No pro in Procore
April 24, 2019
No pro in Procore
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Project Management
Overall Satisfaction with Procore
We receive bid invites and plans from Procore. We also upload submittals and close-out documents, along with change orders, RFI's and contracts, and insurance certificates.
- I can only give you a negative opinion as a subcontractor. It might be the best thing that hit the construction industry on the Contractor's side but I really doubt it. It's just not user-friendly from my side of Procore.
- I will give them an A+ for getting the bid invites out. They are constantly flooding my email with the same bid invite over and over and over. God help you if it's a popular job and there are 5 or 6 contractors that can afford Procore.
- They are a really security-minded company. You have to change passwords constantly, even if it's for the same job, but from two different contractors. You have to come up with a new one and can't use one you already used.
- Making it more user-friendly for subcontractors. I'm not sure how well it works for contractors, but a lot of the ones I talked to are not happy with Procore due to the fact that the software is complicated to work with.
- You have to constantly change your password on the same job, not because you can't remember it, but because they feel it's time for you to change it.
- Bid Invites or documents can't be forwarded and still work. If my estimator gets a bid invite and forwards it to me, or if I forward the one sent to me to the bid program (I use the hyperlinks to the job), it won't work. I have to call the contractor and have them send me the bid invite or I have to go to the original invite in Outlook to get the hyperlinks to work.
Out of the 4 programs I could think of off the top of my head, Procore is dead last. iSqFt is one step above Procore with their slow download and upload speeds. When I am asked to look at plans on Procore, I go out of my way to find the info some other way, usually on a building exchange or from another Contractor who had sense enough to not buy Procore.
Procore does not enable easy collaboration between us (subcontractors) and General Contractors. I have not really benefited from any of my experiences with Procore in any way that I can think of. Again, it's not subcontractor friendly, and when I get an invite in Procore I find a way not to use it.
- No positive impact.
- By no means does it save time and efficiency for subcontractors.
- Gain visibility into projects
The only thing I can think of is when Procore sends me an invite I have the name of a job and I can go find it elsewhere. I can't really think of any way that Procore has helped us achieve any of our goals, with the exception I just mentioned.