Avaliações do ConstructionOnline

Robust construction management software

Comentários: We are about two months into the implementation process and it has gone more smoothly than expected. Support training is super helpful in getting the team members up to speed.

Vantagens:

Having the ability to track a project from a an early lead, to an estimate and proposal and through the construction and completion is incredibly helpful to have all the information on one platform.

Desvantagens:

The cloud based platform can have some compatibility issues with certain browsers (Microsoft Edge). It can get bogged down in the Redline planroom and takeoff features with really large files.

6 months in and starting to love it

Comentários: It was intuitive to set up but also very labor intensive. Took me about eight weeks of 60 hour days to get the basics up and running.

Vantagens:

Selections Easy to use Similar enough to others that users can learn it very quickly. Scheduling looks like it’s going to work very well. Would like to see scheduling by the hour not just by the day.

Desvantagens:

Payroll doesn’t import as they don’t link to Quickbooks online Doesn’t track subcontractor insurance policies Doesn’t provide lien waivers so we have to use a third system to get that No bid management system for gathering subcontractor bids, selecting and awarding subcontracts. It’s all very manual and thus very prone to error.

Almost, but missed the mark

Comentários: Customer service is very helpful for the product they have. Unfortunately they miss on some pretty basis stuff. We have been told for over a year that development team is working on some of the basic fixes and still nothing changes.

Vantagens:

Estimation portion is good. Job costing is fair.

Desvantagens:

It does not have the ability to provide clients with add/alternate pricing. Seems like a very basic feature that most construction companies are asked to provide. This one slipped by us through all the demo's and we have been frustrated for over a year with this. Have to manually do work arounds. Also we are a commercial construction company that does about 300 jobs a year. The software does not even have the ability to assign each project a job #. With as many jobs going on, we have to be able to cost every purchase and we do that using job #'s and PO#'s. We are manually assigning each job a number. These are just two of the larger misses on this software.

Great Construction Management Platform.

Comentários: Very good communication from the initial demonstration, through the selection process; and on to helping us find the right solution for our needs. Everyone was really professional, knowledgeable and helpful.

Vantagens:

It's set up the way it should be. It's very easy to put in the information you need and access the tools. You can literally start working with the software as soon as you sign in.

Desvantagens:

I have to spend some more time to find something.

Thumbs Up for UDA

Comentários: I am very comfortable, it is easy to learn and works well

Vantagens:

I was familiar with it and it meets many of our requirements at a better price point

Desvantagens:

It is shy of perfection, but which software is? We would like to have automation in the scheduling to allow adjustments and modifications to the timeline based on real world advances or setbacks

Highly Recommend due to better communication with Owners and subcontractors

Comentários: I believe we were one of the first companies to come aboard and have learned to use the platform as a great advantage for our team.

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We like the scheduling and estimating components of the program the best. We can have all our resources in one place and easily communicate Schedules, Change orders and Proposals to Owners, Subcontractors and Suppliers.

Desvantagens:

I would like to see the Lead tracking be more like a CRM where you could email your contacts and schedule automated follow-ups.

Great Construction Management Software

Comentários: I like Construction Online and can't wait to see what it will improve into down the line. It's come a long way from where it was years ago.

Vantagens:

My favorite feature is being able to access project information anywhere. You can see the schedule, tasks, pictures, and plans. Collaboration can happen quickly with it problem solving.

Desvantagens:

Data and Business Intelligence features could use some improvement, but that's the typical failing of the entire industry.

Constrction Online User Review

Comentários: MY overall experience is a B+. I have really enjoyed this software and will continue to implement it throughout my career.

Vantagens:

CO has been a major success within our company in regard to organization and communication.

Desvantagens:

There are a lot of features that have proven to be a bit tricky to fully understand. Scheduling is an example. I have found it difficult to fully grasp the predecessors and start vs finish date shifting.

It was hard for me to change programs, but it was the best decision I could have made..

Comentários: I can tell UDA spent a great deal of time putting this program together. There are a couple things I hope they will change but the ease-of-use once you get up to speed is wonderful. I have found the customer service to be the best I have ever received.

Vantagens:

It is packed with every tool I will ever need to manage my construction company. Also, the customer support is top notch.

Desvantagens:

I found migrating my projects and linking them to clients from Construction Suite was very time consuming. The calendar only migrated over two weeks from the whole year. I had to repopulate the calendar all over again.

Conversion

Vantagens:

Organization, flexibility, ease in creating catalogues, ease in entering estimates

Desvantagens:

Finding a clients phone number when in the opportunity is frustrating. Also, there are not enough fields to enter phone numbers and emails.

COL is Great

Comentários: The support staff is amazing. I have always had great solutions to issues I come across here and there. The classes I took for the Quick Books integration were very helpful. We decided to change our entire book keeping around how socket exports to Quick Books.

Vantagens:

I love the estimating. It keeps the estimate more organized than Quick Books. Adding notes and attaching proposals from other subcontractors and suppliers keeps the information all close by.

Desvantagens:

I don't care for having to edit every row line in the estimate so the description spacing can be larger than the Item and cost rows. I wish there was a way to change all of them at once in the top ruler of the editor.

Excellent tool for construction companies

Vantagens:

Scheduling / estimating / to do / daily logs

Desvantagens:

Still learning about all the tools the system has to offer. So far - there is nothing I don’t like or noted needs improvements

Satisfied Customer! Excellent Customer Service, second to none!

Comentários: Overall experience is very, very good. The only thing I would suggest, is that more time is spent with PM's like me to have more instruction on how to better use the software.

Vantagens:

User friendly, and Excellent Customer Service! Working with [sensitive content hidden], Product Specialist on instructing me on how to use the "Take-Off "was very good, because she was extremely patient and explained the process is an easy way to understand. Additionally, she gave me more information than I asked for which helped me to get more use of the software. [sensitive content hidden] represents CO in the highest professional manner that makes me want to continue using the software. I hope she is available to help me when I'm at an impasse. Satisfied Customer for Sure! :)

Desvantagens:

Construction Scheduling. Gnatt Chart is somewhat difficult to navigate and I need allot of tech support.

Outstanding Support!

Comentários: Organization, communication, scheduling, efficiency, productivity all improved by utilizing UDA.

Vantagens:

The best thing about this software is the almost instant customer support given through the live chat and the knowledge of all of the techs is superb.

Desvantagens:

We are getting ready to integrate Quickbooks Desktop and it would be nice if UDA had their own accounting software within the program.

Essential

Comentários: Very positive, used BuilderTrend, no comparison ConstructionOnline far superior.

Vantagens:

Daily records & plan view. Especially able to find dimension thru CAD.

Desvantagens:

RFI, I do not think this is a software problem, but getting people to respond.

Great Software

Comentários: Construction Online has really helped our company. We love customer service and the willingness to consider our feature requests.

Vantagens:

All-in-one functionality. Super great customer service.

Desvantagens:

There are just a few minor features that we would be great. 1) Not counting QB credit card credit as cost. 2) Being able to see what costs came in from QB for each Construction Online category.

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Comentários: Overall it's a great software. I have used countless apps and software that detail site information. I think the user interface is fantastic in my opinion, one of the best if not the best. I don't know how the project score works but I'm going to get more familiar. I think just doing this review has opened my world up to all these other tools that I will be using.

Vantagens:

The individual who designed the site interface did a great job. The weather and latest project activity are items that I'll now open when speaking to the engineer at site. In doing this review, I found out that I can see the address of the site, which sounds simple, but is INCREDIBLY useful. If one can imagine, I am looking for a site in 2015, and there are 8 buildings owned by the same major company. It takes me say, 10-15 min finding on google maps where the site exactly is, and even then sometimes it's unclear. Using this site already saved my 2 hours just with that simple application on the main user screen while I was doing this review.

Desvantagens:

I think I'd like to have a "Read Me" about each particular site so that I understand what the mindset is of the individual onsite. As an example, a read me note would detail "Raymond Furr will be at site on Monday's and Fridays doing XYZ check, and uploading pictures as the equipment is installed. Feel free to upload site pictures if you have visited the site, or were sent by another party, but understand that I will review the images and may remove if aren't associated with site". This would be similar to "Jobsite Instructions", but it would be to a different audience, mainly to those who aren't on site and need/provide digital information

Katy taught me how to update contacts to allow for punchlist viewing by our team members.

Comentários: So many! Help with organizing - help with scheduling - help with wrangling everything!!! Gotta get back to work.

Vantagens:

I enjoy the cross platform functionality. It's so great to be able to access our files from any location, either online or from our servers in the office. This makes a big difference as our team (and project list) continues to grow - we can allow viewing of select items/lists and we don't need to force anyone to use Mac or Windows to work within UDA. Far surpassing any software features, though, the fact that your IT staff is so prompt to respond and so helpful launches this software into one of my favorites I've ever worked with. All software has issues - it's how you respond and deal with those issues that differentiate you from the rest and I thank you for it. Now if you can just have some IT available until 5pm West Coast time (where I am) my dreams would really come true. Thank you to Katy and all the other fabulously helpful people I've interacted with!

Desvantagens:

A trifling issue, but since you asked - when I add documents from our computer to the Project Files for a job, it's pretty wonky and time consuming. If I drag an item to the file list, instead of showing it was added - the file list scrolls back to the top so I have to scroll back down to see if it was even added - which it usually wasn't. This happens each time. This means I've taken to adding each document twice to ensure it imports so I don't need to scroll down to check if it's there or not. It would be MUCH nicer if the file list stayed put while I added files so I could see where - and that they were added to the list. Sometimes UDA lets me add mutliple documents and adds a 1 or 2 after each multiple - and sometimes it warns me that it already has that doc in the file. If this warning could pop up every time, I wouldn't need to then re-scroll down to the files I just added and delete duplicates. Also - just like when I add files, when I delete a duplicate the file list automatically scrolls back up to the top so I have to manually go back down to where I was to delete the next duplicate.

As a UDA Construction User,

Comentários: Wonderful

Vantagens:

I use this software on a daily basis and the organization it brings to my project tracking, and scheduling is unbelievable. From estimates to completion, the software makes it possible to keep track of it all. What great software!

Desvantagens:

About the software itself, I have no complaints. I have been using UDA Construction since 2004 and the software has a learning curve that needs a serious commitment and that is one of the reasons why I like the app so much because a lot of the data can be updated from the field. The learning curve was steep over the years but it has only skilled me in how one should think around construction projects which is also a benefit. The learning curve, however, for me has been slow for the simple reason that as my experience and projects grew the demand exponentially grew on the software itself, so my learning curve followed that trend.

[SENSITIVE CONTENT] is an Amazing Expert!

Comentários: As a new user/administrator with Construction Online, it seems that some training is necessary to easily navigate the software. I do enjoy the other features (Lead Pipeline and Project Estimating in the Financial tab). Once again, [SENSITIVE CONTENT] was integral in our business effort to connect the two software platforms, Construction Online and QuickBooks Online. I will request [SENSITIVE CONTENT] in the future for any challenges that arise and any time I need assistance. He is an asset to your team as well as ours.

Vantagens:

I like the communication between the software accounting and estimating features of Construction Online. I also am very impressed with the Construction Online and QuickBooks expert, [SENSITIVE CONTENT]. With his level of expertise and skills set, I successfully facilitated the integration of our QuickBooks Online with the Construction Online. This integration is essential to our business operations between Project Managers and myself as the administrator of the financials and accounting. I would highly recommend [SENSITIVE CONTENT] as an expert to assist with any client.

Desvantagens:

Construction Online is labor intensive to integrate with QuickBooks Online. Several project features in QuickBooks are inactive/unusable when integrated with Construction Online. Also, not having the capacity to integrate/transfer payroll expenses for the job costing between the two software platforms is a disadvantage. I understand this feature is on the schedule with Construction Online to implement in 2022. Very happy about that.

Good Software

Comentários: Happy with the software and depend on it daily. I have been using it for over 8 years.

Vantagens:

Many features aid in the management of projects

Desvantagens:

There are several options or features that could help us but they are additional costs and we are already paying a lot for C.O. and we can't justify the additional cost. Quickbooks integration is fair but causes some reporting issues that make job costing difficult.

Long Term Users

Comentários: We have used the program for over 12 years and there have been many enhancements that we feel help us in running our projects and bringing good communications to our team.

Vantagens:

The program is very robust and allows us to use parts that fit our businesses well. It is critical to stay in good communications with everyone on the project team, CO makes that easy!

Desvantagens:

In Scheduling, the ability to select multiple assigned people to a single task. The program will close down speratically from time to time.

Helpful Construction Software

Comentários: The support service for this software has been friendly, timely, and very helpful. We have been very impressed with the quality of their solutions.

Vantagens:

We like its ease of use. Additionally the internet platform makes it available to all of our employees wheterh they are in the office or not.

Desvantagens:

We would like to see the estimating portion use a single item entry system that could include labor, materials, trades, equipment and other costs in one line item in the database. The Construction Suite product does this. This feature is the only reason we are still using the Construction Suite software and have not moved completely to COL.

ConstructionOnline reliability & support

Vantagens:

Something that seems to be increasingly rare these days is that the company behind Construction Online (and Construction Suite) stands behind their product 100% and the quality & level of support is how I wish all my suppliers and business partners were. Over the years I have looked at alternative systems just to make sure we are not missing out on a better alternative ... and I am confident we are not. I am also a big fan of their pricing model ... the alternative systems where you pay for a set number of projects can rapidly become very expensive for a company such as ourselves as we do lots of smaller renovation projects as opposed to only a few larger ones per year. There is no limit to the amount of business we do so it is easy to allow this system to grow with our business without any financial "penalty".

Desvantagens:

I genuinely do not have any negative comments ... the product continues to grow and enhancements are added and unlike many systems, they do appear to test pretty thoroughly before releasing an update to the software.

Product review

Comentários: Good, product overall, could use zoom meeting for 1 hour and thirty min

Vantagens:

Following up on pricing, follow-up, administration

Desvantagens:

Need to price more then one subcontractor at one time, then choose the contractor.