Procore: A Great Tool for Construction Pros
March 19, 2021
Procore: A Great Tool for Construction Pros
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Project Management
- Construction Financials
- Bidding
Overall Satisfaction with Procore
I use Procore to manage the financial commitments and overall cost tracking status of each project. I also use it to solicit pricing and manage the bidding process. I manage all types of projects with Procore, from small renovations to large ground-up high-rises. Procore is a great tool for managing various aspects of projects, ranging from the bidding & preconstruction phase, during the daily project workflow & day-to-day phase, through the final completion and turnover phase. The Preconstruction, Project Management, and Financial Management modules within Procore are all very intuitive and user-friendly. Help is always available and readily accessible via the handy "Question" mark button, which automatically launches a chat session with a Procore technical support representative.
- Ability to customize reports for sharing and distribution.
- Ability to manage outside collaborators and control what information they have access to.
- Overall flexibility which offers different ways of entering and tracking information.
- Mass emailing capability, which is great for soliciting pricing or sharing important announcements.
- Great customer support and feedback.
- The Procore app is still missing some features that are only available on the desktop version.
- The invoicing function within the Financial Management module would be more user-friendly if it was possible to edit the formatting and customize it more to match specific requirements.
- Deleting old, outdated, or duplicate contacts from the Directory can sometimes require multiple steps that seem unnecessary.
- Saves time when soliciting pricing from vendors/suppliers.
- Well suited to handle increases in ACV.
- Increases collaboration between all project stake holders.
There has been some initial integration with our scheduling software, but not to the point yet where it is fully functional. This is a work in progress. Another integration that is being considered is with our cost accounting software, which would allow for a more streamlined experience and easier access to the most current financial and cost status information on each project.
The Daily Logs is a tool in Procore that is mainly used by our onsite and field-based personnel. The greatest impact to the speed at which the daily logs are entered is the ability in Procore to copy over the previous day's information, instead of having to manually enter all of the same information over again each day. This is great on projects where the tasks, man count and work being performed don't change much from one day to the next.
Prolog is a good project management application, but it doesn't offer the level of customization along with customer feedback & support that Procore does. CMiC is also very similar to Procore and Prolog, but the available features and tools within CMiC fall short of what Procore can offer. CMiC, like Prolog, also can't match the level of instant customer support that Procore brings to the table.