Construction Edition: for Home Builders
Manage your customers, subcontractors, and every aspect of the home building process with Acumatica Construction Edition for Home Builders
How Acumatica Construction software can work for you
Acumatica’s Construction Edition provides the home builder apps to help manage budgets, commitments, and costs. Acumatica building software also links to contract details and record change orders, subcontracts, fees, warranty costs, and more.
Key benefits of Acumatica Construction Edition for Home Builders
Integration with Other Productivity Solutions
BuildPro, SupplyPro, CFMA Benchmark, and Acumatica residential construction software share critical information among employees and suppliers, and Microsoft Office simplifies communications with customers.
Home Technology, Offsite Construction
Launch new home features and construction methods cost effectively, updating contract and project templates to include all the specifics and capturing field comments, photos, and videos on as-built progress.
Customer Portals and CRM
Use web sites and Customer Resource Management (CRM) capabilities to promote and capture leads, cultivate prospects, track sales cycles, and streamline customer selections, change orders, and warranty needs.
Communicate with Homeowners
Whether a production or a custom home builder, eventually communication with the home buyer enters the process. Keeping track of all emails, conversations, documents, and photos insures nothing is missed while improving customer service.
Change Management
Control cost overruns by automating project commitments and change order processes. For example, manage back charges or reduce vendor commitments through the entry of a negative change order.
Important Features of Acumatica Construction Edition for Home Builders
Robust financials are simple enough for smaller contractors, yet scalable for more complex needs.
Acumatica Financial Management has standard financial processes (GL/AP/AR) and reports.
Multicompany, multicurrency, intercompany accounting, fixed assets, recurring and deferred revenue, and cash management are also available.
- Easily manage AP workflows, from entering an invoice through approval routing and checks.
- Seamless
customer billing, driven by real-time project costing, includes up-to-date labor, material, equipment, and
other costs. - Proactively identify problem areas in current jobs and improve future projects estimates.
Gain a complete view of project details—including real-time field updates—providing instantaneous information between your project management team, back-office workforce, and management.
Easily manage and track all activities, issues, changes, project documents, and job costs from one central area.
- Flexible payroll adapts to any construction organization supporting multiple unions, locals, classes, benefit packages, complex wages, certified wages, executive compensation, and commission structures.
- Control cost overruns by automating project commitments and change order processes.
- Create and track subcontract status, purchase orders, budgets comparisons, line-item committed costs, and payments.
- Effectively manage lien waivers and releases, insurance certificates, and status updates, providing expiration and other alerts to staff and suppliers.
Easily see real-time data on all customer activities, including quotes, orders, invoices, payments, support cases, and service calls.
Acumatica CRM also includes a self-service customer portal that lets customers
access the information they need.
- Get anytime, anywhere access. Quickly see critical reports on phones and tablets and give field teams and subcontractors tools to enter employee time and equipment details electronically.
- Access the complete system over any device and search for all project details from one global search box.
Streamline the management of project materials, including receipts and issues for purchased materials.
Create requisitions with approvals workflow and create purchase orders to ship materials directly to a project location, creating an efficient workflow for job site deliveries.
- Control cost overruns by automating project commitments and change order processes.
- For example, manage back charges or reduction in vendor commitments through the entry of a negative change order.
- Drop-ship workflows connected to change orders improve business workflows.
- Flexible progress billing by quantity like linear or square footage reduces project owner risk while allowing customers to meet their unique business needs.
- Simplify the process of calculating taxes for a project – tax zones are specified directly in the project and automatically retrieved and calculated for all invoices, purchase orders, subcontracts, and expenses.
