Why renovation management software?
In the current economy Australians are spending more on home renovation costs. Economic pressure comes mainly from the shortage of skilled labor, offsetting stabilizing material and shipping costs. For home renovators, this likely means, yes, continued revenue, but it comes with increased competition. The state of affairs requires builders spend more attention on first-class job and quote management.
Does that mean more office work? Not necessarily. Increasingly, competitive builders and renovators are turning to time-saving renovation management software to create detailed, accurate estimates that win jobs, even as those jobs attract an increasing number of competing bids.
Buildxact is a specific subclass of renovation management software that can help cut through the clutter. It provides end-to-end benefits to construction job managers.
With Buildxact, professional builders and renovators apply their own skill and experience to online digital tools so that their unique talents can shine through to the customer and are not buried under dull admin work.
An added plus with Buildxact, is that its set of software tools also can be used to better manage administrative work throughout the entire project lifecycle not just estimating and quoting.
When admin work is done more quickly, builders and renovators are back on the job site ensuring quality work is delivered on time. With Buildxact, builders have simple tools to manage construction projects in a way that is unique to them, and this helps build competitive advantages down the line.
Let’s look at some of the benefits of complete job management software offered by Buildxact.
Buildxact is simple construction job management software
Buildxact has an array of digital and online tools that easily moves the builder from estimating, quoting to scheduling and budgeting. Everything is driven by basic point-and-click computer skills already familiar to most who use word processing, spreadsheet and email software.
Quote construction projects faster
To win jobs in a competitive environment, builders and renovators have to be quick with accurate quotes. Having customers wait days or weeks for a quote often means the job has passed them by. With Buildxact construction job management software, construction pros accurately quote jobs up to 5X faster thanks to digital takeoffs and online material pricing.
With Buildxact, it’s goodbye to late nights after work reading paper plans and scale rulers. Builders simply upload a digital PDF to calculate material counts. It’s all done from digital measurements and a click of a mouse. Material counts align with Buildxact’s integrated estimate tool so that counts and material pricing quickly tally up across all the needed construction tasks, even for the most extensive remodeling project.
Because Buildxact offers ready-to-go estimate templates for things like kitchen and bathroom projects , getting started with construction management software proves much easier the most renovation job managers who are new to construction software realize.
A key benefit of Buildxact estimating is the online connection to supplier material pricing. The latest material prices from supplier you know and trust ensures renovators and builders earn a fair profit while building a reputation among customers for upfront job estimates that come with no dollar-sign surprises.
No hassle customer communication
Knowing costs is critical to quoting accurately and earning the profit margins renovators and builders deserve. But it’s not enough to have those numbers in hand, they have to be presented to customer in a professional manner to win the job.
Buildxact helps with that, too. Buildxact construction management software is uniquely designed to help small businesses impress their customers. Buildxact offers prebuilt quote letters that allow for remodeling trades to add all their necessary business details and specifications to customize templates in a way that works for them.
Over time, Buildxact users save quote templates based on their most common projects to make quoting an even more consistent and time-saving process for their construction business.
Manage construction projects the right way
Larger benefits to using Buildxact are realized once a job is won. Here, because Buildxact is an all-in-one-solution, builders and renovators can quickly assign the tasks created for their job estimate to scheduling and planning tools with the click of a button. By not having to double-handle data, builders save time, all while keeping tradies, suppliers and team leaders on the same page about material shipments and the proper order of work.
With Buildxact, renovation schedules can be arranged by parent tasks and subtasks. Once grouped together, tasks can quickly be organized around other dependencies and updated in groups with point-and-click mouse commands. Job reminders and status updates are readily available to the entire team so all team members track progress with less effort.
Unforeseen delays in permitting or material availability often play havoc with schedules; so it’s critical you have a tool that keeps everyone associated with your job in the loop when those problems crop up. Once builders assign tasks, schedules can be printed and email reminders set up so task management benefits everyone.
Buildxact’s mobile app, Buildxact Onsite, also allows team members to setup and maintain daily logs direct from the job site. Updates can include relevant photos of progress made.
Most renovations encounter unforeseen problems, especially with older homes. Buildxact helps renovators quickly add work to schedules once a variation has been written and approved by the customer using Buildxact’s RFQ tool.
More effective job budgeting
Tracking actual costs against the original estimate is critical to a successful customer experience and a profitable outcome for the renovator.
Tracking profitability is a consistent challenge for construction pros. Survey data gathered in 2023 by the Association of Professional Builders shows 40% of builders don’t regularly track gross margin of their projects and many don’t understand the underlying significance of markup and its relation to profitability.
The best project management software, like Buildxact, helps construction pros keep an eye on both markup and profit when budgeting projects. Buildxact gives builders 3 options for adding markup:
Markup can be added to individual section or categories of the estimate
Markup can be added to individual items
Markup can be added to the entire estimate
Track estimated, committed and actual costs
For complete financial management of projects, Buildxact now gives users the power to track estimated costs that flow direct from the estimate; committed costs that generate from purchase orders; and finally, actual costs that are entered as invoices and receipts flow into Buildxact. In this way, renovators and builders have valuable insights that show how actual costs can differ from what’s initially expected at the time an estimate is made or a purchase or work order is recorded.
Also, as builders use Buildxact over time, they can track there most successful projects and use them as templates for future work covering similar size and scope. This way future estimates become more accurate and more competitive.
Recording external expenses and revenue with Buildxact is made easier with two-way sync with accounting software. For example, users of Buildxact and Quickbooks can synch purchases and customer invoices so the data only has to be entered once.
Want to learn more?
Whether a builder, renovator or tradie, your business will benefit from construction project management software like Buildxact.
You will write more accurate estimates, create clearer bids, achieve your targeted profit margins and create the kind of reputation that wins more business. Imagine doing all of this while reducing the time spent in the office.
Do yourself a favor and contact a friendly Buildxact representative and book a demo to learn more. If you are ready to get started right away, why not sign up for a risk-free trial of Buildxact? Let us do what we do best, give you back the time you need to better run your remodeling projects.
