Premier Construction Software (formerly Jonas Premier)
| Vendor | Premier Construction Software (Jonas Software / Constellation Software portfolio) |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Markham, Ontario, Canada |
| Ownership | Autonomous unit in the Jonas Software portfolio; ultimate parent Constellation Software (TSX: CSU) |
| Deployment | Cloud/SaaS on Microsoft Azure (no on-premises) |
| Target market | Growing mid-market general contractors, construction managers, developers and owners in North America |
| Industries | General contracting, construction management, land development, home building |
| Pricing | Published (as of August 2026): 349 / 249 / 125 USD per user/month (Starter / Premium / Enterprise) plus implementation from 15,000 / 25,000 / 50,000 USD |
| Website | premiercs.com |
What Premier Construction Software is
Premier is a construction ERP built for the cloud from day one, aimed at general contractors, construction managers, developers, and owners in a growth phase. Construction accounting, job costing, and project management share one multi-tenant SaaS application hosted on Microsoft Azure. In the North American mid-market it is regularly weighed against on-premises incumbents such as Sage 300 CRE and Foundation, and the deciding question is rarely feature count; it is whether a contractor still wants to run servers.
The company behind it
The product started life inside Jonas Software as Jonas Premier, a greenfield cloud initiative from the early 2010s, and later took its own name and its own site at premiercs.com. Headquarters are in Markham, Ontario. Premier operates as an autonomous unit within the Jonas Software construction portfolio, whose ultimate parent is the publicly traded Constellation Software (TSX: CSU). One research warning: Premier is not Jonas Enterprise, the older sister product in the same portfolio, and comparison articles written before the rebrand still file it under the old name.
Modules and capabilities
- Construction accounting with job costing, WIP reporting, and cash-flow forecasting
- Project management: RFIs, subcontracts, change orders tied to budget and schedule
- Drawing management and field tools
- Time entry and labor cost tracking, automated billing and approvals
- AI-supported automation for routine accounting workflows
Best-fit companies
Growing general contractors, construction management firms, land developers, home builders, and owners, primarily in North America with additional presence in APAC and MENA. The vendor cites more than 900 customers and over 15,000 users, and the pattern behind those numbers is remarkably steady: a firm that wants accounting and project management in one cloud system rather than wiring a project tool such as Procore to a separate accounting package. Specialty contractors with heavy union payroll or service dispatch requirements sit outside the target.
How it is sold
Cloud SaaS on Microsoft Azure with automatic updates, and nothing else; an on-premises edition does not exist. Premier also belongs to the small group of construction ERP vendors that publish prices. As of August 2026, Starter runs $349 per user per month with implementation from $15,000, Premium $249 with implementation from $25,000, and Enterprise $125 with implementation from $50,000, all named-user. Fixed implementation packages next to per-user fees make a total cost of ownership calculation unusually easy compared with quote-only competitors.
Editorial verdict
For a growing general contractor that wants books and jobs in the same cloud system, has no appetite for maintaining infrastructure, and prefers vendors that print their price list, Premier makes a strong case. Constellation Software ownership keeps forced-migration risk low, since the parent is known for holding software businesses rather than flipping them, and the autonomous-unit structure has kept development pointed at construction instead of a generic platform agenda. The fit weakens in two places. Union payroll and dispatch-driven service work are territories where dedicated specialty systems go deeper, and a small firm has to take the five-figure implementation fee seriously before the first invoice ever leaves the system. Factor in the naming tangle as well: Jonas Premier and Jonas Enterprise still get mixed up in third-party comparisons, so double-check which product a review actually describes. For mid-market general contractors, the published pricing alone earns it a spot in a structured ERP selection.
What the Premier Construction Software website looks like
Current view of the vendor homepage, captured by our editorial team.
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- PENTA — Construction ERP for Specialty Contractors
- Sage 100 Contractor
- Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate
- Sage Estimating (formerly Sage Timberline Estimating)