ProContractor vs Viewpoint Spectrum

Likelihood to Recommend

I think it might work for smaller contractors that have less stringent management requirements, policies, and procedures. To get buy-in from project managers to use, it would need to be a little bit more user-friendly, but if your biggest concern was project accounting, this is a great tool. Smaller projects often have lower levels of RFI and submittal requirements, fewer subcontractors and commitments, etc. meaning that where this software is weaker, they will have less use for it anyway.

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Verified User

Project Manager in Other

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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Viewpoint Spectrum is well suited for accounting, job costing, project management, service department. It is less appropriate for estimating, payroll on-boarding, time collection in the field for construction jobs and document imaging for the entire company. The scenarios where Viewpoint Spectrum is not appropriate for what we are trying to accomplish, we outsource and import into our Viewpoint Spectrum software

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Paula (Queenbee)

CFO

PIEPER HOUSTON ELECTRICConstruction, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

ProContractor

Viewpoint Spectrum

Plan distribution & viewing

Plan markups & sharing

Issue tracking & punchlists

Photo documentation

Jobsite reports

Document sharing

RFI tools

Collaboration & approvals

As-built drawings

Mobile app

Submittal design and management

ProContractor

Viewpoint Spectrum

Takeoff tools

Job costing

Cost databases

Cost calculator

Bid creation

Pros

Procontractor is great with direct imports from CAD files.
It is great with balancing sites or specific areas on site.
Procontractor has multiple views and reports that help you to view the dirt movement on the site (grid, profile, 3D).

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Matt Snow

Estimator

RDJE, Inc.Construction, 51-200 employees

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Great software for analyzing data and trends while still being pretty easy to use.
The ability to create a custom info link reports enable you to create virtually any report using the data you have in Spectrum that will auto-refresh with just one click of a button.
They have a fantastic support network and I the few times I have had to contact support, I was directed to someone very knowledgeable that was able to find a solution.

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Marjie Maguire

Sr. Payroll Accountant

Walsh Mechanical ContractorsConstruction, 51-200 employees

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Cons

More of a project management "vibe".
Less spreadsheet and complex processes to do things.

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Verified User

Project Manager in Other

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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It's sometimes hard to control the document imaging window. It doesn't stop when you release the cursor. Have to go to top of screen and click in one of the bars to lock it in place.
In AP invoice entry, you have to slow down when entering job and phase number. Doesn't keep up with the speed of the person entering.

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Verified User

Manager in Finance and Accounting

Construction Company, 51-200 employees

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Support

ProContractor 5.0

Based on 1 answer

As I have mentioned previously in this review, this is a decent product, but not the top in the industry, which I would deem to be Procore. Viewpoint is attempting to but has not successfully implemented the best practice of taking and learning from customer feedback, I believe this product is their initial attempt at this, but still doesn't quite hit the mark. They need to be more agile and flexible to customer needs as an organization

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Verified User

Project Manager in Other

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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Viewpoint Spectrum 7.2

Based on 18 answers

Support has gone downhill tremendously since Viewpoint and Trimbal took over. Long term Spectrum users were used to on-demand support and it's not even close. We were assured they would be not changes to Spectrum support and I believe I was outright lied to at the user's conference in 2019 by the President himself. Once you get a hold of someone, maybe 48 hours or so later the support is still good.

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Verified User

Manager in Finance and Accounting

Construction Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Procore beats Viewpoint hands down but can integrate well with Viewpoint Vista accounting software. I think that if the Viewpoint software was more flexible if they were more interested in patches, updates, and hearing customer feedback in the way the Procore does, that they would actually have the opportunity to corner the market.

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Verified User

Project Manager in Other

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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I have previously used Sage Masterbuilder, another construction industry software. This has been a number of years ago. The company I am working for already had Spectrum and have been using it for as long as it has been around when it was known as Forefront. Based on conversations I've had with the personnel that were here at the time of purchase, Spectrum clicked off all the boxes they were looking for.

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Verified User

Manager in Corporate

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

Procontractor allows our company to visualize the site and figure out the problematic areas that can't be seen just from plans.

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Matt Snow

Estimator

RDJE, Inc.Construction, 51-200 employees

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Positive: It does have a lot of components that can help you move away from doing many items in spreadsheets that may not get shared or stored correctly. If the data is entered you can have quite a bit of information on hand.
Negative: Many of the reports are not quite where they need to be, so you do need to have someone that knows Crystal Reports to get what you may need specifically to your company, as many reports just don't get everything you need, so there is cost involved with that.

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Les Papp II

IT Consultant

2001 : A Computing Odyssey Inc.Construction, 51-200 employees

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ProContractor

Viewpoint Spectrum

Likelihood to Recommend

ProContractor

Viewpoint Spectrum

Feature Rating Comparison

Plan distribution & viewing

Plan markups & sharing

Issue tracking & punchlists

Photo documentation

Jobsite reports

Document sharing

RFI tools

Collaboration & approvals

As-built drawings

Mobile app

Submittal design and management

Takeoff tools

Job costing

Cost databases

Cost calculator

Bid creation

Pros

ProContractor

Viewpoint Spectrum

Cons

ProContractor

Viewpoint Spectrum

Support

ProContractor

Viewpoint Spectrum

Alternatives Considered

ProContractor

Viewpoint Spectrum

Return on Investment

ProContractor

Viewpoint Spectrum

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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