Event details
A practical webinar for Australian residential volume builders
Your subbie submits a progress claim. It takes two weeks to process. By the time your finance team reconciles it against the original purchase order, the frame is already going up on the next lot.
Join HomebuilderONE by sa.global for a webinar designed specifically for residential homebuilders. We’ll show how builders can connect purchasing, construction activity, and financials on one platform, so cost visibility happens as the build progresses, not after practical completion.
Date: November 18, 2026
Time: 2PM AEST
Format: Online webinar
Duration: 60 minutes
Why attend
When estimates, purchase orders, progress claims, variations, and actuals live in separate systems, overruns surface too late to act.
For Australian residential volume builders running hundreds of starts each year, that delay has a direct dollar cost. Variations can go untracked. Retention calculations happen manually. Claims and purchase orders are reconciled after the fact. By the time a margin issue shows up in a report, the homes where it happened may already be complete.
This webinar will show what job costing looks like when purchasing, construction activity, and finance all work from the same platform.
You’ll see how real-time visibility across committed costs, actuals, claims, variations, and project margins can help residential homebuilders make faster, better-informed decisions throughout the build.
What we’ll cover
- Why the job costing lag exists
Progress claims sit in one system. Purchase orders in another. Variations are tracked in spreadsheets. Disconnected accounts payable, procurement, construction, and finance processes create delayed margin visibility, manual WIP reporting, and reconciliation effort across multiple systems.
We’ll unpack why the lag is structural, not operational, and why it is so difficult to fix without connected systems. - What a native ERP does differently
Learn how HomebuilderONE, a residential construction ERP connects purchasing, work orders, committed costs, OK-to-pay approvals, field progress, invoice processing, and finance in one platform.
This gives finance, construction, estimating, and purchasing teams access to the same numbers at the same time. - Cost visibility at every build stage
When a subbie completes the frame and submits their claim, that cost should hit your budget the same day, not weeks later.
We’ll show how committed costs, actuals, and budgets can move together through slab, frame, lock-up, fixing, and handover, so construction managers and finance teams are working from the same view of margin. - Claims, retentions, backcharges, and variations in one place
See how stronger controls across subcontractor claims, retentions, backcharges, rebids, variations, and procurement can improve accountability, reduce manual effort, and help protect project margins. - Live walkthrough of HomebuilderONE
See how HomebuilderONE connects purchasing, construction, and finance on a single Microsoft platform, from first enquiry through to handover.
Who should attend
This webinar is designed for residential volume homebuilders, especially teams responsible for cost control, margin visibility, procurement, construction operations, finance, and ERP systems.
It will be especially relevant for:
- CFOs and Finance Managers whose teams spend days each month reconciling subcontractor claims
- GMs and COOs making margin decisions using data that may already be out of date
- Estimating and Purchasing Managers trying to align budgets, committed costs, purchase orders, and actuals
- CIOs and CTOs responsible for ERP, finance, construction, and operational systems
- Residential building companies delivering 150 to 2,500+ homes annually and looking to improve margin visibility, reduce manual processes, and tighten operational control