50 BuilderMT Testimonials

“We are pleased with our choice of solutions. I’ve been implementing and working with home building software solutions for 30 years, and there are always a few stumbling blocks when you’re setting up software to integrate and manage complicated processes. But with the BuilderMT-Sales Simplicity family of integrated solutions, the typical challenges had already been addressed leaving us to focus on our unique opportunities.”

“Every one of the ’push’ technologies has a weakness, Faxes run out of paper, there is no one there to pick up the fax, e-mails get deleted or never delivered with e-mail filters and software issues, phone calls and voicemails aren’t heard and calls aren’t returned… the mail takes days to deliver and time to prepare or copy documents… those aren’t cheap or efficient technologies. We needed a tool that would always be there, always available in a secure environment that we control… not the US Postal Service or my drywall contractor’s cell phone or e-mail service. That’s why I’m an early adopter and big believer in the ‘pull’ technology of BuilderMT’s Trade Portal.”

"BuilderMT Bid Management along with Trade Portal has shortened our bid time by a week on our Production Homes and two weeks on our Semi-Custom Homes. I can literally bid out and entire home in three days, release for construction and have all my costs stored or updated in cost database during the bid process. I no longer have to track down trades to clarify bid items, everything comes to me apples for apples. I accept the trades costs and my budgets are built. And because we are short staffed due to the economy this has really helped us keep our Purchasing Dept. ahead of the game."

"Richard Boothman and the BuilderMT Plan Services group changed our business. We are now ahead of the curve with plan edits for our buyers. The turnaround time was a day, not weeks."

“What’s best is that these systems – BuilderMT, Sales Simplicity and Microsoft NAV – are all pre-integrated; they all talk to each other and data flows from one to the other as if were a single system.”

"Using the Workflow Management Suite, our scheduling is automated. We were able to take someone spending 80% of their time updating schedule and use them elsewhere in the company. This makes everyone’s job easier without costing the company any more money."

"Previous manual method is that we would print plans and submit to trade. We would give them 3 days to get pricing back to us. Then about 1-2 day time frame to get pricing into the system. With the Bid Management program, it takes me only 20 minutes initially to set up a bid, attach documents to them publish to the bid. Our trades are required to get the bid back within 48 hours. If we accept their bid then it only take seconds to upload pricing. Factoring in all resources used, I would say about $2400 per bid in savings! And, it only took about 20 minutes to teach ourselves how to use the software. Because of our extensive use of the Trade Portal we require that all our trade partners have internet access. The people that have received bid requests have all responded positively. This saves them time and money also. We attach our plan documents in a dwf file and this way they don’t have to print plans either."

“It has saved us a great deal of money already, Our cost for BPM was around $30,000, and we soon paid for the software platform with just this VPO process, and we have plans for several additional BPM processes in the works.”

"Builder MT offers the most comprehensive on-line help and training I have ever encountered from a software company. Builder MT’s customer service is off the charts. My IT consultant agrees. The combination of Purchasing and Scheduling with Trade Portal makes the managing of multiple projects with fewer Trade Partners possible, reducing build time and overhead."

“Sage Timberline Accounting does not have the reporting that we need. Timberline uses a database from Pervasive Software, but our operations are in Microsoft SQL. To get the right reports, everything in Timberline has to be dumped out into a separate file and mined by a third party application, and that is very cumbersome and time consuming.”

“That two to three hours per employee each week is time these folks can be using to focus on what we hired them to do, That’s time they can be selling houses or managing the building process to further reduce cycle time.”

"Now, with the power of those models, and the data they contain, coupled with BIM Pipeline’s estimating capabilities, we will be able to process 680 starts with just three people in estimating and purchasing and two in drafting."

“Our variance purchase orders have dropped dramatically. Last month they were below 2%. Thing is, our goal was 3%.”

“Generation Homes recognizes that people need state of the art features and efficiency in a home that promotes old fashioned family security and a strong sense of community. We will not compromise on quality and service in any home we build. It is important to me that we build homes with high quality materials that promote lasting value and design neighborhoods that have a sense of place and stimulates neighborhood bonds.”

It’s one thing to talk about quality. It’s another thing to build your entire organization around it. And that’s exactly what we’ve done.”