Penta

What it is

Penta is a construction ERP for specialty contractors, combining financial management, payroll, job costing, and field service. Its financial tools provide real-time insights, job and service costing, role-based workbench panels, multi-level reporting, and automated intercompany entries. Payroll supports timecard collection, job cost integration, prevailing wage calculations, multi-union payroll, tax reporting, and an employee portal. Job costing combines information from accounts payable and receivable, purchasing, payroll, estimation, and forecasting. Field service covers customer setup, work orders, dispatching, mobile access to job details, invoicing, payroll integration, and financial reporting. The system supports progress billing, retainage and commitment tracking, and advanced project reporting. Penta lists integrations including OnBase, REQUORDIT, DTI, Rhumbix, Procore, SAP Concur, Avalara, and XOi Vision. PentaConnect APIs cover project management, accounts payable routing and payments, service management, and timecards. Pricing is on request. Penta says its AWS-hosted environment is SOC 2 Type II certified and lists security measures including MFA and multi-region backups.

Who it suits. Penta is aimed at specialty contractors, including large operations with complex, multi-trade work. It may suit teams seeking financial, payroll, job-costing, and field-service functions in an ERP.

Verdict

Penta covers financial management, payroll, job costing, and field service for specialty contractor operations. Prospective buyers need to request pricing and assess the system against their workflows.

Plans and prices

From Penta's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026. Every plan

What the maker publishes

APIs

PentaConnect APIs support project management, accounts payable routing and payments, service management, and timecard integrations. source

APIs

PentaConnect APIs support project management, accounts payable, payments, service management, facilities management, and payroll timecard integrations. source

API security

Penta says its APIs run on Microsoft Azure and Azure API Management, with protections for performance, security, and scalability intended to prevent unauthorized access to ERP data. source

API security

PentaConnect APIs run on Microsoft Azure and Azure API Management, with stated performance, security, and scalability protections to help prevent unauthorized access to ERP data. source

Cloud security

Penta says its cloud hosting runs on AWS and is SOC 2 Type II certified, with audited controls and features including MFA, web application firewalls, and multi-region backups. source

Field service

The field service module covers customer setup, work orders, dispatching, mobile access to job details, invoicing, payroll integration, and financial reporting. source

Field service

Field service tools cover customer and work management, dispatching, mobile access to job details, invoicing, payroll integration, and financial reporting. source

Financial management

Its financial module provides real-time financial insights, integrated job and service costing, role-based workbench panels, multi-level reporting, and automated intercompany entries. source

Financial management

Its financial module provides real-time financial insights, integrated job and service costing, role-based workbench panels, multi-level reporting, and automated intercompany entries. source

Headquarters

Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States source

Hosting and security

Penta Cloud Hosting runs on AWS, and Penta states that the hosted environment is SOC 2 Type II certified. source

Hosting protections

The cloud hosting page lists VPN tunnel support, SSL certificate management, DNS administration, regular OS maintenance, MFA, web application firewalls, and multi-region backups. source

Integrations

Listed integration partners include OnBase, REQUORDIT, DTI, Rhumbix, Procore, SAP Concur, Avalara, and XOi Vision. source

Integrations

Listed integrations include OnBase, REQUORDIT, DTI, Rhumbix, Procore, SAP Concur, Avalara AvaTax, and XOi Vision. source

Intended customers

Penta says its construction ERP is built for complex, multi-trade specialty contractor operations. source

Job costing

The job costing module combines data from accounts payable, accounts receivable, purchasing, payroll, estimation, and forecasting for real-time insights and financial reporting. source

Job costing

Job costing draws on accounts payable, accounts receivable, purchasing, payroll, estimating, and forecasting data for real-time insights and reporting. source

Payroll

The construction payroll module supports timecard collection, job cost integration, prevailing wage calculations, multi-union payroll, tax reporting, and an employee portal. source