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STACK Build & Operate Reviews
Pros
Great tool, easy to learn and intuitive. Our younger employees enjoy it very much and it doesn't require a long time to be comfortable with it.
Overall it has been a great experience with Smartuse, including any and all calls to Smartuse support. I would recommend this software to anyone.
It was easy to use, it is like most of the other software out on the market so if you have used any of the others you will be able to use this software with ease.
Very happy with the product overall. Especially happy with the development enhancements.
Cons
Sometimes difficult to search within the documentation.
Is to be able to edit the drop down lists of names that have been previously entered. Especially in the case of spelling errors.
On mobile, sometimes the drawings wouldn't load. Other times, the app would crash upon opening.
Inability to view drawings without an internet connection.
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"Great value for money"
Pros: Ease of use and speed. A lot of options to draw and take pictures and link between plans and documents. OCR is great.
Cons: Learning curve is a bit steep, but once you get the hang of it it's great.
"PlanGrid Minus the PlanGrid Price!"
Overall: Overall, we enjoy our user experience with SmartUse. SmartUse allows us instant collaboration on plans and documents, including markups, direct from the field to the office.
Pros: SmartUse contains a host of features that allow our field personnel to carry plans, and other project documents into the field in digital version on phone or tablet. SmartUse has a similar feature set to PlanGrid, but a greatly reduced cost.
Cons: File upload and project setup can feel clunky or slow in comparison to products like PlanGrid, but this has slowly improved over the course of our user experience.
"Electrical project management"
Pros: Its very easy to use for experienced computer users and those that arent. The updates are easy. The doc sharing is easy as well as the redlining abilities.
Cons: sometimes the file structuring and navigating through those are a chanllenge.
"Easy to search content"
Pros: Easy to search for precise content with text reconnaissance
Cons: Direct download of pdf files will be a nice upgrade. For now, is it only by email (as I know)
"Good and convenient"
Overall: Smart use was very useful to go back and see previous revisions of drawings. overall it was very useful for the project.
Pros: very user friendly and available across all devices
Cons: sometimes it can be slow to load
"Very useful product"
Pros: The ease of comparing drawings, accessing revisions and switching between layout to details
Cons: The only concern I have sometimes is the load time is a bit long sometimes
"Your product is awesome"
Pros: I love your software. Everything about it is great.
Cons: I don't see any flaws. It's better than Procore, Autodesk, Construct Buy.
"Easy to use but slow in Process"
Overall: Good
Pros: Easy to use & Mobile Friendly too...Very use full.
Cons: Sometime it is take Long processing time, Not so Fast.
"Smart use for Construction"
Overall: I use it almost daily and appreciate it a lot
Pros: This application regroups all the up to date construction documents
Cons: The fact thet we have to wait a dowlnload link to get the documents
"Smartuse utilisation"
Overall: Very good product ... all the construction worker of our compagny like it a lot
Pros: - easy to work with - easy to communicate with the team in Montreal - can work offline
Cons: none, we are very satisfied of the Smartuse application, we use it in every project we have and even share it with sucontractor
"SmartUse for estimating"
Pros: it's very easy to view all the document available for each project
Cons: When you got a lot of annotation, mesure, and line on a plan, the application become very slow
"SmartUse for subcontractor"
Overall: For us it is a temporary solution that help us to give digital access to some information on the field
Pros: Easy to use for field employees. Easy to add documents
Cons: It is limited. We need a "ONE" platform does all solution that communicates between subcontractors and GC and avoids to enter information twice
"Smartuse critical in day to day coordination"
Pros: Provides all parties access to relevant documents.
Cons: Documents are not always up to date. Assuming the documents on Smartuse are the most current could leads to mistakes.
"My thoughts "
Overall: Looking at prints for construction.
Pros: Being able to download software.we work in a lot of dead zones so it helps a lot.
Cons: Kicks me out a lot.kind of makes it a hassle.
"SmartUse Review"
Overall: I understand the use of smart use with the excel features representation
Pros: it is more easy and understand to use, flexibility to integrate with other features
Cons: Flexible integration with the business process
"Positive"
Pros: easy to use, user friendly, easy to navigate
Cons: sometimes it doesn't work. I have three projects on it and one does not work
Vendor Response
"Best Smartuse"
Pros: Really easy to operate.i can also use it on mobile phone
Cons: I am not able to download drawing on my phone.
"Great tool for small and large businesses"
Overall: Great tool, easy to learn and intuitive. Our younger employees enjoy it very much and it doesn't require a long time to be comfortable with it.
Pros: It is a great tool for creating a ''one-stop-shop'' for construction plans, to which all the critital employees have access for a project in real time. It is also really useful for quantity takeoffs and validation.
Cons: Having to upload each document individually can be a bit counter-productive.
"Alright"
Pros: I like that everything is in one place. The ease of use hinges on someone paying attention to the project and updating it in a timely manner.
Cons: Too many clics required to download items.
"Smart use 2023 review sintra"
Overall: very prealing very good product
Pros: Mobility =, the easy accès, the reel time uptdate
Cons: restriction in term of acces to the pepeole not adminstrator
"Game Changer"
Overall: Great overall experience
Pros: This software makes it very easy to review our construction documents offline while walking around job sites. Its a game changer compared to reviewing the large scale printed set.
Cons: Sometimes the documents dont load properly if the file size is really large
"Easy to use as a outside user."
Overall: Construction site documentation was made simple
Pros: Access to documents created by others was simple.
Cons: Had a French/English language issue, but that was only in initial set up.
"Good product"
Pros: Easy to use and documents can be easily searched using keywords.
Cons: Nothing really, it works good for me and I am able to find information easily on SmartUse
"SmartUse for Field Engineer & Desk Jockey"
Overall: it's definitely better than paper copies.
Pros: doc management, keeping revisions, red lines, photos capability, saving mark ups to PDF including photos
Cons: syncing files is more often tedious and finicky.