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Was ist UDA ConstructionSuite?
Erfahre, wie über 500.000 Profis in 75 Ländern mit UDA ConstructionSuite schneller und genauer Kostenvoranschläge abgeben. ConstructionSuite wurde für Generalunternehmen, Bauunternehmen und Subunternehmen entwickelt und verwaltet Projekte im Wert von über 65 Milliarden $ mithilfe von branchenspezifischen Tools wie RSMeans Cost Data, AIA-Zahlungsanwendungen, Voranschlagsvorlagen, echter bidirektionaler QuickBooks-Integration, Änderungsauftragsverwaltung, und Integration mit führenden CAD-Programmen. Fange noch heute an!
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Bewertungen über UDA ConstructionSuite
Great product
Kommentare: I am pleased with the program, it has given us a more professional look and organizes our estimates in a concise format.
Vorteile:
The fact that it stops me from making mistakes. I had several painful experiences using other software and spreadsheets.
Nachteile:
Having to do takeoffs with another software package like Plan Swift. The estimate should be archived even if deleted, mistakes happen.
UDA Construction Suite works extremely well 99% of the time
Kommentare: Like any system that has the level of functionality that Construction Suite has there are always going to be occasional "niggles". Customer Support are always extremely polite & professional and today, when I called a couple of times to discuss some minor and one not so minor issue customer, rep was extremely helpful and contrary to what is often the case with support these days, she actually took the time to listen and understand the issues & then helped to resolve every one of them in a timely manner. The most serious of these issues was actually a limitation of QuickBooks and not a Construction Suite issue but all the same this was given the same level of attention and resolved quickly. It makes life so much easier when speaking to someone who genuinely understands the product and is not just reading off a customer service script. UDA provides a fast track to feed issues directly to their development staff. We have been using Construction Suite for several years now and although obviously, it is not a software solution built just for us, it often feels as if it is as it is so versatile. Technology is a huge aspect of our company and a big selling feature to our clients. We could not do what we do without it. I would have rated ease of use as 5 stars; the only reason for giving it 4 is that due to the level of functionality it can take some time to grow in to and learn how best to use the functionality ... but if it were very very easy to use that would probably man a much lower score for features & functionality. I give it a 4 for features as one can always want more.
Vorteile:
Reliability (up time) and functionality are extremely important as well as mirroring how we do business in terms of our estimating & scheduling model.
Nachteile:
Some times the built in application used for creating proposals and other documents can be a bit tricky ... it's kind of like Microsoft Word but the formatting can be a little buggy at times (or perhaps fairer to say a little more prone to user error).
They make big promises, and fall flat on their face.
Kommentare: They might tell you that these things work, but, after spending MONTHS with UDA, I found out that these problems are deal breakers. Within their customer service department, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. They do not use a structure such as Zendesk that so many other great companies use. Even though I was paying for priority support, there were often days going by where I could not get a call or email back to assist me with a support request or provide a tutorial on how to do something. Had I not paid extra for support, this would be acceptable. But when paying for "TotalCare" priority support, there are times when the software had me stuck, and I was stuck for a day at a time waiting for an answer. Sometimes no answer ever arrived. I hope this helps someone avoid the pain I went through!
Vorteile:
The beautiful user interface. It looks good. Their videos are professional. But, BEWARE: When you start using it, you'll be unpleasantly surprised... buyer beware!
Nachteile:
It does not do what it promises to, and there are dozens of annoying quirks. If your decision hasn't been made, let me say: DON'T DO IT! I made a serious mistake when I bought UDA. While they have a beautiful user interface, there are some serious flaws under the hood. Some are major things, and some are very minor annoyances that will drive you nuts. "You mean, I can't do THAT with UDA, but I can do it with any other basic software out there?" was a common comment running through my head. Some examples. 1. Their spell checker creates a squiggly line to tell you that you have a misspelled word, but, doens't allow you to correct it. 2. The spell checker lets you add custom words to a dictionary, but, it can only use one dictionary at a time to check spelling. So the default dictionary gets used, and your custom words still show up as being spelled wrong! 3. You can't select-copy addresses, in order to paste them somewhere else. 4. Using duplexing on my printer doesn't work right. It works for every other software I own, but not in UDA. 5. There is a bug in the WIP date range that doesn't pull accurate data. 6. "Options" in the estimate show only cost, not margin. So if you show your customer that report, you are revealing cost info, not selling price!! 7. You can't import a PDF into bid notes, even though the premise of UDA is to try to make it a single repository for all your information.
Updated Review
Kommentare: Now that we've used Construction Suite for about six months, I wanted to share our experience and explain why I consider it a five star program. We are a small remodeling and cabinet company that specializes in highly individualized projects, with almost all of our design work done in-house. We originally set out to find a replacement for our Excel estimating spreadsheet and to move our scheduling off of a wall calendar. What we've wound up with is an entirely new way of running the business side of things, with all of our contracts and documents, customer management, and job costing being done through Construction Suite now as well as estimating and scheduling. As the owner, I was not expecting to change how I tracked customers (Zoho CRM) or handled job costing (Quickbooks Contractor) but I couldn't be happier now with handling all that information in one place. It has been an easy transition out of our old systems and into Construction Suite by taking things one process at a time; for example we moved estimating over, then contracts and scheduling, etc. and we're now about 90% transitioned. In the other programs we evaluated, I found they seemed to be geared towards general contractors that rely heavily on subcontractors, leaving the estimating side of things with no more utility than our old spreadsheets. Construction Suite's estimating allows us to break down costs into as much or as little detail as we need, and communicate with Quickbooks to track actual cost vs. estimated costs at whatever level of detail we need. For example, we may enter flooring for a project as one item ( a subcontractor's quote) and in the same estimate break down costs for a kitchen island down to each hinge and drawer guide, all in the same estimate. This has been a game changer for us and has cut estimating time down by at least half. Most of all, I can compare each line in the estimate to the actual cost imported from Quickbooks, and know down to the line item if we've made or lost money. If you've tried job costing in Quickbooks, I've felt your pain and I'm here to say there's a better way. There are many more positive things I could elaborate on but I don't want to turn this into a novel, so here's the gist of it: Programs like this can be intimidating, but Construction Suite can be approached as a collection of smaller programs with tiny learning curves. You can treat it as a contacts list to start, then master the calendar, and so on. This worked well for me. Call them. Buy TotalCare and you'll get your money's worth in advice from people who know their stuff. Overall this has been the best single feature of Construction Suite. Good luck with your search, Mike Jungers, Owner New World Contracting
Vorteile:
Depth. For almost every phone call to tech support, there has been a feature already in the program that does what I need. Not that it's a hard program to learn, I've just found it's faster and much more pleasant to call them and let them teach me. Top notch customer service! A bunch more pros, but a small one that I really enjoy is it's pleasant to look at. Well done design team.
Nachteile:
I have had a few cons, such as using assemblies in an estimate, but the version 8 update has addressed literally every small complaint I've had.
I made a user error that resulted in my need for help.
Kommentare: Better cost controls for more accurate pricing of our products
Vorteile:
The ease of use and great support that UDA offers. We are a small home building company 25 to 35 homes per year. UDA is the right tool for our size of company.
Nachteile:
With a production office in KY (UDA) and a central accounting office in WI (QuickBooks) it causes issues and extra steps that when a PO is created in QuickBooks for a job that PO can longer be seen in KY with UDA only in WI with QuickBooks open
