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Procore × GoCanvas integration.

A custom integration that turns GoCanvas form submissions into structured Procore records, not PDFs stapled to an RFI. GoCanvas webhooks feed a transformation layer that posts to the Procore REST API as daily reports, inspections, observations, or custom tool records. Photos and signatures preserved. Field crews keep using GoCanvas; Procore gets searchable, structured data.

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01. What syncs, what doesn’t

Form types map to Procore objects. One-to-one.

Every GoCanvas form has a designated landing place in Procore. The transformation layer reads the form-type field from the webhook payload and routes it to the right Procore endpoint with the right field mapping. Direction is one-way (GoCanvas → Procore) for capture and read-back for project context.

GOCANVAS
DIRECTION
PROCORE
Daily field-conditions formSubmission webhook
→
Daily log/rest/v1.0/projects/{id}/daily_logs
Safety walk · toolbox talk
→
Observation/rest/v1.0/observations/items
Inspection form (coatings, electrical, MEP)
→
Inspection · custom tool record/rest/v1.0/projects/{id}/inspection_items
Punch · deficiency form
→
Punch list item/rest/v1.0/projects/{id}/punch_items
Photos · signatures · sketches
→
Attachments on the destination recordEXIF + GPS preserved
Project · user rosterGoCanvas Reference Data
←
Active project list · usersNightly sync
What stays in GoCanvas:the form-author UI, the dispatch logic for which form goes to which crew, the GoCanvas account itself. We don’t replace GoCanvas. We make sure what comes out of it lands in Procore correctly.
02. The boundary problem this solves

PDFs aren’t structured data.

Teams using GoCanvas for field forms end up with PDF outputs that never make it into Procore as structured records. They get attached to RFIs as files instead of becoming searchable inspection data, daily logs, or observation records. Six months later, the safety manager runs a report and finds out the last 400 toolbox talks live as PDF attachments — not in the Observations module — which means none of them count in any Procore safety dashboard.

The boundary problem isn’t about GoCanvas being a bad tool. GoCanvas is fine for designing and dispatching forms. The problem is that GoCanvas was never built to be Procore-aware. It produces PDFs because PDFs are universal, not because PDFs are useful to Procore. The integration converts each form type into the structured Procore record it should have been all along — and keeps the PDF as a backup attachment for paper-trail purposes.

This is the integration we get asked about by safety managers, QC leads, and operations directors who can see that their data is “in Procore” in some sense, but can’t actually query it, report on it, or trend it.

A daily report that lives as a PDF attached to an RFI doesn’t exist as far as Procore reporting is concerned. The integration is about making the data legible to Procore, not about replacing the capture tool.

03. How we build it

Webhooks in, REST out. Transformation in the middle.

The Procore side runs on the Procore REST API v1.0 with OAuth 2.0 and webhook subscriptions for the rare case we need read-back into the transformation layer. The GoCanvas side runs on the GoCanvas webhook subscriptions for form submissions plus the GoCanvas Reference Data API for the project and user lists.

The transformation layer is the work. It holds the per-form field mappings, the routing rules that decide which Procore endpoint each form lands on, the photo download and re-upload pipeline that preserves EXIF and GPS, and the conflict-resolution logic for forms that arrive after a project has been archived in Procore. Failed submissions land in a dead-letter queue with a small admin UI so the project engineer can replay them rather than discover the gap at month-end. Code in your repo, infrastructure in your cloud, GoCanvas and Procore credentials in your secret store.

04. Where this fits in our engagement model

Three modes. Pick where you are.

— DIAGNOSE

The 14-Day Audit

Fixed fee · 14 days

We map every GoCanvas form you currently run and decide which becomes a structured Procore record. Output: a written 90-day plan with per-form field mapping, photo handling, and a real estimate. More on the audit →

— BUILD

The Build Engagement

Scoped quote · 6–10 weeks

The implementation. Webhook handlers, per-form transformers, the photo pipeline, the replay UI for failed submissions. Tested against your actual GoCanvas forms and your Procore project structure.

— EMBED

The Retainer

Capped hours · Monthly

New forms get added in GoCanvas. Procore custom tools evolve. We retain a fractional engineering presence to keep the mapping current. Capped hours, monthly billing.

05. Frequently asked

Procurement-stage questions we get on this one.

Does GoCanvas integrate with Procore natively?

Not as a first-party connector. GoCanvas can email submissions and POST to a webhook, and Procore has the App Marketplace, but there is no shared connector between them. Most teams running both end up attaching GoCanvas PDFs to Procore records by hand or via an email-parsing rule. That's not an integration. We build the transformation layer that turns the GoCanvas webhook payload into the right Procore object — daily report, inspection, RFI, or punch list item — and posts it to the public Procore REST API.

Can our existing GoCanvas forms post to Procore as daily reports?

Yes. We map each GoCanvas form to the Procore object it should become. A daily field-conditions form maps to /rest/v1.0/projects/{id}/daily_logs. A safety walk maps to /rest/v1.0/projects/{id}/observations. A coatings inspection maps to a custom tool record or, where AMPP standards apply, a structured inspection in a Procore custom tool. The transformation is per-form; we don't try to auto-detect the type.

What about photos captured in GoCanvas?

Photos from GoCanvas come through the webhook payload as URLs. We download them, preserve EXIF and GPS where available, and upload them to Procore as attachments on the destination record — daily report photo, observation photo, or a structured photo album. The original camera-roll metadata stays attached. We don't re-encode and we don't strip headers.

Can we deprecate GoCanvas and replace it with a native Procore field tool?

Yes, and for some teams that's the right answer. GoCanvas is a reasonable forms tool but it isn't Procore-aware. If your forms are doing real work — inspections that need audit trails, signoffs that need offline capture, photos that need to land in the right Procore project — a purpose-built field app integrated with Procore via the REST API is usually a better long-term home than GoCanvas plus a translation layer. We've built both shapes. The audit recommends which one fits.

How long does this take to ship?

A focused Procore × GoCanvas integration with three to five form types typically ships in six to ten weeks from the start of a build engagement. The audit week before that maps every form you currently run in GoCanvas, decides which become structured Procore records and which stay as attached PDFs, and produces the field mapping that the build engagement implements.

06. Related integrations

Other Procore integrations we ship.

Each one is its own build with its own object map. Back to the Procore integrations hub for the full overview.

— ERP · ACCOUNTINGProcore × XeroRead the brief →— ERP · ACCOUNTINGProcore × QuickBooksRead the brief →— ERPProcore × NetSuiteRead the brief →— ERP · CONSTRUCTIONProcore × Sage 300 CRERead the brief →— ENTERPRISE ERPProcore × SAPRead the brief →— CAPABILITY · CUSTOM BUILDProcore × Construction FormsRead the brief →
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