Overview
What is Viewpoint Spectrum?
Viewpoint Spectrum is a cloud-based construction ERP suite with project management, accounting, resource management, and reporting and analytics. Key features include workflow automation and collaboration tools, document imaging and sharing, cost estimating tools, and RFI management tools.
Viewpoint Spectrum Does Well for Contractors
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Could use more automation and notification capacity
Spectrum streamlining the industry!
Good for current needs but Spectrum needs to evolve to keep our business
The App Needs Work, But Overall Gets the Job Done
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Popular Features
- Role-based user permissions (27)7.979%
- Dashboards (29)6.969%
- Standard reports (30)6.464%
- Custom reports (28)6.060%
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What is Viewpoint Spectrum?
Viewpoint Spectrum is a cloud-based construction ERP suite with project management, accounting, resource management, and reporting and analytics. Key features include workflow automation and collaboration tools, document imaging and sharing, cost estimating tools, and RFI management tools.
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Features
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
- 7.5Pay calculation(22) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 6.9Benefit plan administration(16) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 8.3Direct deposit files(19) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
Customization
This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.
- 6.1API for custom integration(9) Ratings
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
Security
This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.
- 8.4Single sign-on capability(22) Ratings
The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.
- 7.9Role-based user permissions(27) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Reporting & Analytics
Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.
- 6.9Dashboards(29) Ratings
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
- 6.4Standard reports(30) Ratings
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
- 6Custom reports(28) Ratings
Users can create custom reports.
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting
- 8.3Accounts payable(27) Ratings
This includes the automation and tracking of payment to vendors and suppliers, with features such as payment scheduling, check printing, open purchase order alerts, document management, direct ACH bill payment, and vendor records.
- 8.1Accounts receivable(25) Ratings
This includes the management and automation of invoices and collections, with features like statements, invoices, receipts, payment reminders, customer records, auto billing, and refund checks.
- 6Global Financial Support(8) Ratings
Account using multiple ledgers, multiple currencies, and multiple entities
- 7.5Primary and Secondary Ledgers(19) Ratings
Record and report across multiple currencies and accounting standards with primary and secondary ledgers
- 8Journals and Reconciliations(22) Ratings
Automate and synchronize ledgers and processes
- 7.2Configurable Accounting(19) Ratings
Configure accounting rules and segments for each chart of accounts
- 7.9Standardized Processes(23) Ratings
Centralize financial management to facilitate standardized financial processes
Inventory Management
The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.
- 6Inventory tracking(17) Ratings
The software syncs orders and stock to maintain a real-time picture of inventory and supports multiple methods such as LIFO and FIFO.
- 6Automatic reordering(1) Ratings
The software can be set up to automatically reorder a good when it falls below a certain threshold.
- 6.2Location management(6) Ratings
The software can track multiple goods across multiple locations.
Order Management
The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.
- 8.4Pricing(12) Ratings
Users can set up complex and unique pricing requirements.
- 8.3Order entry(13) Ratings
Users can enter an order once, and the data flows to all the necessary units such as fulfillment and billing.
- 8.8Credit card processing(4) Ratings
The software facilitates credit card processing.
- 8.9Cost of goods sold(11) Ratings
The software calculates the direct costs attributable to a finished product, such as materials and labor, and includes roll-up pricing.
Subledger and Financial Process
Revenue management solution including capabilities for subledgers and financial processes
- 8.2Billing Management(23) Ratings
Access role-based billing work area, perform discrete and recurring billing
- 7.7Cash and Asset Management(22) Ratings
Manage liquidity and cash requirements, asset transfers, disposals, reclassifications, and financial adjustments
- 7Travel & Expense Management(1) Ratings
Enter expenses from mobile devices, integrate credit card and travel booking, configure policy enforcement
- 7Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting(1) Ratings
Control spending at any budget level or time interval
- 8.1Period Close(23) Ratings
Sustain fast close with integrated subledgers, intuitive dashboards, embedded collaboration
Project Execution Management
Project execution management solution including capabilities for project scheduling, resource management, and team member task management.
- 5Project Planning and Scheduling(1) Ratings
Interactive Gantt chart for establishing tasks, durations, and delivery schedule
- 7.1Task Insight for Project Managers(6) Ratings
Project manager visibility into task progress of team members
- 7.9Project Mobile Functionality(6) Ratings
Capabilities for project functions such as updating and monitoring task progress and timecards from mobile devices
- 7.2Definable Resource Pools(4) Ratings
Definable and hierarchical resource pools of potential project resources
Procurement
Procurement management solution with capabilities for sourcing, contracting, procure-to-pay and supplier management
- 7.8Bids Analyzed and Compared(3) Ratings
Evaluate, compare and recommend across multiple bids in real-time using diverse user selected criteria and graphical analytics
- 7.2Contract Authoring(2) Ratings
Document authoring with guided navigation, negotiation templates and productivity tools for reviews and collaboration
- 7.2Contract Repository(2) Ratings
Secure and searchable contract repository leveraging standard company language components, structures and formats
- 5.7Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated(4) Ratings
Create touchless purchases using purchase orders generated automatically per rules from approved requisitions
- 6.8Supplier Management(3) Ratings
Broadly manage and report comprehensive supplier profiles, capabilities and performance; identify bottlenecks; balance allocations, workloads
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What is Viewpoint Spectrum?
Viewpoint Spectrum Features
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting Features
- Supported: Accounts payable
- Supported: Accounts receivable
- Supported: Global Financial Support
- Supported: Primary and Secondary Ledgers
- Supported: Journals and Reconciliations
- Supported: Configurable Accounting
- Supported: Standardized Processes
Subledger and Financial Process Features
- Supported: Billing Management
- Supported: Cash and Asset Management
- Supported: Period Close
Inventory Management Features
- Supported: Inventory tracking
- Supported: Location management
Order Management Features
- Supported: Pricing
- Supported: Order entry
- Supported: Cost of goods sold
Payroll Management Features
- Supported: Pay calculation
- Supported: Benefit plan administration
- Supported: Direct deposit files
Reporting & Analytics Features
- Supported: Dashboards
- Supported: Standard reports
- Supported: Custom reports
Customization Features
- Supported: API for custom integration
Security Features
- Supported: Role-based user permissions
- Supported: Single sign-on capability
- Supported: Multi-factor authentication
- Supported: User-level audit trail
Project Financial Management Features
- Supported: Budgeting and Forecasting
- Supported: Project Costing
- Supported: Cost Capture
- Supported: Capital Project Management
- Supported: Customer Contract Compliance
- Supported: Project Revenue Recognition
Project Execution Management Features
- Supported: Task Insight for Project Managers
- Supported: Project Mobile Functionality
- Supported: Definable Resource Pools
Procurement Features
- Supported: Bids Analyzed and Compared
- Supported: Contract Authoring
- Supported: Contract Repository
- Supported: Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
- Supported: Supplier Management
Additional Features
- Supported: Purchase Orders
- Supported: Work Order/Service Tech
- Supported: Business Intelligence
- Supported: Cash Management
- Supported: Document Management
- Supported: Job Costing
- Supported: Jobsite Reports
- Supported: RFI Tools
- Supported: As-built drawings
- Supported: Submittal design and management
- Supported: Specifications
- Supported: Plan markups & sharing
- Supported: Photo documentation
- Supported: Document sharing
- Supported: Collaboration & approvals
- Supported: Mobile App
- Supported: Meeting Minutes
- Supported: Change Orders
- Supported: Support for external payroll vendors
- Supported: Compliance data
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Viewpoint Spectrum Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Reviews
(1-25 of 38)Viewpoint Spectrum Does Well for Contractors
- Creating Reports about our profits for our different office locations
- Tracking change orders
- Customization of status for COs & Subcontracts
- The user interface is a bit rough, and can be difficult to find things/navigate through the pages.
- Would be nice to have the option to have a separate page for Sub COs & Client COs, right now they are all tracked on the same page.
- Signature lines on the Purchase Orders would be beneficial because we currently have to add them to the PDF in a different software.
Viewpoint Spectrum Electrical Contractor Review.
- Document Imaging.
- Accounts Payable.
- Project Management.
- Accounts Receivable.
- Work Order Billing.
- Integrating modules.
- Decrease the amount of screens required when processing and updating.
Viewpoint Spectrum Review
- Easy to use
- User-friendly
- The software is laid out well
- Customer Service
- I would like to be able to see an image of a check once it has been printed
- Imaging - issues with timing out are ongoing
- Reporting a problem or issue could be streamlined
Viewpoint Spectrum from Roadway Const industry viewpoint
- pull together equipment and inventory results
- makes writing and tracking checks so easy
- Detailed reports makes finding specifics very easy
- The order of things could be better sometimes I'm working backwards
- document imaging isn't always clear and working
- I wish I could just delete mistakes liek erase them instead of reversing them
Viewpoint Spectrum
- Uploading documents
- Dashboards
- Data from Spectrum
- Permissions
- Switching modes as Administrator does not has access to what other see unless role is applied.
- Slowness and syncing
- Contacts creation and adminstration
- Helps us track job related cost and billings
- handles accounts payable in accurate formate
- works well with security management
- Reporting of finanicals
- Better integration with outside software to help with reporting payroll and other areas of the business
- quicker processing of internal reports and being able to create ad hoc reports without using crystal reports.
Viewpoint Spectrum Review
- Accounting
- Web access
- Order Entry Module
- Payroll
- Workorder Module
I wouldn't recommend it to any Construction company unless you have armies of people to implement it and it will still be kind of behind the technology that is available today.
Spectrum Delivers for Small Companies
- Security is well thought out, users can be extremely locked down or have very specific access down to a certain job or department.
- They're trying to expand so that users don't need to integrate other products
- Support isn't readily available. You can submit a ticket and wait days before it's picked up. Even critical issues (system outages) can wait an hour or two before someone responds.
- Large companies will feel limited. This product wasn't designed to handle large amounts of data, and performance seems to slow when there are more than 80 concurrent users.
- The new developments are limited. HR Management is less robust than a third-party product specializing in HR Management. Viewpoint Analytics is nowhere near as robust as Power BI or Tableau.
However, companies can easily outgrow this system. We have about 15 years of data in the system, over 300 active jobs, and nearly 1,500 employees. In the past 3 years we've noticed slower performance and frequent locks in the system that require intervention from a system administrator. We moved to the cloud about 2 years ago and this has made troubleshooting even more difficult as we don't have the same access that we did before to resolve performance issues.
Daily User
- AP Invoice Approval Process
- Job Cost Tracking
- Equipment Revenue Billings
- Financial reports
- Simpler process for revising a subcontract
- Ability to remove a PO revision
Hands On Controller
- Multiple entities
- Dashboard
- Reporting and Formatting
- Analytics allowing for more fields
- Packing Slip Accrual Reporting
- Using multiple screens
Great Accounting Construction Software
- 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.
- I wish there was a way to sort the canned Spectrum reports a bit easier. I am quite comfortable using info link, so it is easy for me to create a quick variation of the Spectrum reports, formatted the way I want it to look. But unless you have knowledge of info link, there is no way to easily rearrange Spectrum reports to show the data in the way you want it.
- The Job Requisition screen needs a lot of work. It's very slow if inventory is entered using the wrong job number, the entire thing has to be deleted and re-entered using the correct job number. If an item is entered using the wrong item code, you have to delete the line and re-enter it.
- I wish we had the ability to create new payment types. Something as simple as paying out jury duty is made more difficult than it needs to be because there is no "button" for it. Instead, we enter it as Sick and use a separate spreadsheet for tracking the actual sick time employees have remaining.
Great choice for a construction and service company.
- Job Cost
- All in one product
- Info-Link
- Better dashboards
- Better documentation
- Better Customer Service
[In My Opinion:] DON'T!!!!
- [In my opinion,] nothing.
- [I believe it could improve] viewing records.
- [I believe it could improve] calculating.
- [I believe it could improve via] retaining the information I type in, instead of me having to print it and write on the paper.
- [I believe] UI Improvements [are] needed [as I feel it is] hard to navigate.
- [I believe it] needs a SERIOUS debugging.
Moderately satisfied and hoping for improvements
- Job Costing - It has various reports that break down the jobs in many ways.
- Document Imaging - It has the ability to store documents for every module.
- Service Tech - Our techs get very frustrated using this module. It doesn't work a lot of the time or is slow. Could use some major updating.
- User Interface - The user interface has not been updated in 6 years. There are a lot of clicks to get where you need to be. It would be nice if it was more user-friendly and intuitive.
Viewpoint of a longterm user
Viewpoint Spectrum is used to record and report the financial activities of several companies. Functionalities used are by us are:
- Accounts Receivable - For simple A/R invoicing, contract progress billing, and the invoicing for individual asphalt and ICC tickets that were entered into the material management module.
- Accounts Payable - To process invoices entered directly into the A/P module and for invoices that are built by pulling in individual material and rental tickets that were first entered into the material management module.
- The payroll module - To track employees and to pay for all direct and non-direct labor. Both the payroll and the accounts payable module also link to job and equipment cost.
- The equipment module - To cost expenses to individual pieces of machinery and to charge jobs for their usage.
- The job cost module - To track the estimated, projected and actual cost for individual (unit priced) jobs to generate a Work in Progress report.
- Cash management - To reconcile AP and PR checking accounts.
- Monthly financial reports are produced with the general ledger module.
- We do utilize document imaging
throughout the system.
- Allows for a hard-close of periods.
- Allows us to drill deeper into a record via links.
- The fact that creating custom reports requires to either have somebody in-house that knows the Crystal Reporting software needed to access the overly complicated database, or to pay a large sum of money to Viewpoint Spectrum for their services is definitely a downside.
- The Help menu is overly simplistic/not detailed enough to solve problems, and it also has limited search capabilities.
- Complete integrate across all modules.
- Construction job cost accumulation -- both actuals and budgets.
- Memorializing job to date information at month end periods.
- Work order does not allow subcontracts, invoice approval, and others offered in the job module.
Integrate all your work!
- Invoice Approval process - managers do not have to rely on paper copies for approval; approvals can be handled electronically.
- Job Costing - Data from Accounts Payable, Equipment Revenue and Inventory transactions flow into job costs.
- Customer Help - Reps are helpful and knowledgeable, but it's not unusual to have to leave a message or remain on hold for a period of time in order to get assistance. While there is the opportunity to leave a message, if you are trying to resolve an issue, it can tie up one or more employee's time while waiting.
Too Good to be TRUE
- Job Costing - Viewpoint Spectrum handles job costing per project, per work order, per site, and gives us an up to date analysis of the project.
- HR - helps to keep all of the training certifications and HR incidents in a consistent and manageable order for all Managers to use.
- Work Order could use a vamping of functionality. It could be more field oriented and easier to master.
- Cash Management is difficult to understand and master also. The adjustments seem to be the most complicated to understand and teach.
Good concept if functionality is improved. We want it to work!
- WA State Sales Tax tracking abilities
- Credit Card tracking and reconciliation
- Customer Support has declined tremendously
- A report that prints out PTO, Vacation and or Sick balances
Spectrum's capabilities on different web browsers are not the same. Some things work better on Explorer or Edge and some things work better on Chrome and Firefox. Consistency should be the goal.
Viewpoint Spectrum Review
- WIP job costing.
- Change orders.
- Project management.
- Job communication.
Superb accounting software for construction/development firms
- Job cost detail reports are great and can be filtered by specified dates
- Aging A/P reports are easy to read.
- It is impossible to "delete" items; reversal is the only option and is forever on GL reports; it looks messy.
- A/R schedule of values cannot be altered once billed upon (adding additional items that are not a change order).
Overall a Happy Camper
- Good reporting features with the ability to customize using Crystal reports.
- Integrates well with other programs, i.e., can download from estimating software to set up jobs.
- 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.
An excellent resource for the Construction Community
- Spectrum has excellent customer support and actively engages in seeking and implementing consumer feedback.
- There are many options to assist in customizing your data analysis tools to fit your needs.
- There is very little flexibility when dealing with data entry errors. Several steps are typically needed to make corrections.
- The conversion out of our old system into Spectrum could have been much smoother.
- AP: you can integrate your paper into their Document System and send these out for approval which will save a lot of time (assuming your supervisors do look at their dashboard and open the items to approve/reject, I don't think any system has come up with that solution).
- AR: with the integration of documents and the flow of AR, it is a system that will allow your departments to find out where you are in your finances.
- Overall, there are too many clicks to get items done in all areas. We would like to see a better flow when entering data into the system and allow some intuitive decisions so you do not have to click multiple times to get something done.
- Inventory - some of our items are mix types of raw or purchased goods. As we produce Asphalt the price of oil determines our Standard Cost in our Asphalt mixes. If you change the Standard Cost of an item that is a component to many mix items, you have to manually change the Standard Cost of all the items. Not fun when you have 150 mixes that need to be updated.
Viewpoint Spectrum - Great Software
- Job costing
- WIP report
- Pulling in data to Excel
- Certified payroll reporting
- Quarterly Reporting
- Emailing direct deposits