Assignar Review 2026: Crew and Equipment Scheduling Tied Directly to the Bid

Updated November 6, 2026 – Tested Intelligence

Quick verdict: Assignar is an operations platform for self-performing contractors who schedule their own crews and plant. Its scheduler books workers, operators and machines against the bid lines they were priced on, checks tickets and fatigue rules before the shift, and flows timesheets into payroll, job costing and invoicing. Pricing is not public and the API costs extra, so budget for a sales process, not a signup.

What it is

Assignar, founded in 2014 in Sydney, Australia, is a cloud operations platform for subcontractors and self-perform general contractors – civil, earthworks, crane, utilities, rail and asphalt are its core trades. Where most scheduling tools stop at the dispatch board, Assignar runs one record from the won estimate through scheduling, field confirmation, pay rules, live job costing and the invoice.

The automation layer is practical rather than flashy. Signals surface availability and compliance problems on the project timeline, Assisted Import uses AI to map spreadsheet columns during onboarding and flag missing or duplicate data, and trade coverage reports an AI assistant, Milo, aimed at scheduling and compliance-risk insights.

Key features

• One scheduling board for workers, crews, operators, plant and vehicles, including dry hire with no operator
• Bookings made against the job’s own bid lines, so every scheduled hour is costed where it was priced
• Compliance built in: the scheduler flags anyone not qualified, ticketed or inducted before they are booked
• Fatigue rules you set yourself – rest periods and hour limits flagged before the shift, not after an incident
• Fieldworker mobile app where crews confirm the planned shift, hours, plant time and quantities
• Pay rules – overtime, penalties and allowances – applied as timesheets land, with live bid-versus-actual costing updated daily

Pricing

Pricing is not public. Assignar publishes no plans or per-user prices; every deal is a tailored quote based on team size and modules, obtained through a demo. There is no free plan and no self-serve trial – the vendor offers a guided walkthrough on your own work instead. Directory figures circulating for Assignar are unverified; the vendor’s own site gives no number to check them against.

What the pricing page doesn’t make obvious: access to Assignar’s public API is a paid add-on, not part of the base subscription – confirmed in independent reviews of the platform and easy to miss until integration work starts. If your stack needs that API, price it into the quote on day one, and ask which modules (such as Assignar Pay for payroll) are bundled and which are separate.

Who it’s for

Self-performing contractors who bid work, put their own crews and machines on it, and need to get paid for it – especially plant-heavy civil, excavation, crane and utility firms where a double-booked machine or an expired ticket costs real money. Assignar says it serves 800+ contractors, a vendor-reported figure from its own site.

Who should skip it

General contractors who mainly coordinate other firms’ crews get less from a self-perform platform. Small shops wanting published pricing and a self-serve start should look at tools like Workyard or Raken first, and teams needing critical-path scheduling need a CPM tool – Assignar schedules resources against jobs, it does not build a critical path.

Pros

• Crews and equipment scheduled together, against the bid, in one system
• Compliance and fatigue flags fire before the booking, not at the gate
• Timesheets priced by your pay rules as they land – no month-end rework
• Live margin by bid line while the job can still be fixed

Cons

• No public pricing – budgeting starts with a sales call
• Public API is a paid add-on rather than included
• Built for self-perform work; GCs coordinating subs use only part of it
• No critical-path scheduling – it is a resource board, not a CPM engine

FAQ

How much does Assignar cost?

Pricing is not public. Assignar quotes each deal on team size and modules after a demo, and publishes no plans, per-user prices or free tier. The public API is a paid add-on on top of the subscription.

Does Assignar replace our accounting system?

No. Your accounting system or ERP stays the system of record; Assignar sends it verified invoices, supplier bills and payroll summaries instead of re-keyed figures.

Can Assignar schedule equipment without an operator?

Yes. Dry hire is supported – a machine can be scheduled on its own and billed for the hire period, with every booking tied to a job and a rate.

Bottom line

Shortlist Assignar if your pain is the 5AM shuffle – who is ticketed, which machine is free, and whether the job is still making money. Go in knowing the price arrives by quote and the API costs extra. Contractors who schedule people but not plant will find cheaper boards elsewhere.