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Spectrum is best suited for large–enterprise commercial general contractors, heavy/civil contractors, electrical contractors, mechanical, plumbing & HVAC contractors, and more.
However, if you like you can use simple unit takeoffs and apply a cost to them later. Proest can be as complex or as simple as you'd like for it to be and for the money, it's a pretty good program.
Terrible schedule program; visually unable to have clients and vendors understand it.
Overall it is a great system, they have an awesome trainer that will work with you until you got it. Customer service is also real helpful.
Mid way through my ownership they rolled out the cloud based application of the software and it was garbage, lost of glitches, very slow response, etc.
I liked that this software is very simple and easy, and we had free training sessions which was very useful. I also find the take off system and tools very powerful and the database is huge.
I do have one complaint which may seem petty, but it is an annoyance.
I have been using ProEst for the last year and have for the most part been very happy. The customer support has been very good.
Building an assembly from scratch is so difficult that they now have someone in house that does this for their customers because its so difficult, think about that.
We are familiar with the data entry, reporting and more advanced options now and it works great for us. Now that we are set up and have some custom reports, things are good.
I have never messed anything up so badly it could not be fixed. Never be scared of a computer; it only does what you tell it to do.
I love the ease of use, it is an easy system to learn. Once you learn it it is great.
Notes are lost, labor hours are lost. It has taken months to get the app working correctly, but still issues arise which cause payroll issues.
The overall experience has been a positive one. The benefit is the data is consistent and reliable.
It seems to have trouble expanding to manage an increasingly larger customer/project base. As our company has expanded, the system has struggled to keep up.
Viewpoint Spectrum is great for me because of the easy usage. I can log in, assign bills after approval and it only takes a few minutes.
The customer support is HORRIBLE. Long wait times, false information and a huge lack of knowledge in our updated program.
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