QuickBooks Online document automation for construction and contracting firms

DynamoDocs captures the subcontractor invoices, job-coded material bills, and POs across active job sites that construction and contracting firms deal with every day, reads them with AI, validates every field, and posts them into QuickBooks Online. Your team reviews the exceptions instead of retyping each one.

30-minute session · run against your own QuickBooks Online document types · no commitment

DynamoDocs automates QuickBooks Online document entry for construction and contracting firms. For construction and contracting firms, subcontractor and material invoices arrive against many active jobs and AP must code each to the right job, phase, and cost code by hand. DynamoDocs captures each document, AI reads and classifies it, suggests GL coding, validates it, and posts approved records into QuickBooks Online through the QuickBooks Online API, so AP stays audit-ready and job costs are never off because a bill was mis-coded. QuickBooks Online is the most widely used small-business accounting platform, and most QBO bills are still typed in by hand.

QuickBooks Online × Construction & Contractors

Contractor bills in QuickBooks Online, without the keying

Contractors on QuickBooks Online lean on classes and Projects for job costing, but subcontractor and material invoices arrive against many active jobs, and entering each one (plus tracking retention by hand) is where AP bogs down.

DynamoDocs reads each subcontractor or material invoice, suggests an expense account for each line from your rules and past coding, and posts a bill through the QuickBooks Online API. It does not assign Projects or classes and does not calculate retention: the bill posts to accounts, and the job is set in QuickBooks.

Where it helps job costing is speed and completeness. Bills reach QuickBooks the day they arrive, a resent invoice is flagged before it is paid twice, and a reissued one with a different total is held for a decision. Job coding still takes a person; the typing does not.

A construction & contractors quirk on QuickBooks Online

Pay applications read like any invoice

A subcontractor’s progress billing is read like any other invoice: header and lines extracted, and a total that disagrees with its lines flagged at capture. DynamoDocs has no AIA-specific checks and does not calculate retention, so the bill posts to accounts and the continuation-sheet math is still reviewed by your team.

The mapping

How Construction & Contractors paperwork posts into QuickBooks Online

Each document is validated, then delivered to QuickBooks Online as the record below.

What construction and contracting firms sendWhere it lands in QuickBooks Online
Subcontractor invoice with retention or retainage held backa vendor bill
Material supplier invoice tied to a specific projecta vendor bill
Purchase order for materials across active job sitesa sales invoice
Progress billing or AIA-style pay applicationa vendor bill
Vendor bill that needs clean job-cost codinga vendor bill
Made-to-order RFQ or request for pricingan estimate in QuickBooks Online

A worked example

QuickBooks Online for construction and contracting firms, from inbox to posted record

Imagine a general contractor running QuickBooks Online that receives a subcontractor invoice with 10% retainage split across three cost codes, it spans two active jobs. DynamoDocs picks it up from the monitored inbox (or a drag-and-drop upload), and AI reads every field and line, no template required. Each line gets a suggested GL account from your rules and coding history, then the document is validated against totals, required fields, and your own checks. Anything that fails is flagged field-by-field for a quick review; everything clean posts straight into QuickBooks Online as a vendor bill through the QuickBooks Online API. Connects through the QuickBooks Online API with OAuth 2.0, with no file exports to manage. Your construction & contractors team reviews the occasional exception instead of retyping the whole document, so AP stays audit-ready and job costs are never off because a bill was mis-coded.

Specific to QuickBooks Online

How the QuickBooks Online connection works for construction and contracting firms

QuickBooks Online is the most widely used small-business accounting platform, and most QBO bills are still typed in by hand.

OAuth API

Connects through the QuickBooks Online API with OAuth 2.0, with no file exports to manage.

Native records

Creates Bills, Vendor Credits, Estimates, and, because QuickBooks Online has no sales order, sales Invoices for customer POs.

Your lists

Maps vendors, customers, accounts, and products and services to the ones already in your QuickBooks company.

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Questions, answered

QuickBooks Online for Construction & Contractors FAQ

Does DynamoDocs track retention on QuickBooks Online subcontractor bills?

No. It does not calculate or split retention. The bill posts to accounts and retention is handled in QuickBooks.

Can DynamoDocs reconcile a material supplier’s monthly statement for a contractor on QuickBooks Online?

Vendor statements are reconciled line by line, to the cent, against the invoices and credits already processed. Statements never post anything.

How does DynamoDocs handle construction & contractors documents on QuickBooks Online?

For construction and contracting firms, subcontractor and material invoices arrive against many active jobs and AP must code each to the right job, phase, and cost code by hand. DynamoDocs captures each of those documents from a monitored mailbox or upload, reads every field with AI (no per-vendor template), suggests a GL account for each line, and posts it into QuickBooks Online through the QuickBooks Online API. Connects through the QuickBooks Online API with OAuth 2.0, with no file exports to manage. Clean documents post automatically; only exceptions reach a person, so AP stays audit-ready and job costs are never off because a bill was mis-coded.

How does a subcontractor invoice with retention or retainage held back post into QuickBooks Online?

It becomes a vendor bill in QuickBooks Online, with header and line-item fields validated before anything posts. Creates Bills, Vendor Credits, Estimates, and, because QuickBooks Online has no sales order, sales Invoices for customer POs. A visual field-mapping engine shapes the record into exactly what QuickBooks Online expects, so nothing is retyped and nothing posts half-filled.

Does it assign job, phase, and cost code on QuickBooks Online records?

DynamoDocs suggests a GL account for each line from your keyword rules and from how the same part or description was coded before, and a person confirms it. It does not assign job, phase, and cost code. The QuickBooks Online connector posts a fixed set of fields (party, dates, currency, and each line's account or item, quantity, and amount), so those codes are added in QuickBooks Online after the record lands. Anything that fails a validation rule is flagged field-by-field for a quick fix before it posts.

How do purchase orders and RFQs from construction and contracting firms post into QuickBooks Online?

Purchase orders become a sales invoice and RFQs become an estimate in QuickBooks Online, with every line, subcontractor invoices included, read and validated first. Maps vendors, customers, accounts, and products and services to the ones already in your QuickBooks company.

How much time and money does this save construction and contracting firms on QuickBooks Online?

Keying one document into QuickBooks Online typically takes 5–10 minutes and costs $2–$6 in labor, before the cost of fixing a mis-keyed line. DynamoDocs does it in seconds and only flags exceptions, so the labor left is the review time on those, while AP stays audit-ready and job costs are never off because a bill was mis-coded.

See it run on your Construction & Contractors documents

Bring a real invoice, PO, or RFQ and watch it go from inbox to posted in QuickBooks Online in about 30 minutes.

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