Use CHS to replace QuickBooks (or other accounting software that leaves you guessing). Successfully used by builders to run their businesses for years.
Say goodbye to time-eating spreadsheets and scattered systems that cause you to wait for answers you need now. CHS gives you one unified platform, full of timely answers that make you and your whole team feel confident and in control.

From estimating to project tracking to financial statements, your numbers live in one place—working together in real time—to show you exactly where each project stands at any moment.

👥 CHS! Where Your Entire Team Works Together

“I built CHS so that a builder’s estimate, change orders, and purchase orders could live in the same system as all the accounting data—because that’s what it takes to get instant comparisons and accurate profit projections.” Carol King, Founder of Custom Homebuilders’ Solutions (CHS)

🗓️❌ NO LONG-TERM COMMITMENTS

Stay because CHS works—not because you’re locked in.
We believe software should earn your loyalty, not demand it. CHS offers flexible subscription options with no contracts or long-term obligations. New customers start with a one month term, and once they see the results, they often choose to stay longer—on their own terms. Renew for 1 to 12 months as needed. Renewals are easy to manage from your own dashboard and CHS never stores your payment credentials.

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🧭 Why This Page Is Long (And Why That’s a Good Thing)

Yes, there’s a lot on this page—because custom home building isn’t simple.
You're not just managing projects—you’re coordinating with clients, project managers, bookkeepers, lenders, insurance agents, trade partners, suppliers, your client’s banker, AND your internal team of estimators, PMs, and accountants. CHS is built to support all of them—while keeping you in control. So yes, this page is long. But every part of it is here because building high-end custom homes takes more than just basic tools.

Keep scrolling—or 📌 jump to the part that matters most to you:
Job Budget Estimate | Allowances | Change Orders | Estimated Costs At Completion (ECC)  |  Project Management / Purchase Orders |  Vendor Tools |  Financial Clarity  |  Document Storage  |  FAQs

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💼 Step Into the Role of the Professional Builder

You’re not just building homes. You’re building a business that lasts. The builders who choose CHS are stepping into the role of business owner, —not just managing job sites, but building a company.

• 👷 Builder Leadership

• 📊 Professional Financials

• 🤝 Client/Vendor Trust

CHS builders are the ones who:

• Know exactly where every job stands, in real time

• Present confident, accurate numbers in every meeting with clients, bankers, staff, etc.

• Grow their companies without losing financial control

• Are respected not just for what they build—but how they run their business

By centralizing your operations, CHS enhances communication, reduces errors, and streamlines project management from start to finish.

⚡Best of all, CHS helps prevent surprises with instant answers!
Buyers, trades, suppliers, AND your team stay informed as the job progresses, which means fewer questions, fewer disputes, and no last-minute sticker shock. You’ll build trust, protect your margins, and maintain a professional image from the first draw to the final closeout.

“We have really liked using CHS. I love how we can give a Costs Plus home buyer access to see their actual job cost vendor invoices, and we don’t have to spend time making copies of them anymore.” —Todd - Custom Home Builder

Proven and trusted. CHS has been in use by several hundred professional home builders for over 2 decades. They say, “CHS is our best kept secret!”

🧾 Transparency Your Clients Can See

Your clients are investing in more than just a home—they’re investing in you. With CHS, you can give them the transparency and professionalism they expect at every step.

Impress Your Prospects by showing them:

• Stage-based weekly job status updates.

• Sample Change Orders and how they can approve them online.

• Sample Allowances status reports

• How you can provide clear, itemized billing for cost-plus or fixed-price jobs. Present up-to-date contract balances due, automatically calculated based on your contract type—whether fixed-price or cost-plus.

• No more Accounts Receivable workarounds or Over/Under Billing adjustments!

• Share polished, client-friendly financial reports—without exposing internal details

“We have been working with CHS for years and it has been a great product for us. It offers a very stable financial and job costing platform and works great for fixed price, fixed fee or cost-plus. It's comprehensive and scalable.” Phillips Homes

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💬 A Couple of Our Builder Testimonials

Luxury custom builders trust CHS to simplify their accounting, protect profits, and impress their clients. See more testimonials..

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⚠️ WHY YOU SHOULDN’T QUICKLY DISMISS CHS

Just because you already have accounting software doesn’t mean you have the right solution.

CHS doesn't do away with accounting—it gives you a smarter, construction-ready way to manage it. It has your financials, estimates, change orders, purchase orders, actual job costs, customer billings, contract balances due, document storage, and more, all in one software—eliminating sync issues, duplicated data, and costly guesswork.

If you're serious about building luxury custom homes, don't overlook the software built for exactly that. For example, CHS has instant reports like:

• TRIAL BALANCE BY JOB (totals each General Ledger account BY JOB)

• CASH BALANCES for EACH JOB

• PROJECTED GROSS PROFITS for EACH JOB.

• CURRENT CONTRACT BALANCES FOR EACH JOB

And, most importantly, CHS instantly calculates WIP earned income for you BY JOB, using Percentage of Completion, and helps create the POC Journal entries, if needed, for you at the click of a button….all these things, and more, means greatly reducing the year-end scramble by your CPA.

Click this for more info AND a video about WIP & Percentage Of Completion!

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✔️ All-In-One Program - No Syncing, or waiting on spreadsheets.

Combine full accounting, job costing, and project management into one refined platform with the professional tools to manage every dollar and impress every client. Just one program for builders who take numbers seriously.

CHS is INSTEAD of other accounting programs like QuickBooks. No need to rely on syncing to QuickBooks or piecing together other risky 3rd party systems—because everything is already in one place.

At CHS, we avoid bolting on too many outside tools because we prioritize stability, security, and accuracy. This is because your business depends on CHS and should not be slowed down by a failure in an outside software.

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🧮 Professional, Builder‑Grade Budgets & Estimates

Give clients, vendors, and your team clear, credible numbers—backed by documents, notes, and unit‑based math.

• Attach plans where they matter. Upload plan PDFs to the job and drop direct links into each cost center’s notes for instant context.

• Reference vendor bids in-line. Store vendor quotes and link them right in the cost center notes—no hunting through folders.

• Explain the scope (in plain English). Use rich notes to spell out inclusions/exclusions, site conditions, and coordination details.

• Unit‑based budgeting that calculates for you. Set default unit measure (LF, SF, EA, CY, etc.) and unit price—CHS auto‑calculates initial budgeted amounts from your quantities.

• Allowances made simple. Flag allowance items, set the amounts, and keep selections and actuals aligned with the budget.

• Cleaner handoffs. Anyone reading the estimate sees the “why” behind the number—plans, bids, scope, and math in one place.

example of some Cost Center notes on an estimate:

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🛠️ Project Management with CHS — Powered by Purchase Orders

It’s NOT true that Purchase Orders take too much time. We will show you how PO’s SAVE YOU TIME!

Let your purchase orders drive the job—not your inbox.
In CHS, Purchase Orders are the backbone that tie your estimate, vendors, costs, and schedule together—so scopes are clear, approvals are captured, and field progress aligns with the budget.

✅ Why PO‑Driven Project Management Works:

• Vendor bills to pay can be created directly from Purchase Orders, saving time and increasing accuracy

• If a vendor bill exceeds the PO for that job and vendor, CHS provides instant alerts before it's posted—so you can catch and address overages

• Scope clarity and pricing live in the same PO used to bill and track costs

• PO status and costs roll into the ECC window and real-time variance reports automatically

• Fewer disputes—everything is documented, signed, and searchable

• One click to drill into documents, communications, and payment history

👉 With CHS, purchase orders aren’t just accounting—they’re your entire project backbone.

These tools are fully integrated with your accounting data—so you’re not juggling disconnected systems. As your team marks tasks complete or submits incurred costs, CHS gives you real-time visibility into cost-to-complete projections, overages, and contract balances.

CHS gives you project management that’s built for builders—not IT departments.

🔧 Built‑In Project Management Tools:

• List Schedule – simple, reliable sequencing without Gantt bloat

• Task Lists – assign tasks with due dates, status, and notes

• Daily Job Logs – track on‑site work, decisions, delays, and weather

• Weekly Status Reports – team-wide snapshots of what's done, what’s next, and what’s delayed

• Purchase Orders Status – track issue dates, sign‑offs, deliveries, and % complete

📈 Weekly Status Reporting That Reflects Reality

CHS gives you more than a schedule—it gives you real progress, backed by real numbers.
Instead of relying on task calendars or generic timelines, CHS supports weekly status reporting based on completed construction stages and actual incurred costs.

Each week, your team can easily report:

• ✅ What stages of construction have been completed

• ✅ Which purchase orders are done or pending

• ✅ What costs have been incurred and posted

• ✅ Which costs are ready for approval

• ✅ How the updated cost-to-complete and contract balance now stand

All of this ties directly into your job costing and accounting—no syncing or guesswork required.

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🧾 Change Orders & Allowances—Tracked, Approved, and Always in Sync

In custom home building, change orders and allowances aren’t side notes—they’re financial drivers. CHS makes sure they’re managed with the precision and professionalism your clients expect.

With CHS, you can:

• Create and track change orders that instantly update the job’s contract price and estimate

• Log allowance items, track running totals, and show what’s been selected or spent

• Store supporting documents, photos, and selection sheets for full transparency

• Automatically adjust the project’s contract balance, billing, and cost-to-complete

• Let project managers and bookkeepers see the impact of changes in real time

No more manual updates or forgotten approvals.
CHS keeps change orders and allowances integrated across your accounting, job costing, and client-facing reports—so nothing slips through the cracks.

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📊 Estimated Costs At Completion (ECC)

• CHS’s Real-Time Visibility!

⚠️ Why Estimate vs. Actual COSTS Alone Isn’t Enough

A lot of builders think comparing estimated costs to actual posted costs is all they need to see how a job is going. But here’s the problem: That comparison is mostly meaningless—until the job is complete.

Why? Because many of your biggest expenses—like cabinetry, final trim, or appliances—may not have happened yet, OR committed costs (POs) have been issue for higher or lower than the original estimated costs, OR Change Orders may be in the works. So simply comparing what you originally estimated to what your actual posted job costs doesn’t show the whole picture.

To really understand where a job stands midstream, you need tools that help you forecast what’s coming—not just measure what’s already happened.

That’s why CHS goes beyond actual costs. It brings all the following together on one Estimated Costs At Completion window that has the following (and more)…

• Shows the original Budget / Estimate numbers.

• Includes Purchase Orders to capture committed costs

• Tracks Change Orders to adjust both budget and contract price

• Lets you mark cost codes as complete so you know when a budget line is fully used

• Continuously calculates your projected final costs (or Estimated Costs At Completion - ECC)

• Shows Paid cost amounts

• So that it can calculate total amounts Remaining To Pay

• Calculates Cash Balances and current bills due BY job, showing current Cash Available.

• The instant calculation of the current ECC Total allows CHS to update the current Contract Price, based on whether it is fixed or costs plus, resulting in a Contract Balance Due Report that includes Job Revenues received. The current ECC total is then instantly grabbed for each job in order to calculate WIP, Earned Revenues, and Percentage of Completion totals.

That’s how you avoid surprises—and stay ahead of budget overruns before they happen.

See where every dollar stands—live, by cost center.

The CHS Estimated Costs At Completion (ECC) window is the hub where your estimate, change orders, purchase orders, manual revisions, and actual job costs all automatically come together—side by side—to instantly calculate what your completed job costs are currently expected to be when finished.

🔍 For every cost center, you get:

• Original Estimate

• Approved Change Orders

• Issued Purchase Orders

• Manual Revisions

• Actual Incurred Costs

• Real-Time Difference (Over/Under)

• Paid to Date & Outstanding Payables

And because CHS keeps it all linked, every number has a drill-down—so you can click into any amount to see exactly where it came from.

📊 Real-Time Job Costs & Variances Tracking

Track and compare estimates, POs, change orders, builder revisions, and actual job costs—instantly.

CHS pulls detailed data from your estimates, purchase orders, change orders, and incurred job costs to deliver precise variance results—showing you exactly where you stand against your budget at every phase. These insights feed into polished, professional-grade financial reports that help you stay in control and build confidence with your clients.

CHS totals up all of the over and under amounts right on the ECC window, and gives you a summarized list of just those cost centers that are over or under so that you do not have to scroll to see them on the ECC worksheet.

💰 Stay on Top of Profit and Cash Flow FOR A JOB

On the same ECC window, you’ll see:

• Current Estimated Gross Profit for the Job

• Job Cash Balance (Calculated from actual cash flow: monies in less monies out)

• Current Cash Available (Cash Balance Less Posted Unpaid Payables for the job)

• Outstanding To Pay (ECC total less total PAID amounts for the job)

No spreadsheets. No syncing. No surprises. Just real-time clarity—on one screen.

👉 This is job costing done right—because your profits depend on it.

🚫 STOP MOVING Overages to a Contingency Cost Code & SAVE TIME! no need with CHS clarity!

WHY?? BECAUSE CHS HAS THE ESTIMATED COSTS AT COMPLETION WINDOW THAT CLEARLY SHOWS OVER & UNDERS AND TOTALS THEM UP FOR YOU AND YOUR COSTS PLUS CUSTOMERS!!

It might be tempting to move overages from a specific cost code into a general contingency code—but doing that can actually create more problems than it solves. Click this to see why we recommend leaving the overages in their original cost code.

📊 Free Tool: Find the Right Markup!

Confused about markup vs. margin? You’re not alone.
Click below to use our free calculator that shows you exactly what markup percentage you need to hit your desired profit margin—and finally understand the difference between markup and margin once and for all.👉 Click here to try the free markup tool now!

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📈 Financial Clarity REPORTS at Your Fingertips

🧾 Clean Financials, Clear Job Costing

• Clean Chart Of Accounts - keeping Cost Codes separate

  • CHS keeps your financial Chart of Accounts clean and organized by separating it from job codes and job cost codes. Instead of mixing job details into your Chart Of Accounts structure, CHS uses job codes and cost codes separately from GL Accounts within accounting records—keeping financial accounts focused and easy to read.

    This structure allows you to:

    • Maintain a streamlined, clutter-free Chart of Accounts

    • Use detailed cost codes and job codes within accounting records to track and compare job costs

    • Produce all kinds of financials by job, including a drill-down Trial Balance grouped and totaled BY JOB!

    • Run powerful, targeted searches in the General Ledger—by cost code, job, vendor, or a combination of them

    The result? Clean financials for your accountant, and detailed job costing for your team—all in the same system.

• Full Financial Statements

  • Real Time Income Statements, Trial Balances, & Cash Flow Statements:

    • For Entire Company

    • For Jobs

    • For Departments (ie Divisions)

• Job Cash Balances and Detail Behind Them

• Job Cost Variance Reports

• Job Cost Detail Reports

• Outstanding Job Costs

• Profit Projections By Job

• Contract Balance Reports

• Draw Request Billings- CHS prepares Draw Request Billings, tracks Revenues Remaining To Receive, and produces Contract Balance Reports that can replace the need for traditional Accounts Receivable! The CHS process for tracking what is due eliminates confusing over/under billing adjustments or year-end AR reversals.

• Percentage Of Completion Calcs & Easy Resulting POC Journal Entries

• Work In Progress (WIP) Reports

• Year End CPA Reports

• and so much more— all based on smart filtering tools for confident, real-time decision-making.

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🤝 Empower Your Whole Team

CHS isn’t just accounting software—it’s a collaborative platform that brings your entire team together while keeping financial control in the right hands.

From the office to the field, CHS gives every key player the tools they need to make smart, timely, and financially sound decisions—with permission levels set by you.

With CHS, you control who can view, add, or edit which kinds of records for which jobs—so sensitive numbers stay secure, and everyone works within their role.

“The whole team’s working from the same playbook now. And I’m finally out of the weeds.”

• 🏗️ Builder / Estimator – Create accurate estimates, generate informative proposals, issue purchase orders, and set contract prices with confidence.

• 📋 Project Manager – Mark POs as done, review cost-to-complete projections, approve costs for payment, and help prevent budget overruns.

• 🧾 Bookkeeper – Post incurred job costs, manage vendor bills, inform team about real-time overage alerts, and other info needed from vendors, prepare interim draw request billings, and generate variance and financial reports.

• 📘️ Your CPA or accountant no longer scrambles at year-end—because everything, including WIP, is clean, current, and job-specific. Financials are always ready for review, audit, or tax time—with no reconstruction needed.

📉 Reduce Year-End CPA Costs
Save on CPA fees—and avoid the year-end scramble.

CHS supports multiple accounting methods, including Percentage of Completion, giving you and your CPA the flexibility to choose what works best for your business.

If you use Percentage of Completion—the method the IRS generally requires and prefers for home builders—CHS makes it easy to apply throughout the year, not just at tax time. That means your revenue, job costs, and contract balances are always aligned and audit-ready.

Your CPA won’t have to spend hours reconstructing job income or sorting out expenses. CHS tracks earned revenue in real time, by job, with no guesswork and no last-minute cleanup.

And because CHS helps you apply the method consistently, there’s no need for your CPA to reverse accruals or rework your books at year-end. Everything stays organized, accurate, and in sync with how your business truly performs.

👩‍💼 BOOKKEEPER AS THE HERO

CHS empowers your bookkeeper to become a central figure in your business success. By posting actual job costs, informing your team about real-time CHS overage alerts, and generating accurate reports, they ensure your financials are always trustworthy and on time.

👷 PROJECT MANAGERS AS HEROES TOO

Project managers in CHS don’t just track tasks—they manage cost control. From marking POs as Work Done to approving job costs and updating cost-to-complete projections, they help prevent overruns and protect profits.

See CHS Team Collaboration in Action:

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🧾 Take Control of Vendor Management

CHS makes it easy to manage trades, suppliers, and subcontractors—all in one place.

Whether you’re working with dozens of vendors or hundreds, CHS helps you stay organized, compliant, and on track—without the paper shuffle.

Here’s what you can manage inside CHS:

✅ Insurance Expirations & Alerts

• Get proactive notifications before coverage lapses.

• Track expiration dates for liability, workers comp, and more.

📁 Central Document Storage

• Subcontracts

• Certificates of Insurance

• W-9s

• Waivers of Lien

💬 Vendor Communication Tools

• Send bid requests to vendors—including itemized lists, plans, and uploaded docs.

• Send purchase orders to be signed online.

• Send Waivers of Lien for digital signature.

• Send requests for insurance certificates and other required documents.

• Message vendors directly from CHS to ask questions (e.g., overages, scheduling, missing items), and store all communications with each vendor or PO.

🧾 Purchase Orders & Bill Alerts

• Issue, track, and update POs by vendor, fully integrated with job and cost code tracking.

• When entering vendor bills, CHS provides instant alerts if they exceed the PO or the budget—so nothing slips through.

📊 Vendor Ledgers with Smart Search

• Search across jobs, codes, POs, invoices, payments, and waivers.

• See a complete history of what’s been paid—and what’s still owed.

💼 Default Settings to Save Time

• Assign default GL accounts and Cost Codes per vendor.

• Automatically prefill new entries with the right settings.

🧾 1099 Reporting

• Stay tax-compliant with built-in 1099 tracking and reports.

👉 Professional vendor management, done the way builders need it.

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💳 Payment Choices That Match Real‑World Construction

Post money the way you actually pay it—without messy workarounds.
CHS gives you clear options at the moment you record a cost, so vendor ledgers, job costs, and cash stay accurate.

✅ Choose How to Post Each Cost:

• 📝 Post as Unpaid (to pay later)
  Record the bill now; cut the check or pay later. Keeps cash accurate and A/P clean.

• 🖨️ Post & Print Check
  Enter and pay in one step—or print the check immediately from CHS.

• 💳 Post as Paid by Credit Card
  Pay a vendor with your card and post the payment directly to that vendor.
  You do not need to post to a separate “credit card vendor” until you make the lump payment to the card.

• 💼 Post as Paid by Voucher (When the client pays directly)
  If your client pays for a job cost, use Paid By Voucher so that your cash account balances are not affected, but the job costs ARE.
  CHS posts job cost on one side and Revenue from Client on the other—no impact to your cash account.
  → Result: your WIP and revenue remain correct without skewing your bank balance.

Why Builders Like This

• Complete vendor history: All payments appear on the correct vendor ledger.

• Accurate cash & A/P: No premature or duplicate cash hits.

• Cleaner month‑end: Card detail stays with the vendor; the card statement is reconciled as a single lump payment.

• Client‑paid items handled properly: Voucher method keeps your cash clean and your revenue accurate.

👉 With CHS, you post costs the way you pay in the field—while the accounting stays buttoned up in the background.

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👷 Payroll & Employer Burden, Handled Right

Track labor costs the way builders actually work.
With CHS, you can post payroll expenses and job costs at the same time—cleanly and efficiently.

🧮 WHAT CHS WILL DO FOR YOU:

When you post hours worked:

• The employee’s regular wage is recorded as a payroll expense.

• A marked-up amount is posted to the job cost to cover the employer burden (payroll taxes, workers comp, etc.).

No confusion. Just clean job costing that reflects your true costs.

🛠 Self-Performing Labor? CHS Handles That Too.

If your team performs work in-house—like finish carpentry, cabinet installation, or framing—CHS can post:

• The labor cost with markup to the job

• And have that amount automatically included in your Draw Request billings

That means your client is billed correctly, and your reports reflect real profit.

🔍 Easy to Track & Report

• Search payroll by employee, job, or labor category

• Review payroll and job costs in the same system

• Track self-performed labor across all jobs

• Avoid over- or under-reporting labor burden

👉 With CHS, labor costs aren't just an expense—they’re a fully integrated part of your job cost and billing strategy.

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📁 Organized Document Storage, Built In

Store everything where it belongs—securely and professionally.

CHS includes built-in document storage powered by AWS (Amazon Web Services), so you and your team can keep critical files exactly where you need them—without relying on scattered folders, inboxes, or shared drives.

🧷 Attach Documents Where They Matter

• Link plans, specs, PDFs, and photos directly to:

  • Estimates & Budgets

  • Change Orders & Purchase Orders

  • Vendor & Client Records

  • Bid Requests & Status Reports

  • Job Logs & Weekly Updates

🔐 Secure Cloud Storage via AWS

• Hosted on Amazon’s industry-leading infrastructure

• Fast, reliable access from anywhere

• Scales with your business—no extra file-storage system required

📂 Stay Organized Automatically

• Files stay attached to the exact cost center, job, PO, or vendor record they belong to

• No more wondering “where did we put that?”

• Everyone on your team sees the latest version instantly (based on permission levels)

👉 Professional builders need more than email attachments and folder chaos. CHS keeps your documents clean, connected, and accessible.

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💡FAQs

Does CHS Support Cash, Accrual, or Both?
Short Answer:
CHS is built for accrual-based job costing, the professional standard for construction accounting. It supports both of the IRS-approved methods of revenue recognition for construction:

📘 Learn More: Why CHS Focuses on Accrual

Do You Offer a Free Trial of CHS?
No. CHS setup is personalized, and rushing through a trial undermines your foundation. CHS is a long-term investment in the strength of your business.

How Do I Set Up CHS?
Here’s a simplified step-by-step guide. Each team member (builder, PM, bookkeeper) is involved in setting up their own part—ensuring your system is built right from the start.

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🎯 Built for Custom Home Builders

SO there are some things we do NOT include ….

BECAUSE CHS IS based on our extensive experience with custom home builders.

At CHS, our mission is clear: we don’t try to be all things to all people. Both our founder and resident builder bring decades of custom home building experience—combined with decades of input from many other builders—and that collective knowledge has guided us on what to include and what not to include. We’ve learned that stability and clarity come as much from what you leave out as from what you build in.

That’s why CHS is:

• Designed specifically for high-end custom home builders, not every type of contractor.

• Clean and uncluttered, without the gimmicks, add-on apps, or third-party gadgets that break down over time.

• Extremely stable, because every feature was chosen with intention, not bloat.

🛠️ Examples of Our Clean Philosophy OR Things We Do Not Include

• Provide An Alternative to Customer Online Selections: Instead of managing endless “selection lists” inside the software, CHS is built for the real-world approach—sending customers directly to vendors. Vendors know their own product lines best, and CHS makes sure costs still get tracked where they belong. More…

• No bank feeds: They sound convenient, but they’re a very poor fit for job costing. Builders need costs posted where they belong—not dumped in from a bank feed that hides the detail. CHS is designed for accurate posting tied to vendors, cost code centers, jobs, cost types, stages, AND of course, general ledger accounts . More info…

• No quick switch to Cash method: CHS is a true job costing program. That means accrual accounting—because only accrual shows your real profit and contract position as jobs progress. CHS instantly calculates Work in Progress (WIP) and Percentage of Completion, and it includes the tools to manage both Completed Contract and Percentage of Completion methods of accounting with ease. And, pssst, if you ask us, we will give you a hint about using Percentage Of Completion, and then quickly reversing it at year end, and un-reversing it the next day, if needed, for cash basis.

• No Gantt Chart Schedules: Some software sticks in Gantt charts because they look impressive on a demo. But in real custom builds, in our experience, they quickly become cluttered, rigid, and out of date. CHS uses simple List Schedules instead—because they:

• Give clear visibility into what’s due and what’s behind.

• Are easy to update when plans shift (as they always do).

• Match the way builders and project managers naturally think—by tasks, not abstract bars.

👉 Bottom line: CHS reflects decades of hands-on experience and builder feedback—stable, practical, and intentionally focused—because we know what actually works for custom home builders.

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Monitor & Predict where all of your job costs, gross profits, & contract balances are heading every day for every project. CHS keeps your entire team AND your customers informed in real-time! High end custom builders rely on CHS for clarity, control, and client-ready financials.

CHS can be a trusted partner, keeping you informed, delighting your customers, and driving your business forward! Help your accounting team become major players in Shaping Your Business Towards Success.

Carol King, the founder and developer of Custom Homebuilders’ Solutions (CHS).

Why Watch The Video Below?

The hour-long “Why CHS?” video is your inside look at how CHS actually works—built by someone who’s been in your shoes. It’s not a sales pitch. It’s a walkthrough of how CHS gives builders, accountants, and field teams the tools they need in one place. You’ll see how it replaces spreadsheets and disconnected systems with one smart, streamlined solution built specifically for custom home builders.

If you're serious about controlling your job costs and protecting your profits, this is the hour that could change how you run your business. Understand the nuts and bolts of our approach. No more spreadsheets!

Feel free to call us at (512) 971-1069 or reach out to our On-Staff Builder at (512) 788-1333. For a full review of all of our features in your own time, don’t miss our Free Seminar tutorials. Check out our affordable fees with no locked-in contract, take your time to ensure CHS is a good fit, and SIGN UP when you're ready!

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