Detailed Features Sheet
There is more to BuildSoft than meets the eye. Here is a complete list of all of the features available for each of BuildSoft's fully integrated functionalities.
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BuildSoft Functionality
Budgeting
- Maintains two budgets - preliminary (estimate) and committed (contracted)
- Uses historical jobs data for future job estimates
- Provides cost-per-home budget reporting
- Compares preliminary or committed budget vs. actual job cost
Take-off
- Calculates quantity of materials required for a job
- Calculates quantity of labor required for a job
- Generates purchase orders and work orders based on take-off
- Links material and labor prices to vendors and subcontractors
- Utilizes master database of material items
- Allows for use of assemblies in take-off
- Provides material quantity reporting
- Generates price comparison reports
- Integrates with take-off packages and digitizers
Scheduling
- Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling
- Gantt Chart scheduling (bar chart)
- Utilizes master database of template workstages
- Updates tasks calendar as schedule changes
- Processes reports for global as well as user-specific schedules
- Changes made in schedule automatically update calendar
- Links job options to workstages
Calendar
- Provides daily reminders of tasks to get done
- Manages the schedule directly from the calendar
- Updates purchase order and work order information
- Processes reports for the calendar for a specific user or globally
General Ledger
- Auto entries to the G/L when jobs are closed to move funds from W.I.P to COGS
- Generates Accounting Integrity Report to verify that the system is in balance
- Uses NAHB Chart of Accounts
- Allows use of any other chart of accounts
- Provides bank (check) reconciliation capabilities
- Full G/L reporting from trial balance and transaction journals
- Customizable balance sheets and income statements
Accounts Payable
- Flags over-budget items during invoice entry
- Automatically calculates insurance premium deductions
- Provides "Authorize for Payment" capability
- Provides lien waiver forms and reports
- Generates insurance audit reports
- Provides aged payables reporting with filter capabilities
- Calculates and prints 1099 forms
Purchase Orders (PO) & Work Orders (WO)
- Produces purchase orders for vendor materials
- Produces work orders for subcontractor labor or turnkey bids
- Generates bid letters
- Notifies calendar module of send, call and follow-up dates for vendors and subs
- Provides alerts at invoice entry, when PO and WOs disagree with invoice amount
- Generates change orders for purchase orders and work orders
- Generates change variance orders for purchase orders and work orders
Draw/Billing Schedule and Accounts Receivable
- Creates customer invoices for time and materials jobs
- Prepares draw request reports for banks and AIA documents
- Generates recurring invoices for customers
- Prints AIA Bills
- Provides aging reports (sorted by customer or by job)
- Provides customer invoice history reporting
Payroll
- Produces payroll checks
- Provides timesheet entry capabilities
- Calculates workers' compensation
- Calculates quarterly report worksheets for 941, FUTA and SUTA
- Provides hourly payroll reports (sorted by employee, job or account)
- Computes and prints W2 forms
Job Costing
- Compares preliminary or committed budget to actual job cost
- Reports show job cost based on the check register
- Compares actual job costs from multiple jobs to a budget job
- Report provides detailed transaction information for each account number
- Identifies and tracks variances in special accounts
Miscellaneous
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Accounts and back-office processes auto-configured for different job types, including:
- Speculative
- Custom (revenue as received)
- Custom (revenue at job sale)
- Phase
- Land development
- Remodeling
- Overhead
- Provides detailed cash flow projection reporting - configurable
- Proposal generator - utilizes previous jobs and template jobs database
- Provides pre-populated data to get you up and running faster
- Purge utility allows for safe archiving of previous years' history