Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HCSS
Score 9.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
HCSS is a construction software suite. It includes functionality for bidding, time card and project management, safety, planning, scheduling, equipment management, and data warehousing and reporting. Each module can be purchased separately. The suite can be hosted in the cloud.N/A
monday.com
Score 8.5 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
monday.com Work OS is an open platform designed so that anyone can create the tools they need to run all aspects of their work. It includes ready-made templates or the ability to customize any work solution ranging from sales pipelines to marketing campaigns, CRMs, and project tracking.
$36
per month (3 seats)
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Basic
$12
per month per user
Standard
$14
per month per user
Pro
$24
per month per user
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HCSSmonday.com
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsYearly plan: Save 18% Monthly plan also available
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Features
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Construction Project & Field Management
Comparison of Construction Project & Field Management features of Product A and Product B
HCSS
6.8
33 Ratings
10% below category average
monday.com
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Ratings
Plan distribution & viewing6.99 Ratings00 Ratings
Plan markups & sharing6.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue tracking & punchlists9.913 Ratings00 Ratings
Photo documentation10.025 Ratings00 Ratings
Jobsite reports8.030 Ratings00 Ratings
Document sharing7.117 Ratings00 Ratings
RFI tools3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration & approvals4.019 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app6.128 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
HCSS
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Ratings
monday.com
8.4
2233 Ratings
10% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings9.22219 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings8.61896 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings8.11294 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings8.51853 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.61926 Ratings
Team Collaboration00 Ratings9.32176 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.11154 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Document Management00 Ratings8.01794 Ratings
Email integration00 Ratings8.41598 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings8.31773 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings7.91037 Ratings
Change request and Case Management00 Ratings8.71152 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings8.41025 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
HCSS
-
Ratings
monday.com
8.1
1004 Ratings
7% above category average
Quotes/estimates00 Ratings8.6671 Ratings
Project & financial reporting00 Ratings8.2887 Ratings
Integration with accounting software00 Ratings7.5499 Ratings
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User Ratings
HCSSmonday.com
Likelihood to Recommend
6.1
(38 ratings)
8.7
(2238 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(32 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(2 ratings)
8.5
(2166 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(8 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(35 ratings)
8.7
(1885 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(32 ratings)
9.1
(7 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(6 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
6.9
(8 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
HCSSmonday.com
Likelihood to Recommend
HCSS
Our operation uses several pieces of what we call specialty equipment (not used every day on every job). The foreman when finished will give a location of where this equipment is left, this many times can be very vague and lead to a lowboy driver trying to block around to find the piece or driving down a street he cannot get turned around in. With the GPS devices, the driver can pinpoint exactly where the unit is and if he has room to turn around at that location.
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monday.com
The platform is very well suited for our nonprofit programs that serve low-income clients who need diapers, wipes, and period products. It has helped us run our programs, capturing information and allowing us to view the data for reporting purposes. The ability to filter data is very helpful by allowing us to categorize information to get a better picture of the progress of our programs.
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Pros
HCSS
  • #1 is support! HCSS is by far the best software support of any product we have ever used. Unlike most software companies HCSS utilizes their support calls to help upgrade their software. When you here them tell you that they will write down a particular issue you come across during a support call if they can't help you then and there they will research and get an answer to you extremely fast. If the software will not do it, you can bet there is a good chance it will be on the list of enhancements you will see come out in the near future.
  • Estimating software is very extensive. Their software is capable of handling the smallest estimate all the way to the largest joint venture estimate. It has advanced features that make it extremely useful for analyzing job materials, subcontractors etc.
  • HeavyJob is an extremely useful tool for the field to keep the office up to date with job costs. Everything is at the Foreman's fingertips on Tablets to allow the information from the field to get uploaded to HeavyJob manager which then can export to accounting. We are also able to give our Foreman the ability to deal with the Daily and weekly safety needs (Tailgate Meetings, incident Investigation, observations etc.) right on the Tablets thru HeavyJob.
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monday.com
  • I like summary of subitems, especially with subitasks as subitems and add item tracking for each subtask it can show total tracked in parent item. Similar with other columns, like numbers, status, date.
  • Dashboard features, Many kinds of dashboard view available, we can utilize on the basis of requirements.
  • monday.com workform is very powerful, easily share form link when submitted it will create line item in board with provided data.
  • monday.com automation is very helpful in order to automate steps with specific rules and easy setup.
  • monday.com also provides integrations in order to automate processes if need to integrate multiple app together. or need to transfer data between multiple apps.
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Cons
HCSS
  • All their apps are on mobile devices. Although there is not a clear company policy on Android versus iPhone. Updates for features lag behind on Android. Some apps are exclusive to one platform making it hard to fully interconnect all programs.
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monday.com
  • The desktop app for Mac seems to have a few issues with visual glitches appearing on screen, it only seems to go away when I close the tool and reopen it
  • Subtasks don't show on the individual users to-do list, only main level tasks
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Likelihood to Renew
HCSS
No answers on this topic
monday.com
Teams involved in content creation, such as marketing or editorial teams, could use monday.com to manage the entire content lifecycle. Boards might track content ideas, assignments, drafts, reviews, approvals, and publication schedules, helping teams collaborate and keep content production on track.
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Usability
HCSS
As mentioned, user interface appears messy and complicated at initial onset. Training is necessary but becomes easy to maneuver through after solid daily use.
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monday.com
I give monday.com a 10/10 because I almost never encounter any lag or connectivity issues despite all of the many templates, boards, and automations we have. As a matter of fact, I feel like the last issue I encountered was over a year ago... and I'm in monday.com every single work day. Not only is monday trustworthy, it is easy to find what I'm looking for... making the overall usability extremely hard to beat.
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Reliability and Availability
HCSS
No answers on this topic
monday.com
There have only been 2 instances in the past year where monday.com was down.
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Performance
HCSS
No answers on this topic
monday.com
Everything performs fairly well. Every now and then there are user errors where an employee will not click "ok" on a note they've created and simply exit out (I do wish that something was in place to prevent this, such as a pop "are you finished?")
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Support Rating
HCSS
I have never had a bad experience or heard of one in 4 years of doing business with HCSS. That is unheard of even with the hurricanes and flooding in Houston area it feels like HCSS was always there and willing to help in every way.
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monday.com
monday.com only really care about accounts that have 20 seats or more. While this is great for monday.com, it pushes smaller organisations to evaluate alternatives. We rate monday.com highly in our organisation because key staff have already got good experience with the application and we know we will get to 20+ seats one day. But, till then the billing model and lack of permanent enterprise features is a dread.
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Online Training
HCSS
No answers on this topic
monday.com
To have someone walk you thru the features and capabilities of Monday.com is priceless. Someone also coming along later in the contract to see if you are maximizing the program to suit your company needs is beyond helpful. The staff that have provided this training are fun, creative and very patient.
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Implementation Rating
HCSS
I was not employed with PPI upon implementation. I would prefer to reference my previous statement, that each company needs to evaluate its culture and address your implementation accordingly. The purchasing company should assign an employee as point person and really take charge of not just the technical side of the implementation (HCSS pretty much handles that), but focus on company culture and training.
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monday.com
We signed up for the accounts. Created the accounts. Ran the trial version and tested it live while we were running multiple projects and found that it was fitting our needs perfectly. When the trial ended and we were asked to purchase the full version, we did. We have found other ways to use it and it's a breeze.
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Alternatives Considered
HCSS
Other estimating products I have used consist of ICE/MC2 and MS Excel. ICE was not a good fit for our company, as they have awful technical support and offer very poor training. MS Excel is great for simple estimates where there is not a lot of data being compiled. However neither hold a candle to the power of HCSS Heavybid
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monday.com
monday.com is simpler and easier to grasp, apply and navigate than ClickUp, but the ClickUp free version has so much more functionality available than the monday.com free / low-cost options (sorry, but it's true!). Google Tasks is really simple and I shouldn't really compare them - it's just really nice to be able to see my tasks right next to my Google Calendar or Gmail (widget) - the "all on one" view on the screen is really nice ease of access, but the power of monday.com outweighs the nice-to-have of an all-in-one screen layout - it feels clumsy to bring in all my Calendar items from Google to monday.com, so an integration app to the Google screen where you can see monday.com tasks would be amazing.
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Scalability
HCSS
No answers on this topic
monday.com
For it to work across multiple departments and sites, I would like to see improvements made with integrations and automation. For this question, I am acknowledging not only the addition of internal triggers/automation, but also an expansion on external ones.
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Return on Investment
HCSS
  • The biggest ROI for us was the ease of adoption by field personnel.
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monday.com
  • >25% of our org is using monday.com to build Boards & projects. Only 5% used our prior Work Management System.
  • 100% of project communication is kept within monday.com. Which means we don't have to search Slack, Email, or other places to find a message.
  • 100% of our project files are kept or linked with monday.com. So, we don't have to find missing files in other locations.
  • monday.com integrates with Salesforce, so we don't have to manually duplicate data
  • 3rd-Party solutions are linking to our monday.com data and producing reports as humans read reports.
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ScreenShots

HCSS Screenshots

Screenshot of HeavyBid - build the structure of your estimateScreenshot of HeavyBid - manage sub and material quotesScreenshot of HeavyBid - create professional bid proposalsScreenshot of HeavyJob - manage your job site from your mobile deviceScreenshot of HeavyJob - capture job site photos from any deviceScreenshot of HeavyJob - review, edit, and approve time cards from a mobile device

monday.com Screenshots

Screenshot of Work OSScreenshot of Ready-Made TemplatesScreenshot of MobileScreenshot of Visual BoardsScreenshot of Real-time NotificationsScreenshot of Automations