My experience setting up ProCore as a Sub-Contractor
January 14, 2019
My experience setting up ProCore as a Sub-Contractor
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Project Management
- Quality & Safety
Overall Satisfaction with Procore
We are currently using Procore to manage the collection of our Daily Logs for our team(s) in the field, along with aggregating our Shop resources hours, in order to be able to streamline our payroll process. Beyond the collection of Daily Logs, we also use the Forms tool in order to capture our compliance and safety documentation.
- The Forms tool is a powerful 'catch-all' option for filling in the blanks for a sub-contractor who has niche needs in terms of data capture.
- The Drawings tool is a time saver in terms of uploading drawings, renaming them, and then aggregating with prior versions.
- Outlining the Product roadmap and letting users know exactly what is coming down the pike, and when, would be a huge improvement. As an administrator of the system, I feel like I am being surprised far too often by changes being made under the hood, so to speak.
- The inability to AirPrint from the Forms tool for the guys in the field is killing us.
- Two-way integration with QuickBooks is a must. We paid for an entire year of the Construction Financials module but never used it because it did not have the seamless integration we truly needed in order to send payroll directly to Quickbooks.
ProCore is MUCH more expensive than BuilderTrend and the pricing model (making it based on revenue and modules) makes it too expensive for small sub-contractors.
We have not benefited from these capabilities because we only receive access to GC's versions of a project, and manage our own version of that project in separate instances of Procore...because there is no way to sync our version of the project with the GCs.
- We have definitely saved time and paper but spent a lot of money getting the application set up and configured for the field.
- The ability to export data and get that data manually fed into QuickBooks is definitely something that Procore integration specialists should get better at. I basically abandoned the integration 'specialist' and figured it out myself.
- Gain visibility into projects
- Ensure information is accessible and up to date
- Document job site conditions
- Report on incidents and inspections
- Identify job site risks
- Track cost impacts from the field
- Streamline financial reporting
- Improve forecast accuracy
- Simplify employee time tracking
Daily Logs
Time tracking
Forms tool
Drawings tool
Photos tool
Documents tool
Time tracking
Forms tool
Drawings tool
Photos tool
Documents tool