Buildertrend + Go Fig
Connect Buildertrend to Go Fig for daily job cost, change-order, and selection visibility reconciled against the general ledger and loaded into the Excel your finance team already uses.
Buildertrend runs the project and financial side for residential builders and remodelers (budgets, change orders, selections, purchase orders, and client invoices) while the general ledger lives in accounting, so by the time a change order or selection upgrade shows up in job cost the margin picture is already behind. Go Fig does not replace Buildertrend. It connects to Buildertrend, syncs the job budgets, change orders, purchase orders, bills, and client invoices, reconciles them against your accounting system and your other tools, and loads fresh, traceable job-cost data into the Excel your bookkeeper or controller already uses, automatically, every day. Celeste, Go Fig's AI analyst, can then answer 'which jobs are eating into margin on selections' with a real audit trail back to the originating change order or PO. Your financial data stays in your environment. It is never pasted into a public chatbot and is never used to train an outside model. Celeste works only on your data, with a full audit trail.
Key facts
- System role
- Connects to Buildertrend, does not replace it
- Sync grain
- Change-order, PO, and invoice level
- Reconciliation
- Change orders and selections vs GL
- Historical backfill
- Multi-year budgets, change orders, and invoices
- Auth
- Read-only service account or API key
What you can do with Buildertrend data in Go Fig
Actual vs estimate by job
Buildertrend job budgets joined to actual costs and your GL so a builder sees estimated, committed, and spent by job and cost category every morning, instead of exporting budget reports and rebuilding the variance in a private spreadsheet. Overruns surface while the job is still open.
Change orders and selections that tie to the books
Approved change orders and selection upgrades from Buildertrend reconciled against client invoices and the GL, so the revenue and cost impact of every change lands in job cost and ties to what was actually billed and paid, not three places that never agree.
WIP and over/under billing without the monthly rebuild
Job costs, client invoices, and draws pulled together into a WIP schedule that refreshes every day, so percent complete, earned revenue, and over/under billing on fixed-price jobs are current instead of reconstructed by hand after close.
Data available from Buildertrend
Go Fig extracts and normalizes the following data from your Buildertrend account:
How to connect Buildertrend
Provision a Buildertrend API account
Create a dedicated read-only service account or API key in Buildertrend scoped to the job financials and budget data you want exposed. Keep it separate from your human operators so credential rotation and audit trails stay clean.
Authorize the connection
Click Connect and authorize Go Fig to read your Buildertrend job and financial data. Go Fig caches the token for the session and re-authenticates automatically when it expires, so there are no keys to copy by hand each time.
Pick jobs and the historical window
Choose which jobs and how far back to backfill. Two to four years of budgets, change orders, and invoices is typical for builders rebuilding job-cost and margin history before switching to daily incremental sync.
Wire up the job-cost flows
Go Fig ships starter flows for actual vs estimate by job, change-order and selection reconciliation, and a daily WIP schedule. Point them at your Buildertrend connection and your GL and the bookkeeper has a working job-cost pack on day one, with drill-down back to change order, PO, and invoice detail.
Authentication: Go Fig connects through Buildertrend's API using a dedicated service account or API key scoped to read job financials. The connection is read-only and kept separate from your human Buildertrend users so credential rotation and audit trails stay clean. Tokens refresh automatically when they expire.
Common Questions About Buildertrend Integration
Does Go Fig replace Buildertrend?
No. Buildertrend stays your project-management and job-financials system of record. Go Fig connects to it, reconciles Buildertrend's budgets, change orders, and invoices against your accounting system and other tools, and loads fresh job-cost data into the Excel your finance team already uses. Your project managers and bookkeeper keep working exactly as they do today.
How does Go Fig handle change orders and selections?
Go Fig joins approved change orders and selection upgrades from Buildertrend against client invoices and the matching GL entries, then surfaces the cost and revenue impact by job. A typical reconciliation catches change orders billed but never costed, selection overages that ate margin, and POs that drifted from the budget line.
Can Go Fig build a daily WIP from Buildertrend?
Yes. Go Fig combines job cost-to-date with client invoices and draws to produce a WIP schedule that refreshes every day. Percent complete, earned revenue, and over/under billing on fixed-price jobs land in your Excel automatically, so you stop rebuilding the schedule by hand each month.
Is our financial data safe with Celeste?
Yes. Your financial data stays in your environment. It is never pasted into a public chatbot and is never used to train an outside model. Celeste, Go Fig's AI analyst, works only on your data and every answer carries a full audit trail back to the underlying job, change order, PO, or invoice.
How current is the Buildertrend data inside Go Fig?
Daily incremental sync is the default, so each morning the finance team opens an Excel that already reflects yesterday's change orders, POs, and invoices. Builders running active draw cycles can sync more frequently if the on-call analyst needs near-real-time job-cost visibility.
Related Operations integrations
Other systems Go Fig connects, reconciles, and loads into the Excel your finance team already uses, often alongside Buildertrend.
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