QuickBooks Online
Does QuickBooks Online have a WIP report?
Not at the tiers most construction contractors run on. QuickBooks Online Plus (roughly $115/mo) and Advanced (roughly $235/mo) track job costs through sub-customers and classes — the raw ingredients of a work-in-process schedule are already in the books — but neither tier assembles the schedule itself. Intuit Enterprise Suite — a separate, considerably larger product from Online Plus and Advanced, not a plan upgrade — added WIP reporting (over/under billing, a WIP dashboard widget) in an open-beta release during 2026. Moving a small or mid-size contractor's whole accounting system to Enterprise Suite just to get a WIP report is a bigger step than switching plans.
Why the data's there but the report isn't
A WIP schedule needs one number QuickBooks Online has no field for: each job's estimated total cost at completion. QBO can tell you what a job has cost so far and what's been billed, but the forward-looking budget — what you expect the job to cost when it's done — lives in a separate estimating process, if it lives anywhere structured at all. Without that number, percent complete and earned revenue can't be calculated, which is the real reason the report doesn't exist at these tiers: it isn't missing a screen, it's missing an input.
What contractors do instead
Most rebuild the schedule by hand every month — in a spreadsheet, or by paying a CPA to do it — pulling job cost and billing figures out of QuickBooks and combining them with a cost-to-complete estimate kept somewhere else. It's an every-month, every-job manual reconciliation, and a spreadsheet that isn't rebuilt carefully is exactly the kind of thing that produces a wrong number nobody notices until a bank or bonding company asks questions.
Filling the gap without leaving QuickBooks behind
The fix isn't a bigger platform — full job-costing and project-management suites solve this too, but they're priced and scoped for running the whole job, not just reading the WIP position out of books you already keep. A tool that reads QuickBooks Online read-only, holds the one missing input — each job's estimated cost to complete — and computes the schedule from there closes the gap without asking you to change how you run jobs day to day.
Want to see the calculation on one job before connecting anything? Try the free WIP calculator — no QuickBooks connection required, and nothing you type leaves your device.