ECI Bolt

What Bolt is

Bolt is cloud scheduling, estimating, and job management software for trades that live off production homebuilders. Electrical, plumbing, HVAC, framing, concrete, roofing, drywall: crews working dozens of lots across several communities, for several builders, all at once. Instead of a mix of builder portals, phone calls, and spreadsheets, the platform gathers crew coordination, job-ready confirmations, builder purchase orders, and job costing in one place.

The company behind it

BOLT Software began as a cloud product built, in the vendor's own words, by a trade contractor for trade contractors. ECI Software Solutions bought it in October 2020 and filed it into a residential construction portfolio that also holds MarkSystems, Lasso CRM, and LotVue. ECI itself is a business management software group headquartered in Westlake, Texas, majority-owned by the private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners.

Development continued after the deal. At the 2025 International Builders' Show, ECI introduced Bolt Enterprise, an expanded edition with end-to-end inventory management and purchasing that it markets as ERP software for larger homebuilding trade contractors.

Modules and capabilities

The operational core: drag-and-drop scheduling with real-time crew synchronization, automated population of builder purchase orders, job-ready confirmations, and rescheduling with reason codes. Around it sit estimating and bid management tied to job costing, crew time tracking, inventory tracking, reporting, and a native mobile app in multiple languages. A direct D.R. Horton integration feeds schedule updates, confirmations, and completion data into Bolt without re-keying.

One gap defines the product: there is no general ledger. Accounting runs through integrations with QuickBooks, Sage, and ADP. Bolt Enterprise adds deeper purchasing and job-specific inventory costing, not financials.

Best-fit companies

US residential trade subcontractors serving production builders across multiple communities at once, from a handful of crews to large multi-region operations, in more than twenty trade specialties. Contractors living off homeowner service calls are not the target, and neither are commercial construction firms.

How it is sold

SaaS, with browser access in the office and mobile apps in the field. ECI publishes no pricing; prospects book a demo and receive a custom quote. Budget implementation and training next to the subscription fee, and use our ERP cost guide for the cost drivers worth pinning down while quotes are still open.

Our take

Bolt does one business model well. If production builders dictate your schedule, the purchase-order and job-ready automation earns its keep quickly. Just be clear that this is scheduling software with job costing, not a full ERP: the ledger stays in QuickBooks or Sage, and Bolt Enterprise narrows that gap without closing it. During ERP selection, price Bolt plus an accounting package against single-database alternatives. Service-and-repair contractors should skip it and look at ECI's field service products instead.

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