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Viewpoint Spectrum

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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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Viewpoint Spectrum Review

1 out of 10
March 16, 2023
We signed a contract to move our company to Viewpoint Spectrum software from Quickbooks and it was a disaster. The software: in my opinion …
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Popular Features

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  • Role-based user permissions (27)
    7.9
    79%
  • Dashboards (29)
    6.9
    69%
  • Standard reports (30)
    6.4
    64%
  • Custom reports (28)
    6.0
    60%

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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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  • No setup fee

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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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.

4.9
Avg 7.2

Customization

This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.

6.1
Avg 7.2

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.

8.2
Avg 8.1

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

5.1
Avg 7.0

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting

7.6
Avg 7.6

Inventory Management

The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.

6.1
Avg 7.9

Order Management

The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.

8.6
Avg 7.8

Subledger and Financial Process

Revenue management solution including capabilities for subledgers and financial processes

7.6
Avg 7.4

Project Execution Management

Project execution management solution including capabilities for project scheduling, resource management, and team member task management.

6.8
Avg 6.8

Procurement

Procurement management solution with capabilities for sourcing, contracting, procure-to-pay and supplier management

6.9
Avg 7.0
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Product Details

What is Viewpoint Spectrum?

Web-based construction ERP solution with tools for accounting, project management, equipment and materials management, service management, document control, HR and payroll, inventory, and reporting. Spectrum allows contractors to work in real-time, no matter where work takes them. With interactive dashboards and responsive information, users access detailed data when they need it, with no complex menus to master, and applications that provide organizational intelligence. Built to facilitate employee engagement and collaboration, Spectrum provides organizations with an integrated payroll and onboarding experience, helping contractors meet seasonal and project hiring demands while improving back office efficiency.

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

Viewpoint Spectrum Video

Western Allied Mechanical Talks About Using Spectrum by Viewpoint

Viewpoint Spectrum Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, ,

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Procore, Acumatica, and Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate are common alternatives for Viewpoint Spectrum.

Reviewers rate Cost of goods sold highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Viewpoint Spectrum are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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March 14, 2024

Spectrum review.

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Installation team is amazing. They provide clear guidance at the beginning of the process regarding what is expected and what needs to be done. The implementation manager follows up monthly with you to make sure you are on track and if you need additional help. They are very helpful and responsive in resolving issues.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Spectrum has been able to streamline and eliminate previous programs used to be able to complete our processes. The live updates are essential to tracking expenses and progress with our ongoing jobs. Our deployment was fast, six weeks, and our trainer was knowledgeable, providing clear and concise information.
February 08, 2024

Viewpoint Spectrum Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The software is well suited for our needs as an electrical contractor. The accounting portion, which I use, works pretty seamlessly with the other parts of Viewpoint Spectrum that the warehouse and project managers use. If a project manager needs to see what the job cost is on a certain job, Viewpoint Spectrum pulls it all together so they can see what items have been ordered, and what has already been paid for.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In the construction industry (Road construction) it is a great tool, it fits all of our needs from what I can see and every year it seems there is an improvement when you didn't know it needed it. Gets better all the time, they think of things we need before we do. The community is amazing and fun to work with
July 24, 2023

Viewpoint Spectrum

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Viewpoint Spectrum is better interface to Spectrum and does the job well for user friendly access. Service Tech app and Viewpoint Spectrum integration is seamless and works very well. New AP Automation is work in progress and works to some extent, but, in my experience, no one thought about Canadian customers and how to deal with GST and PST! RFI and Change Orders work much better on Viewpoint Spectrum side. BI reports are insufficient and user roles are canned without much room to customize. One cannot even create user role.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I tihnk Spectrum isn't terribly dynamic or adaptable. It's more of a record software than anything else, and it necessitates other product integrations to be able to conduct business in 2023. From its interface to its useability, it's not intuitive or user-friendly. No one I know likes using it. In my opinion, if you just need records that don't require frequent updating or collaboration, it might work for you.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
It is great if you want to piece every part of the software together with your more modern app/cloud systems via Excel.

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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Viewpoint is user friendly. As the Controller, I appreciate that it prevents users from making too many errors, unlike other software solutions I've used. There are a limited number of ways to do things, which is great for preventing errors, but then it is not flexible to do things "outside the box".
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Viewpoint Spectrum would be fine for small to medium-sized companies. It would be great for transitioning from an in-house paper-based process, especially since it's designed with small construction companies in mind. They're making it even easier for smaller companies by offering additional features that you'd normally have to find in other products.
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.
February 14, 2023

Viewpoint Spectrum Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Overall I don't have any problems other than the document imaging not always working, which requires me to log back out and in to get the images to capture. Once you learn to navigate the site maps things become much easier.
February 08, 2023

Daily User

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Accounting areas work well in connection with job costing. Job management tasks could be simpler. Hate Crystal Reports. Need to easily be able to customize all reports more like QuickBooks. More drill down capibilities.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Spectrum is great for users who need to have visibility across job costs as well as financial modules (AP/AR, etc.) - honestly, Spectrum is scalable for both small and large companies. It's especially good for companies that are starting out, who want to plan for growth, without having to upgrade software down the line when they're bigger.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Basis of Spectrum (data entry) is fairly easy to use. However extremely difficult to extract information for reports and analysis. Customer Portal, The Network, etc is cumbersome as you need to go to multiple sites to try to resolve issues. Customer Support is a major weakness of Spectrum, as response times are intolerable and knowledge base of the support team is lacking. I should not have to wait hours/days to address support issues for my accounting software. In fact, when asked about Spectrum, the lack of timely Customer Support is generally the first thing mentioned.
February 07, 2023

Hands On Controller

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our biggest issue now is the packing list entry accrual. The system accrues to a balance sheet account. It should be a subledger like AP or AR. There is no report that lists the items that are accrued. I have never seen a system that doesn't have a report for this. I have a balance sheet account with 700k+ and no report to show for it. We are required to complete many forms in the field for compliance with OSHA. There is no ledger by company to list the reports that were completed. In order to see the list, we have to drill into each job. We have too many projects to do this efficiently. The analytics would be great if it allowed all the fields to be selected. It is usually missing a key field that makes it useless. We could address our forms issue if the Forms fields were available. We have had to develop a lot of forms and work arounds in Excel because the standard reports are not useful and generally have really bad formatting causing a single page of information to be displayed on 10 pages.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This software is excellent for managing off-site jobs by keeping everything in one place. We are learning how to minimize our dependence on external spreadsheets and other programs by customizing Spectrum to our business. We have chosen the Cloud-based hosted option and that is really helping with our employees trusting the backups and reducing our production of paper reports.

This is so much more than an accounting software!! If you are just looking for that - save your money and buy something else. If you are looking to integrate your field with your office, this is perfect for you.
February 06, 2023

Spectrum for Construction

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think Spectrum is well suited to handle any kind of construction contract and it has many reporting capabilities to help manage the job. As far as being less appropriate, I struggle with the payroll module. Some things that we do need to set up in weird workaround ways that make things a little difficult to reconcile at year-end. For example, we have employees who get vehicle and phone allowances and we need to set these up as add-ons, but then they are not included as gross wages on reports even though they should be considered gross wages, so my reports are never correct and I can never reconcile to my payroll company's reports. This is part of the reason we'll never take our payroll in house because I don't feel comfortable submitting taxes based on the payroll reports in Spectrum.
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