Garuda ERP / Construction & Builders

From BOQ to handover,
costed to the brick.

Run the whole build — estimate against the BOQ, raise indents from site, settle subcontractor and labour bills, raise RA bills with retention, and file works-contract GST — on a single project ledger where every rupee carries a project, a site, and a BOQ line. No more reconciling site registers against the accountant’s Tally on a Sunday.

Who it’s for

Built for civil contractors, real-estate developers, turnkey and interior fit-out firms, infrastructure and MEP subcontractors, and the project-management offices that run them.

If you win work on a BOQ, order steel and cement by phone from three sites, settle labour through a mukadam in cash, release subcontractor bills with retention deducted, get paid against RA bills your client certifies, and still have to stitch GSTR-1 together from works-contract entries — this is the system that holds all of it together. One project ledger, many sites, one set of numbers everyone trusts. So “where are we against budget on Tower B?” has an answer before you finish asking it.

What you get

The modules an Indian builder
actually runs on.

01

Projects, sites & cost heads

Every project is the primary record — carrying its sites, towers, phases, and a budget broken down by cost head: material, labour, plant, subcontract, and overhead. A site links to its project, its store, its assigned engineer, and its statutory state, while a tower links back to the project budget. Each purchase, indent, wage, and bill posts against a project, a cost head, and a BOQ line, so committed cost, actual cost, and remaining budget stay live across every site you run at once.

02

BOQ & estimation

Import the tendered BOQ — item, quantity, rate, amount — and the system holds it as your baseline. Build estimates from a rate library with material, labour, and plant components per item, so a revision to cement rate reflows the whole estimate. As procurement, labour, and subcontract costs land against each line, you see estimated vs committed vs actual per item, with quantity and rate variance flagged — catch the line bleeding margin in week three, not at final accounts.

03

Tendering & quotations

Track every tender from notice through pre-bid query, EMD, submission, and award, with the priced BOQ versioned so you know exactly what rate you quoted. Convert a won tender into a project and its baseline BOQ in one step — no re-keying line items. Quotations to clients carry the correct SAC for the works-contract supply, terms for mobilisation advance and retention, and a clean revision trail when the scope changes.

04

Material indents & procurement

Site engineers raise a material indent on the mobile app against a project and BOQ line. It routes through approval to a purchase order, then a GRN at the gate with quantity received, rejection, and a weighbridge slip. Vendor rate comparisons, advance adjustment, and credit windows sit beside each PO, and an e-way bill is generated for inbound and inter-site movement above the threshold. Purchase posts straight to the project cost head, so procurement and accounts never drift apart.

05

Stock — site vs central store

Stock is valued separately at each site store and at the central godown, with stock transfers raising the e-way bill and updating both ledgers in one entry. Issue material against a project and BOQ line, track consumption against estimate, and reconcile theoretical vs physical with periodic site stock-takes. Reorder alerts fire on fast-moving items like cement, steel, and shuttering ply, so a site never stalls waiting on a delivery nobody ordered.

06

Plant, equipment & hire

Mixers, hoists, scaffolding, formwork, vehicles, and DG sets are tracked as assets with their current site, transfer history, and depreciation. Log fuel, servicing, and breakdown against each machine, allocate owned-plant and external hire cost to the project using it on a daily or hourly rate, and capture hire-vendor bills with GST and any RCM. Know what idle plant is parked where before you rent another mixer you already own.

07

Subcontractor & labour-contractor control

Issue work orders to subcontractors and mukadams with scope, rate, and ceiling, then measure bills against that work order. Each bill deducts retention, mobilisation-advance recovery, back-charges, GST TDS under Section 51 where applicable, and income-tax TDS under 194C, leaving a clean net payable. Vendor and subcontractor ageing, advance adjustment, and exposure per party and per site sit beside the project — so you see who you owe, against which work, at a glance.

08

Labour payroll — ESI, PF & cess

Capture the daily muster at each site by contractor and trade — mason, bar-bender, helper — and settle on day-rate or measured work. For directly-engaged and contract workers, compute EPF, ESI, and Professional Tax to current slabs, generate the ECR and ESI return files, and account the 1% Building & Other Construction Workers welfare cess. Wages post to the project labour cost head, so site labour cost is never a cash black box.

09

RA bills, retention & advances

Raise Running Account bills from measured quantities against the BOQ — this RA net of the last — with mobilisation and secured-advance recovery on the agreed schedule, and retention money held at your percentage. The system tracks measured vs certified vs billed vs received, ageing on each RA, deductions for liquidated damages or client-supplied material, and the retention due for release at defect-liability close. The final bill reconciles the whole job against the original BOQ.

10

Works-contract GST & client billing

A works contract is a supply of service — billed under SAC 9954 at the correct rate (18% standard, or the concessional rates for specified government and affordable-housing work), with RCM applied on inward services that attract it and ineligible ITC blocked where the law disallows it. RA bills flow to the e-invoice portal with IRN and QR, and GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B build from the same posted entries — no parallel spreadsheet at month-end.

11

Safety, compliance & site documents

Keep the documents a site visit asks for in one place — labour licence, BOCW registration, insurance, work permits, safety inductions, toolbox-talk records, and incident reports — each with an expiry and a renewal alert so nothing lapses. Site progress photos, drawings, and RFI/approval correspondence attach to the project, giving the PMC and client a single dated record instead of a thread of WhatsApp messages.

12

Client & subcontractor communication

The project record carries its parties — client, PMC, architect, and every subcontractor and supplier — with their contacts, contract terms, and full transaction history on one screen. Send RA-bill submissions, payment reminders, indent and PO confirmations, and progress updates by SMS, email, and the app, with a logged trail against the project. Clients get a portal to see certified bills, retention held, and amounts due; subcontractors see their work orders, measured bills, and outstanding — so the question “has my RA bill been certified?” stops arriving as a phone call.

See it in action

Walk a project from
estimate to handover.

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Why Garuda

One project ledger means every indent, wage, RA bill, and machine hour sits on the same number — so margin stops being a year-end surprise.

1

Project ledger for BOQ, cost & billing

RA

Bills with retention & advance recovery

GST

Works-contract returns from posted entries

0

Double entry of site data

Start with the demo

See a project costed
to the brick.

The live demo is a real builder tenant, pre-loaded with a project, a BOQ, site stores, and a running RA bill. Click in, raise an indent, certify a bill, hold retention — no sign-up. Then write to us about your own projects and sites.