Buildertrend

About Buildertrend

Buildertrend is the leading residential construction project management software trusted by home builders, remodelers and specialty contractors. Since 2006, we’ve empowered contractors to take control of projects and bring efficiency, organization and seamless communication to their businesses. Builders can manage jobs, sales, finances, materials, client relationships and more on one convenient platform – allowing time to take on more jobs without the added stress.

More than one million users across over 100 countries have chosen Buildertrend as their preferred platform for real-time collaboration throughout the building process. Our software helps construction professionals complete more projects while reducing delays, eliminating costly errors and increasing customer satisfaction.

Buildertrend also provides each customer with the option of unlimited training as well as integrations with other valuable software like QuickBooks, Xero, HubSpot, Salesforce, Gusto, The Home Depot’s Pro Xtra loyalty program and GreenSky.

To learn more about Buildertrend, visit buildertrend.com and @buildertrend.

Pricing starting from:

US$99.00/month

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

Key benefits of Buildertrend

Improved lead management
Streamlined project planning
More efficient job sites
Enhanced estimates and contracts
Accurate financial management

Typical Customers

  • Freelancers
  • Small Businesses (2-50)
  • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
  • Large enterprises (500 and more)

Deployment

  • Cloud-based
  • On-premise

Countries available

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States

Supported Languages

English

Pricing starting from:

US$99.00/month

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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Features

Total features of Buildertrend: 146

  • Accounting Integration
  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Activity Tracking
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Appointment Scheduling
  • Audit Trail
  • Bid Management
  • Billable Items Tracking
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Bills of Material
  • Budget Control
  • Budget Management
  • Budget Tracking
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • CRM
  • Calendar Management
  • Cash Management
  • Change Order Management
  • Client Portal
  • Client Tracking
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Commercial
  • Communication Management
  • Construction Breakdowns
  • Contact Management
  • Contract/License Management
  • Contractor Database
  • Contractor Management
  • Cost Database
  • Cost Estimating
  • Cost Tracking
  • Cost-to-Completion Tracking
  • Customer Database
  • Customer Management
  • Customer Portal
  • Customisable Branding
  • Customisable Templates
  • Customizable Fields
  • Data Import/Export
  • Dispatch Management
  • Document Management
  • Document Storage
  • Electrical Estimating
  • Electronic Payments
  • Electronic Signature
  • Email Marketing
  • Email Templates
  • Equipment Tracking
  • Estimating
  • Expense Tracking
  • File Sharing
  • File Storage
  • Financial Analysis
  • Financial Management
  • For AEC Industry
  • Forecasting
  • GPS
  • Gantt/Timeline View
  • General Ledger
  • HVAC Estimating
  • Historical Database
  • Idea Management
  • Incident Reporting
  • Inspection Management
  • Invoice Management
  • Issue Management
  • Job Costing
  • Job Management
  • Job Scheduling
  • Job Tracking
  • Kanban Board
  • Labor Cost Reporting
  • Lead Management
  • Maintenance Scheduling
  • Milestone Tracking
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile Alerts
  • Mobile App
  • Mobile Signature Capture
  • Multiple Projects
  • Multiple User Accounts
  • Offline Access
  • Online Payments
  • Online Time Clock
  • Payment Collection in the Field
  • Payroll Management
  • Percent-Complete Tracking
  • Permit Management
  • Photo Capture
  • Plumbing Estimating
  • Portfolio Management
  • Production Cost Tracking
  • Progress Reports
  • Progress Tracking
  • Project Accounting
  • Project Billing
  • Project Estimating
  • Project Management
  • Project Planning
  • Project Planning/Scheduling
  • Project Scheduling
  • Project Templates
  • Project Time Tracking
  • Project Tracking
  • Project Workflow
  • Projections
  • Proposal Generation
  • Proposal Management
  • Purchase Order Management
  • QuickBooks Integration
  • Quotes/Estimates
  • RFI & Submittals
  • Real Time Monitoring
  • Real Time Notifications
  • Real Time Updates
  • Recurring/Subscription Billing
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reporting/Project Tracking
  • Rescheduling
  • Residential
  • Resource Management
  • Risk Management
  • Sales Pipeline Management
  • Scheduling
  • Staff Calendar
  • Status Tracking
  • Subcontractor Management
  • Subcontractor Monitoring
  • Supplier Management
  • Takeoff
  • Task Management
  • Task Progress Tracking
  • Task Scheduling
  • Team Collaboration
  • Time & Expense Tracking
  • Time Tracking
  • Timesheet Management
  • Traditional Methodologies
  • Warranty Tracking
  • What-if Analysis
  • Work Order Management
  • Workflow Management

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Reviews

Overall rating

4.5 /5
(1,620)
Value for Money
4.3/5
Features
4.2/5
Ease of Use
4.3/5
Customer Support
4.7/5

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Stacy
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

It's not just a project management tool

Reviewed on 13/02/2019

We have been very pleased!! We have a dedicated team who knows us by name and is always there to...

We have been very pleased!! We have a dedicated team who knows us by name and is always there to help!!

Pros

I implemented my first system for production home building in 1991, so I have a little experience in this area. After trying 2 other competitors on a trial basis, we selected our first choice, BuilderTrend to help us manage our projects. It is customizable and also follows standards which help you efficiently manage your business whether a new builder, remodeler or other home improvement type company. But, the best part has been adoption and the response of customers. We actually remodeled two projects for the same customer while they were out of the country. The communication features in BT facilitated what would not have been possible in the same time frame in the past plus processed payments. Using BuilderTrend has been a great marketing tool to set us apart from the competition.

Cons

Subcontractor use has been our biggest roadblock as it takes more training with some and reminders to get them to use the software.

Response from Buildertrend

Stacy, thank you so much for your 5-star review and kind words! We are so happy to hear how well Buildertrend is working for your company.

Greg
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Custom Homes experience with Buildertrend

Reviewed on 04/02/2020

Pros

Scheduling, Logging, Time clocks, to do's ETC are very easy to use and extremely handy/ useful for use as a construction company for various reasons such as keeping a constant flow of action happening on our building sites and in theory there should be no gaps of time on the building site where nobody is working or unable to work, we believe keeping a consistent flow of action on a building site is possible through buildertrend and with nobody having to go out to site to check whats happening on site 90% of the time

Cons

sub contractors don't generally enjoy singing into our computer system every time they want paid or to confirm theyre gonna take action on a job ETC,
this isnt to blame on buildertrend its just we struggle to get our sub contractors to cooperate using our online services,

Robert
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Options

Reviewed on 11/02/2020

My overall experience has been good. I have been using Builtertrend for a few years and Im happy...

My overall experience has been good. I have been using Builtertrend for a few years and Im happy with the pricing structure and mobility and great to have real time help. I usually dont have trouble with speed and thats a big plus. I can see buildertrend improving its user interface for a little bit easier use and observe the updates that probably come from customer feedback and I like that. I just wish they would happen quicker

Pros

I liked that it covers just about all the bases and has a great notification tool. Lots of good options on how the information is received and shared as well as filter features. The 'All-in-one-place' features are what is great both desktop and the app.

Cons

I dont like that I cant give my subcontractors the same control or permissions as my internal users. For example i would like to give my contractors ability to write a change order as a request the same way that they write an RFI as well as make requested adjustments to the schedule. Also the reporting features are not robust and useful. Much more reporting features needed for big builders that have many projects going on.

Alternatives Considered

Procore and Bluebeam Revu

Reasons for Switching to Buildertrend

It fit well with our many residential renovation projects and had all the features and more I know our company needed to move quick and have mobility

Response from Buildertrend

Hi Robert, thank you so much for your honest review and feedback! Feedback like yours is what drives us. I'll be sure to pass it along to our Product team. Thank you!

Jen
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

There are a lot of kinks that need worked out

Reviewed on 20/06/2019

Job costing has been more accurate than using spreadsheets (As long as people bring me receipts and...

Job costing has been more accurate than using spreadsheets (As long as people bring me receipts and clock in to the correct job, which has been a challenge). Customer communication has improved, and thus, customer satisfaction has improved.

Pros

I like the sense of security it provides to our customers since they can log in and see how their job is doing.

Cons

It does everything, but it doesn't do everything WELL. For instance, it does time tracking and GPS tracking.... but it only tells us where our guys are when they clock in and out. It doesn't give us a map of where they went the whole time like T-sheets did, so we have no way of knowing if someone went to the job site, clocked in and then left. It sync's to Quickbooks for payroll, but not correctly. It sends over all of the guys time as Regular time. I have to manually input their hours if I want to pay them for their overtime. It has this Buildertrend Flat Rate Code that nobody can edit or delete and it causes a lot of problems for us. The list goes on..... Whenever I ask them if they can help, I'm told, "Well it doesn't have that feature." Then I ask if they can put in a tech request, but they go on telling me how I should do it online, it will be more effective. That's not right. They should be able to put in a tech request for me and have it be just as effective as if I did it online.

Stephanie
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source

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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great Customizable Software

Reviewed on 14/06/2019

Prior to Buildertrend, we had to use three programs to manage our jobs and purchase orders, now we...

Prior to Buildertrend, we had to use three programs to manage our jobs and purchase orders, now we just use Buildertrend. We are saving time and are able to keep everything in one spot!

Pros

I love that buildertrend is so customizable. The software was able to be tailored for our specific needs while many of the other programs we looked at were not. The purchase order feature has allowed us to streamline and reduce our expense processing time. The app works well for our field operations and sales reps. Tech support and online chat people are very helpful in quickly answering questions.

Cons

Although it's infrequent, we sometimes struggle with internet connections in storm/rural areas and the software does not have an offline mode. I dislike the receive payment feature as you can't record a payment by itself, you do it inside the invoice and although you can receive partial payments, you can record multiple checks in the payment box

Alternatives Considered

ComputerEase and Method CRM

Reasons for Choosing Buildertrend

Large job management - scheduling multiple scopes for multiple buildings, purchase order management between people in the field and admin, customizable document/photo folder organization

Reasons for Switching to Buildertrend

The software was customizable and was able to alleviate my pain points with our software and allowed us to reduce the number of programs we were using. The staff was very knowledgeable about their product, and designated me a rep who was familiar with construction and our accounting program for integration.
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Buildertrend FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for Buildertrend.

Buildertrend offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$99.00/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Not Available

Buildertrend has the following typical customers:

2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Buildertrend supports the following languages:

English

Buildertrend supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

Buildertrend integrates with the following applications:

CUBIT, Clear Estimates, Contractor's Office, Dropbox Business, Gmail, Google Calendar, Gusto, HubSpot CMS Hub, Meta for Business, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Pinterest, PlanSwift, PrebuiltML, ProEst, Quickbooks Online, SoftPlan, Twitter/X, Xero, eTakeoff

Buildertrend offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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