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From project evaluation, takeoff and estimating, to construction and closeout, contractors use STACK’s cloud-based software to help run their businesses and maximize profits.
For residential custom home builders, remodelers, and contractors that want a simple solution to run better projects, improve client and team communication, make more money, and enjoy their business.
Reports are powerful and STACK catalog for assemblies and items are very useful. Quick and responsive customer service, free training webinars, improvement updates are included in your subscription.
It is so irritating having to use the mouse for the essential functions.
I love being able to load the Blueprints and navigate the Blueprints using this software. The ease of use makes it extremely easy to sort pages, highlight layouts and design from the pages.
The only Con is you are charged by user. If you have a single account Only one person can be logged on.
We are super pleased with STACK and the staff members. Initially, learning a new product can be challenging but the training team assured our success with its elaborate and precise training.
Sometimes we run into problems loading blueprints when more than one user is on the same account.
We've used Stack for almost two years. The product itself is amazing and the customer support is equally amazing.
Pricing structure is little bit restrictive. We do not need most of the feature that we currently pay for, but there is no option not to pay for the whole package.
Buildbook has been great to use for me and my team. The Buildbook team is very responsive to suggestion and implement suggestions from the field that are great.
The only thing I found a little frustrating was trying to update a selection sheet for my builder. One that I could update with text, not handwriting, but I think it’s not actually a BuildBook issue.
BuildBook’s customer service has been outstanding. They’ve been very accessible and responsive to my questions.
It's difficult to get others in the habit of using it.
I love how easy it is to integrate our current utilization of dropbox with Buildbook. As a team, we love being able to track our jobs together, and share our daily progress with each other.
The to-do lists and tasks seem difficult to create, and I wasn’t aware of several other features prior to taking this questionnaire.
I love the SELECTIONS Category, having a visual component in the room view is so nice. Build Book is super easy to navigate, you can add or remove as much or as little information to each job.
No Scheduling feature directly related to the APP.
Quentin O.: Okay. My name is Quentin. My job title is Estimator/Senior QS. We have around 30 employees, and my rating for STACK is four out of five. We use it for a combination of things, but primarily we use it for measuring and estimation purposes. So if we're tendering jobs, if we're pricing variations, if we're monitoring changes. I find it quite useful for construction changes during the course of construction where the architects may or may not bubble changes and we can put the overlays in place, and things that have changed distinctly will then flash red. So it's very useful for that as well. Identifying changes in the full construction set, because again, sometimes the architects will just issue a full construction set and not tell you that there are changes from the tender set, so then we can price and pick up those changes accordingly. I like the fact that it's browser-based, so it's web-based. I can use it from anywhere in the world. That is probably the single most useful feature that it has, or the way it's been constructed. Probably from my point of view, the single feature I dislike the most is that it's American-based and that everything defaults to imperial rather than metric. It's easy to overcome, or relatively easy to overcome, but everything does default to imperial rather than metric. And if you haven't got your settings right, then every time you upload things, then it will default. That's probably my single biggest pet hate.
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