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Fencing Contractor Software

Payroll, HR and Field Operations Software Built for Fence, Perimeter & Site Security Contractors

From the first post to the final payroll run, Lumber connects your crews, labor costs, and compliance in one platform built for commercial fencing contractors, automated gate installers, and perimeter security specialists.

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Behind The Fence Line

Building the Fence Is Only Half the Job

Behind every installation is a back office managing timecards, payroll, job costs, certifications, prevailing wage, union rules, compliance, and more.

Crews are constantly moving

Installers clock into different jobs, phases, work orders, and cost codes throughout the day, sometimes across county or state lines.

Payroll depends on where and what someone worked

Pay rates can change based on project, classification, union, shift, jurisdiction, or prevailing wage determination.

Certified payroll eats up office time

Every public works job adds wage determinations, fringes, and WH-347s. Certified payroll for fencing contractors can eat hours every week.

Union rules add another layer

Multiple CBAs can mean different wages, fringes, deductions, overtime rules, ratios, and remittance requirements.

Labor costs arrive too late

When field data is re-entered by hand before it reaches accounting, a job can lose margin before anyone notices.

Your systems don't talk to each other

Time lives in one system. Payroll in another. HR somewhere else. Every manual handoff creates another chance for errors.

What Fencing Contractors See After Switching to Lumber

95%

reduction in manual payroll processing time

compliance penalties

12%

reduction in labor costs

All-in-one Workforce Management for Fencing Contractors

Built for the Complexity Behind Every Fence Line

From the field to payroll to compliance, Lumber connects your crews, labor, and back office in one platform built for the complexity of fence, gate, perimeter, and site security contractors.

Payroll

Pay crews correctly across every job

Automatically handle changing rates by project, classification, location, shift, and type of work.

Take the pain out of prevailing wage payroll

Manage Davis-Bacon and state prevailing wage rates, fringes, worker classifications, and certified payroll for public projects.

Handle union complexity

Support multiple CBAs, locals, wage rates, fringes, deductions, overtime rules, apprentice rates, and remittances.

Connect payroll directly to job costs

Allocate labor to the right fence installation, gate project, service work order, phase, and cost code.

Account for the realities of field work

Manage overtime, shift differentials, travel, mileage, per diem, and recurring reimbursements.

Field Operations

Know exactly where your crews are working

Use mobile time tracking, kiosks, biometrics, and geofencing across changing fence lines and dispersed jobsites.

Support crews where connectivity is limited

Offline time capture keeps work moving on highways, solar farms, utility sites, and remote perimeter projects, including post-driven fencing installers working long linear runs.

Track installation labor against the estimate

See actual hours and production against phases, bid items, quantities, and cost codes before labor overruns eat into margin.

Manage installation and service work together

Track crews building new fence lines alongside gate operator installation and access-control technicians moving between service calls.

Capture field compliance at clock-in/out

Use attestations for breaks, safety requirements, jobsite policies, and other required workforce information.

HR & Benefits

Get installers and technicians job-ready faster

Digitize onboarding, I-9s, E-Verify, employee documentation, and workforce records instead of chasing paperwork.

Know who's qualified before dispatching them

Track licenses, certifications, training, and expiration dates before assigning workers to specialized or restricted jobsites.

Manage project-specific credential requirements

Keep documentation organized for government, airport, correctional, utility, data center, and other high-security sites.

Train crews without pulling everything into the office

Assign safety, equipment, installation, and compliance training through an LMS accessible to field employees.

Simplify benefits administration & brokerage

Streamline enrollment, carrier management, ACA and COBRA compliance, renewals, and benefits strategies built for a field-based construction workforce.

Financial Services

Match workers’ comp costs to your actual payroll

Pay-as-you-go workers’ compensation helps align premiums with real payroll instead of relying on estimates and large upfront payments.

Protect the business as you take on bigger work

Access fencing contractor insurance coverage to manage risk as you add crews, equipment, locations, and work on complex fence, gate, and perimeter projects.

Give workers early access to earned pay

Earned Wage Access lets eligible employees access a portion of wages they've already earned before their scheduled payday.

Connect financial services to your workforce

Bring payroll, workers’ comp, insurance, and employee financial benefits closer together instead of managing them through disconnected processes.

AI Agents

Automate certified payroll work

Generate WH-347 and applicable state certified payroll reports and prepare data for compliance submission workflows.

Make sense of complex CBAs

Extract and surface union rules around wages, fringes, deductions, overtime, apprentice rates, ratios, and other requirements.

Stay ahead of apprenticeship requirements

Track apprentice participation and ratios on projects where federal, state, or funding requirements apply.

Prepare for increasingly complex federally funded work

Support compliance workflows associated with Davis-Bacon and projects receiving federal infrastructure and clean-energy funding.

Catch compliance issues

Surface missing information, rate discrepancies, and potential compliance problems before they lead to rejected payrolls, payment delays, or audit exposure.

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One Connected System for Your Workforce

From The Fence Line To The Back Office

Lumber transform the processes, structures, and controls behind your workforce and financial operations.

Onboarding & Credentials

Get Workers Job-Ready Faster

Get new hires through onboarding without chasing paperwork. Manage I-9s, E-Verify, training, licenses, certifications, and credentials in one place, including the equipment and safety qualifications specialized crews need.

I-9 & E-Verify

Licenses & Certifications

LMS

Business impact

Get people into the field faster while staying audit-ready.

Time Tracking & FIELD DATA CAPTURE

Capture Labor Where the Work Happens

Workers clock in and out from the field while Lumber captures the job, work order, cost code, classification, location, breaks, per diem, mileage, and required attestations.

Mobile & kiosk

Biometric

Geofencing

Offline capture

Business impact

Cleaner timecards, less chasing crews, fewer payrollcorrections.

Construction Payroll

Turn Field Time Into Accurate Payroll

A fence installer doesn't necessarily earn the same rateeverywhere they work. Lumber automates payroll acrossdifferent jobs, classifications, rates, states, and rules, including multi-EIN operations.

Multi-rate

Multi-state

Shift differentials

Job cost

Reimbursements & garnishments

Prevailing wage & union

Business impact

Spend less time calculating payroll and more time running thebusiness.

Benefits Admin & Risk

Protect Your People and Your Business

Bring benefits, insurance, and workforce risk together with payroll - helping you manage health benefits, workers’ comp, business insurance, and prevailing wage fringe strategies while controlling costs, reducing risk, and offering competitive benefits that help attract and retain skilled workers.

Benefits Plan

Fringe Strategy

Workers’ Comp

Business impact

Control costs, strengthen your benefits strategy, reduce workforce risk.

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Lumber Fits Your Operations

For Every Kind of Fence Project

Whether you're installing chain-link around a commercial property or securing critical infrastructure, Lumber adapts to the complexity of your operation.

Commercial & Industrial Fencing

Manage multiple crews of commercial fencing and Industrial fence installers across simultaneous projects, changing job sites, and cost codes.

Automated Gates& Access Control

Track technicians handling automated gate installation, gate operator installation, and service calls, with labor tied to the right work order.

Government & Public Works

Manage prevailing wage,certified payroll, classifications,fringes, apprentices, and compliance reporting.

Data Centers & Advanced Manufacturing

Keep credentials, workforce records, project labor, and compliance requirements organized for demanding jobsites.

Solar & Energy Projects

Track prevailing wage and apprentice ratios for solar fence installation crews across large, distributed sites.

Perimeter & High-Security Projects

Maintain visibility into worker credentials, qualifications, labor costs, and project requirements.

Multi-State Contractors

Manage workforce and payroll complexity as crews cross state and jurisdictional lines.

Highway & Infrastructure

Capture distributed field labor across projects, jurisdictions, and cost codes, including highway fencing, guardrail, and post-driven fencing crews.

Temporary & Jobsite Fencing

Track crews installing and relocating temporary construction fencing across multiple active job sites, with labor tied to each job and phase.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Lumber built for fence, gate, perimeter, and site security contractors?

Yes. Lumber is built for contractors managing field-based workforces and the complexity that comes with them. Fence and perimeter contractors can use Lumber to connect time tracking, payroll, HR, job costing, prevailing wage, union compliance, credentials, training, and workforce operations, from the jobsite to the back office.

Can Lumber handle employees who work different jobs and pay rates in the same week?

Yes. Fence installers, gate technicians, foremen, and other field employees may move between projects, classifications, and rates throughout the week. Lumber captures where and what employees worked so the appropriate information can flow into payroll and job costing without your team manually reconstructing every timecard.

Does Lumber support prevailing wage and certified payroll?

Yes. Lumber manages prevailing wage fencing requirements, including wage determinations, worker classifications, base wages, fringes, apprentices, and certified payroll. It supports WH-347 and applicable state reports, with export workflows for systems such as LCPtracker, eMars, and Elation.

Can Lumber handle union fence contractors and multiple CBAs?

Yes. Lumber is designed for complex union payroll environments, including contractors working across multiple unions, locals, and CBAs. Manage wage rates, fringes, deductions, overtime rules, apprentice rates, ratios, reciprocity, and union remittance requirements without relying on spreadsheets to keep every rule straight.

Does Lumber help with OSHA fall protection documentation for ornamental iron and elevated fence installation?

Yes. Lumber's digital forms include fall protection pre-task plans, safety inspection records, and training completion documentation that crew leads complete from the mobile app — creating a project-level compliance record for every elevated installation task.

Does Davis-Bacon apply to temporary fencing on federal projects?

Yes. Iron Workers jurisdiction covers temporary fencing, highway delineators, guard cable, blast fence, bollards, and safety fencing on federally funded construction projects — all of which can trigger Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements. Lumber identifies the applicable wage determination and applies it from day one.

Do I need to replace my existing ERP/accounting system to use Lumber?

No. Lumber is designed to work with your existing ERP and accounting software - not replace it. We integrate with Procore, QuickBooks, Sage 100, Sage 300 CRE, Sage Intacct, Acumatica, NetSuite, and 20+ other platforms, allowing labor and payroll data to flow seamlessly from the field into your back-office systems without manual re-entry.

Can we track labor to specific fence projects, work orders, and cost codes?

Yes. Field time can be associated with jobs, work orders, cost codes, classifications, and other project information so labor reaches the right place in payroll and job costing. This gives contractors better visibility into what installation and service labor is actually costing.

Does Lumber work for both fence installation crews and gate/access-control technicians?

Yes. Lumber can support project-based installation crews as well as technicians moving between gate, access-control, repair, and service work orders. This helps contractors operating multiple lines of business keep labor connected to the work that generated it.

Can Lumber help with requirements on government and high-security projects?

Lumber helps centralize workforce records, credentials, training, labor, payroll, and compliance information that contractors may need when working on government, infrastructure, airport, correctional, utility, data center, and other controlled or high-security projects.

Does Lumber support multi-state fence contractors?

Yes. Lumber is designed for contractors operating across multiple states, projects, branches, and entities. This helps growing fence and perimeter contractors manage increasingly complex payroll and workforce operations without creating a different manual process for every market.

How do we know if Lumber is right for our fencing business?

If you're managing multiple crews or jobs, different pay rates, prevailing wage, certified payroll, unions, multiple states, complex job costing, or disconnected field and back-office systems, there's a good chance Lumber can simplify your operation.