Cable Ledger vs. Spreadsheets + QuickBooks
Most crews we talk to run on paper or texted daily tickets, a spreadsheet someone in the office keeps, and QuickBooks for the invoice. It costs nothing extra, and it works until the billing week does not.
Where Spreadsheets + QuickBooks is strong
- No new software to buy, and nothing for anybody to learn.
- Infinitely flexible: a spreadsheet will hold any rate sheet any customer sends.
- QuickBooks is already where the money is, and your bookkeeper knows it.
Where Cable Ledger differs
- The daily report is filed from the phone, against the contract's own codes, so nobody retypes a paper ticket into a spreadsheet.
- Billing estimates price themselves off approved quantities at the rate sheet's rates, instead of a formula someone has to keep right.
- You keep QuickBooks. Cable Ledger pushes the finished invoice into QuickBooks Online, matched to your customers and items.
Can you use both? Yes, the QuickBooks half. Cable Ledger replaces the tickets and the spreadsheet, and hands QuickBooks a finished invoice.
What the spreadsheet costs
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Software | Nothing beyond QuickBooks, which you keep either way |
No software cost beyond what you already pay. What it costs is office time: enter the hours your office spends a week turning tickets into invoices, and what an hour of that time costs you.
Cable Ledger pricing
Every login costs the same.
Standard price $350Founding price $199.50/mo with 6 logins
Then $69 a month for each login after that, whatever the role. Billed monthly, or pay a year up front and get 2 months free.
Founding rate: 43% off for your first 12 months, then $350/mo. Limited time only.
- Owner, office, supervisor or foreman: the same price for every login.
- Every feature for every login. No role tiers and no feature tiers.
- A promotion never changes the bill, and nobody needs a licence class.
- The crew on your roster are free. You pay for the people who sign in.
Put in your own team
Office, foremen and crew. The numbers update as you type, and nothing leaves this page.
Cable Ledger
7 logins billed, all at one rate. 24 crew on the roster free.
$419 a monthBilled monthly, $5,028 a year. No annual contract.
Spreadsheets + QuickBooks
No extra software
$1,213 a month in office time, from your numbers
No software cost beyond what you already pay. What it costs is office time: enter the hours your office spends a week turning tickets into invoices, and what an hour of that time costs you.
FiberField
7 seats billed
$963 a month
- Manager: $149/seat/mo
- Foreman: $129/seat/mo
- Crew: $49/seat/mo
Per seat per month, by role, as published on FiberField's own site. In the calculator, office users are priced as Manager seats, foremen as Foreman seats, and crew as Crew seats when you tick the crew box.
Procore
Unlimited users, priced on volume
$417 to $833 a month, billed as a year up frontEstimate
Procore does not publish prices. It quotes an annual fee per product, based on annual construction volume. The range shown is from independent estimates (about 0.1% to 0.2% of volume, starting around $4,500 a year) and is not a Procore quote. Implementation is often extra.
Fieldwire
7 seats billed
$273 to $623 a month, billed as a year up front
- Pro: $273/mo
- Business: $448/mo
- Business Plus: $623/mo
Per user per month, billed annually. A free Basic plan covers up to 5 users and 3 projects. Enterprise is quoted.
Bluebeam
7 seats billed
$152 to $257 a month, billed as a year up front
- Basics: $152/mo
- Core: $193/mo
- Complete: $257/mo
Sold per named user per year ($260 Basics, $330 Core, $440 Complete), shown here as a monthly equivalent. No monthly plan. Volume discounts are negotiated.
Competitor figures are list prices from the public sources linked on each comparison page, checked October 1, 2026. They exclude taxes, add-ons, implementation and negotiated discounts. Check with each vendor before you decide.
Your crews already did the work.
Stop paying a week to prove it.
Set up one contract, file one report, and see the estimate come out the other side.