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Put Procore and Buildertrend head to head on a 50-unit townhouse job - the winner was obvious by week 2
So my boss made me run the same job in both Procore and Buildertrend last quarter to see which we should buy. Procore looked fancy but it took my foreman 45 minutes just to log a daily report because there were too many menus. Buildertrend let him punch in his hours and photos in under 10 minutes once I set up the templates. We had 14 subs on site and Buildertrend's schedule sync actually worked without glitches, while Procore kept dropping updates. The cost difference was about $300 a month which sealed it for our small firm. Has anyone else run a side by side test like this or am I weird?
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uma_reed2613d ago
Jackson.sarah you nailed it with the template worry. It's the same reason I stopped letting people borrow my tools - you give someone a simple setup and they still find a way to bend a flathead screwdriver prying something open. People just do their own thing sometimes no matter how clean you make it.
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jackson.sarah13d ago
Honestly, you mentioning the 45 minute thing with Procore's daily report is exactly what I'd be worried about. My guys would flat out refuse to use software that took that long every day. But I gotta ask - when you set up those Buildertrend templates, did you run into any issues with subs messing up the template fields or entering stuff wrong? Because that's the kind of thing that could eat up just as much time on the backend fixing their mistakes.
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