Pricing is the big one, they both offer similar products, Construction Foreman is affordable and Procore is outrageously expensive.
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Executive
Chose Contractor Foreman
All of these programs are a good fit for somebody, but what we liked about Contractor Foreman is the ease of use and that they listen to the needs we have and work to add them or fix them. The program can look a little intimidating at first but once you get it setup the way you …
We were pretty deep in evaluating Procore and it too was a pretty robust program but it was 40,000 a year instead of a couple thousand. Contractor Foreman has been great at any price but considering what they charge, I would recommend to anyone in the construction business …
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General Manager
Chose Contractor Foreman
We chose CF for the functionality and cost savings. CF has all the same major features as Buildertrend
Simply put, no other software platform had all the features we needed at a sustainable price point. Contractor Foreman was the perfect solution to integrated several stand alone platforms we were using. We now pay 1/4 of what we were paying for all the other software service …
Of all the myriad different systems I have used over the last 20 years, Contractor Foreman seems to not only be better, but more serious and dedicated to continuous improvements to their platform. THAT will make for the best app, not just today but every year it continues this …
They only covered part of what Contractor Foreman is capable of doing. The overall cost with the functionality and there is no competition, Contractor Foreman wins hands down.
I've used Buildertrend and Conconstruct near daily for a little over 10 years. They were both pretty solid. But the price kept going up without much value being added to the software. As they grew, they didn't upgrade with the growth, so the sites became slower.
Buildertrend is great software but the pricing is ridiculous and there are quite a few bugs. ClickUp is a great scheduling tool and the easiest to use, but it lacks most of the features of Buildertrend or Contractor Foreman. Contractor Foreman is a wonderful, all-in-one tool …
In this case, CF is the best of the 'OK so far' category in my mind. NONE of the software available today gets close to a truly effective, user friendly GUI and functionality set. I have used 7 different systems over the years, with the top 4 big names having the largest hours operating. Most have less functionality, others are severely overpriced and under featured. Still others are so complicated you need an entire IT department to implement them. Contractor Foreman does much of what it does the absolute best for the money, meaning this is probably the best value for construction management software I'm aware of. I believe I can say with confidence, that if CF does it, it strives to do it well, and continues to strive to get it better. Picking a feature or two that excels is rather pointless in a company with that outlook. THAT is a company I can get behind...
I rarely give anyone a 9 or 10 rating for service. The main reason for this rating is Contractor Foreman's dedication to improvement. To be completely frank, CF has fallen down on their tech help with me several times, but I am an exceptionally difficult user to service as I tend to use a product up to it's limits and want more. CF has actually addressed these wants several times (after waits that seemed interminable, but were actually pretty damn fast in the reality of software development)
I've used Buildertrend and Conconstruct near daily for a little over 10 years. They were both pretty solid. But the price kept going up without much value being added to the software. As they grew, they didn't upgrade with the growth, so the sites became slower. Contractor Forman has all the functionality of the others, and several other tools that they don't. There are several tools our company doesn't even use yet that look great. It's not perfect, and the learning curve due to its increased capability is a bit of a challenge. But overall, it is superior in every way that mattered to us, and more affordable.
We don't have to double enter our job information anymore (estimates, bills, labor hours) to show employees what they need to see. Specific access within Contractor Foreman does that for us.
It's taken us longer to learn how Contractor Foreman works within itself than we thought it would, so implementation is taking a little longer than ideal. However, we have been learning a lot along the way about the easiest ways to use the workflow that Contractor Foreman has.