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Kojo
Materials procurement and inventory for speciality trade contractors
As of 31 August 2026, Kojo's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Handles the request, quote, purchase order and delivery cycle for trade contractors buying pipe, wire and fittings. Softwr lists it under Construction. Kojo is available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Kojo does
Kojo, previously named Agora, manages construction materials procurement for speciality trade contractors. Field staff request materials from a phone, the office converts requests into quotes across suppliers, purchase orders are issued and tracked, deliveries are received against them and the committed cost flows into the job. It also covers warehouse and inventory tracking for contractors holding stock, and it integrates with the accounting and enterprise resource planning systems common in the trades. The audience is the speciality subcontractor: electrical, mechanical, plumbing, concrete and similar trades where material is a large share of job cost and purchasing happens dozens of times a week. A general contractor does not buy this, because it procures subcontracts rather than fittings. That distinction matters when comparing against platforms that claim to serve everyone. For a trade contractor, materials can approach half of contract value, and the gap between what was estimated, what was ordered and what was actually delivered is where margin quietly disappears. Two practical constraints decide whether it works for you. The first is supplier connectivity: the benefit of comparing quotes and pulling accurate pricing depends on your distributors supplying electronic catalogues and pricing, and if your main supplier will not, you are back to keying quotes. The second is field behaviour. Requests are raised at the job site, and job sites have no signal, so a request tool that needs connectivity gets abandoned in week two and the foreman goes back to phoning the office. Test the offline path with your own crews before committing, and check the depth of the integration with your specific enterprise resource planning version, not just the vendor logo list.
What people use it for
- An electrical or mechanical contractor where materials are close to half of job cost and buying happens daily
- A trade contractor that cannot see committed material cost against a job until the invoice arrives
- A contractor consolidating purchasing across branches to negotiate better distributor pricing
- A subcontractor tracking warehouse stock and job transfers that currently live in a spreadsheet
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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 Kojo.
- Benefits depend on distributors providing electronic catalogues and pricing, and a contractor whose main supplier will not participate is left keying quotes by hand.
- It serves speciality trade contractors; general contractors procure subcontracts rather than materials and get almost nothing from it.
- Enterprise resource planning integration quality varies by system and version, so confirm the depth for your exact configuration rather than accepting the logo on the website.
- Field adoption is the whole game, and foremen who lose signal in a plant room or basement revert to phoning the office within days unless offline capture genuinely works.
- It changes purchasing process as well as software, so contractors whose buying authority is informal have to formalise who can commit money before the system produces clean data.
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What people choose instead of Kojo
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.
- KojovsKnowify
Knowify: Job costing and management for smaller trade contractors including purchasing
- KojovsFoundation Software
Foundation Software: Construction accounting with purchasing, when the priority is the finance system rather than field requests
Pricing
What Kojo costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Kojo
On request
- Materials procurement workflow
- Supplier quoting and purchase orders
- Inventory tracking
- Enterprise resource planning integration
Capabilities
Features
Field material requests
Requests raised from the site on a phone against a job and cost code
Multi-supplier quoting
Requests sent to several distributors with responses compared side by side
Purchase order management
Orders issued, tracked and matched against deliveries and invoices
Inventory and warehouse
Stock levels, transfers and returns tracked across warehouse and jobs
Committed cost visibility
Ordered and delivered material value reflected against job budgets
Enterprise resource planning integration
Purchase and cost data passed into construction accounting systems
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?
No. It is built for speciality trade contractors buying materials. General contractors procure subcontracts and would get little from it.
What if our suppliers will not connect?
You lose most of the quoting benefit and keep only the internal workflow. Check distributor participation before purchase, because it determines the return.
Does it work without signal on site?
Field requests are designed for site use, and offline behaviour should be tested with your own crews in your worst locations, because that is where adoption is won or lost.
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