Review time
Updated October 02, 2018
Review time
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Project Management
- Quality & Safety
- Construction Financials
- Field Productivity
Overall Satisfaction with Procore
We use it over the whole organization. Project management, estimating and site supervisors would be the main users. We are slowly integrating for more client use. The drawings tab, schedule and documents would be the main tabs we utilize. Helps share information across a broad amount of people, no matter where they are using Procore.
- Drawings tool - quickly access the full drawing package and allows comparisons between revisions.
- Change events - allows to easily track all related info to a change event. Can find all the information in the same place. Easy to reference back too after a project is completed.
- Observations - really great to help provide people reminders or can be used as a to-do list. Automatically sends emails out to remind the person to complete a task.
- RFIs and submittals - we especially like this, as it allows us to contact the consultants with all the related info in a professional manner. It also sends out reminders when its overdue. Helps us have to follow up less.
- Schedule - I personally do not use this tool often, but have been advised that you cannot easily create a schedule on Procore and update it. We have to use MS project alongside Procore.
- The project team on the admin tab, we should be able to hide this from clients
- Being able to change workflow settings on commitments back to draft after its been approved. Always have to contact live support to change it back
- Monthly Usage reports - it would be nice if they could be automatically sent to me every month. The one provided by customer support is a lot more user friendly and shows a broad range of stats which is great to review
I have not personally reviewed anything similar products to Procore.
We have benefited from them all.
- Using daily logs for site supers to update PMs on daily trades who visited site and work completed.
- Schedule - keeps everyone aware of schedule and on-track (PMs, site supers, trades and clients)
- Can ensure all people are using the most current set of drawings
- PMs and estimators can track the budget easily
- RFIs and submittals keep PMs, site supers and consultants involved and track status of outstanding issues
- Onboarding is lengthy and can take a while for a new employee to get the hang of using all the tools
- When I have to reference back to old projects for change orders, drawings or trade info - it saves a lot of time than going back through paper copies
- The drawings tab helps to track addendums and ensures the current set of drawings are always being used. This can save time and money in the long run
- Gain visibility into projects
- Ensure information is accessible and up to date
- Track cost impacts from the field
- Streamline financial reporting
- Improve forecast accuracy
- Provides access to all team members for commitments issued - can easily track material orders
- Budget provides over/under status on each category
- Monthly usage reports allows us to track employees usage
- Helps track missed scope of work
- Does not allow employees to hide information
Procore Feature Ratings
Using Procore
30 - estimators, project managers, coordinators, site supervisors and management
A lot of different roles in the company help support Procore, depending on the task. Estimators responsible to upload the drawings, fill out the admin tab, upload budgets and prime contract. Coordinators and PMs can also upload drawings, but they also input invoices, commitments, change events, upload photos and schedule. Siter supers review drawings, fill out daily and upload photos.
- budget - helps track costs over the lifecycle of a project
- commitments - allows to track trade purchase orders, compare to budget, track invoices and great for future comparison
- change events - great tool to track change orders to the client, missed scope of work or certain site conditions. Also great for future reference.
- custom reports have helped track project status', payments and completion of work
- more opportunities to create more customized reports
- estimating tools - not currently used but potential in the future
Evaluating Procore and Competitors
Yes - Yes and no. We previously used Google Drive for everything and still use it for certain elements related to estimating but all PM tasks are tracked on procore.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
An added bonus was to have the site supers have easy access to drawings, spec sheets etc, where before it always had to be printed and could be easily lost. Having a one-stop shop for all items was a big factor, along with tracking budgets and change orders.
hard to pinpoint an exact area i would change, as there is so much to know about Procore. I think the estimating tools needed to be evaluated more in-depth as we figured out shortly after that the way estimating was done was not a right fit for our company as certain elements were missing.
Procore Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Yes - certain tools that were more straight forward to understand, such as uploading drawings, filling out admin tool, uploading photos etc were implemented first, followed by commitments then change orders.
- employee buy-in
- change orders and commitments
Procore Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Quick Initial Response | None |
always ask me how im doing and if they can assist with anything else after my problem is solved
Using Procore
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent | Lots to learn |
- upload of drawings
- document tracking
- prime contracts
- photos
- change events
- invoicing
Yes, but I don't use it