Honest comparison
Donseed wins biometric payroll accuracy and offline GPS capture; Site Control wins UK-CDM document generation, RFIs and fast no-hardware per-site access.
Causeway Donseed is a biometric time-and-attendance tool that feeds build-up-to-gross payroll, with GPS geofencing and offline capture — ideal when eliminating time theft and paying workers accurately is the priority. The Site Book Site Control is UK-CDM-first: it generates RAMS, CPP and COSHH, runs RFIs, version-specific document-review evidence and contractor self-onboarding behind a no-hardware entrance QR, with multi-company isolation and transparent pricing.
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Donseed features and quote-only pricing taken from Causeway's public product pages (causeway.com/products/donseed and causeway.com/workforce/time-and-attendance), fetched 2026-06-06. Site Control figures from The Site Book's own pricing and feature set.
Pricing, fit, and feature coverage side by side.
| Feature | The Site Book Site Control | Causeway Donseed (CausewayOne Attendance) |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | From £675/site per month plus £5,000 one-off setup; volume tiers and annual prepay | Quote-only — no public pricing; contact Causeway for a tailored quote based on site count, hardware and worker volume. |
| Team size | Per active site with unlimited workers (~75+ typical); multiple contractor companies per site | Mid-size to large contractors and labour-heavy operations with payroll accuracy as the primary driver. |
| Best for | 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. | Construction contractors who want to eliminate time theft and buddy-punching with biometric attendance feeding accurate build-up-to-gross payroll. |
| Not ideal for | No biometric turnstiles or physical access control, so it cannot secure a Tier-1 perimeter the way MSite/Biosite can. | Quote-only pricing with biometric hardware capex makes budgeting slower and entry costs higher than a no-hardware QR deployment. |
| RAMS / CPP / COSHH generation | Generates UK RAMS, CPP, COSHH and method statements from the project brief — unique in this category. | |
| Permits to work | ||
| Site inductions | Digital induction blocks check-in until acknowledged. | Ensures workers complete safety training and site inductions before site access — induction gating is explicitly advertised. |
| Worker cert tracking | CSCS upload, internal review and expiry notifications. | Tracks training and qualifications/competency records as part of the digital worker ID; supports verified audit trails. |
| Right to work | CSCS credential review; not a formal right-to-work share-code check. | Tracks Right-to-Work records as part of compliance audit trail; stronger formal RtW than Site Control's CSCS-review-only approach. |
| Contractor self-onboarding | Contractor self-join via the entrance QR with CSCS upload and approval. | Worker enrolment is supported via the mobile app and biometric capture, but onboarding is generally enrolment-led rather than contractor-company self pre-enrolment. |
| QR / mobile sign-in | Permanent entrance QR for guest sign-in/out and contractor self-join. | Primary check-in is biometric readers plus a GPS mobile app for remote workers; not positioned as a no-hardware QR sign-in like Site Control's entrance QR. |
| GPS clock-in | GPS mobile app with 'virtual GPS ring fencing' geofences sites even before physical boundaries exist — a genuine win over Site Control. | |
| Biometric access | Core differentiator: fingerprint and facial-recognition devices verify identity to the minute and eliminate buddy-punching. Site Control has no biometric. | |
| Physical access control | Biometric readers/tablets gate logging at site points; can integrate with hardware, but it is not primarily a turnstile/gate access-control platform. | |
| Site attendance | Check-in/out, history and a live people-on-site view. | Captures hours worked to the minute via biometrics with automated overtime — the product's central T&A capability. |
| CIS payroll | Builds up to gross pay with automated overtime and expense claims feeding payroll; a clear win over Site Control, which has no payroll. | |
| Live people-on-site | Real-time monitoring across multiple locations shows who is on site; supports labour tracking and audit trails. | |
| Multi-company isolation | Each contractor company sees only its own workforce — test-verified. | Built for contractors managing their own and subcontractor labour, but multi-contractor-company data isolation is not advertised or test-verified as it is in Site Control. |
| RFIs | Create, attach, comment, answer and close — unique in this category. | |
| Document-review evidence | Version-specific read/acknowledge audit chain. | Records induction and training completion with audit trails, but not version-specific document-review acknowledgement chains like Site Control. |
| Toolbox talks | Health & safety and training tracking is supported; broadcast-and-acknowledge toolbox talks are not specifically advertised as a discrete feature. | |
| Site inspections | ||
| Incident log | Includes H&S and fatigue management with audit trails, but a structured incident log is not an advertised standalone feature. | |
| Plant / asset management | ||
| Workforce scheduling | Provides labour tracking and fatigue management; full dispatch/rostering scheduling is not a headline Donseed feature. Site Control has no scheduling either. | |
| Multi-site dashboard & exports | Attendance CSV, monthly H&S CSV/PDF and project audit-log exports. | Real-time monitoring across multiple locations with project insights for commercial, operations and H&S, plus payroll/timesheet reporting. |
| Mobile app | iOS and Android contractor app. | Native mobile app (iOS/Android) with GPS clock-in for remote workers, alongside fixed biometric readers/tablets on site. |
| Offline mode | Online and offline modes explicitly advertised to remove reliance on signal coverage — a confirmed win over Site Control's partial/unknown offline. |
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.
If your core problem is time theft and accurate build-up-to-gross pay across a large labour force, Donseed's biometric verification and payroll integration are the stronger fit; Site Control has no payroll or biometric and would not replace it.
If you need to generate RAMS/CPP/COSHH, run RFIs and prove version-specific document review with a fast no-hardware QR rollout, Site Control fits better; just note it has no biometric, CIS payroll or geofenced GPS.
For sites with many contractor companies needing isolated data and self-onboarding, Site Control's test-verified multi-company isolation and transparent per-site pricing suit better; choose Donseed if biometric payroll accuracy outweighs those needs.
Strengths, weaknesses, fit, and the sources every claim came from.
The Site Book Ltd
From £675/site per month plus £5,000 one-off setup; volume tiers and annual prepay
Causeway Technologies
Quote-only — no public pricing; contact Causeway for a tailored quote based on site count, hardware and worker volume.
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Short, straight answers - the same questions real builders ask.
Donseed is a biometric time-and-attendance product that captures hours to the minute and feeds build-up-to-gross payroll, with GPS geofencing and offline capture. Site Control is UK-CDM-first per-site contractor access: it generates RAMS, CPP and COSHH documents, runs RFIs and version-specific document-review evidence, and uses a no-hardware entrance QR. One solves payroll accuracy; the other solves compliance and site access.
No. Donseed stores, distributes and tracks completion of health-and-safety documents, inductions and qualifications, but it does not generate UK RAMS, CPP or COSHH method statements. The Site Book Site Control creates the full CDM document pack from your project details. If document generation is a requirement, Donseed would need a separate authoring tool alongside it, whereas Site Control produces those documents itself.
No, and we are honest about that. Site Control has no biometric fingerprint or facial verification, no geofenced GPS clock-in, and no CIS build-up-to-gross payroll. Those are genuine Donseed strengths. Site Control verifies identity through CSCS upload and a permanent entrance QR, and focuses on compliance, inductions, RFIs and document evidence rather than feeding a payroll engine to gross pay.
Donseed is quote-only: there is no published price, and biometric readers and tablets add hardware capex, so budgeting requires a sales conversation. Site Control publishes its pricing — from £675 per active site per month plus a one-off setup, with volume tiers — and needs no hardware because it runs on a permanent entrance QR and the worker mobile app. That makes Site Control faster to budget and quicker to deploy.
Site Control is purpose-built for it, with test-verified data isolation so each contractor company sees only its own people and documents, plus contractor self-onboarding and CSCS upload. Donseed centres on one contractor managing its own and subcontracted labour for attendance and pay; multi-contractor-company isolation is not advertised. For open, mixed-trade sites needing strict data separation, Site Control is the safer fit.
Donseed explicitly advertises online and offline modes so capture keeps working without signal coverage — a clear strength on remote or early-stage sites. Site Control's offline behaviour is partial and not a headline feature, so connectivity matters more for its QR check-in and app. If reliable signal is a real concern on your sites, Donseed has the edge on resilience here today.
Donseed features and quote-only pricing taken from Causeway's public product pages (causeway.com/products/donseed and causeway.com/workforce/time-and-attendance), fetched 2026-06-06. Site Control figures from The Site Book's own pricing and feature set.
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