Features
Top Performing Features
Bid creation
Allows users to use bid packages or templates to quickly and efficiently create bids based off of cost estimates.
Category average: 7.8
Job profiles and administration
Job profiles and descriptions can be created and edited.
Category average: 8.2
Photo documentation
Users can document construction progress and/or issues by uploading photos from the field.
Category average: 8.3
As-built drawings
Users can generate as-built drawings upon project completion, to reflect the exact dimensions and materials of the final work, including any changes made to the initial plans during the construction process.
Category average: 7.8
Human Resource Management
Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.
Employee demographic data
Administrators have the ability to enter detailed demographic data for each employee.
Category average: 7.3
Employment history
Employment history is the ability to track previous positions held.
Category average: 7.8
Job profiles and administration
Job profiles and descriptions can be created and edited.
Category average: 8.2
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
Employee move workflow provides the ability to move employees to different positions and apply pay raises.
Category average: 7.4
Organizational charting
Organizational charting is the ability to create hierarchical charts.
Category average: 6.7
Organization and location management
Organization and location management allows employees to be managed across multiple geographical locations.
Category average: 7.2
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Compliance capabilities ensure full compliance with federal workplace regulations by capturing required data in central database.
Category average: 7.4
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
Pay calculation
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
Category average: 7.2
Support for external payroll vendors
Support for external payroll vendors is the ability to integrate with 3rd-party payroll services.
Category average: 7.2
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
Provide employees access to wages accrued during the pay period before the end of the pay cycle.
Category average: 7
Benefit plan administration
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
Category average: 6.9
Direct deposit files
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
Category average: 7.2
Salary revision and increment management
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
Category average: 7.6
Reimbursement management
Reimbursement management provides cash reimbursement for employee expenses related to business travel or other.
Category average: 7.1
Asset Management
Maintaining a record of assets such as laptops, pagers, cell phones, etc. issued to employees. Record typically includes asset type, number, serial number and date of issuance.
Tracking of all physical assets
Tracking of track laptops, pagers, phones, and other company equipment.
Category average: 7
Reporting & Analytics
Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.
Dashboards
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
Category average: 7.9
Standard reports
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
Category average: 7.9
Custom reports
Users can create custom reports.
Category average: 7.7
Data exportability
Data can be exported via a CSV or Excel file for further reporting and analysis outside of the tool.
Category average: 8
Construction Project & Field Management
Features related to collaboration between construction management and project execution (e.g. the office and the job site, general contractors and subcontractors)
Plan distribution & viewing
Users can compare different versions of plans, and view live updates/revisions to plans (usually from a mobile device in the field).
Category average: 8.3
Plan markups & sharing
Users can annotate plans from the field and easily share plans/markups with other project stakeholders.
Category average: 7.6
Issue tracking & punchlists
Users can track issues from the field, and create punchlists upon substantial completion.
Category average: 8.2
Photo documentation
Users can document construction progress and/or issues by uploading photos from the field.
Category average: 8.3
Jobsite reports
Users can create and share reports on jobsite safety, daily progress, etc.
Category average: 8.2
Document sharing
Users can share/attach other documents related to construction projects, such as specifications, contracts, drawings, etc.
Category average: 8.3
RFI tools
Users can create, send, receive, and archive Requests for Information (RFIs), to record exchanges with subcontractors, vendors, and other suppliers.
Category average: 8.3
Collaboration & approvals
Users can comment, send messages, and/or approve documents.
Category average: 8.3
As-built drawings
Users can generate as-built drawings upon project completion, to reflect the exact dimensions and materials of the final work, including any changes made to the initial plans during the construction process.
Category average: 7.8
Mobile app
Users can easily access the system from the field on mobile devices such as phones and tablets.
Category average: 7.6
Submittal design and management
Tools that allow users to draft and build submittals, track their status, submit them online, annotate submittal PDFs, and send submittal approval online.
Category average: 8
Checklists
Construction checklists allow you to link important elements in your construction project. Construction checklists detail specific information of activities and phases in your project.
Category average: 7.8
Meeting Minutes
Tools that help you keep track of minutes in meetings.
Category average: 7.6
Specifications
Construction specifications, also called specs, are the details for the work that needs to be completed in a construction project.
Category average: 8.3
Change orders
A change order (or variation order) is a component of the change management process in which changes in the scope of work (or project brief) agreed to by the client, contractor and architect are implemented.
Category average: 8.1
Estimating
A set of tools and applications that allow contractors to forecast, track, monitor, and adjust the cost of building a structure. Cost estimates are used by project owners to determine the scope and feasibility of a project, and also for budget allocation. Contractors also use cost estimates when deciding whether or not to bid on a project and for bid creation.
Takeoff tools
Allow users to list the materials and quantities they will need for the project either manually from hardcopy blueprints or electronically from digital blueprints.
Category average: 7.6
Job costing
Tracking and monitoring of the costs of all materials, labor, subcontractors, & equipment required for a given construction project. Allows users to compare actual costs to estimated costs, see how the job is progressing, identify which parts of the job are using the largest parts of the budget.
Category average: 7.5
Cost databases
Pulls information from online databases and aggregates it to allow contractors to compare prices of materials from different suppliers.
Category average: 7.5
Cost calculator
Application that calculates cost of estimated quantities and materials, typically within spreadsheets.
Category average: 7.5
Bid creation
Allows users to use bid packages or templates to quickly and efficiently create bids based off of cost estimates.
Category average: 7.8