Item: Viewpoint Vista
Rating: 10
Author: Grant Mongin

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Vista to track job costs, billings, productivity and other user-defined data points. We use something called regions at our company that drives a lot of JC reporting for us. That is defined by a user-defined table and user-defined fields. This ability of Viewpoint to allow major customization to their product to allow us to run our business how we want to is very helpful to us.

Pros and Cons

Customization is as easy or as complicated as you like. You can get to the SQL tables/views if you want or go through Viewpoint to create customization in their software.
It's faster than competing products.
Their support team is fantastic. I use live chat and knowledge base daily and I always get answers.

Sometimes Vista has some bugs that should be worked out before general release so be careful when upgrading
Their TEAM platform is confusing
The interface for their product feels outdated

Return on Investment

Detailed job cost tracking
WO's provide an easy way to track small amounts of work
Billings can be customized by customer

Key Insights

Do you think Viewpoint Vista delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Viewpoint Vista's feature set?

Yes

Did Viewpoint Vista live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Viewpoint Vista go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Viewpoint Vista again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Procore

Likelihood to Recommend

Vista by Viewpoint is made for construction companies of all sizes from what I've seen. It does not make sense for companies that don't do construction. Since it does construction so well though it's a selling point with clients who need help organizing things like PO's, cost tracking and billings. We have potential customer that wants to see all those things but doesn't have the software to do it.

Vista by Viewpoint is the only solution for Construction Accounting

Overall Satisfaction with Vista by Viewpoint