eSUB Erfahrungen

eSub delivers a quality product that is easy to use and meets all of our needs.

Kommentare: eSub provides a great cloud-based solution that meets all of our project management and project tracking needs. As a subcontractor, it was nice to finally find a software solution that is tailored to the needs of subs and our work flow. It is easy to use and it has been easily adopted by all of our users, both in the office and in the field. I find that it covers all of the processes of a subcontracting workflow simply, but it is not simplistic. It is a sophisticated piece of software that has increased our internal efficiency and our external "appearance" to our clients. The only small complaint I've had so far with this software is the inability to share some common project submittal information between old and new projects, but this would be a great extra, not a deal killer at all. We have been very happy with eSub's continued enhancements and their technical support staff is very helpful and very easy to get a hold of. I'd rate their support team among the best that I've encountered over the years. If you are a subcontracting firm looking for project management/project tracking software, eSub provides a great solution and is a great value for the price. I'd highly recommend it.

Perfect PM platform for subcontractors!

Kommentare: We're extremely pleased with eSub. The timecard function is great, getting project information to our Superintendents and Foremen is immeasurable. I really like the submittal, Change Order, and RFI functions.

Vorteile:

Too many Pros to list here. The submittal process is quick and easy, and very professional. Change orders are a snap. RFI's can be started by our field leaders on the eSub app, and finished by the PM in the office. All of these have a great tracking system through the log provided. All logs can be exported into Excel to be sent to GC's or CM's. We use the Sage 300 connector, and all project financials are current in our projects on eSub. There's a cost to complete function that is a great way to get an idea of how the project will finish. Nearly all this information is available to our field users through the app, which gives them all the project information.

Nachteile:

Not really a Con, but it would be nice if the PO function would sync both ways through the Sage 300 connector. I believe that's a Timberline issue, though. Still, using eSub PO allows a real time look at committed costs against our project estimate.

eSUB Review

Kommentare: The system works a lot better than it did a year ago. It used to take forever to open Timecard Management or wouldn't open at all and I was having to manually enter payroll, but now I don't have that problem.

Vorteile:

The export feature so time doesn't have to be manually entered in our Payroll system

Nachteile:

I have to open each and every single job each week to save the Daily Reports and to know what jobs need to be included to export and it takes quite a bit of time. It would be nice if you could just populate daily reports created that week.

Masonry Review

Vorteile:

It was a one stop shop for my change orders, time cards and daily reports.

Nachteile:

The mobile app is not clean at all. Needs a lot of work. I also do not like how I have to do the extra leg work in order to see the real time cost of the project. I wish there was also a way for the program to pull the cost codes from my imported estimate into which cost codes are displayed in the project. it takes a long time to get the cost codes entered for a large project.

Esub Review

Kommentare: Esub has ben a great addition for us. We are heavy users of the Submittals module, time tracking and Purchase Order modules. We are now making a more concerted effort to learn the intricacies of job costing and more detailed project management.

Vorteile:

Esub has ben a great addition for us. it helps us to track all of our projects in one place ee electronically, as opposed to dozens of binders.

Nachteile:

The software has been improved over the years. There were frustrations with the time management module and QuickBooks integration, but these have been improved now.

Great product at a great price point

Kommentare: Consolidation of platforms, document control and ease of field to office and office to field communications. no more delays between information

Vorteile:

eSub has a bundle of features that fit exactly what we need at our company.

Nachteile:

With the upcoming switch from 1.0 cloud to 2.0 cloud we will have all the features we need.

eSUB is a great tool for Subcontractors

Kommentare: The team at eSUB has been very helpful. We even attended the bootcamp, which really helped a couple of our team members become more comfortable with the software. I would encourage every subcontractor that purchases eSUB to send a representative or two from to it.

Vorteile:

The ease of use and how it really dialed in our document control. Our daily reports are standardized now, our PO's can be monitored by our Purchaser and Accounts Payable, our Change Orders are easier to read, and equipment is tracked now. We are able to forecast labor and hold the team to it since hours are always current. eSUB has been very beneficial to our team.

Nachteile:

Some of the formats or layouts we didn't like right away, but those have improved through the years and should really look great in the next version of eSUB.

eSub Review

Kommentare: Very good and love the product. It would be a different world without it.

Vorteile:

The ease of use and keeping organized. The flexibility to use on the go. The ability to look at documents in the field

Nachteile:

Not too much to dislike. The product is sound and battle tested.

ESUB summary

Kommentare: I like using ESUB. Only platform I’ve used but like showing work performed in certain areas and capturing hours daily

Vorteile:

Easy input for job descriptions. Keeping track of hours and submitting for payroll

Nachteile:

The delay I get on finishing a daily report and the process of deleting a crew if needed

It’s great

Kommentare: Great program thank you for making it so user friendly

Vorteile:

Everything is great. very easy to use thank you

Nachteile:

Nothing is wrong. I have had an excellent time using this software

A most for all subcontractors

Kommentare: Our overall experience has been excellent

Vorteile:

Record management, job costing, communication with our customers, payroll for our employees, communication with our employees in the field, daily reports with pictures of the projects

Nachteile:

The price increase from our original price

Esub features uses

Kommentare: Pretty good. It makes the work easy enough

Vorteile:

The clock and daily reports, Change Order and attachments capability as well

Nachteile:

Subcontractors tracking by trades and tasks

We use eSUB for submittal, RFI & change order management

Kommentare: It helps us streamline some of our procedures, such as change order and submittal management and provides good recordkeeping.

Vorteile:

I can only speak on the features that we use. My favorite aspect is change order management. It is very organized and user friendly, especially when making revisions. I like that the revisions are grouped together on the change order log, makes it easy to find them. RFI management is nice and clean as well.

Nachteile:

I think the submittal log could be organized a bit better. I would prefer it to be organized just like the change order log. If there's a revision, keep it grouped together on the log rather than moving the revision up to the top. I find myself searching around the log too much to find submittals that were revised.

Customer Service is the best

Kommentare: Excellent- Love the tracking, ease of copying prior info to start new docs and ease of following timeline for RFIS and Submittals.

Vorteile:

I use this for our construction documents for our field crew. RFI's and Submittals are easily processed by all of the team and tracking is easy and efficient. Better than the software is the support behind it. Our Project Manager,[SENSITIVE CONTENT] , goes above and beyond to let us know upcoming features, where to get answers and how to teach users to be effective with its information.

Nachteile:

Understanding where users are pulled from for the submittal/RFI process from the project information. Specifically the Engineer, Estimator, Project Superintendent- What category do I add these people to ... Users or Contracts?

Esub Review

Kommentare: This has been a great product for us!

Vorteile:

It has helped us as an organization keep track of our projects better. The submittal tracking is great so we can stay on top of when submittals are late from GC.

Nachteile:

There are some processes that we do that do not translate easily to Esub. Not being able to update plans similar to Plangrid.

Whittington Electric Esub Review

Vorteile:

We love how many bases Esub covers. Reduces the need for multiple programs.

Nachteile:

The way it spits out its correspondence/submittals/RFI's for example is messy and needs to be cleaned up after the fact every time.

It works!

Kommentare: eSub has been a good product from my point of view.

Vorteile:

The documents that you can upload into eSub make it easy for the field people to have access to important documents to complete the project.

Nachteile:

From a mobile prospective, when we need to write purchase orders a search option would be nice rather than having to scroll down though every vendor we have listed.

Office Manager

Vorteile:

Our use of the system centers around time tracking, daily reports and change order tracking. The system works well for all three. We looked at other systems last year and this was the most robust that fit our needs as a subcontractor.

Nachteile:

I would like more flexibility on timecard management, custom reports for example. I would also like to be able to provide a simple invoice instead of a pay application when we are in a purchase order situation as opposed to a contract.

Worth every penny, wish we started using eSub sooner

Kommentare: Saved thousands of dollars on support and field production time.

Vorteile:

We came to eSub after a horrid experience with another vendor that claimed they would "simplify" my life and save us countless hours and money. After 12 months with thousands and thousands of dollars spent on support and wasting way too many hours to admit without profound embarrassment, I made the choice to abandon the failing attempt and give eSub a try. I tested eSub for a few months before making a complete shift to their platform and the only regret is I did not do it sooner. The conversion was smooth, the training was on point and the relationship is that of a partner not a parasite looking to milk us dry with a poorly engineered and supported product. We have saved thousands of dollars, countless productive field hours and I don't spend my entire day managing our management software. Feel free to look us up with any questions.

Nachteile:

If forced to submit a "con", the only thing that we have requested, from time to time, is a custom form or a modification to the way items are displayed. BUT... this is because we are trying to preserve OUR method. The eSub method is not flawed, we are making the request. The support team is still extremely responsive and I really don't see this as a con.

Good Software

Vorteile:

I typically use E-sub to generate submittals, purchase orders and change orders. It's super effective for this, as i can attach documents to the submittal as well and it helps keep me organized and have all of my submittals in one place.

Nachteile:

Sometimes the software can be glitchy and will not allow me to add certain files/takes a long time to load.

Easy to use

Vorteile:

This product allows for real time financial and time tracking.

Nachteile:

The way it treats materials is not the most useful for our specific business.

Simple Enough

Vorteile:

eSub makes it simple to produce documents such as submittals, RFIs, and Change Order Requests. Makes it easy to manage them as well, and stamp them with a status.

Nachteile:

Mobile is not the most intuitive. Some jobs we do not use the cost features and it would be nice to disable them.

If this software had an accounting aspect all in one, it would be a whole other ballgame

Kommentare: In the end, this is not saving time since the GCs do not use this platform for submittals and daily reports and this is not an accounting software also.

Vorteile:

Job summary page is a good tool if you are tied into accounting. I feel it is efficient in the field to add photos and track time lost. But again, daily reports are usually done through Procore because that is the GC platform and what they want used. It automatically adds the cover page to submittals which was nice.

Nachteile:

Most GCs use Procore or plan grid so using the submittal aspect of Esub is pointless since they need to uploaded through another platform and tracked through that. Also since this is not an accounting platform any COs and POs needed to also be entered through accounting - duplicating the process - inefficient.

eSub

Kommentare: overall ok product, could use updates to enhance experience

Vorteile:

employee timecard tracking, ability to send documents out of eSub via email

Nachteile:

options/features are hard to find, change orders and purchase orders clunky

Medium Sized Subcontractor using esub

Vorteile:

The simplicity of Esub is one of the best aspects, the repetitive nature of the system allows anyone to pick it up easily. The tracking and logging of submittals, RFIs, change orders is great. In using other project management systems, they tend to over complicate the interface where as Esub is straight forward and easy to use. Within the system the ability to attach files and use the emailing "@esubdocs" allows all aspects of the project to be documented within the system so that everything you need is all one place. Recently we have started to build our database for cha nge orders and manpower which has allowed us to use the system for logging and tracking of outstanding, approved and voided CORs which allows us to keep track of everything, which is especially helpful on larger projects where we have up to 50 CORs.

Nachteile:

One aspect we would like to change is the fact that we cannot erase if there is an error made in the submission, we understand the reason, however it would be a nice option if the admin of the system could erase. Another component that we do not use is the drawings logging section, it is too cluttered, we keep track of the drawings through the submissions, which works great for us.