay, calculate taxes, and issue direct deposits. Workyard integrates with QuickBooks, ADP, Gusto, Paychex, Foundation Software, Sage, and Viewpoint, among others.
That means Workyard customers are managing two separate systems: one for time tracking and one for payroll. Any compliance requirements – certified payroll reports, prevailing wage calculations, multi-state tax filing – are handled by the payroll provider, not by Workyard itself.
Miter is a full payroll processor. It handles direct deposit, federal and state tax withholding, W-2 generation, multi-state tax filing, certified payroll reports, and prevailing wage compliance, all within the same platform that captures time in the field. There is no export step and no separate payroll provider required. After every payroll run, fully burdened labor costs sync automatically to your ERP. Browse the integrations Miter supports.

Question 6

Can Miter handle union payroll the way Workyard handles GPS tracking?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Union payroll is one of Miter’s core strengths, built into the platform the same way GPS tracking is built into Workyard.
Miter uses Pay Rate Groups to digitize union wage rate sheets for every local, trade, and classification. Each group contains base rates for regular time, overtime, and double time, along with itemized fringe benefits – health and welfare, pension, training funds, union dues, and vacation – each with its own calculation method (per hour, percentage of earnings, or monthly lump sum), tax treatment, and caps. When a union worker clocks in, Miter automatically applies the correct rates and calculates fringes in real time. No manual rate lookups, no spreadsheets.
When a new collective bargaining agreement is ratified, updated rates are entered once and roll forward automatically to every affected worker. Miter also handles union reciprocity: when a worker performs work outside their home jurisdiction, the platform applies the correct local’s rates based on where the work is performed. For contractors running union and prevailing wage jobs at the same time, Miter lets you configure the correct rate for each scenario in its Pay Rate Groups, so crews are paid right on jobs that trip up most generic payroll systems. Fringe contributions are tracked in itemized reports usable for both union benefit fund submissions and certified payroll reconciliation via LCPtracker, eComply, Elation Systems, and state portals.

Miter — A Workyard alternative built for contractors

Why contractors choose Miter over Workyard