Customer Stories

VIEWPOINT.com | +1 800.333.3197 Quick & Accurate Bidding Mid-State Paving also values the estimating capabilities of ProContractor. "ProContractor works well with our business processes and accommodates our new approach," said Pope. The contractor has recently changed its bidding philosophy from one that focused on a specific bid item to one that is based on how they will build the project and points to WBS codes for specific assemblies during the bid creation. "We are able to adjust and improve our processes and the software fits and accommodates as needed. We don't miss a beat." Further, Mid-State is eager to use many of the exciting estimate verification and proposal creation features in ProContractor. "Being able to include visual assemblies and list of crews are powerful features," said Pope. "Before, we did this all on a unit basis in Excel with a spreadsheet set up for each different bid item and then merged them to create the estimate." Now that Mid-State is bidding larger projects with its site work services, it has outgrown its simplified spreadsheets. "ProContractor will allow us to have much more detail," explained Pope. "We no longer need to enter the same materials over and over again and can easily pull materials and crews in for each estimate. ProContractor will improve our accuracy and enable us to bid faster." Gaining Control On the accounting side, it is all about control. "With QuickBooks, it was tough to manipulate, add, or get reports out. It had its limitations," explained Pope. "Our reporting will be much better using ProContractor. Because the solution is all in one –it synchronizes project costing and ongoing changes with hard financial data and its numerous reports give us more control and flexibility." "We have re-developed our General Ledger structure to give us much greater control," said Pope. "There is no comparison with the control between the two programs. With QuickBooks, our users could go in and change or delete transactions, leaving much room for mistakes and lack of accountability and data integrity. However, with ProContractor, the structure of the program guides the user to follow certain important procedures. It is all automated and provides a complete audit trail and the security features enable us to lock down any part of the application we choose." ProContractor™ by Viewpoint works well with our business processes and accommodates our new approach. – Steven Pope, Administrative Manager

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