Docket apps for civil contractors in Australia (2026)

A docket is the piece of paper that gets a plant-hire or labour-hire business paid: hours, machine, site, customer's signature. The apps below all exist to get rid of the paper copy. This page lists what each one says about itself, with a link to where it says it, checked on 8 October 2026.

We make the SitesAI App, which is on the list, so read this as a vendor's list. We have left out Dashpivot by Sitemate because its website refused our request on the day; an absence here is not a judgement. "Not stated" means the vendor's home or pricing page did not say, not that the product cannot do it.

The short version

SitesAI App

Ours. A work-management app for civil and earthmoving crews: leads, quotes and jobs, rostered shifts and clock-in, dockets, a site diary, compliance documents, equipment and guided flows, on the web, iOS and Android. One docket per truck or machine, signed by the customer on their own phone from a QR code, out as a branded A4 PDF; the dockets guide shows the real one. Clock-in works with no signal and syncs when the phone finds one; see clock-in with no signal.

Pricing is published: free for up to 10 licences with every feature, then US$5 per licence a month for all of them, with an optional AI add-on at US$38 a month for the company. Prices are on the pricing page.

Watch out for: it is a general work-management app, not a docket specialist, and it does not do three-way invoice matching or supply-chain networks the way DocketBook does.

DocketBook

DocketBook calls itself "a modern proof-of-work system for civil and commercial construction": digital dockets, daily costs and three-way-matched invoices, for plant hire, labour hire and survey businesses up to head contractors and bulk-materials suppliers. Dockets are approved with sign on glass or a workflow, photos attach to dockets, and the mobile app works on Android and iOS and creates dockets "even in full offline environments". It integrates with Xero and MYOB, and has an API on enterprise plans. The company is in Fortitude Valley, Queensland.

Pricing: not published as a number. The pricing page builds a plan from your docket volume and add-ons, every plan has a 7-day free trial, and enterprise pricing is on request.

Watch out for: if you want a price before a conversation, you will not get one from the website.

DocketPro

DocketPro is "the field-operations app for construction and civil crews": job dockets with hours, materials and notes, on-site sign-off signatures, pre-start safety checklists with fault photos, a machine and fleet register, team roles and PDF exports. Office staff use the web admin, crews use the companion mobile app.

Pricing: not published. The trial is the longest here, 60 days with no card and everything included, and they email you plan options before it ends.

Watch out for: the home page does not say whether the app works offline, or which phone platforms it runs on.

Assignar

Assignar is bigger than the others: a "construction operations margin control platform" for civil contractors, with more than 800 customers across asphalt, concrete, drilling, excavation, earthworks, rail, cranes, traffic management and more. Workers clock in and out and submit timesheets and dockets "from the cab or the trench"; supervisors can complete timesheets for a whole crew; plant pre-starts and defects, digital forms, scheduling and payroll sit alongside. Australian sales are on (07) 5230 8223 and there is a separate North American business.

Pricing: not published. "Our pricing is tailored based on your team's specific needs. Book a demo to get a custom quote."

Watch out for: it is sold to operations and finance teams through a demo. For a three-machine business it is usually more platform than the work needs.

Foreman

Foreman is not a docket app, and it is on this list because it keeps coming up in the same search: "site diaries, inductions and timesheets. Just the basics." One QR code at the gate signs every subbie on with no app and no login, crew hours land in the daily diary, and it works in any browser including older Android phones. It is built for small Australian builders and says plainly it is not for tier-one contractors.

Pricing: published. Free for one project with unlimited inductions; A$29 per user a month (A$23.20 billed yearly) for diaries, tasks, forms and unlimited projects, month to month with no lock-in.

Watch out for: no dockets, so a plant-hire business still needs something else for the thing the customer signs.

How to choose

1. Who signs? If the customer signs the docket, test the signature flow on their phone, not yours. Sign on glass on your device and a QR code on theirs are different experiences at the end of a shift.
2. Where is the signal? Basement digs and rural sites have none. Only DocketBook and the SitesAI App say on their own pages that they work offline; ask the others before you commit.
3. What is the price? Two of the five publish one. If a vendor needs a demo to tell you what it costs, budget the hour and ask for the per-user figure in writing.
4. What happens to the docket next? If it has to match a purchase order and an invoice, DocketBook is built for that. If it has to become the next shift, the next claim and the site diary, pick the app that holds the job as well as the docket.

Sources, checked 8 October 2026

• DocketBook and DocketBook pricing
• DocketPro
• Assignar and Assignar pricing
• Foreman and Foreman pricing
• SitesAI pricing

Prices and features change. Check each vendor's current page before you decide, and if we have something wrong here, email admin@sitesai.net and we will correct it.