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Vista

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What is Vista?

Viewpoint’s Vista is a construction accounting software. Vista’s core accounting features include accounts receivable and payable, general ledger, payroll and time management, and cash management. It also provides tools for document management, including document templates and reporting.

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User friendly!

6 out of 10
June 29, 2023
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I think it is highly customizable and helps gets info in a quick way. There is a steep learning curve... but once you figure it out it's …
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Popular Features

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  • Direct deposit files (24)
    8.9
    89%
  • Pay calculation (24)
    8.8
    88%
  • Standard reports (29)
    7.9
    79%
  • Custom reports (26)
    7.6
    76%

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Pricing

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What is Vista?

Viewpoint’s Vista is a construction accounting software. Vista’s core accounting features include accounts receivable and payable, general ledger, payroll and time management, and cash management. It also provides tools for document management, including document templates and reporting.

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  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • 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.

8.3
Avg 7.2

Customization

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

7.3
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.

7.8
Avg 7.0

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

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

8
Avg 7.6

Inventory Management

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

7.4
Avg 7.9

Order Management

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

7.4
Avg 7.8

Subledger and Financial Process

Revenue management solution including capabilities for subledgers and financial processes

7.6
Avg 7.4

Project Financial Management

Project financial management solution including capabilities for project budgeting, cost control, billing and contract management.

8
Avg 7.6

Project Execution Management

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

6.4
Avg 6.8

Procurement

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

7.2
Avg 7.0

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Planning solution with capabilities for planning, performance monitoring, change responses and execution.

7.5
Avg 7.2
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Product Details

What is Vista?

Vista by Viewpoint is a construction accounting and ERP software that is designed to help contractors manage all areas of their business. According to the vendor, Vista enables the centralization of information with visibility, providing secure, fully-interactive data across the organization. From pre-construction through project closeout, Vista’s project management provides project insight, backed by up-to-date data and workflows. With job costing, service, equipment, HR and Payroll management placed at the user's fingertips, Vista shows whether or not a project is on track or behind, and makes users aware of potential issues as work occurs rather than weeks or even months later. The solution helps manage subcontractors, mitigate risks and complete projects on-time and on-budget.

Vista Features

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting Features

  • Supported: Accounts payable
  • Supported: Accounts receivable
  • Supported: Journals and Reconciliations
  • Supported: Configurable Accounting
  • Supported: Standardized Processes

Subledger and Financial Process Features

  • Supported: Billing Management
  • Supported: Cash and Asset Management
  • Supported: Travel & Expense Management
  • Supported: Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting
  • Supported: Period Close

Inventory Management Features

  • Supported: Inventory tracking
  • Supported: Automatic reordering
  • Supported: Location management

Order Management Features

  • Supported: Pricing
  • Supported: Order entry
  • Supported: Cost of goods sold
  • Supported: Order Orchestration

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
  • Supported: Plug-ins

Security Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions
  • Supported: Single sign-on capability
  • 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

Procurement Features

  • Supported: Contract Authoring
  • Supported: Contract Repository
  • Supported: Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
  • Supported: Supplier Management

Supply Chain Features

  • Supported: Inventory Planning

Additional Features

  • Supported: Takeoff Tools
  • Supported: Cost databases
  • Supported: Bid Creation
  • Supported: Job Costing
  • Supported: Cost Calculator
  • Supported: Plan distribution & viewing
  • Supported: Issue tracking & Punchlists
  • Supported: Jobsite Reporting
  • Supported: RFI Tools
  • Supported: As-Built Drawings
  • Supported: Submittal Design and Management
  • Supported: Specifications
  • Supported: Plan Markups and 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

Vista Screenshots

Screenshot of Job Cost AccountingScreenshot of Equipment ManagementScreenshot of Service ManagementScreenshot of Service Management Dispatch Board

Vista Video

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Vista Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile Application,

Frequently Asked Questions

Viewpoint’s Vista is a construction accounting software. Vista’s core accounting features include accounts receivable and payable, general ledger, payroll and time management, and cash management. It also provides tools for document management, including document templates and reporting.

Procore, Sage 300, and Acumatica are common alternatives for Vista.

Reviewers rate Direct deposit files highest, with a score of 8.9.

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

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Reviews

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Jeff Bauer, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Gives us real time inventory updates when used properly.
  • Allows for integration between other software's.
  • Good customer support.
  • Their payroll module is terribly slow and very clunky.
  • Job costing parameters are very strict and limited.
  • Each module interface has too many forms and screens.
  • There is too much flexibility regarding where to put information into the system. There isn't one place to do anything, which creates confusion for staff.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Organization of Information
  • Communication or connection between departments
  • Helps Simplify Project Management Issues
  • System is so large and detailed that there are multiple ways of doing things. Being trained and setup using that one method would be very helpful.
  • Some functions do not have a very detailed help section.
  • There is some large confusion with interfacing and initializing. These steps may need to be trained on more heavily.
Andy Gagliardi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Lots of useful reports out of the box.
  • Ease of use and navigation.
  • Ease to modify existing reports to fit your needs.
  • Very easy to customize
  • Support can take some time to get back with you, but they are currently working on that.
  • The knowledge base is a real mess, unorganized, and it's sometimes hard to find the answers you are looking for.
February 27, 2024

Vista Is Great!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Fully customizable, it can do anything you want and be tailored to your business.
  • Real-time data.
  • Detailed data, you can see where every penny is going.
  • Takes a lot of time and effort to set up to get running.
  • Online answers can be a little difficult to find for the average user.
  • The non-computer person will need a LOT of training to use Vista.
  • There are quite a few bugs we run into but they are generally fixed on following releases.
Bryce Sheen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • AP Reviewer Approvals
  • Intercompany Journal Transactions
  • Cash Management Bank Reconciliations
  • Pay Apps
  • Hundreds of reports
  • Equipment Management usage
  • Job Costing from several different sub-ledgers (AP, Subcontracts, Equipment Management)
  • Equipment Maintenance Scheduling
  • Make Project Management more user-friendly
  • Financial reporting within the software
August 01, 2023

Viewpoint Vista

Carlin Lakey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • I love how Viewpoint Vista is easily customizable for our business needs.
  • Viewpoint Vista has a great online help and knowledge base that makes learning the system a breeze.
  • Viewpoint Vista integrates project management and accounting extremely well.
  • When updates are pushed out, it usually breaks things. I feel like updates need more testing before being implemented.
Mary Soffner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • There is great flexibility with Vista. We are able to easily customize reports, fields, and tables to fit our needs.
  • The end user help website is a great tool to learn more.
  • Paperless. We have been able to go paperless. There is no longer a need to pull documents from a file to create reports.
  • Can be difficult to learn. There are a lot of fields and screens that need to be set up.
  • Help and support can be difficult to research.
  • There is a lot of room for errors if you do not understand the program.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • subcontract tracking
  • Invoices being posted and approved by the proper people
  • Running a variety of reports
  • Being able to export reports
  • when an invoice comes in for a PO or subcontract and it's over the dollar amount you can still enter the invoice. This should be stopped and not allowed.
  • Subcontract change orders are a struggle to create and uninterface
February 28, 2023

Love VP

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Exporting files to Excel/Word
  • VP Academy Training
  • Preconstruction module - needs a total make over
  • vendor tracking
  • move testing when releasing updates; make sure all the bugs have been removed/fixed
  • would love to see some type of closeout documents program/prep to submit to Owners
  • need to develop an add on program for architects/engineers for companies who are design-build
Tammy Cox | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Automatic invoicing is very helpful to make sure all invoices are getting entered in to the system
  • Ability to have subcontracts pull up effortlessy
  • Easy capability of issuing checks
  • Selecting which invoices we are going to pay seems to take a lot time, cannot select multiple invoices at one time
  • Cannot have two people entering invoices at the same always gives us an error code
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Field Management has proved to be helpful for payroll and field employees.
  • Viewpoint Analytics helps users access reports while in the field or in remote locations without having to login to the application.
  • Dealing with unapproved invoices in the portal, this saves time and makes it easier to access when in the field.
  • Customization reporting is a great tool and we use heavily.
  • Easier to update multiple AP unapproved invoices through the portal. We have admin users who have to code hundreds of transactions at a time, an easier way to do this would be helpful.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • User defined fields can be created in all modules.
  • The ability to sort and filter when viewing grids of information.
  • The import feature made converting our existing information very easy.
  • The Clearview website is available to answer many questions and for training as well.
  • The suggestion box is awesome if you have ideas for improvements.
  • It would be nice to have a simple export to Excel.
  • We would like to see an app available for individual remote time card entry on a phone. Vista is working on one but we have not found it usable yet.
February 08, 2023

Hands down the best!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The customer support and education is the best I've ever seen.
  • Capturing financials for reporting.
  • Open possibilities to new implantation!
  • Linking info from AP to PO to JC, etc.
  • Pricing lowered for education.
  • More opportunities to earn training to help implement throughout our company.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • I find it particularly useful that Vista allows the user to code and create different reports, tailored to a company's needs.
  • I like how many modules, programs, and reports are available. I can typically find everything that I need for a project without having to create a custom report.
  • Vista does not currently have a function in which an administrator can "close" a past period for the general users and keep the period "open" for a select number of users. In order for our controller to perform his month-end tasks, he must keep the period open to all users and this has occasionally caused problems when someone accidentally posts something in the incorrect period.
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