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Assignar
Crew, equipment and compliance dispatch for self-perform and speciality contractors
As of 31 August 2026, Assignar's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Field operations software for contractors who own the crews and the plant: civil, concrete, earthworks and speciality trades. Softwr lists it under Construction. Assignar is available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Assignar does
Assignar is a field operations platform covering crew and equipment scheduling, timesheets and dockets, plant utilisation, inspections and compliance records, and daily reporting. Supervisors allocate people and machines to jobs, field staff record hours and quantities on a mobile app, and the office sees cost and production against the schedule without waiting for paper to arrive. It originated in Australian civil construction and has expanded into North America. The audience is unambiguous and worth stating plainly: this serves the self-perform and speciality contractor, not the general contractor. The organising unit is a crew and a piece of plant assigned to a job for a shift, with a docket recording what was done and a compliance record proving the operator was licensed to do it. A general contractor coordinating twenty subcontractors has a different problem and would use this for its own self-perform scopes at most. Compliance tracking is more prominent than in American-designed competitors because Australian civil work demands documented tickets and inductions, and that emphasis carries over usefully to regulated environments elsewhere. Field products live or die on offline behaviour, because job sites have no signal and a tool that needs connectivity gets abandoned in week two. Assignar mobile use is designed around intermittent connectivity, with entries captured on the device and synchronised when the crew reaches coverage. Validate this on your own worst site before rolling out, with photos attached, because photo-heavy records are where offline sync usually strains. The other constraint is that Assignar is not an accounting system; it feeds hours and quantities to payroll and enterprise resource planning and depends on that integration being clean.
What people use it for
- A civil contractor scheduling crews and plant across multiple sites from one dispatch board
- A concrete or earthworks subcontractor replacing paper dockets that arrive three days late
- A contractor that must prove operator competency and induction status on regulated sites
- A self-perform contractor comparing actual crew hours against estimated production rates
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Assignar.
- It is built for contractors who own crews and plant, so a general contractor coordinating subcontractors gets little from it beyond its own self-perform scopes.
- It is not an accounting or payroll system, so the value depends on a clean integration to your finance system and on someone owning the reconciliation when hours disagree.
- Australian origins show in terminology and compliance defaults, and North American users spend setup time translating concepts such as tickets and inductions into local equivalents.
- Offline capture works, but photo-heavy forms on poor connections remain the weak point and should be tested on your worst site before a full rollout.
- Supervisors have to maintain the schedule for the reporting to mean anything, and dispatchers used to a whiteboard resist that for months unless the change is enforced.
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of Assignar
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- AssignarvsHCSS
HCSS: Deeper heavy civil estimating, dispatch and equipment management for large self-perform contractors
- AssignarvsProcore
Procore: Project management breadth aimed at the general contractor rather than crew dispatch
Pricing
What Assignar costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Assignar
On request
- Crew and equipment scheduling
- Digital dockets and timesheets
- Compliance tracking
- Mobile field app with offline capture
Capabilities
Features
Crew and equipment scheduling
Shift-level allocation of workers and plant to jobs with conflict detection
Digital dockets and timesheets
Field capture of hours, quantities and materials replacing paper dockets
Compliance and competency tracking
Licences, tickets and inductions recorded against workers and enforced at allocation
Forms and inspections
Configurable prestart, safety and quality forms completed on site
Offline mobile capture
Field entries recorded without connectivity and synchronised when signal returns
Production and cost reporting
Actual hours and quantities compared against budget by job and activity
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Is this for general contractors or subcontractors?
Speciality and self-perform contractors. The unit of work is a crew and a machine on a shift, which is not how a general contractor coordinates trades.
Does the mobile app work without signal?
Yes, entries are captured offline and synchronised later. Test it with photos attached on your worst site, because that is where sync problems appear.
Does it handle payroll?
No. It captures hours and quantities and passes them to your payroll or enterprise resource planning system.
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