Honest comparison
The Site Book is the best fit for small UK builders who need web-based site attendance tied to CDM records, site files and evidence workflows; Procore fits enterprise project management, Velappity fits configurable mobile forms, and Evalu-8 fits broader UK EHS teams.
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Based on The Site Book Business plan scope and publicly available vendor pages for Procore, Velappity, and Evalu-8 reviewed on 2026-05-31.
Pricing, fit, and feature coverage side by side.
| Feature | The Site Book | Procore | Velappity | Evalu-8 | The Site Book Site Control |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Starter £0; Pro £39/mo or £360/yr; Business £199/mo | Custom annual quote based on turnover and products | RAMS/COSHH on Gold from GBP55/user/mo | Core from GBP2.50/licence/mo; RAMS quote-only | From £675/site per month plus £5,000 one-off setup; volume tiers as sites scale |
| Team size | 1 internal user on Pro; up to 5 internal logins and 25 active site portal users on Business | 50+ | 5+ | 50+ | Per active site with unlimited workers (~75+ typical); multiple contractor companies per site |
| Best for | Small UK builders who need CDM documents plus lightweight site H&S operations: RAMS, CPP, COSHH, inductions, toolbox talks, site attendance, site files, document review evidence, subcontractor evidence and worker/visitor portal access. | Large contractors and developers who need a full project management platform for coordinating multi-million-pound builds. | Operations and H&S teams that want configurable inspection, RAMS, COSHH, reporting, assets, and client portal workflows in one broader field-service platform. | Large contractors and enterprise teams with 50+ people who need a broad EHS platform covering compliance, training, audits, and incident management. | Principal contractors and builders running live sites with subcontractors who need UK CDM documents generated plus on-site contractor access, attendance, RFIs and audit-ready evidence in one per-site tool. |
| Not ideal for | New product (launched 2025) -smaller customer base and shorter track record than established tools like HandsHQ. | Custom annual pricing depends on turnover and products, so small builders cannot compare a simple monthly CDM-document cost up front. | RAMS and COSHH sit on the Gold plan, which is GBP55 per user per month on monthly billing - expensive for small builders. | RAMS and COSHH add-on pricing is quote-only publicly, so small builders cannot compare the real monthly cost without a sales conversation. | No biometric turnstiles or physical access control, so it cannot secure a Tier-1 perimeter the way MSite/Biosite can. |
| RAMS | AI-generated, site-specific, edit in-browser. | Custom form workflow; RAMS listed on Gold. | Module within wider EHS platform. | — | |
| CPP | Full Construction Phase Plans - not just RAMS. | — | |||
| COSHH | COSHH listed on Gold and risk-assessment pages. | — | |||
| Method statements | RAMS-oriented form/report workflow. | — | |||
| Site inductions | Workers sign from their phone. | Training documents and toolbox talks; not a dedicated induction flow. | Digital induction blocks check-in until acknowledged. | ||
| Worker cert tracking | General compliance tools -requires customisation for UK. | Training documents, not construction worker cert tracking. | CSCS upload, internal review and expiry notifications. | ||
| Incident log | Incident reports listed on Gold. | ||||
| Permits to work | |||||
| Site diary | — | ||||
| Subcontractor tracking | Full subcontractor coordination in PM suite. | — | |||
| Toolbox talks | Listed on Gold. | ||||
| Site attendance | Business includes check-in/check-out and live H&S attendance. | Daily logs and workforce tools, not small-builder H&S portal focus. | Configurable forms can model attendance. | Can be covered by configured EHS workflows. | Check-in/out, history and a live people-on-site view. |
| Site portal | Business includes up to 25 active site portal users. | Enterprise collaborator/project access model. | Client portal workflows are listed. | — | |
| Site files | Drawings, plans, H&S docs, procedures, RAMS, CPP and emergency information. | Strong drawing and document management. | Files can support configured forms/portals. | Documents can sit in broader EHS modules. | — |
| Document review | Business document status, reviewer notes and review history. | Submittals, workflows and document-control features. | Can be built as custom workflows. | Workflow capability depends on quoted modules. | — |
| Subcontractor evidence | Business evidence record, review and archive workflow. | Subcontractor coordination, not CDM evidence requests by default. | Could be configured; not a CDM evidence module by default. | — | |
| Site inspections | Business inspections with checklist items. | Strong configurable inspection forms. | Audits and inspections are core EHS modules. | ||
| Corrective actions | Business corrective actions with owner, due date and completion state. | Reporting/action workflows in field forms. | Actions are part of the broader EHS platform. | — | |
| PCPP import | Upload an existing PCPP and reuse the structure. | — | |||
| Document checking | — | ||||
| Data export | — | ||||
| AI chat | — | ||||
| RAMS / CPP / COSHH generation | — | — | — | — | Generates UK RAMS, CPP, COSHH and method statements from the project brief — unique in this category. |
| Right to work | — | — | — | — | CSCS credential review; not a formal right-to-work share-code check. |
| Contractor self-onboarding | — | — | — | — | Contractor self-join via the entrance QR with CSCS upload and approval. |
| QR / mobile sign-in | — | — | — | — | Permanent entrance QR for guest sign-in/out and contractor self-join. |
| GPS clock-in | — | — | — | — | |
| Biometric access | — | — | — | — | |
| Physical access control | — | — | — | — | |
| CIS payroll | — | — | — | — | |
| Live people-on-site | — | — | — | — | |
| Multi-company isolation | — | — | — | — | Each contractor company sees only its own workforce — test-verified. |
| RFIs | — | — | — | — | Create, attach, comment, answer and close — unique in this category. |
| Document-review evidence | — | — | — | — | Version-specific read/acknowledge audit chain. |
| Plant / asset management | — | — | — | — | |
| Workforce scheduling | — | — | — | — | |
| Multi-site dashboard & exports | — | — | — | — | Attendance CSV, monthly H&S CSV/PDF and project audit-log exports. |
| Mobile app | — | — | — | — | |
| Offline mode | — | — | — | — |
Construction site attendance is not the same buying question as payroll timesheets. The H&S need is practical: know who is on site, support an emergency roll call, and keep the record with the project. That makes The Site Book a useful small-builder option because attendance sits beside RAMS, CPPs, inductions, site files, document reviews, subcontractor evidence records and worker sign-off rather than in a detached form system.
At-a-glance fit per product - pulled from the same data that drives the snapshot table.
Pick the option that matches how your team actually works.
Choose The Site Book Business when the need is knowing who is on site, keeping a roll-call record, and letting workers and visitors view assigned site information from the same project workflow as RAMS, CPPs, inductions, and toolbox talks. It is web-based, not a native app rollout.
Recommended for: Small UK builders needing H&S site attendance with CDM paperwork
Choose Velappity if site attendance is one configurable mobile form inside a wider field-service or H&S reporting setup. It is more flexible than The Site Book, but it takes more setup and is not a UK CDM document generator out of the box.
Recommended for: Teams needing configurable mobile forms
Choose Procore if attendance sits inside a larger enterprise project-management stack with drawings, RFIs, submittals, cost controls, daily logs, and project collaboration. It is stronger for PM depth, but heavier than a small-builder CDM and H&S workflow.
Recommended for: Large contractors already standardised on a PM suite
Choose The Site Book Site Control when you are a principal contractor running live sites and need to know who is on site at scale — per active site with unlimited workers, a permanent entrance QR for contractor self-join, CSCS and induction gating before check-in, live people-on-site, and audit-grade attendance exports, with the UK CDM pack generated in the same tool.
Recommended for: Principal contractors needing who's-on-site at scale with subcontractors
Strengths, weaknesses, fit, and the sources every claim came from.
The Site Book Ltd
Starter £0; Pro £39/mo or £360/yr; Business £199/mo
Procore Technologies, Inc.
Custom annual quote based on turnover and products
Fieldimp Ltd
RAMS/COSHH on Gold from GBP55/user/mo
Evalu-8 EHS
Core from GBP2.50/licence/mo; RAMS quote-only
The Site Book Ltd
From £675/site per month plus £5,000 one-off setup; volume tiers as sites scale
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Short, straight answers - the same questions real builders ask.
For H&S purposes it should record who is currently on site, which project or site they attended, when they checked in, when they checked out, and enough identity context to support an emergency roll call. It should avoid payroll-style timekeeping language unless that is the actual product purpose. The Site Book frames this as site attendance and people-on-site visibility.
No. The Site Book Site Control uses a permanent entrance QR plus browser sign-in on the worker's phone, so a new site can go live in days with no turnstile capex or biometric install. Workers self-join through the QR, upload their CSCS card and complete the induction before check-in. It does not provide biometric or physical access control, so it will not secure a Tier-1 perimeter the way MSite or Biosite hardware can.
Velappity is a better choice when attendance is one configurable form inside a wider field-service workflow with assets, inspections, client portals, and reporting. It is useful where a team wants to design its own forms. The trade-off is setup: it does not generate UK RAMS, CPPs, COSHH records, or site inductions by default, so small builders may need another CDM tool.
Procore is the better fit for larger contractors already using a full project-management platform with drawings, RFIs, submittals, schedules, daily logs, document management, and cost controls. Its strength is connected project delivery at scale. The Site Book is narrower and faster for small firms whose attendance need sits beside CDM paperwork and site H&S records.
Based on The Site Book Business plan scope and publicly available vendor pages for Procore, Velappity, and Evalu-8 reviewed on 2026-05-31.
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