WNDW vs Build Paperless.
Build Paperless is an Australian platform for subcontractors covering a wide span of the job: estimating and takeoff at the front, scheduling and drawing markup during, forms and SWMS for compliance, and reporting across it. If you want one tool from quote to completion, it covers more ground than WNDW does.
Where Build Paperless is better.
Estimating and takeoff
WNDW imports a takeoff; Build Paperless helps you build the estimate in the first place. If quoting is where your time goes, that's a real gap where they beat us.
Scheduling and Gantt
WNDW has no programme visualisation. Build Paperless does.
Drawing markup
Marking up plans directly, with photos pinned to locations.
SWMS and safety
A fuller safety surface than WNDW carries.
Reporting breadth
A wider standard report suite across the business.
If those five things are your daily pain, this is a straightforward decision and it isn't us.
Where WNDW is different.
Build Paperless is broad. WNDW is deep on one object.
Per-opening, per-stage tracking
Not a form filled in per level, but 1,010 items each moving through the stages you set — fixing, glazing, sealing, sign-off, or whatever the job needs — each carrying a rate.
Claims generated from completion
Progress claims following AS4000, built from records captured as the work happens, with retention and practical completion / DLP release handling, and variations tracked against the same records.
Tamper-evident sign-off
Signatures locked to the record they were made against — can't be changed after the fact. Level locking with a director-only unlock path. When a claim is questioned eighteen months later, the record is provably the record.
Offline-first
Built to work offline on any phone, because envelope trades work in basements, podiums and behind cladding where signal isn't reliable.
Cost per opening installed
Timesheets and openings are tracked together, so labour spend divides into installed quantity with no extra recording.
On pricing structure.
Build Paperless
Charges per person, with separate rates for office staff, foremen and field crew. That's predictable when your crew is stable. It scales with headcount rather than with work — a company with a handful of office staff, several foremen and a couple of dozen installers is paying for twenty-plus people whether the month was busy or quiet.
WNDW
Charges on the work: the openings in the job. Quiet month, smaller bill. Add ten installers to hit a deadline and the price doesn't move, because the openings didn't.
Which one should you pick.
Pick Build Paperless if
You want one system covering estimating, programme and markup, and your installation tracking can live inside general-purpose forms.
Pick WNDW if
The estimating and programme are handled and the unsolved problem is proving and pricing installed quantity, month after month, on long high-spec packages.
Running both is not unreasonable — they overlap less than the feature lists suggest.
See the difference yourself.
Bring your last claim. We'll walk through what it looks like when the ITP and the claim come from the same record.
Get in TouchComparison based on Build Paperless's publicly published product and pricing pages. If anything here is out of date, tell us at [email protected] and we'll correct it.