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Penta is a construction ERP for specialty contractors, bringing financial management, payroll, job costing, and field service together.

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#4 of 18
Score
6.5
Penta's website

What Penta is

Penta is a construction ERP for specialty contractors, bringing financial management, payroll, job costing, and field service together. Financial tools provide real-time insights, job and service costing, role-based workbench panels, multi-level reporting, and automated intercompany entries. Payroll covers timecards, job-cost integration, prevailing-wage calculations, multi-union payroll, tax reporting, and an employee portal. Job costing draws on accounts payable and receivable, purchasing, payroll, estimation, and forecasting. Field service includes customer setup, work orders, dispatching, mobile job details, invoicing, payroll integration, and reporting. The product supports progress billing, retainage and commitment tracking, and advanced project reporting. Penta lists integrations including OnBase, REQUORDIT, DTI, Rhumbix, Procore, SAP Concur, Avalara, and XOi Vision. PentaConnect APIs cover project management, accounts payable routing and payments, service management, and timecard integrations. Penta Cloud Hosting runs on AWS; Penta says its hosted environment is SOC 2 Type II certified. Pricing is available on request, and the site invites prospective buyers to schedule a demo or speak with an expert.

Good

  • Combines financial management, payroll, job costing, and field service.
  • Supports progress billing, retainage, and commitment tracking.
  • Includes advanced project reporting.
  • PentaConnect APIs cover several business workflows.
  • Penta says its hosted environment is SOC 2 Type II certified.

Watch out

  • Pricing is available on request.
  • The site directs prospective buyers to schedule a demo or talk to an expert.

Who it suits

Penta is aimed at specialty contractors, including organizations with complex, multi-trade operations. It may suit teams seeking financial, payroll, job-costing, and field-service functions in a construction ERP.

Verdict

Penta brings several contractor workflows into one ERP and includes job tracking and project reporting capabilities. Buyers will need to request pricing and discuss the system with Penta.

Plans and prices

From Penta's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.

All about pricing
PlanPriceWhat it gives you
Penta Construction ERPPriced on requestSpecialty-contractor ERP · financial management · payroll · job costing · field service

The facts

Each one read from Penta's own pages, with the date it was checked.

What it does

APIs
PentaConnect APIs support project management, accounts payable, payments, service management, facilities management, and payroll timecard integrations.checked 9 Oct 2026
API security
PentaConnect APIs run on Microsoft Azure and Azure API Management, with stated performance, security, and scalability protections to help prevent unauthorized access to ERP data.checked 9 Oct 2026
Cloud security
Penta says its cloud hosting runs on AWS and is SOC 2 Type II certified, with audited controls and features including MFA, web application firewalls, and multi-region backups.checked 9 Oct 2026
Field service
Field service tools cover customer and work management, dispatching, mobile access to job details, invoicing, payroll integration, and financial reporting.checked 9 Oct 2026
Financial management
Its financial module provides real-time financial insights, integrated job and service costing, role-based workbench panels, multi-level reporting, and automated intercompany entries.checked 9 Oct 2026
Hosting and security
Penta Cloud Hosting runs on AWS, and Penta states that the hosted environment is SOC 2 Type II certified.checked 8 Oct 2026
Hosting protections
The cloud hosting page lists VPN tunnel support, SSL certificate management, DNS administration, regular OS maintenance, MFA, web application firewalls, and multi-region backups.checked 8 Oct 2026
Integrations
Listed integrations include OnBase, REQUORDIT, DTI, Rhumbix, Procore, SAP Concur, Avalara AvaTax, and XOi Vision.checked 9 Oct 2026
Intended customers
Penta says its construction ERP is built for complex, multi-trade specialty contractor operations.checked 8 Oct 2026
Payroll
Construction payroll supports automated payroll calculations, timecard collection, prevailing-wage rules, multi-union payroll, tax reporting, and an employee portal for pay stubs and W-2s.checked 9 Oct 2026
Pricing
The site directs prospective buyers to schedule a demo or talk to an expert and does not display plan prices on the pages reviewed.checked 9 Oct 2026
Product
Penta is construction ERP software built for specialty contractors and combines financial management, payroll, job costing, and field service.checked 9 Oct 2026
Support
Penta describes dedicated support, consulting, implementation, and cloud hosting services, and says hosted customers receive prioritized support for hosting issues.checked 9 Oct 2026
Target customers
The product is positioned for specialty contractors, including large specialty contractors with complex, multi-trade operations.checked 9 Oct 2026

The company

Headquarters
Brookfield, Wisconsin, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026

Money

Job costing
Job costing draws on accounts payable, accounts receivable, purchasing, payroll, estimating, and forecasting data for real-time insights and reporting.checked 9 Oct 2026

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