SiteDocs pricing, and the alternatives for Canadian contractors

If you are on this page you have probably either been quoted a number you did not expect, or you are trying to find out what the number is before you spend forty minutes on a sales call to hear it.

This page answers the price question as far as it can be answered from outside, then compares the options honestly, including the parts where SiteDocs is the better choice. We make one of the products on this list, so read the what you give up section before you decide anything.

SiteDocs pricing: no published number

There is no published price. We checked the SiteDocs pricing page on 16 August 2026 and it carries no dollar figure, no per user rate and no tier table. What it says is that pricing is an annual subscription based on company size, and that an initial call is required to provide a custom quote tailored to your company. Capterra Canada's listing also shows no price.

Software directories do publish a number, and it should be handled carefully. SourceForge lists SiteDocs starting at $1,500.00 per year in US dollars. Other directories carry similar figures.

Here is why we would not plan a budget on that. Those same directories disagree with each other on a much simpler question: whether you can try the product at all. SourceForge says a free trial is available. Capterra Canada lists no free trial and no free version. SiteDocs' own pricing page mentions no trial and routes you to a call. When three sources cannot agree on something binary, the dollar figure sitting next to it is an indicator of order of magnitude, not a quote.

What reviewers say about the cost is more useful than the directory figures. On Capterra Canada, where the product holds a 4.8 rating across 255 reviews, the recurring theme on price is that it sits at the challenging end compared with competitors, and that reviewers consider the quality to justify it. That is a fair summary of a premium product, and it is the honest read: SiteDocs is not the cheap option and is not trying to be.

What you can actually compare it against. Our licence cost is $0, permanently, with no per user fee at any crew size, and what the program build costs is published in full before you talk to anyone. SafetyCulture publishes $24 per seat per month billed annually. Those are the two numbers on this page you can check without a phone call.

Source: SiteDocs pricing page and Capterra Canada listing, both retrieved and checked 16 August 2026. SourceForge SiteDocs listing, same date. SafetyCulture published pricing. Directory figures are third party listings that SiteDocs has not confirmed, and we have not been quoted by SiteDocs. Ask them for a number rather than relying on any of this.

What SiteDocs does well

This is not a courtesy paragraph. If the comparison is not fair, none of the rest of the page deserves your trust.

Offline capture works, and reviewers consistently say so. It is the single most praised thing about the product across public reviews, and it is the hardest part of this category to get right.

It holds a 4.8 rating across 255 Capterra reviews. That is a genuinely strong score on a meaningful sample. Very few products in Canadian safety software have that.

It is mature, with deep Canadian association relationships. It has been in the Alberta and Canadian market for years, it is widely recognized by safety associations, and it has built an integration with AuditSoft, the COR auditing platform used by SCSA, Construction Safety Nova Scotia, AgSafe BC, Continuing Care Safety Association, SafetyDriven and the manufacturing safety associations.

Somebody answers the phone, and there is a purchase order process. If you are the safety manager at a company where procurement wants an established vendor with a support contract, that is a real requirement and SiteDocs meets it. We are honest about not meeting it in the same way.

SiteDocs in Canada

Worth its own section, because the Canadian question about this product has changed and searches for it have climbed sharply.

SiteDocs was founded in Alberta, built its reputation on Canadian job sites, and is still sold hard into the Canadian market through safety associations and resellers. If somebody tells you it is a Canadian product, that is where they are coming from and it is not wrong about the origin.

What has changed is who owns it. SiteDocs was acquired by GoCanvas, held by private equity firm K1 Investment Management. On 6 June 2024 the Nemetschek Group announced it was acquiring GoCanvas for over $700 million USD, a valuation of 11.5 times GoCanvas 2023 annual recurring revenue of $67 million, closing that summer. SiteDocs markets as "SiteDocs, a GoCanvas company" and appears as "SiteDocs by Bluebeam" in some materials, Bluebeam being another Nemetschek company.

So: Canadian in origin, Canadian in its market focus, and owned inside a German public company's group. Whether that matters to you depends on why you were asking. If the question was about support and association relationships, it changes little. If the question was about where your audit evidence lives and who sets the terms it lives under, read the ownership section below, because that is a different problem.

SiteDocs compared with the alternatives

SiteDocs is one of several options, and the honest comparison is the whole field, not just us against them. The full list of alternatives covers each one, and the best COR safety software guide applies these criteria as a ranked list. Here is where SiteDocs sits:

Source: vendor pricing pages, Capterra listings and public acquisition announcements. SiteDocs pricing, Capterra Canada and SourceForge rechecked 16 August 2026; remaining rows checked the week of 27 July 2026. Where a row says "not published", the vendor requires a sales conversation before disclosing it. Where it says "not verified in our sources", we could not confirm it from a primary source and will not assert a competitor's capability we have not checked.

What reviewers say is missing from SiteDocs

Every item below is reported by reviewers on Capterra, a public review site, and is presented as their feedback rather than our claim. Weigh it against the 4.8 rating those same reviews produce.

• Limited form customization, and specifically no conditional logic in forms. If you want a question to appear only when the answer to a previous question was yes, reviewers report that is not available.
• Weak formatting control over how forms and documents look.
• Equipment and asset import is difficult, which matters if you are bringing across a fleet list.
• Reporting graphics are weak, with reviewers wanting better analysis of the data they have collected.
• Support directs users to help articles rather than to a person, in some reviewers' experience.
• Implementation is described as the hardest phase of the product.

That last point is not unique to SiteDocs. Implementation is the hardest phase of every safety system, which is the entire reason our business model is built around doing it for you rather than handing you an empty app.

The form everyone digitizes first is the FLHA. Ours is free on paper while you decide, and it is the same card our app uses:

The ownership question

The dates are in the Canada section above. This is why they matter.

It is not the only one. eCompliance, founded in Toronto, was acquired by Alcumus, which then sold its entire EHS software business to EcoOnline, taking Field iD with it. KPA separated its businesses and launched Novara, backed by Providence Equity, announced in January 2026 with new chief executives. Safety Reports now trades as SafetyReports by AlignOps.

Four of the biggest names in this category changed hands recently. None of those decisions involved their customers.

Here is why it belongs on a page about safety software rather than a business news page. Your COR certificate depends on producing three years of audit evidence on demand. If that evidence lives inside a system you cannot leave, then your certification quietly depends on a commercial relationship continuing on terms somebody else sets. That is a business risk, not a software preference.

It is also the connection back to price. A vendor that does not publish pricing can change it at renewal, and the leverage in that conversation depends entirely on how hard it would be for you to leave. Self hosting is the answer to that specific risk, and it is the reason this product is licensed the way it is. Read the technical detail on the self host page.

What you give up by choosing us

Required reading. If any of the following is a dealbreaker, buy SiteDocs, and we would rather you found that out now than four months in.

• There is no dedicated support desk and no 24/7 phone line. You are dealing with a small company. During a build engagement you have direct access to the person doing the work, which is better than a ticket queue in some ways and worse in others. There is no overnight escalation path.
• It is a smaller product with a shorter track record. SiteDocs has years of production use across thousands of companies. We do not. Some rough edges are still being found.
• There are no published case studies or customer references yet. We are not going to invent them.
• There is no reseller or partner network, and no association endorsement to point at.
• Somebody has to handle hosting. Either you set up Supabase and Vercel, or we do it as part of the build. Either way there is an account in your name that you are responsible for, which is the flip side of owning the system.
• There is no AuditSoft integration today. Both SiteDocs and Salus have built one. AuditSoft does publish an Open API for third party platforms, and has used it for integrations with BCMSA and with Corfix, so the route exists and this is a roadmap item rather than a wall. It is not built today, and we are not going to describe it as though it were.

Who should pick which

Pick SiteDocs if you want a mature product with a support desk, your procurement process needs an established vendor on a purchase order, your crew size is stable so quote based pricing is predictable, and vendor hosting is a relief rather than a concern.

Pick Salus if you want a Canadian vendor with strong association relationships and an open API, and you are comfortable with a form and a 30 minute walkthrough before you see a price. Note that reviewers describe it as earlier stage, and report weak subcontractor compliance tracking and save failures in low signal areas.

Pick SafetyCulture if your need is inspections and observations at scale rather than COR, and especially if you fit inside the free tier of up to 10 users. Be clear eyed about the structural limitation: it has no COR capability at all and its regulatory worldview is Australian and American. It will not produce a COR audit binder.

Pick eCompliance or Assignar if you are already inside their ecosystem, or if scheduling and field operations matter more than the audit.

Pick us if you are a Canadian company with 5 to 100 field staff, you hold COR or are being pushed toward it, you want the per seat fee gone so you can put every seasonal hand on the system, and you want to own the audit evidence outright. And if you would rather somebody who has sat through the audits wrote the program instead of handing you a blank app. What the build costs is published in full, before you talk to anyone.