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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AccuLynx

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AA production management software that helps roofing and exterior contractors manage their sales pipeline, create roofing estimates, schedules, oversee production, order materials and better understand the performance of their business. The roofing CRM specifically supports working in the Insurance Restoration, Retail Roofing, Residential Roofing, and Commercial Roofing industries. AccuLynx provides integrations with the most trusted names in the industry.N/A

    Simpro

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASimpro, headquartered in Brisbane, provides business management software for the trades and services industry. The solution combines field service management with asset tracking and maintenance, project management features with resource scheduling, and invoicing. For enterprises, Simpro helps manage business complexity such as franchises, multiple companies or multiple locations with a tailored Simpro framework that aims to handle complexity while maintaining the simplicity of working with one…N/A
    Pricing
    AccuLynxSimpro
    Editions & Modules
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    AccuLynxSimpro
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AccuLynxSimpro
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    AccuLynx
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    Simpro Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    86%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    AccuLynxSimpro
    Construction Project & Field Management
    Comparison of Construction Project & Field Management features of AccuLynx and Simpro
    Feature
    AccuLynx
    7.3
    8 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Simpro
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    Ratings
    Plan distribution & viewing6.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Plan markups & sharing6.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Photo documentation7.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document sharing8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration & approvals7.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Estimating
    Comparison of Estimating features of AccuLynx and Simpro
    Feature
    AccuLynx
    7.9
    8 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Simpro
    -
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    Takeoff tools7.97 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job costing8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost calculator7.97 Ratings00 Ratings
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    AccuLynxSimpro
    Small Businesses
    CMiC Construction Platform
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Kickserv
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Autodesk Build
    Score8.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Revit
    Score8.9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    AccuLynxSimpro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AccuLynxSimpro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    AccuLynx
    When you want to track your quotes that have gone out to customers so that you can follow up on them, this system makes it way easier to do that. It also makes it way easier to track invoice dates. One area that it is less appropriate is for detailed big public bids where a traditional estimate template is not appropriate.
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    Simpro Software
    Simpro is well suited for job and team management, tracking inventory and the workflow is very logical. The mobile app for our field technicians works very well to clock on and off and then being in a position to report to a customer based on factual information has made invoicing a breeze! Reporting can be a bit frustrating especially on materials used on different cost centre numbers as you can only specify a job number, but not a cost centre number.
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    Pros
    AccuLynx
    • Estimating.
    • Customer Management.
    • Scheduling Material Delivery/Orders & Labor.
    • Tracking job profitability.
    • Invoicing.
    • Reporting.
    • Access everything from anywhere via app, etc. in real time.
    • Entire company can communicate with each other.
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    Simpro Software
    • Billing: straight from a closed, complete job. Carries overall equipment, hours, takes one click to bill.
    • simPRO retains notes on all emails; notes can be entered by anyone to track communication with clients.
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    Cons
    AccuLynx
    • Pricing in the database for each item is done manually due to the merger of two large suppliers nationally who decided to write their own database and estimating program and disconnect themselves from AccuLynx that had the ability to automatically update pricing. I feel that was a huge mistake on the part of the supplier. AccuLynx is trying to rectify that relationship.
    • It's unfortunate that the only calendaring option is Google Calendar. We are very tied to Outlook which we feel is more user-friendly and we know it well.
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    Simpro Software
    • Ability to create leave forms for the employees (to my best knowledge, this doesn't exist).
    • Ability to color code jobs, quotes by criticality.
    • Assign status to equipment (e.g. "ordered"; "arrived").
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    Likelihood to Renew
    AccuLynx
    Until someone shows me something more efficient or has features that are more streamlined and time is saved by all then I am all ears and ready to listen to that presentation. I wouldn't care at this point if I had to abandon QB if the system had it's own integrated accounting system otherwise it has to be able to do all and more of the features of QB and the CRM side also has to have/do more than AccuLynx features.
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    Simpro Software
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    Usability
    AccuLynx
    Very versatile and allows for other people to complete things and someone else to still look at and approve if needed. Great communication ability internally and with customers and with that being the case is a tremendous asset with documentation also. Really a well rounded tool that allows you to do everything needed for a job in one place and have the records to show what was done by whom and when.
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    Simpro Software
    As mentioned before, materials reporting could use some work as one cannot report by cost centre number, only by job number. It makes it difficult with large jobs with multiple cost centre numbers to easily extract information for reporting. Other than that the system is user friendly and easy to understand.
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    Support Rating
    AccuLynx
    They can always improve and we are very successful when calling support. I would suggest they keep their support technicians available later for the west coast contractors who need help at the end of the day. We've come to know many of the techs because we call to offer suggestions but there's a process for us to follow for that.
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    Simpro Software
    It is a great option for solar project management. It needs some improvements for real-time one-page reports, inventory management, scheduling and custom views. I believe these will come because they listen to their customers. I would also like to see some better training and not be expected to pay out of pocket for it.
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    Alternatives Considered
    AccuLynx
    AccuLynx has met our needs more than our previous CRM program. ALX is user-friendly which is super nice when training new employees, compared to our previous program which then seemed very outdated.
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    Simpro Software
    monday.com was easier to set up and you can create boards with loads of subtasks which helps manage a project. Also, the ability to integrate with google was much better as we could link it to the calendar and also store documents that the engineers could see easier onsite. Overall we could make monday.com work better for our business based on how we are set up but simPRO will be great for other businesses with more specific needs.
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    Return on Investment
    AccuLynx
    • I am have had a hard time justifying AccuLynx since I am a small business. I hate all the add ons. I do not appreciate that all the good tools cost extra money on top of my monthly payment.
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    Simpro Software
    • Increased team collaboration.
    • Increased inventory awareness.
    • Decreased down time between jobs.
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