What you get
- Business-of-construction focus, not just design
- PKR commercial, labour, and payroll
- Affordable local pricing
Comparison · Pakistan
An Autodesk Construction Cloud alternative for Pakistan
For contractors who need commercial, labour, and site control in PKR, not design-led enterprise suites, Smart Construction focuses on running the business of construction.
Overview
Autodesk alternative for construction businesses in Pakistan
Autodesk Construction Cloud is strongest where design and construction meet. Model coordination, drawing management, issue tracking against a model, and design collaboration are its centre of gravity, and for projects where BIM genuinely drives delivery it is a serious platform with no obvious equal.
What it is not, and does not claim to be, is a contractor’s commercial and workforce system. Certification in PKR with local retention and deduction practice, daily-wage labour attendance feeding payroll, subcontractor ledgers netting advances and back-charges, store control across sites, and cost coded to projects at entry sit outside its core. Most contractors using it run those functions somewhere else, which usually means spreadsheets.
For the majority of Pakistani contractors, the commercial and workforce gap is the expensive one. Design coordination matters on some projects. Not knowing your subcontractor position, your committed cost, or your true labour cost per project costs money on all of them. Smart Construction covers that ground natively, in rupees, with document and drawing management alongside it and pricing published on the website.
Core capabilities
- PKR billing, retention, and subcontractor ledgers
- Labour attendance and payroll
- Procurement and materials
- Project controls and dashboards
How it works
Capability by capability
Everything below is included on Starter, Growth, and Enterprise. Plans differ only on active project and user limits.
Where Autodesk is strong
Model coordination, design collaboration, and drawing management on projects where BIM genuinely drives delivery. If that describes your work, it is the right tool for that part of it.
- Model coordination and clash detection
- Design-stage collaboration
Commercial control
PKR certification with retention held by rule, deductions applied consistently, approved variations folded in, and branded invoice and receipt output. This is the gap that most often gets filled with spreadsheets alongside a design platform.
- Retention and deductions by rule
- Committed cost from purchase order release
Workforce and payroll
Daily-wage crews, contract labour, and salaried staff on one register with attendance captured per project per day, feeding PKR payroll and project cost directly.
- Per-day, per-project attendance
- Labour cost posted to the project
Procurement and subcontractors
Requisition to purchase order with approval limits and comparative statements, and a running balance per vendor and subcontractor with advances, retention, and returns netted.
- Comparative statements before award
- Running balance per subcontractor
Documents and drawings alongside
Drawings, documents, agreements, and approvals held against the project with role-based access, version clarity, and verification codes on issued documents.
- Drawings accessible from site
- Approvals tied to milestones
Pricing and implementation
PKR setup and monthly fees published on the website with every module included, and onboarding and training covered by the setup fee rather than a separate engagement.
- Published PKR pricing
- First cycle typically within weeks
Before and after
What changes in practice
The same work, run the way most contractors run it today and the way it runs on the platform.
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Design platform plus spreadsheets for commercial
- On Smart Construction: Commercial, labour, and site in one system
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Cost understood after the accounts close
- On Smart Construction: Committed cost visible at purchase order release
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Labour recorded on paper, outside any system
- On Smart Construction: Attendance per worker per day per project
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Subcontractor position assembled during a dispute
- On Smart Construction: A running balance per subcontractor
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Foreign-currency licensing
- On Smart Construction: Published PKR setup and monthly fees
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Implementation as a separate engagement
- On Smart Construction: Onboarding and training in the setup fee
Use cases
Situations this is built for
Recognisable scenarios from construction businesses operating in Pakistan.
A design platform with spreadsheets alongside
- The situation
- A contractor uses a design-led platform successfully for drawings and coordination while billing, labour, subcontractors, and cost all still run in Excel.
- How Smart Construction handles it
- Bring the commercial and workforce half onto a platform where those are the primary functions, with document and drawing management alongside them.
- What changes
- The expensive half of the operation comes into a system, which is where the recoverable money actually is.
Cost known only at invoice
- The situation
- Project cost is understood through the accounts, which means it is understood after the fact. Committed cost is invisible.
- How Smart Construction handles it
- Purchase orders commit cost to the project budget at release, and every cost carries a project code at entry.
- What changes
- Overrun becomes a signal during execution rather than a conclusion at completion.
Labour outside the system entirely
- The situation
- Daily-wage attendance is on paper, payroll is manual, and project labour cost is an allocation. The design platform has no view of any of it.
- How Smart Construction handles it
- Attendance captured per worker per day per project, feeding payroll and posting cost to the project directly.
- What changes
- The largest controllable cost on site becomes measurable, which usually changes the reported margin on several projects.
Benefits
What improves, and why it matters
The commercial half covered
Certification, procurement, subcontractor ledgers, and cost control as primary functions rather than adjacent ones.
Labour in the system
Daily-wage attendance feeding payroll and project cost, which no design-led platform addresses.
Committed cost visible
Purchase order release draws down budget, so overrun surfaces during execution.
Documents alongside, not instead
Drawings and approvals held against the project with site access and role scoping.
Priced in rupees, published
Setup and monthly fees on the website with every module included.
Local onboarding and support
A Pakistan-based team working your hours and your conventions.
Modules
Key modules included
Full construction ERP on every plan: projects, commercial, labour, and site in one subscription.
Commercial
PKR billing and ledgers.
People
Attendance and payroll.
Projects
Controls, milestones, and dashboards.
Pricing
Published PKR plans.
Included
Everything covered on this page
One subscription. Nothing on this list is a paid add-on.
- Multi-project control with milestones and programme
- Document and drawing management by project
- Drawing access from site on any device
- PKR certification with retention and deductions
- Approved variation control into certificates
- Requisition to purchase order approvals
- Comparative statements before vendor award
- Subcontractor ledgers with advance netting
- Daily-wage attendance feeding PKR payroll
- Store ledgers, transfers, and stock aging
- Dashboards, report packs, and WhatsApp automation
- Published PKR pricing on every tier
Terminology
The vocabulary on this page, explained
Plain definitions of the terms Pakistani contractors and consultants use day to day.
- BIM
- Building information modelling: a coordinated digital model of a building used for design, clash detection, and increasingly for delivery planning.
- Clash detection
- Identifying physical conflicts between building systems in a model before they are built. A core strength of design-led platforms.
- Common data environment
- A single agreed source for project information, usually design-centric. It solves the document problem and not the commercial one.
- Committed cost
- Money a project is already obligated to spend through released purchase orders and subcontracts, whether or not an invoice has arrived.
- Job costing
- Attributing every cost to the project that incurred it, which is what makes project margin a measurement rather than an allocation.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Is this a replacement for Autodesk design tools?
No. Smart Construction focuses on running the business of construction: projects, PKR commercial, labour, payroll, and site operations, rather than design and BIM authoring.
Who is it best for?
Contractors and developers in Pakistan who need affordable, PKR-native commercial and site control rather than a design-led enterprise suite.
Is pricing in PKR?
Yes. Published plans start at PKR 10,000/month, or 20% off on annual billing, plus a one-time setup fee.
Does Smart Construction do BIM or model coordination?
No, and it does not pretend to. Where BIM genuinely drives your delivery, a design-led platform is the right tool for that part. Smart Construction covers the commercial, workforce, procurement, and site-operations half that design platforms leave to spreadsheets.
Can we use both?
Yes, and some contractors do. Design coordination runs on a modelling platform while commercial control, labour, procurement, and site records run here. The important thing is that the expensive half is not left in Excel.
Does it handle drawings at all?
Yes. Drawings, documents, agreements, and approvals are held against the project with the current version identifiable, role-based access, and availability from site on any device. That covers day-to-day site use.
What does it cost compared with Autodesk Construction Cloud?
Smart Construction publishes PKR setup and monthly fees on the pricing page with every module included on every tier and onboarding covered by the setup fee. Autodesk licensing is quoted per product and per user in foreign currency.
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