Jonas Enterprise Construction Management Software vs. Trimble Accubid

• User-friendly - program is easy to navigate
• User conference is informative and fun.
• Support is fairly quick to get back to you.
• Has some issues with some third party software, but they will try and accommodate.

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We use Trimble Accubid to do detailed cost estimates for larger jobs. If a job has a set of blueprints, the software is designed to go through each page systematically to aggregate a bid. Where it is less appropriate are for smaller service jobs. It takes a lot of setup for a new job there are other solutions better suited for service work.

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• Payroll - upload Union reports are quick and easy saving time with manual calculations
• Service Billing - create service calls and invoice direct from module, saving duplicate data entry
• Job Cost - Tracks costs and revenues for analysing departments, project managers and techs

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• Allows for fine control of inputs and variables.
• Gives a multitude of ways to analyze data.

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• Contact management. Clumsy and not user-friendly.

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• The user interface for adding assemblies to a job
• Material database management
• Doesn't integrate well with any other platforms other than their own.

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I think it depends on how much you want to put into it. It is a very powerful program, but sometimes learning everything is overwhelming. There are hidden tricks that you learn when you attend webinars and conferences.

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Most of the time they are pretty quick to respond

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The training packets are thorough and they are easy to understand. Live support is harder to come by, however, I haven't had any major problems that I have needed to overcome. The best support is not needing to have support in the first place. Ease of use makes this mostly not an issue.

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I feel Jonas was more equipped to handle multi-state, multi-union payroll as well as multi-jurisdiction sales tax. I wasn't interested in third-party support.

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I was not involved in the decision-making process to purchase Accubid.

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• With our service department module now being fully integrated (wasn't before), information is more reliable and current. Jonas has helped our bottom line by saving us over 1,000 hours annually in administrative duties.

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• Accubid allows for accurate pricing of electrical estimates.
• Accubid's accurate pricing allows for more competitive bid estimates.

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