Construction apps for builders and contractors can make all the difference in keeping a handle on the moving parts of your business.
This guide gives you the lowdown on some of the most popular construction apps you can integrate with MYOB.
What are construction apps?
Construction apps are specialised software designed to streamline your daily tasks in the construction industry. They smooth the way for everything from setting start and finish dates to costing a project, tracking ongoing project statuses and expenses, and helping you manage your payroll and staff.
Why use construction apps?
Construction apps are key to simplifying your processes, making it easier to stay on track with your budgets and delivery deadlines and, most importantly, maximising your profit.
Here, we outline some of the industry's preferred apps, their features, and why you might need them.
Buildxact
Buildxact is an all-in-one app designed to help small to medium-sized builders and contractors streamline construction projects. Its functionality covers:
Estimating and quoting
Estimating and quoting are faster using pre-built templates and integration with supplier price lists.
Project management and scheduling
Generate schedules from estimates and keep your subcontractors informed with automated email and text communication.
Accounting integration
Accounting integration simplifies billing and payment processes and effortlessly tracks your finances. Buildxact seamlessly connects to MYOB AccountRight.
Bunnings Warehouse Bunnings Trade PowerPass
The Bunnings Trade PowerPass app is all about saving time when you shop. The key features are:
Search and price-check
Easily search and price-check the products you need and see which stores have the item in stock.
Create and share job lists
Create and share job lists with your team or client, and allocate items you need to specific projects.
Scan and self-checkout
Simply scan products in-store and check out through the app. It'll save you time, and you can even pay using your PowerPass account or any preferred payment method.
Search and share eReceipts
Easily share and search eReceipts stored in the app. Make it easy to track your expenses and share eReceipts with others.
Bunnings Trade PowerPass connects seamlessly to MYOB Business.
Planyard
Planyard is construction accounting and subcontractor management software that helps builders and contractors with financial management and cost control. It assists with:
Budget management
With real-time budget tracking, variance analysis, forecasting tools and expense monitoring, you can keep a close eye on project financials as they happen.
Unified visibility
Planyard easily integrates with other software platforms to unify data across different areas of your business, such as your MYOB business management platform. Integration helps eliminate double-handling of data.
Subcontractor management
Planyard lets you set up a centralised database for your subcontractors. Here, you can rate them, follow their performance, access all relevant information (like bids, contract documents and invoices), and allow subcontractors to submit applications for online payment, saving you on admin.
Planyard integrates with MYOB Business and MYOB AccountRight.
Procore
Procore is a comprehensive construction management app that simplifies your entire workflow – from tendering to closing out. Its scope covers preconstruction, project management, financials, workforce management and data analysis. The key functionalities of Procore are:
Tender management and estimating
Seek, manage and view bids in one central location and build accurate construction cost estimates for your tenders by integrating historical data and automatically calculated material and labour costs.
Real-time project visibility and risk management
Project management tools connect your site and office in real time, closing the communication loop so you can make better decisions faster. Quality and safety insights help reduce your risk, too.
Streamlined financials
Procore provides all your team and collaborators access to the latest aggregated data. From managing your budgets to streamlined billing and accounting integrations, one clearly organised source of truth improves project cost tracking and accurate financial forecasting.
The Procore connector, built by MYOB, allows you to connect, share and automate data transfer between Procore and MYOB Acumatica Construction.
Autodesk
Autodesk Construction Cloud provides those in the construction industry with a unified suite of products you can integrate to support the entire lifecycle of a construction project. The core products under the Autodesk Construction Cloud suite include:
Build
Project and field management tool coordinating your construction projects, improving stakeholder communication and managing costs.
Takeoff
Quantity takeoff and estimating tool that uses 2D and 3D quantification and automates takeoffs to improve accuracy, speed up the estimating process, and reduce manual errors.
BIM Collaborate
Enhances collaboration between design and construction teams with co-authored designs and shared decision-making. Using construction-ready modelling, this tool automatically detects clashes and design conflicts early in the project.
Docs
Docs is a centralised cloud-based document management platform that provides storage, sharing, access permission settings and collaboration.
You can integrate Autodesk Construction Cloud with MYOB Acumatica Construction to connect your operations and accounting.
AroFlo
AroFlo is job management software designed specifically for trade and construction businesses. It has a comprehensive set of tools for scheduling, timesheets, project management, invoicing, compliance and more to help with:
Booking more jobs
Book more jobs by automatically turning website leads into new jobs and with simplified quoting and estimating tools.
Streamlining the completion of work
Streamline work completion with drag-and-drop team scheduling and booking. GPS scheduling also reduces downtime and optimises resource allocation.
Enhancing your project management
Manage complex projects while maintaining safety and compliance standards and completing them on time and within budget.
Enabling you to get paid faster
Get paid faster with a suite of simple tools and financial integrations to speed up invoicing, manage cash flow and track billing and payments.
Optimising your systems
Optimise your systems and improve profitability on every job by cutting out manual systems.
You can integrate AroFlo with MYOB Business and MYOB AccountRight.
MYOB CRM
MYOB CRM is an award-winning customer relationship management (CRM) solution that can help your construction business build stronger customer relationships. It does this with:
Centralised customer information
Consolidate your customer data into a single, accessible platform. You can easily track leads – like quotes that never converted – and look for new sales opportunities among customers you've worked with before.
Effective marketing
Effective marketing in construction comes down to understanding your customers. By knowing who you're selling to, you can segment and target them with customised marketing campaigns. You'll also be able to track and analyse what works so that you know you'll be getting the most out of your marketing dollar.
Improved customer service
Customer service is key to building solid relationships within the construction industry. With MYOB CRM, you can see your customers' histories and any feedback they've given, so you're onto any hitches that might've happened along the way.
MYOB CRM integrates seamlessly with MYOB Business.
MYOB Acumatica Construction
MYOB Acumatica Construction is cloud-based ERP software designed specifically to meet the needs of construction-sector businesses. Key features include:
Job costing
Get clear on job costings with easily managed accounts payable workflows, real-time insight into accurate costs, and budgets that connect directly to project plans.
Project management
Project management is easier with a complete view of project information flowing between collaborators. You can plan, manage and track your construction project from one central area.
Budget control
Stay in control of your budget with cost overrun features, functionality to compare budgets to actuals and up-to-date vendor payment statuses.
Compliance
Manage compliance requirements like deeds of release, insurance certificates and status updates. Automatically generate relevant documentation and provide time-sensitive alerts when necessary.
Daily field reports
Daily field reports ensure everyone across the project has access to the same information, wherever they are.
MYOB Acumatica Construction is an open platform. This means you can add on many of your preferred industry apps. Check out what integrations are already available on the MYOB App Marketplace.
Construction app FAQs
What types of apps should you use for a construction business?
The main types of apps a construction business should use will improve efficiency and collaboration and assist with overall project management. These help streamline your business and, ultimately, increase profit.
What are the different types of construction apps?
There are many different types of construction apps. Some focus on one core part of the process, such as takeoff and cost estimation or project management, while others are more all-encompassing and assist with the entire process from planning through to execution and completion of the project.
What are the benefits of construction apps?
The core benefit of construction apps is that projects are managed more effectively and efficiently from start to finish – every step of the way.
Walk away from the spreadsheet – software is the solution
If you're still using multiple spreadsheets and manual processes to manage your construction projects, you're most likely limiting your growth and not working as efficiently as you could. From MYOB Business to MYOB AccountRight and MYOB Acumatica Construction, we have a business management solution to meet your requirements. You can also add to it from our extensive App Marketplace.
Check out our MYOB plans and pricing today and get in touch to find out more about MYOB Acumatica Construction.
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