Stop
guessing.
Know where
the money went.
Obra is project finance for people who build. Receipts in from the job site — WhatsApp, email, photo — the real numbers out, live, on every project.
Every receipt feeds one number
$171,100
Every cost. Live. On every project.
Receipts follow the crew.
Three ways in. One review queue. Zero typing. The AI reads amount, vendor, date, category and tax — a human confirms with one tap.
Each crew member links their own number. Snap → send → filed on the right project, sender attached. If they can text, they're trained.
Email-in
A private address per organization. Forward supplier invoices and PDFs; they queue up next to the photos.
Photo upload
In-app quick capture, installable on the home screen, built for one hand and gloves.
Review
Nothing posts itself. Extractions wait for approval — routed by custom roles, so the office keeps control.
See it in 30 seconds
Take a photo of a receipt and watch your project's numbers update — no typing.
One book. Zero surprises.
Every dollar in context: project, category, vendor, currency. Totals stay bucketed per currency — never silently mixed.
Instruments, not guesses.
Cash flow, cash results by project and by client, category budgets, portfolio averages — every chart computed from real receipts, live. The numbers below are illustrative.
Collected − recorded
$171k
+$41k vs last quarter
Active projects
12
3 finishing this month
Receipts captured
1,284
Zero typed by hand
Avg project duration
14
Weeks, contract to close
Cash flow — Casa Roma · USD
Cash collected Recorded cost
Hover a month for exact figures
Collected − recorded · running
+$24k in July$171k collected − recorded cost
Where the money goes
Spend by category · this quarter
Cash results by client
Who actually pays the bills
Budget burn
Casa Roma · alerts at 80% and 100%
Built for construction money.
SPEC-01
Multi-currency
USD, MXN, EUR — bucketed per currency, never silently converted.
SPEC-02
Change orders
Approved extras adjust the contract; the original survives.
SPEC-03
Category budgets
Alerts at 80% and 100% — before the money is gone, not after.
SPEC-04
Roles & approvals
Crew captures, office approves. You decide who sees contract values.
SPEC-05
Clients & vendors
Cash results by client. Spend by vendor. Context on every dollar.
SPEC-06
Custom categories
Your trade's language, preset at onboarding. Scanning uses the same list.
SPEC-07
Exports
Filtered CSVs or the whole organization in a zip. No lock-in, ever.
SPEC-08
Installs like an app
PWA with a home-screen quick-capture shortcut. No app store required.
SPEC-09
Monday digest
Cash collected, recorded cost, budget alerts — weekly, by email.
Proof beats promises.
Publish a public page per project — before & after, milestones, updates. Send one link. Win the next contract.
Before
After
Run your numbers.
Left after costs
—
% of contract left
—
Obra keeps these numbers live for every project — from your contract value and every recorded cost.
Start freePriced like a box of screws.
All prices in USD
Free
- 1 active project, unlimited history
- Real-time cash collected & recorded cost
- Unlimited income & expense entries
- WhatsApp & email capture
- 20 AI receipt scans / month
- Sales tax capture, manual or scanned
- 1 published portfolio page
- Receipt & file attachments
- Unlimited clients & custom categories
- Multi-currency support
- Nothing you create is ever deleted
Pro
- Unlimited active projects
- Team members & roles
- 300 pooled scans per seat / month
- Approvals, custom roles & budgets
- Full public portfolio & organization page
- Change orders & project analytics
- Unlimited public pages & exports
- CSV exports
- Everything in Free
Asked on every site.
Q-01 How does receipt scanning work? +
While adding a transaction, attach a photo or PDF of the receipt or invoice. Obra reads it and extracts the amount, date, vendor, sales tax and a category matched against your own category list, then prefills the transaction form. Supported formats: JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, GIF and PDF.
Q-02 Can I send receipts by WhatsApp or email? +
Yes. Link your WhatsApp number from Settings, then send photos or PDFs of your receipts to Obra's number. Every organization also gets its own private email address you can forward invoices to. Each one arrives already scanned as a draft in your Receipts inbox, waiting for you to confirm it into a transaction — and every transaction remembers whether it came from WhatsApp, email or your own typing.
Q-03 What if the scan gets something wrong? +
Nothing is saved without your review. The scan only fills fields you haven't typed in, and you can change any value before saving. Think of it as a very fast first draft.
Q-04 Is my financial data private? +
Yes. Your costs and income are visible only to you and your team. Even if you publish a project to your public portfolio, financial details are never shown. We don't run ads or sell data — see our Privacy Policy for the details. Privacy Policy
Q-05 Can I work in multiple currencies? +
Yes. Each project has its own currency, and totals stay bucketed per currency — Obra never silently converts or mixes them.
Q-06 Can I track change orders? +
Yes. Log every approved extra — or deduction — with its date, description, amount and an optional attachment. Obra adjusts the project's contract value while keeping the original value visible, so you always know what you signed for, what changed and who logged it.
Q-07 Can my team use Obra? +
Yes. Obra is built around organizations: invite teammates and everyone works from the same projects, clients and categories.
Q-08 How does per-seat billing work? +
Pro costs $12 per user per month, or $120 per user per year. Sending an invitation is free — a seat is only added to your bill once someone accepts it. If people join or leave mid-cycle, the difference is prorated onto your next invoice automatically, so you never pay for a seat nobody is using.
Q-09 Is there a free trial? What happens when it ends? +
Every account starts with 14 days of Pro — everything included, no credit card. When it ends you simply continue on the Free plan: one active project, one published project page and 20 receipt scans a month. Nothing is deleted or hidden — your other projects become read-only until you upgrade or make room, and you choose which one stays active. Teammates are paused rather than removed, so upgrading brings everyone back exactly as they were.
Q-10 Can I cancel anytime? What happens to my data? +
Cancel anytime from your account settings — no phone calls, no retention flows. You keep Pro until the end of the period you already paid for, so download a structured export (CSV files) before then if you want a copy. After that you continue on the Free plan with everything you created intact, and you can delete your organization and account right from Settings. support@tryobra.com is there if you need a hand.
Q-11 Is there a mobile app? +
Obra installs straight from your browser on iPhone and Android — no app store, no download. Add it to your home screen and it opens full screen like any other app, with a shortcut that jumps right to adding an expense while you're still standing at the counter.
Q-12 What languages does Obra support? +
Obra is available in English and Spanish today, with more languages on the way. You can switch language anytime from the menu.
More questions? Visit the Help Center
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