Item: Contractor Foreman
Rating: 8
Author: Craig Forsberg

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Contractor Foreman has been a wonderful tool for our company! We started using CF pre-pandemic and it has allowed me to manage multiple locations and remote workers because it's cloud based. I needed a system that would allow me to estimate, invoice, track purchase orders, store files, accessible from multiple locations, and most importantly be easy to use. When my friend introduced me to CF, I was able to go in and create an estimate within 15 mins never having used it. Once I did that I knew it was the right fit for our company!

Pros and Cons

Live feed and implementation of users ideas
Ability to see what my team is working on at all times from afar
Estimates
Project Management
Great for small businesses

More font and spacing items on Estimates to really make your contract clear
Adding a "Notes" section to the "Inclusions" and "Exclusions", because of lot times neither of these apply to my comments or concerns
Complex for new users
Quickbooks Intergration was a challenge for an existing business

Return on Investment

Gave both locations a sense of unity
Easy to manage multiple employees in various locations
Ease of use once you learn the system
QB Integration was a challenge

Key Insights

Do you think Contractor Foreman delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Contractor Foreman's feature set?

Yes

Did Contractor Foreman live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Contractor Foreman go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Contractor Foreman again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Contractor Foreman has been able to help us get both of our locations on the same page. We are all now in one system, estimating the same way, have standardized procedures and processes, and this gives us the ability to scale as needed. Being in business for over 20 years gave us some challenges with QB Integration. Our customer base was too large and the syncing did not work well for us. We even tried to convert to QB Online, which did work better, but still not good enough for us to continue to use the integration feature. We will say the the support staff from CF was very good and worked with us for over 3 months to try to make the integration work before we called it quits. We're back to double entry on that front, but being able to link our two locations and standardize our procedures has by far been the best part of Contractor Foreman.

Excellent value for small businesses

Overall Satisfaction with Contractor Foreman