Anyone using Procore?

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We are forced to use it for record keeping with one of our larger clients.

Maybe it is because we don't use it often enough, but it does not seem to be user friendly.
 
Like Ron, we have to use it for certain contractors and I actually find it easy to use but we may be using different aspects of it. If you are looking to use it for accounting purposes it is far easier to use than "Coins" as far as I can tell.

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Anyone using Procore?

Not looking for accounting ..... Need a better project management solution. I'm losing more time than I can afford to every day. A lot of it is on the phone answering questions and dealing with problems that could easily be handled electronically. And just managing the day-to-day aspect of jobs.


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Anyone using Procore?

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I don't like it at all. If you have flexibility, I find Building connected to be a much easier interface.
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I looked that up, and it seems to be a bid management software.

That's not exactly what I'm looking for; I can handle that in Conest.

What I'm looking for is a solution for field reports and daily job updates, and some sort of communication platform other than email where I can link conversations with employees to jobs.

We've typically had up to 8 projects going at a time, and now we're pushing two dozen. Between all of this texting, email, and phone calls with the guys, it's getting extremely difficult to keep up and manage. I'm forgetting little things every day..... It seems to me if I had a platform where guys in the field could just enter notes for a job, I could review those daily instead of spending 20 minutes at a time on the phone. Y'all my computer monitors are completely lined with post-it notes. This is getting out of hand. If I don't write something on my calendar or notepad the minute it's told to me, I will forget, because before I finish one phone call, someone else is beeping in on the other line.

With that said, responsibilities are about to start being delegated more across the board to help, but if we don't get a system in place now, things are going to get very bad I'm afraid.

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brantmacga said:
I looked that up, and it seems to be a bid management software.

That's not exactly what I'm looking for; I can handle that in Conest.

What I'm looking for is a solution for field reports and daily job updates, and some sort of communication platform other than email where I can link conversations with employees to jobs.

We've typically had up to 8 projects going at a time, and now we're pushing two dozen. Between all of this texting, email, and phone calls with the guys, it's getting extremely difficult to keep up and manage. I'm forgetting little things every day..... It seems to me if I had a platform where guys in the field could just enter notes for a job, I could review those daily instead of spending 20 minutes at a time on the phone. Y'all my computer monitors are completely lined with post-it notes. This is getting out of hand. If I don't write something on my calendar or notepad the minute it's told to me, I will forget, because before I finish one phone call, someone else is beeping in on the other line.

With that said, responsibilities are about to start being delegated more across the board to help, but if we don't get a system in place now, things are going to get very bad I'm afraid.

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As a stop-gap, you might consider making use of Outlook to at least organize your e-mail traffic. I have separate folders for each project I work on. When I write an e-mail, the first thing that appears in the subject line is the job/project number. The second thing to do is use Outlooks Task View to create a task or "to-do" item out of each of those post-its. I then create a log in each task when I go to it and describe what I did and when I did it. If you're delegating, there's a way to assign that task to others and you can have those individuals send you status reports on their assigned tasks. You can also create Groups in Outlook if you have people working on a common project and supposedly include tasks in this, but I've never done it and can't speak to their usefulness.
 
brantmacga said:
I'm testing out a program called Asana right now; web-based w/ mobile apps. Looks promising.
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I took a quick peek at it. Forget about my Outlook suggestions, this looks like the solution you need. Unless you need the functionality of the Premium version or are already at more than 15 bodies for a project then "free is the way to be".
 
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