Procore - for jobs small to large
June 28, 2017
Procore - for jobs small to large
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Procore
Procore is used by the majority of our employees; project managers, administrators, project engineers, and interns. Although we don't do bidding or accounting out of Procore, all those positions are familiar with and interact with certain aspects of Procore as well.
Procore keeps all our project documents in one place, we prepare all commitments out of it and the entire team is able to see real-time information. It is excellent for keeping track of budgets, drawings, RFI's, submittals, daily reports, photos, change orders, commitments, prime contracts....and I can go on and on.
Procore keeps all our project documents in one place, we prepare all commitments out of it and the entire team is able to see real-time information. It is excellent for keeping track of budgets, drawings, RFI's, submittals, daily reports, photos, change orders, commitments, prime contracts....and I can go on and on.
Pros
- Procore keeps all of your project documents in one place. This is the single best feature of Procore. If you have ever had to go through litigation 5 years after a project is completed, you will know what I'm talking about. Emails, daily reports, submittals, RFIs, contracts, drawings, specifications, closeout documents, punchlist....fully accessible now and in the future. Gotta love it!
- It is very easy to prepare a contract, attached all necessary contract documents, track when the contracts were sent, to whom they were sent and to prepare change orders. I also upload a copy of the signed subcontract when it is returned so that I have the actual agreement on file.
- Daily reports are very easy to do and our superintendents can do it right from their phone, documenting the report with photos as well. Again the daily reports are searchable and reportable so that if I need to find something, I can.
- Although Procore is not set up to handle insurance the way we do (we have SO many requirements) we have managed to manipulate it so that it handles it very well.
Cons
- I'm not sure of the particular details, but our preconstruction department has gone away from using Procore for bids. They found it was difficult to use and have started using another program.
- While the reporting feature is very robust, once you create a report you can't truly share it. They have created a new feature where you can publish it, but the users will not be able to go in and modify it - they will have to recreate the report.
- While you can seperate out the drawings into areas, you cannot do this for the specifications. We use areas for our multi tenant retail facilitites where we will have multiple store that we are doing TI on. Each store has a different set of drawings and the while the drawings tool will handle them nicely, the specifications cannot be seperated out into different areas. This makes it very difficult for relaying them to our vendors.
- Using multiple programs, like Word and Excel to manage projects, is very time consuming. With Procore a Project Manager can manage multiple projects whereas if we were using Word, Excel and having to communicate with the project team using only Outlook, items would not be in one central location and it would take much more time, allowing them to only manage one project at a time. We have found that it is possible to manage 2-3 projects, depending on the complexity.
- Some of the subcontractors, architect and owners are use to having items delivered to them without going through a project management system so we do have push back from them. This means that we have to push them to use it or manually deliver items to them without them having to touch Procore. This is more time consuming and less efficient.
Prolog, back in the day, was a great program. We had always wanted Prolog to be cloud based but when they did, they didn't do it right. It was difficult to use and would no longer meet our needs. I was sad to say goodbye to Prolog but we had to move on.
I've used Red Team and it is a great product however we needed something more robust and collaborative. There were many features that procore offered to help make our processes move quicker.
I've used Red Team and it is a great product however we needed something more robust and collaborative. There were many features that procore offered to help make our processes move quicker.
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