Intuit Enterprise Suite Spring 2026 Release: Full Feature Breakdown for Construction Companies

The Spring 2026 release of Intuit Enterprise Suite builds directly on the construction beta that launched in Winter 2026 and pushes it further into the workflows that mid-market contractors actually run every day. Certified payroll for federally funded jobs, a refreshed WIP report, flexible job costing, AI-powered budget insights, and a brand new Human Capital Management platform called Intuit QuickBooks Workforce Elite all land in this release.

For the strategic context on where IES sits in the construction software market, see our companion article: Intuit Enterprise Suite: Construction Edition Is Finally Here. For the full platform tour, see The Complete Guide to (IES) Intuit Enterprise Suite for Construction Companies. For the prior release, see our Winter 2026 release breakdown.

This article is the detailed technical reference. It covers every feature in the Spring 2026 release, organized by category, with construction relevance called out throughout.

TL;DR

• Construction beta keeps expanding with refreshed WIP reports (Revised Contract Value, over/under billing, a WIP dashboard widget), a construction-customized home page, flexible job costing that lets you move from basic to detailed without data loss, line-item Project Management AI cost allocation, and AI cost and price insights for budgets.
• Certified payroll arrives with native Form WH-347 generation inside IES, unlocking compliant participation in federally funded projects.
• Workforce Elite launches as a full HCM platform covering recruiting, background checks via Checkr, onboarding, HR workflows, document management, performance reviews, time off, and offboarding. QuickBooks Online Payroll Elite customers are migrated automatically.
• Multi-entity gets deeper with transaction-level eliminations (auto-reverse and save, auto-reverse and review, or manual), CSV import for intercompany journal entries, AI-categorized intercompany sales, and enterprise-wide settings for consolidated reports.
• Business intelligence expands with modern reports available in management reports, custom date ranges, landscape mode, and calculated fields in multi-entity reports.
• Workflow automation gets dimension-based email notifications and direct approve or reject from email for invoices, estimates, bills, and POs.
• Money movement adds autopay for recurring bills.
• Inventory and order management picks up customizable PO fields, overdue PO reminders, sales orders with pre and post-tax discounts and shipping, and drag-and-drop autofill.
• Resolution Center opens up to more roles (A/R manager, A/P manager, in-house accountant, bookkeeper) and lets you reopen cases within 30 days.

Why This Release Matters for Construction

The Winter 2026 release was Intuit's coming-out party for construction. Spring 2026 is the follow-through. The headline construction items, refreshed WIP reports and native certified payroll, close two of the most painful gaps we still see contractors work around in IES today. The Workforce Elite launch is just as important, because labor is the largest controllable cost on most construction P&Ls, and a real HCM layer baked into the accounting platform changes how field operations and finance interact.

If you read our Winter 2026 article and noted our wish list, you will see Intuit is starting to deliver on it. Real WIP reporting is here in a meaningful first version. Cost flexibility is here. AI is now embedded directly in the cost allocation and budget creation workflow. We still have asks left, and we will lay those out in each section, but the trajectory is exactly what construction companies should want to see from a mid-market accounting platform.

Construction (Open Beta): WIP, Costing, and AI for Project Margins

These features remain in open beta and continue to be available to all IES customers at no additional cost during the beta period. Intuit has noted pricing may evolve.

WIP Report Enhancements

WIP is the single most important report in construction accounting. The Spring 2026 refresh moves IES from a basic WIP view to something closer to what controllers and surety underwriters expect to see.

What changed:

• Revised Contract Value is now a core metric, reflecting original contract value plus approved change orders
• Over and under billing is calculated and surfaced directly in the report
• Construction-specific terminology replaces generic accounting language, so the columns read like a real WIP schedule
• A new WIP dashboard widget brings the most important numbers onto the home page

Why this matters for contractors:

• Surety packages can be assembled faster, with fewer manual reconciliations against the system of record
• Project managers and accounting can finally look at the same WIP view and have a productive conversation
• Over and under billing visibility means cash flow and revenue recognition risks get spotted earlier, not at quarter-end

RedHammer's take:

This is exactly the direction we have been asking Intuit to take. The Spring 2026 WIP is a real first step, not a placeholder. Where we want to see it go next: G702 and G703 forms generated directly from the WIP report, retention handled as a built-in field rather than a workaround, schedule of values rollups that tie back to project phases, and a true percent-complete calculation engine that supports both cost-to-cost and units-of-production methods. We have shared this with Intuit and expect WIP to keep evolving release over release.

Customization for Construction

For construction-vertical IES customers, key areas are now preconfigured out of the box:

• A homepage prebuilt with critical construction KPIs
• Over and under billing widgets
• WIP widgets

Construction angle:

• New IES customers in construction get a much faster path to operational readiness
• Existing customers can adopt these prebuilt widgets to standardize how their team sees the business
• Fewer custom dashboards to build during implementation, which shortens our go-live timelines for clients

Flexible Project Costing

IES now supports both basic and detailed costing at the project level.

• Basic costing lets you add costs and markups directly to your project estimate or change order. Fast, simple, and appropriate for early bids and small jobs.
• Detailed costing lets you track estimated costs and income separately across your budget and project estimate. Appropriate as projects move from bid to execution and complexity grows.

The critical part is that you can move from basic to detailed without data loss or rework. The same project keeps its history.

Why this matters for contractors:

• Estimators can move quickly during bid phase without forcing the data structure to be detailed before the job is won
• Operations and accounting can switch to detailed mode once the project is real, without rebuilding the budget
• Third-party integrations that carry costing data through the workflow can support both modes consistently
• One project, one source of truth, regardless of where it is in the lifecycle

RedHammer's take:

This is a smart design choice. Contractors bid far more work than they win, and forcing detailed costing on every estimate is a tax on the estimating team. Allowing the project to mature from basic to detailed inside the same record is how the work actually flows. Where we still want to see growth: drive accounting by the combination of product (cost code) and cost group together, so budget-to-actual rolls up cleanly at both levels.

Project Management AI Cost Allocation

Project Management AI now provides recommendations at the line-item level on transaction forms (expenses, transactions, and bills). You can review and accept suggestions in place, or assign recommendations in bulk.

Construction angle:

• Speed up coding of mixed-job vendor bills (think a single Home Depot bill that hits three jobs)
• Reduce miscoded transactions that distort job cost reports
• Give AP clerks a faster, more confident path through high-volume coding days

RedHammer's take:

This is a meaningful productivity feature for any construction company processing more than a hundred bills per week. We will be turning it on for clients during implementation and monitoring its suggestions during the first 60 days to make sure it learns the way your job costing actually works.

Project Management AI Cost and Price Insights for Budgets

When you draft a project budget, IES now surfaces unit cost recommendations drawn from your historical data and past transactions. Each recommendation comes with the reasoning behind it. If you enter a cost that looks off relative to history, you get an alert.

Construction angle:

• Estimators get a data-backed sanity check on unit costs before a budget is published
• Project managers can identify potential margin risk before the first invoice goes out
• Owners get a budget that is grounded in actuals from prior jobs, not just gut feel

RedHammer's take:

This is one of the most genuinely useful AI features in the release. Estimating accuracy is the single largest driver of construction profitability, and giving estimators historical unit cost intelligence inside the tool they are already using is exactly the right play. The quality of the recommendations will depend on the quality of your historical data, which is one more reason to get your cost code structure and dimension framework right from day one.

Welcome to Workforce: The New HCM Platform

This may be the biggest single announcement in the Spring 2026 release. QuickBooks Online Payroll Elite is now Intuit QuickBooks Workforce Elite, expanded into a full Human Capital Management solution that brings together HR, hiring, time, benefits, performance, and payroll in one place, integrated with your books.

For construction companies, this matters because labor is the largest controllable cost on most P&Ls, and the operational gap between HR, payroll, and job costing is where money quietly leaks. A unified workforce platform that talks to the GL natively closes that gap.

Hiring and Onboarding

Recruiting. An integrated set of applicant tracking tools that manages the recruiting process from job posting through offer letter, all inside IES.

Background Check via Checkr. Initiate Checkr's AI-driven background checks directly from Workforce Elite with employee information pre-filled. Results flow back into the onboarding workflow. Checkr fees apply.

New hire setup. A guided workflow brings hiring, document collection, compliance forms, payroll setup, and employee self-service into one place. Data flows directly into payroll, no manual rekeying.

Construction angle:

• Bring foremen, PMs, and field staff onboard faster, with consistent paperwork
• Get new hires on the right pay rate, pay schedule, and job cost mapping from day one
• Eliminate the gap between HR and payroll that causes first-paycheck errors

Managing Your Team

HR workflows. Customizable multi-step workflows for things like promotions, transfers, and offboarding, with configurable approval chains.

Documents. Store employee documents securely, build reusable templates, request signatures or acknowledgments, track request status, and maintain an audit trail. This replaces external tools like Google Drive or Dropbox for HR document storage.

Performance management. Run structured review cycles including self-reviews, manager reviews, and peer feedback. Tie reviews to goals.

Time off. Create policies for vacation, sick, bereavement, unpaid, and custom types. Configure accrual rules, max balances, and carryover. Employees request through the Workforce Web or Mobile app.

Offboarding. Manage the exit process with termination reason tracking and guidance on the final paycheck.

Construction angle:

• Standardize promotion and pay change workflows for your field hierarchy
• Keep certifications, OSHA records, I-9s, and signed handbooks in one audit-ready place
• Manage time off policies that reflect how your trades and salaried staff actually accrue
• Make terminations clean, compliant, and consistent across project sites

Payroll Enhancements

Payroll hub. Multi-entity IES customers get a consolidated view of payroll status across every entity, without switching accounts. This is a big one for contractors running operating entities, equipment entities, and development entities side by side.

Certified payroll report (Form WH-347). IES can now generate certified payroll reports for federally funded projects. The form is automatically populated with key information. You complete and submit it weekly.

Why certified payroll matters in construction:

Davis-Bacon and related federal prevailing wage requirements mean that any contractor working on federally funded projects has to file weekly certified payroll on Form WH-347. Until now, IES users have been doing this in spreadsheets, on paper, or in a third-party app. Native generation inside the payroll platform that is already running the actual payroll is a meaningful compliance and time-saving improvement. It also opens the door for contractors who were previously locked out of federal work because their payroll stack could not produce certified reports.

Run payroll enhancements. The Run payroll experience now supports filters (base type, payment method, work location), column sorting, search, customizable row density and color, column reordering, and CSV export.

Expedited amendments. Submit payroll tax amendments to the IRS in as little as 7 days instead of several weeks, with real-time status visibility in the Resolution Center. Currently available for California customers filing Form 941 and Form DE9.

RedHammer's take:

Workforce Elite is a real platform launch, not a feature rebrand. For construction companies that have been duct-taping payroll, HR, and document management together across QuickBooks, BambooHR, Dropbox, and a custom Excel time off tracker, this consolidation is overdue. The certified payroll capability alone justifies a hard look at IES for any contractor that does, or wants to do, federally funded work. Where we want to see Workforce go next: prevailing wage rate libraries by locality with auto-application, fringe benefit accrual tracking by job and worker class, and union reporting templates that match the most common multi-employer pension fund formats.

Multi-Entity Financial Management

This release continues to deepen the multi-entity story that Winter 2026 expanded.

Transaction-Level Eliminations

When you save an intercompany transaction, IES now automatically creates the eliminations and links them to the transaction. Rather than adjusting at the account level during reporting, the platform generates elimination forms tied to each source transaction. Previous eliminations are migrated to the new model automatically.

Three approaches are configurable in Elimination settings:

• Auto-reverse and Save: Eliminations are automatically created and saved
• Auto-reverse and Review: Eliminations are generated but marked for review
• Manual: Eliminations must be created manually

Available in the first half of June.

Construction angle:

• For contractors with equipment, development, and operating entities running intercompany rent, equipment use, or shared service charges, this is a significant close-cycle accelerator
• Audit trails get cleaner because the elimination ties back to its source transaction
• Discrepancies surface during the month rather than at the consolidation step

Import Intercompany Journal Entries

Upload a CSV to create multiple intercompany journal entries at once. Your data populates draft ICJE forms that you review and post.

Construction angle:

• Spread shared overhead, insurance, bonding, and equipment costs across entities in bulk
• Migrate historical intercompany activity during onboarding without manual entry
• Cut the time spent on recurring monthly intercompany allocations dramatically

Auto-Categorize Intercompany Sales Using AI

When an intercompany sale generates a bill in the receiving entity, IES now suggests categorization based on historical patterns. Review, approve, or adjust before finalizing.

Construction angle:

• High-volume intercompany activity gets a scalable recurring workflow
• Mis-categorized intercompany transactions become much less common

Enterprise Settings for Consolidated Reports

Configure your reporting settings once at the Consolidated view level and apply them across all consolidated reports. Available in June.

Construction angle:

• Fiscal year, accounting method, and other key parameters apply consistently across the consolidation
• Less risk of one entity's report settings drifting and producing inconsistent results during a board package

Business Intelligence

New Management Reports

The May release adds several updates to management reports for single and multi-entity businesses:

• Available reports: Standard and custom modern-view reports can be added to management reports. Remaining reports will follow in the weeks after release.
• Custom date range: Define a custom date range when creating a management report, or stick with predefined ranges.
• Landscape mode: Change page orientation of individual report sections from portrait to landscape.

Construction angle:

• Detailed WIP and job cost reports finally have room to breathe in landscape
• Owner and bank packages can match the actual fiscal periods that matter, not just the predefined options
• Faster prep for owner reviews, bank meetings, and surety packages

Calculated Fields in Multi-Entity Reports

Calculated fields now work inside multi-entity reports in Consolidated view. Use row inputs to create margin percentages, ratios, or any other formula.

Construction angle:

• Build construction-specific consolidated metrics like gross profit margin by entity, labor burden ratios, or equipment cost recovery rates
• Move construction KPIs out of Excel and into IES where they live with the actuals
• One less spreadsheet workbook that has to be maintained every month

Workflow Automation Enhancements

Email Notifications for Dimension-Based Workflows

Send automated email notifications based on custom dimensions. Triggered when specific dimensional conditions are met inside a workflow.

Construction angle:

• Notify the regional manager when a project in their region hits a specific milestone or threshold
• Trigger jobsite-specific notifications without manual follow-up
• Keep the right stakeholders informed without flooding inboxes

Direct Approvals Through Email

Approve or reject transactions directly from email, with the option to include a rejection reason. Applies to invoices, estimates, bills, and purchase orders.

Construction angle:

• PMs and owners traveling between jobsites can approve POs and bills from their phone without logging in
• Reduces the approval bottleneck that delays material orders and subcontractor payments
• The audit trail remains in IES, so controls stay intact

RedHammer's take:

Combine this with the parallel approval and dimension-based routing capabilities from Winter 2026 and you have an approval engine that fits how construction companies actually work. The next step we want to see: workflow conditions based on custom project fields. If you have a Project Manager custom field on a project, you should be able to route vendor invoices for that project to that specific PM automatically.

Money Movement

Autopay Recurring Bills

While creating a recurring bill template, choose Autopay to schedule fixed payments automatically at the cadence you set. You get a confirmation when a payment is initiated and a notification if it fails (insufficient funds). Status is visible under Bills > Recurring.

Construction angle:

• Rent, software subscriptions, equipment lease payments, insurance installments, and other fixed recurring obligations stay current without manual intervention
• Late fees and service interruptions on critical operational services drop
• Your AP team focuses on variable, project-driven bills instead of clerical work

Money movement services are provided by Intuit Payments Inc., licensed as a Money Transmitter by the New York State Department of Financial Services.

Inventory and Order Management

Purchase Order Enhancements

• Customizable fields and labels: Show or hide header and line fields, rename column labels to match your vendor's language
• Enhanced custom form styles: Six form styles or a modern PO template, all with improved print readability
• Overdue reminder automation: Due date and overdue info appear in the PO list, and vendors can receive automatic PO reminders with tone adjusted to how overdue the PO is

Construction angle:

• Material POs to suppliers can be formatted to match how each supplier expects to receive them
• Overdue material POs that are holding up jobs surface automatically with appropriate vendor follow-up
• Less manual chasing of suppliers by project coordinators

Sales Order Enhancements

• Added accuracy: Pre and post-tax discounts and shipping flow into sales order totals, with inventory reservation supported
• Faster order creation: Drag and drop documents, images, or text to autofill a sales order, with suggested changes shown before saving
• More control over your order view: Adjustable column widths, recent sales order access, custom packing slip information

Construction angle:

This is less relevant for pure GCs and subs, but contractors with a materials supply or fabrication arm, or specialty contractors selling fabricated products alongside install services, will see meaningful workflow improvements here.

Resolution Center Enhancements

View support case status, make updates, and reopen cases within 30 days. More roles can now access the Resolution Center for case management: A/R manager, A/P manager, standard limited customers and vendors, in-house accountant, and bookkeeper.

Construction angle:

• Delegate support cases to the right person on your team instead of routing everything through one admin
• Resolve issues faster during close, when every day matters
• Keep the institutional history of cases in IES rather than scattered email threads

RedHammer Wish List for the Next Release

The Spring 2026 release closed real gaps. Here is what we are advocating for next based on what we see in client environments every day:

• G702 and G703 AIA billing forms generated natively from the WIP report and project data
• Retention handling as a first-class capability in both AR and AP, with retention release workflows
• Prevailing wage rate libraries by locality, tied to certified payroll
• Fringe benefit accrual tracking by job and worker class
• Union reporting templates for the most common multi-employer benefit fund formats
• Custom field-based workflow routing, especially routing approvals to a Project Manager custom field
• Cost code plus cost group as combined drivers for how costs post and roll up
• Negative change orders at the budget level, not just at the estimate level
• Stored materials and conditional line items in AIA-style invoicing
• A true percent-complete engine supporting cost-to-cost and units-of-production methods

If you are an Intuit partner or product owner reading this, that list represents real, dollar-impacting capability gaps that mid-market contractors feel every month. We are happy to keep providing structured feedback to your team.

How RedHammer Can Help with the Spring 2026 IES Release

RedHammer is the nation's largest construction-only outsourced accounting and CAS firm and Intuit's exclusive IES construction partner. Here is how we help contractors put the Spring 2026 release to work:

• Construction Bookkeeping and Outsourced Accounting: Day-to-day bookkeeping, AP, AR, payroll support, month-end close, job costing, WIP, and management reporting delivered by a team that only serves construction companies. We run your accounting function on IES so you can focus on building.
• WIP Reporting Setup: Configure project budgets, change orders, and dimensions so the new WIP report gives you surety-grade output from day one.
• Certified Payroll Onboarding: Set up Davis-Bacon compliant payroll, prevailing wage handling, and weekly WH-347 workflows so you can pursue federally funded work with confidence.
• Workforce Elite Implementation: Stand up recruiting, onboarding, time off, performance, and document management on the new HCM platform, mapped to how your field operations actually run.
• Flexible Costing Strategy: Design your bid-to-build workflow so basic costing supports fast estimating and detailed costing takes over once a job is real, without rework.
• Multi-Entity Eliminations and Reporting: Configure transaction-level eliminations, intercompany journal entries, and consolidated report settings for your specific entity structure.
• AI-Driven Cost Discipline: Tune Project Management AI cost allocation and budget recommendations to your historical data, with quality checks during the first 60 days.
• Workflow Automation: Build dimension-based approval and notification flows that match your internal controls, surety requirements, and operational reality.
• Business Intelligence: Construction-specific KPI scorecards, dashboards, and management report packages using the new modern reports and calculated fields.

If you are evaluating IES or already running it and want to put the Spring 2026 capabilities to work, check out our Intuit Enterprise Suite Implementation Services.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Is certified payroll in IES enough to compete for federally funded work?

A. The WH-347 generation is a strong foundation, especially if your prevailing wage rate setup, fringe benefit handling, and weekly reporting cadence are properly configured. RedHammer typically pairs the IES certified payroll feature with a Davis-Bacon onboarding engagement so contractors get to compliance fast and stay there. Talk to us before you submit your first federal bid if you are new to certified payroll.

Q. Do I need to do anything to get Workforce Elite if I already have QuickBooks Online Payroll Elite?

A. The platform expands automatically. To configure it for your team, go to Team > Overview for the guided in-product onboarding. You choose which features your HR team wants to use during setup, then ongoing insights appear on the Overview page.

Q. How does the new WIP report compare to a real construction WIP schedule?

A. The Spring 2026 WIP introduces core fields like Revised Contract Value and over and under billing, with construction terminology and a dashboard widget. It is a real first step for IES and works well for many small-to-midsize contractors. For larger contractors with complex retention, stored materials, and multiple percent-complete methods, expect that some supplemental tracking will still be needed until Intuit ships the next round of WIP enhancements. We have shared a detailed wish list with the Intuit product team.

Q. Should I switch from basic to detailed costing on existing projects?

A. Not necessarily, and the right answer depends on where the project is in its lifecycle and what kind of work it is. Basic costing is the right call for bids, conceptual estimates, smaller fast-turn jobs (think service work, small remodels, or rapid-turn T&M), and any project where the owner or GC does not require detailed cost breakouts. You can produce a clean estimate, manage simple change orders, and invoice without forcing the data into a level of detail nobody is going to use.

Detailed costing makes sense once a project crosses a few thresholds. If the contract value is meaningful relative to your business, if change order volume is going to be high, if you have multiple phases with their own budgets, if the owner expects schedule-of-values level billing, if you need to track committed costs against budget by cost code, or if your surety, bank, or owner reporting requires that level of detail, you want detailed. It is also the right mode when you have multiple field teams or subcontractor tiers contributing to the same job, because the detail gives you the analytical hooks to see where margin is being made or lost.

The good news is that IES now lets you switch a project from basic to detailed without losing history. You do not have to decide up front, and you do not have to rebuild the budget when you flip the switch. Our usual recommendation for clients is this: start every bid in basic, then promote to detailed at the point the job is awarded and operations is taking over. That preserves estimator speed during the bid phase and gives operations and accounting the tracking depth they need once the work is real. For contractors with mixed portfolios (some quick-turn service work, some large commercial), running basic and detailed projects side by side in the same IES instance is now a clean, supported workflow rather than a compromise.

Q. Which Spring 2026 features should I prioritize first?

A. For most construction clients, we prioritize in roughly this order: refreshed WIP reports, flexible project costing, Project Management AI for cost allocation and budgets, certified payroll if federal work is in scope, Workforce Elite for HR consolidation, and transaction-level eliminations for multi-entity clients.

Q. Are the transaction-level eliminations migrating my existing data?

A. Yes. Intuit is automatically migrating previous eliminations to the new transaction-level model. Available in the first half of June. You then configure your preferred approach (auto-reverse and save, auto-reverse and review, or manual) per the three configurable categories: intercompany journal entry, intercompany allocation, and intercompany sales.

Q. Can I get Project Management AI to learn how my company codes jobs?

A. The AI draws from your historical transactions and category patterns. The more consistent and clean your prior coding is, the better the recommendations. This is one reason we strongly recommend a chart of accounts and dimension cleanup before turning AI suggestions loose on a high-volume AP workflow.

Related RedHammer Content

• Intuit Enterprise Suite Winter 2026 Release: Full Feature Breakdown for Construction Companies
• Intuit Enterprise Suite: Construction Edition Is Finally Here
• The Complete Guide to (IES) Intuit Enterprise Suite for Construction Companies
• Intuit Enterprise Suite Fall 2025 Updates: Enhancements to Close Out Year
• Intuit Enterprise Suite Implementation Services
• QuickBooks Classes vs. IES Dimensions

Why Trust RedHammer's IES Expertise?

• 80+ QuickBooks ProAdvisors on staff, Elite-tier certified
• 50+ QBO/IES migrations completed for construction companies
• Construction accounting specialists for 15+ years
• Intuit's exclusive IES construction implementation partner
• National coverage with 135+ construction clients across 20+ states

Citations

1. Intuit Enterprise Suite Spring 2026 Product Release Overview (Intuit, May 2026)
2. Intuit Enterprise Suite Winter 2026 Release Notes
3. Intuit Enterprise Suite Fall 2025 Product Release Overview
4. Davis-Bacon Act and Related Federal Prevailing Wage Requirements (U.S. Department of Labor)