BuildBook

Great product, works great, easy to navigate- almost too simple.

Commentaires : I met the [sensitive content hidden] of Buildbook at IBS and was very impressed with him and with the program he helped create. Overall very positive. Customer service is great and it works!

Avantages :

I love the ease of use for my employees and clients. Very positive feedback from clients, employees and my office manager. They can navigate the program much easier than CoCon/Buildbook. This is huge, I was getting negative feedback from clients about CoCon's complexity. Buildbook is very very simple to navigate and the app works great, very easy to see what we need.

Inconvénients :

On the back end, I would love just more customization, options, and abilities to see more information. Seeing job profitability and syncing w/ Quickbooks to see actuals vs. quoted would be helpful. We don't have time or capacity to enter each line item cost so we are missing that information. It just almost seems too simple and not enough complexity on the back end. I want more options w/ quotes and w/ the Gannt chart creation. Having pictures and files transfer from "opportunity" to "projects" would be very very helpful! Please make this change! I'm concerned if Buildbook will be able to grow with my business. As I grow my business I want to be sure Buildbook grows with us and brings more functionality to the back end. Don't change the client facing side, just the backend!

Great Market Fit, But Need to Counter-Balance Cost-Plus Construction

Commentaires : I enjoy it as a tool for promoting a greater customer experience. I don't know how much I would say that it helps me run my construction business at this point.

Avantages :

The market distinctive for my business is this software and my design process. This program achieves my goal of promoting high-level visibility between me and the client while allowing me to have a project management system that is efficient and clean.

Inconvénients :

As mentioned before, the product feels like it's been built so heavily around the customer experience that it's weak on the project execution features. More specifically the financial management and scheduling side of the project. In regards to the former, the financial management system is almost entirely communicative. But it doesn't actually serve me in any significant ways of managing my financials. The scheduling system is clunky. I don't know if this is a feature but I hope that you guys will allow for a microsoft project integration as I will have to explore other products to schedule construction as Buildbook's system takes way too long.

Initial thoughts

Commentaires : Good. The people seem great. I do believe they will work the issues and help to create product that is in tune with the current market needs.

Avantages :

When I first looked into it I was happy to have a product that was easy for tracking leads and providing a project tool for our employees

Inconvénients :

The inability to turn a won lead into a project. It’s redundant to have to take the notes from the lead and redo them once a project is won.

Just what we needed!

Commentaires : The biggest problem we have had with our company is always not knowing what jobs are going on and what are we doing such days. BuildBook has helped utilize their features to make sure everyone is aware and on the same page!

Avantages :

I love the tasks functions and the start and end dates you can implement. This helps show the entire team what needs to be done and how much time we have to do the scope.

Inconvénients :

I would like to see more financial functions. Such as invoicing and AR reports

Great startup with lots of potential

Avantages :

The price and value for money is the best I've seen. The user experience is clean, simple and easy to navigate.

Inconvénients :

There are a lot of features lacking and some feel like very obvious oversights such as not being able to see profit margin % from a project's financials.