Honest Buildings

I tender and manage many projects and I just feel this has saved me so much time. I don't need to manage my email and Honest Buildings, I just go to the project page on Honest buildings and there is everything communication pertaining to that project. Project management, Change order Management, Time management, Cost management and Communications management all in one.

Pros

- Biding-Tendering process can be done in the click of the button once you have your templates set up.
- Analyzing the bid is a breeze click of a button and you can analyze all or just a few bidders no more spread sheets.
- All documents are in one location for all team members to see
- Time saver in that all messages, CO's, RFI's, Invoices etc. are in once location no more searching through emails to find that one overlooked email.
- Customer support is the best... I can chat with them pretty much anytime if I have issues.
- Many of my contractors find the system so easy to use, and the others just can't seem to find their way out of the cave :)
- From the Bid evaluation you can easily see how much per square foot things cost individually... which saves time when leasing asks for a budget price in the future.
- intuitive reports can be set up.
- Managing Milestones and Schedules

Cons

- It seems slow
- I used to be able to edit anything but now it seems I can only edit what I personally input.
- wish I could work from my IPad/Phone to work remotely.
- wish I could have more control over the levels of access.
- wish I could set up a few master team lists and just click on that list to add them to certain projects. Currently I have to add the team members individually.

The transition into Honest Buildings was a smooth process, just took some time to upload the project information. I feel the biggest advantage of Honest Buildings is all of our construction projects are managed from start to finish in one software program and can be easily retrieved when needed to run reports. Running reports is simple and can be manipulated in Excel to suite our needs.

Pros

Some of the best features for me include: ease of use for myself and our vendors and if we do have questions the chat function works great for both of us. I am pleased to say that our vendors have very little issues with using this software. My next best feature is the bidding process which is a breeze, click a few buttons and all the pertinent information is sent to a list of vendors to bid, easy to quantify the bids and simple to award with a click of a button and it notifies the bidders that weren't select with an automatic email. Invoicing and change order feature works well and easily manageable.

Cons

In the beginning stages of working with Honest Buildings it was coming up with work-arounds for situations that the software wasn't set up for, but the great people at Honest Buildings listened to our requests and worked to come up with what we needed. We still have a small list of wish items that they are working on and will have a resolution shortly. Security and user permissions was an issue which has partially been resolved.