Construction Estimating Software Top Ten Must Haves #6

My Top 3

Your construction estimating software must prepare budgets in an accounting system for job cost

Construction Estimating and Job Cost are like the Chicken and Egg proposition, which came first. You shouldn’t have one without the other. If you’re a contractor that doesn’t track your costs you are headed for the poor house. If you don’t know what it really costs to do the work how can you estimate? You can’t, you’re guesstimating.

That’s why it’s extremely important that your construction estimating software will create budgets that you can track your costs and employee time to. This will give you the information you need to adjust your construction estimating so you’re not making the same mistakes over and over and over again.

The construction estimating software should also include instructions on how to use the job cost functions in the accounting system so you get the most out of it. This means you don’t have to spend hours and days trying to figure out how to get the information you need out of the accounting system.