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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)
    8.8
    88%
  • Pay calculation (24)
    8.8
    88%
  • Standard reports (29)
    7.9
    79%
  • Custom reports (26)
    7.6
    76%

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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

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  • 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 7.3

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 8.2

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 7.8

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.

7.6
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
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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 Pay calculation and Direct deposit files highest, with a score of 8.8.

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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February 07, 2023

Vista review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Crystal is the easiest report writer I have ever used.
  • Multiple ways to break down the Chart of Accounts makes cost analysis a breeze.
  • Vista is very user friendly. I have never had to repeat training someone or "how-to" = they get it the first time because the system is very intuitive
  • We are a quarry, and we fall under the "mining" category, but our business is just enough different from the normal contractor's business that we've had to create work arounds in processes so that we can track everything we need to.
  • The speed since we've moved to the cloud is very slow - however, that could be where we are located.
  • phases, cost types, pay types, etc = there are so many was to break things down but if you are coming from a company with a standard GL, the account structure on Vista is a little difficult to wrap my head around.
February 07, 2023

Software you can rely on

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The ability to create your own user defined tables to collect data that is not already collected within the software
  • The ability for employees to manage and view their employee records and data through the Vista HR Management module along with the timekeeping piece
  • To help users manage resources and better plan equipment maintenance and purchases in the future based on past data collected
  • Figure out a way to improve the cloud speed experience for data entry users
  • More hands on and real life examples training videos not just videos of what the software can do and not give examples. I realize all companies are different but more examples for setup in both Vista and HR Management would be beneficial
  • Support not to be so vague in their email answers when a support ticket is put in.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Calculation of job cost and revenue.
  • Processing of payroll and payroll taxes
  • Ability to add new fields to forms and database that don't already exist
  • As with any complex program, there are a lot of moving pieces, so it is complex to set up or alter.
  • Job and Phase mask must be set up on installation, and apply to all companies within the system. (We added a new division that needed different numbering mask, but it wasn't an option)
  • Can take a while for bugs found in releases to be resolved.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Onboarding - this has been a huge change for us, we no longer have to manually enter the employees information, now we just initialize and were done.
  • Billing - the processing of the T&M invoices and template set up
  • Timecard entry using the portal- This has saved the payroll department hours of time when we had to manually key the time.
  • The new reporting format now that we are on the cloud, its very slow and not as easy to use as the onpriem version is. We also can't run large reports without timing out.
  • Onboarding, would be wonderful if the documents attached to payroll in addition to HR or instead of HR
  • Labor categories - only allowing one craft class code combination to be used, instead of allowing the same combination to be used under different labor categories.
  • Error messages - fix the systems so that you don't receive the same error message 4 or 5 times. We get it after the first time we don't need to be told over and over again.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • T&M Invoicing flexibility
  • Payroll processing strong & flexible
  • Ability to customize fields, forms, reports
  • Trust of the company management has deteriorated over the years. Hoping the that Trimble buyout will improve, but it is yet to be seen.
  • Support has been much worse than early years. Releases have had more issues than 5-10 years ago.
  • Many of the key personnel that "owned" the product previously are gone.
  • Rapidly increasing pricing of support / software assurance every year; Motivation seems to have switched from offering a best quality product to a money-making machine with the buyout of competitors
February 06, 2023

Viewpoint Vista

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Provides necessary reports for each module
  • Updates reports and programs at users request
  • Creates new programs to continue innovation
  • Functionality of adding attachments within DM
  • Accessibility of new features
February 03, 2023

Good systems to use

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Payroll system is outstanding. Easy to enter time and send out paycheck stubs.
  • Issuing purchase orders. Track budgets for individual jobs.
  • WIP reports, timely financial data.
  • Areas of improvement: equipment program use and trying to find solution through learning.
  • Imports: not as easy as the knowledge based leads on.
  • Crystal Reports is confusing even after completing the training on the subject.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Spreading information
  • Answering questions very quickly (response time)
  • Making learning about construction more interesting
  • The academy
  • Specific area to ask questions about any topic (related to construction)
Nicholas Molinari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Their reports are very helpful in looking at different areas. Specifically for me, I can look at timecards, payroll for the week, or look at specific people/accounts for the month or year. The reports make it easy to find the information you are looking for.
  • Set up is quite simple in most cases. Once you have set up, for example, a deduction, liability, or earning code you can update them as needed without any issues.
  • Most of the programs are straight forward and easy to use. Once you know where to go, you can do anything with them. It makes data collection very simple.
  • Viewpoint can be quite slow on some of their programs. It can take a long time to process or extract information that you need.
  • Viewpoint updates regularly, but their updates usually result in messing up another process.
  • Their reports can provide too much information or not be specific enough. In most cases they are fine, but in the equipment module specifically, they can be lacking.
February 03, 2023

A Vista Viewpoint Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Creating Reports
  • Processing Payments
  • Creating Contracts
  • Vista can be slow sometimes causing processes which takes seconds to take a minute or two
  • Sometimes it will crash when using a report multiple times in a single session or random crash
  • With there are a couple programs constantly get bombarded with errors that need closed constantly to continue to the next step, but a majority of them work just fine.
Allison Whitman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customer Support via Clearview. The ability to research issues we are having and try to resolve them ourselves through Clearview is invaluable. I have often been researching one issue or hang up I was having, and learned a few other things I didn't know through this system.
  • Customization of reports - the ability to have reports written in this system to give us access to information all on one report is great! There are so many standard Viewpoint reports as well.
  • Ease of fixing mistakes. Being able to bring something that has been posted back into a batch to fix has been wonderful as we are all human and make mistakes. There are not too many times that we actually have to call Viewpoint for support when we cannot fix something ourselves.
  • Writing Crystal Reports is not easy. You either have to have someone really knowledgeable on staff or source it out. Sometimes it can be pricey for custom reports.
  • Support callbacks. It depends on the time of year, but sometimes it takes a week to get a call back if it is not "Urgent".
  • PO Receipts Module. We gave this a try at our company and it has been a pretty big disaster. We are trying to "undo" it all now because it is not functioning how we envisioned. And there is not much information out there on it. It's almost as if it was an afterthought and not developed very far.
  • As someone else mentioned, error loops. Trying to figure out what module or program the error was made in, and undo the mistake to keep moving forward can be so time consuming!
Chris Gibbons | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The one-stop-shop mentality has been the number one reason our organization continues to utilize Vista by Viewpoint.
  • We also appreciate the continued effort to become a more efficient platform with a shift to providing more resources for the field.
  • Lastly, we appreciate the customer support. It has come a long way in the last 10 years; however, their support has remained in line with their growth.
  • There are times, where I had a question on how to set something up because Vista is very customizable; however, it's considered billable time; so I end up having to figure it out on my own in order to avoid the added expense.
  • Sometimes I think there are too many forms in order to get something set up. There seems to be a lot of open and closing. It would be nice if some of the processes were consolidated into one form.
  • Sometimes the sales staff can be over the top. I probably get at least 3-5 sales calls from Viewpoint every month for additional features/products that they are offering.
December 22, 2022

I don't like Vista

Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • submittals
  • open new pages automatically
  • starred projects so you can easily find the ones you use frequently
  • The accounting side needs a facelift - it is very ugly
  • I hate having to open so many pages to do one change order
Carrie Pipkin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Purchase orders by Job. You can manually upload large POs rather than typing them out line by line.
  • Reporting. Vista comes with many valuable reports. You can also create custom reports and design anything you might need.
  • AR/AP transactions are easy to create and track.
  • Security setup. There are many places to remember to add/remove and update securities. It would make more sense to have one place.
  • Standard Reports: depending upon the tables that are pulling data, the financial numbers can be different. You must really know what you are looking at and for to understand what the report is including.
  • Customer Support: Many times it takes several responses back and forth before the issue is escalated or resolved.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reporting functions
  • Accurate link between project management and accounting
  • Payroll functions
  • online customer portal help. Very hard to find specific answers due to the overwhelming amount of information
  • how to guides - these are generally provided by other users and are more specific to their own organizations.
  • help with updates - responsibility is on the user with little support help unless you want to pay $$$
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Unlimited Capabilities
  • Robust Program
  • Reports for everything
  • The training needed is extensive to utilize all aspects of the program.
  • The portal itself is very Windows 2000
  • The help offered when encountering a problem is not always quick
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