Buildertrend vs RSMeans Data Online Comparison

Being able to schedule tasks to people in the field and the calendar functions are what I like the best. I appreciate the vendor's availability to train and answer any of our questions.

I'm unable to export certain data into Excel. I'm also unable to find answers to questions via the online training.

Buildertrend gives your clients a easy to use portal for selecting options on new homes. They also helped us to save money on builders risk insurance.

The pay online service can a be a little cumbersome to setup and use. Ended up not using the pay online feature.

Josef - Thanks so much for taking the time to provide us with some feedback! We're so happy to hear our partnership with SilverStone Group is saving you money on builder’s risk insurance.

The many different ways to keep you organized in different aspects throughout the job.

Sometimes, as it is an online outlet, there are glitches.

I like the ease of use, and the organizational aspects.

It has a slight learning curve, and the online videos helped only moderately.

Easy to use and understandUser friendly data interpretations and data setsMultiple intergration options

Costly to useSlow response timefaced challenges in scalability of data

Thanks for taking the time to share your experience with Buildertrend! We appreciate your feedback and will be sure to share it with our team.

The integration with Planswift works awesome. Phone support is always great too.

Can't import data/excel info on a change order

Ease of access for the homeowners. Easy to navigate around. I like that is internet-based and can be accessed anywhere. Customer support is awesome as well.

The budget tab takes way too long to enter data.

The ease of use. Being about to get around the different pages.

Need to be able to pull data into more reports

Comprehensive feature set - you get out of it what you put into it.

Cross platform integration - would like to see better interoperability with Chief Architect, and ability to migrate other CRM’s

Thank you for your honest review and feedback, Charlie! We appreciate it. I've passed your feedback about integrations onto our team.

Online access to work from anywhere, fairly simple to use.

There a lot of times when the system is down or runs very slow

Ease of use and very professional. The client login site is very nice.

Can be a lot of data entry in beginning. Some overlapping.

The Budget feature. I like having a realistic picture of the financial position of each project.

Time commitment for data entry to allow the features to perform

Customers LOVE daily updates and following along with the calendar

Customers are alerted about paying online when that is not an option for our company. Calendars show work through the weekends

Email, Change Order Tab and payments, Online Selections, Tracking costs, and schedules.

Takes some time building up the back end selections and templates.

Love the online payments but don't love how it syncs with QB

Need to be able to deactivate things and have them not show in the lists without having to delete them ..example: internal users

The online portal for the home owner which shows photo's, schedule etc.

The thing I don't like is I don't have enough time to spend on learning the program!

The project management tool in BuilderTrend is very robust with its functionalities, predecessor/successor assignments, and budget tracking. The section for notes and repository of uploaded images are helpful to the project managers in the field. The other important feature is the time entry module where we can track our workers and their billable hours worked.

The reporting tools are a bit limiting as query tools should be made available for administrators to extract data as it relates to our specific management oversight needs. The other limiting feature is that the financial data can only originate from BuilderTrend. We use QuickBooks heavily for our financial records but BuilderTrend cannot pull this data in.

The ability to record large amounts of information and have accessibility, online & mobile.

Restricted reporting capacity, but that could be my lack of understanding. I would like to understand 1. When the last logs by a building supervisor was 2. The date the last photos were uploaded 3. Provide me a report on the stage each site is at. Such as, 10 homes to be a "lock up" stage this week, 5 due for handover this week, etc. 5 house slabs being poured this week.

-easy project management -it saves costs -it improves communication

-not user friendly to others -not to handle multiple users -data entry takes time

Thanks for the feedback, Norman. We're constantly working to improve our product. We hope you find it more user friendly in the future!

Easy to use. Able to input most data.

No cons were added to this review

The ability to easily input data and retrieve data is amazing! This allows us to always see where we stand on projects and to run project-specific reports.

I did find that the app was slightly harder to upload pictures to a job or daily log. On a desktop, it was easy though.

Almost Everything is in one location and accessible by everyone.

It takes a tremendous amount of time to enter data and the QuickBooks is horrible.

The buildertrend progream is "user friendly" which makes it the best for the money in my book

The least thing I like about the program is that it is not a data base

That the service is online and can be accessed by my customers from anywhere in the world. We operate out of Omaha, Nebraska and I have had customers get online a approve selections and change orders from all around the world from Hawaii and Switzerland.

Nothing right now and the website is always improving

It's user friendly, customizable with lots of great options. The online support and customer serviceis excellent too.

No cons were added to this review

Thank you, Brandy! Our Buildertrend Coaches are the best. Please continue to reach out anytime to take advantage of the unlimited training and support!