Item: Procore
Rating: 8
Author: Alexandra Schucker

Implementation Rating

As with any new technology, "selling" the program to your employees and subcontractors beforehand is key. Procore is very easy to use and will make their lives easier if they approach it with the right attitude.

Ease of Integration

The process of moving from change event to change order is tricky. Understanding how all the pieces and tools relate and interact with one another is a steep learning curve.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Procore to manage our construction projects on all levels across our organization. It gives everyone in our company one place to go to for information on the project. It has simplified communication between all members of a project.

Pros and Cons

Procore has helped our project managers with job cost projections by helping them easily go line by line to estimate the cost at completion.
Procore tracks change events very well, which helps ensure that there are no "surprise" costs that pop up at the end of the job.
Procore makes daily logs easily, which protects everyone on the job site and, when done right, prevents miscommunications.

Integration with accounting software is a huge weakness. It is expensive to integrate with accounting software (paying for the module with Procore and from your accounting software) and it is expensive to not integrate (you pay for someone to upload the data manually and reconcile both programs frequently).
Over communication. We have a project manager who uses Procore's notification system too much and over-communicates with owners, subs, and employees. The result is that people stop communicating because they don't know what is important.
It's not easy to tell which change events have been fully processed and billed for or not. You have to go through several screens to find out how a change event was resolved.

Collaboration Benefits

I am on the accounting side and don't collaborate much with outside parties. However, I do use the budgeting tool to have our project managers complete projections with and use those with our monthly meeting with our company owners.

Return on Investment

We have increased transparency. It is harder for PMs to hide issues (it's still possible to hide things, but it takes more effort on their part).
The budgeting tool has helped PMs realize the financial impact of decisions and change events.

Alternatives Considered

We were pushed by our general manager at the time to adopt Procore. We did not do enough research prior to investing in the program.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have an accounting software that will integrate with Procore, it is worth the price. It's not worth the price and headache if you don't have accounting software that communicates with Procore. And right now there are limited options for that integration. Oh, and you will pay even more money to get that functionality.

Procore review from the financial perspective.

Overall Satisfaction with Procore