Buildertrend vs BuildingConnected: Which is a better fit?

Dave: Hi, my name's Dave. I'm the founder and principal at Watermark Business Partners. And with respect to BuilderTrend, I was sort of an administrator and user when advising a custom home builder through a transition. And our rating of five stars, or my rating of five stars, is largely based on the fact that I think this tool just has absolutely phenomenal capabilities. And I just wish the business that I was working with was making even more use of everything that's there because it's absolutely very, very strong and incredible potential. So BuilderTrend, the core need that I was solving with this business was the need to organize complex fulfillment with anywhere from 20 to 30 different subcontractors, milestone based billing, the need to organize and coordinate a complex supply chain on the product, so vendor sourcing side. And this was a solution that was badly, badly needed for this business. It's already had a big impact and I think there's even more to come. [inaudible 00:01:05] I think is perhaps overlooked and unappreciated as a really key, important value add that was a new beginning with BuilderTrend's launch for this business was the far superior and enhanced degree of accountability in the business. Whether that be with employees, with contractors, or the business itself to its customers. The ability to get everybody on the same page and have that same unified line of sight had a really big impact and drove results in a meaningful way. So as far as what I liked the least or saw as an area of opportunity was just honestly that there's so much there. I think there was a need for the business that I was working with to really prioritize for the greatest impact because as I said previously, there were really only scratching the surface with the platform's capabilities. And I think there's sometimes the potential to get lost in the weeds and lose the forest for the trees. So if anything they can do to help whittle it down to the core components and stage that implementation I think would be very, very helpful.

Wayne R: Hi, my name's Wayne. I'm the senior estimator for a general contractor. I would rate BuildingConnected at a four out of five. And for more reviews, quick below. Okay. Previously, we used Dropbox. We used to email individual subs for requests, for quotes. Very time consuming. We looked at what we were using currently and decided that the payback time for the time savings would be very short. Okay. It was fairly simple to get familiar with the software and start to utilize it in an efficient manner. I would say that if you're looking for a cost savings as far as time to invite subcontractors and suppliers to quote on your project, it is very beneficial to use this software.