BlastBid vs QuickBooks

QuickBooks does the books.
BlastBid does the job.

QuickBooks is accounting software. Bank reconciliation, payroll, sales tax, the general ledger. If your CPA wants QuickBooks, keep QuickBooks. It's good at what it's good at.

But QuickBooks doesn't know what crushed glass costs per pound, how many square feet you can blast in an hour, or which before-photo goes with which bid. For the front end of the job — estimates, pipeline, photos, invoicing — you're stuck building it yourself, one blank template at a time. That's the part BlastBid handles.

Side by side

BlastBid vs QuickBooks

Feature
BlastBid
QuickBooks
Starting price
$79/mo flat
~$35–$235/mo
Built for sandblasting
Built-in media consumption rates
Built-in production rates
Field-first mobile app
Mobile accounting
Full offline mode
Before/after photos on the job
Job pipeline (scheduled → paid)
Projects
Estimated vs actual tracking
General ledger & bookkeeping
Payroll
Add-on
Sales tax filing
Bank feed & reconciliation
CSV export to your bookkeeper

Most small crews end up running both.

A common setup: BlastBid runs the front end of the job. Estimates come out of real media and production rates. Jobs move through a pipeline. Photos stay attached to the job they came from. Invoices come out of the finished job in one tap.

QuickBooks — or the bookkeeper who lives in it — runs the books. Bank reconciliation at month end, sales tax returns, payroll, the tax return in April. BlastBid stays out of that side.

BlastBid exports every customer, estimate, job, and invoice to CSV from Settings. Hand that to your bookkeeper once a month and you never have to open QuickBooks yourself.

Pricing

$79/month. Unlimited everything. No hidden fees.

One plan. No tiers. Cancel anytime.

$79/month

Billed monthly. No contracts.

Unlimited estimates
Unlimited jobs
Unlimited customers
Unlimited invoices
Before/after photos
PDF estimates & invoices
Offline mode
Media cost calculator (free)
Estimate accuracy tracking
Team & worker management
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