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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CoConstruct

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/ACoConstruct, from Buildertrend since the November 2021 acquisition, is a custom builder & remodeler software. It allows users to enter data once and have that information flow through the estimate, specs, selections, bids, proposals, change orders, and budgets, including to and from QuickBooks. In addition, CoConstruct includes scheduling and 3-way communication between builder, client, and trade partners. Everything is captured via email and texting. Login isn't required for…

    $49

    per month

    QuickBooks Online Advanced

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AQuickBooks Online Advanced is a SaaS-based accounting software designed to scale with growing businesses. It includes the functionalities of QuickBooks Online, as well as more robust business analytics, customization, and resource management.N/A
    Pricing
    CoConstructQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Editions & Modules
    Ramp
    $49
    per month
    Plus 5
    $299
    per month
    Plus 10
    $399
    per month
    Plus 15
    $499
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CoConstructQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsCoConstruct pricing is based on active job sites that have client access online, which means it is adaptable to builders & remodelers businesses. This means that there are an unlimited amount of projects available for estimates and proposals, so that customers only pay when they win a contract. Also built into the pricing are a myriad of services: a dedicated implementation coach, free estimate & scheduling templates based on industry best practices from successful builders and the NAHB, unlimited storage and users, software branded with the customer's logo, unlimited amount of warranty projects, and unlimited phone & email support. The vendor offers a money-back guarantee that is good for the first 90 days of service.—
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    Community Pulse
    CoConstructQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Considered Both Products
    Buildertrend
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    Intuit
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    150 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    134 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    77%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    153 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    124 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    67%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    131 Answers
    Features
    CoConstructQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of CoConstruct and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    CoConstruct
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    7.9
    116 Ratings
    4% above category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings7.796 Ratings
    Plug-ins00 Ratings8.0101 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of CoConstruct and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    CoConstruct
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    8.4
    210 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.4184 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.3206 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of CoConstruct and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    CoConstruct
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    8.2
    225 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.3212 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.5225 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings7.7216 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of CoConstruct and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    CoConstruct
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    8.2
    233 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Accounts payable00 Ratings8.4220 Ratings
    Accounts receivable00 Ratings8.5219 Ratings
    Cash management00 Ratings8.5193 Ratings
    Bank reconciliation00 Ratings9.1223 Ratings
    Expense management00 Ratings8.5206 Ratings
    Time tracking00 Ratings7.7110 Ratings
    Multi-currency support00 Ratings6.557 Ratings
    Multi-division support00 Ratings7.297 Ratings
    Regulations compliance00 Ratings8.3103 Ratings
    Electronic tax filing00 Ratings8.8127 Ratings
    Self-service portal00 Ratings7.9121 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings8.297 Ratings
    Intercompany Accounting00 Ratings8.099 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings8.4199 Ratings
    Enterprise Accounting00 Ratings7.988 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting00 Ratings8.4111 Ratings
    Centralized Rules Framework00 Ratings8.985 Ratings
    Standardized Processes00 Ratings8.4151 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of CoConstruct and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    CoConstruct
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    6.2
    91 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Inventory tracking00 Ratings6.291 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of CoConstruct and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    CoConstruct
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    6.8
    150 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Pricing00 Ratings6.8110 Ratings
    Order entry00 Ratings6.599 Ratings
    Credit card processing00 Ratings7.2129 Ratings
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    CoConstructQuickBooks Online Advanced
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    QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued)
    Score4.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    MYOB
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Microsoft Dynamics GP
    Score5.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CoConstructQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    7.9
    (235 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (20 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (10 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CoConstructQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Buildertrend
    Having the ability to completely manage a project from start to finish with one app is super helpful. The time reporting feature (when it works correctly) is a nice added bonus as it allows employees to switch from one task to another on the same project or to another project and task with ease, aiding in the accounting process of the total project. This was helpful for running analytics to see where we were spending too much time on certain tasks, thus allowing us to assess any training needs.
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    Intuit
    Well suited for a larger company with many classes that need to be differentiated. It is relatively intuitive to use, whether you have used other versions of QuickBooks, or any other accounting software. Easy to dig into your accounts from wither the Balance Sheet or the Profit and Loss when trying to analyze performance.
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    Pros
    Buildertrend
    • The integration of all aspects needed to run a remodeling company efficiently: project scheduling and management, financial planning and customer service. Since it’s an all-in-one suite and cloud-based, it enables our team to keep track of all our projects in real-time. Communication breakdown is the last thing we want, so being on the same page is not only desirable but makes for the best possible relationship with our clients.
    • Product education - We like how CoConstruct helps new users and get them to start using the tool right away. The dashboard resource materials are incredibly useful. We don’t have to spend a lot of time training new hires on the system and onboarding new clients.
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    Intuit
    • Budgeting is easy to input. Our entities have multiple departments, so using classes to separate and report the results of each department is important.
    • Reports are easy to customize to provide meaningful data to the board and department managers.
    • QuickBooks Online Advanced has a large market share of accounting software in use, so it is relatively easy to find new employees with prior experience with QuickBooks Online Advanced.
    • Able to open both entities at the same time, which is helpful due to the number of transactions between the two entities.
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    Cons
    Buildertrend
    • Internal Communication - CoConstruct lacks the ability to tag-team members for internal communication using @mentions or any other means. This has been crippling for us and forced us to use alternative software for communicating among our team members.
    • Pipeline Management - CoConstruct's lead-tracking system feels clunky and hard to navigate and doesn't provide a pipeline view that's easy to navigate. We have moved our Pipeline Management outside of CoConstruct to make it easier for our sales team to track leads.
    • CRM - CoConstruct doesn't offer anything for customer follow-up after projects are completed. This, in addition to the lack of an effective pipeline system, has led to our decision to use Hubspot as our CRM. Moving projects into CoConstruct for Design and back our after Production.
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    Intuit
    • Continued growth around AI usage and tool.
    • There are still some reporting gaps that make setting up custom reports not absolutely top-tier.
    • There can be a lot of UI clutter as different features keep getting turned on. Can become harder to navigate.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Buildertrend
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    It has become second nature to use Quick Books at the company. If you need a report you log in and pull the report. It helps expedite reconciliation of bank accounts, the automation of most tasks make it easy to get mundane tasks completed quickly.
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    Usability
    Buildertrend
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    QuickBooks Online Advanced is highly usable and intuitive for most day-to-day financial tasks. Its interface is clear, and core functions such as invoicing, reconciliation, and reporting are easy to perform. While some advanced features like report customization or integrations can be less straightforward, overall the platform offers a smooth and efficient user experience.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Buildertrend
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    In the 5 years I have been using it, I cannot recall there ever having been an outage or not being able to access the system. Sure, there are issues with internet speeds sometimes that are unrelated to Intuit but it is a very reliable system.
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    Performance
    Buildertrend
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    Since we do not integrate the software with other systems, I do not have any issues with speed related to that. Pages tend to load pretty quickly, but there are times when reports or other pages take a little longer to load than usual. It is not an overly frustrating amount of time, though, and it happens infrequently.
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    Support Rating
    Buildertrend
    The support staff is brilliant; they don't operate on Australian time, so you can't just dial up support when you need it. The response times are quick, and the staff is knowledgeable. They are also well versed in most of the differences between buildings in the US and the building in Australasia. Despite their funny accents and strange use of the English language, we get by just fine!
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    Intuit
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Buildertrend
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    The online training is good enough.
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    Implementation Rating
    Buildertrend
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    I did not participate in this part particularly much. The implementation was simple and easy to perform. There were not any major issues that arose during the process. QuickBooks has made the processes pretty streamless and I believe they had anticipated many difficulties ahead of time. This was easy enough
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    Alternatives Considered
    Buildertrend
    Products like Procore and PlanGrid are geared towards projects with huge projects teams, multiple stakeholders and dozens of subcontractors. CoConstruct can be used for projects big and small (value) and also with small project teams or large projects teams. For small partial renovation or addition projects CoConstruct is a good more cost effective option.
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    Intuit
    QBO is great because it does accounting very well, and it can integrate well with everything. I appreciate that it has third-party integrations with many other software companies, so we can focus on doing our accounting through QuickBooks while adding other software as needed through those integrations.
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    Scalability
    Buildertrend
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    Software is very flexible
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    Return on Investment
    Buildertrend
    • It made time recording much easier and much more reliable
    • With its GPS feature, we would be able to track when an employee left a job to help ensure accurate time recording
    • Having the ability to give the homeowners their own custom home building app to watch the progress helped to put us ahead of the game in the industry
    • Running job cost reports as easily as CoConstruct allows helped to curb some of our administrative fees
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    Intuit
    • Spreadsheet sync reduces manual data entry significantly. Exporting data into my customized Excel workbook that has complex formulas and macros for automating makes uploading changes and reconfiguring easy and convenient, saving a lot of time.
    • Automating AP approval has reduced lost paper copies, improved internal controls, and reduced audit findings.
    • Having banking connections has improved cash flow management, streamlined credit card expenses and reconciliation. I have found that utilizing it for my primary operating account actually makes things more difficult and can easily double-post payments, so I avoid using it on the checking account. It has been well for the credit card account, though.
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