--- title: "Sage Construction Suite Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Sage Construction Suite. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Sage Construction Suite is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/sage-construction-suite-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Construction Accounting Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/construction/accounting-job-costing-software-comparison/) / [Sage Construction Suite](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/185440-Sage-Construction-Suite/) / Sage Construction Suite Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/185440-Sage-Construction-Suite/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/185440-Sage-Construction-Suite/alternatives/) # Sage Construction Suite User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.0/5 - Total reviews: 1,061 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 3.7/5 - Customer support: 3.9/5 - Value for money: 3.7/5 - Functionality: 3.9/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 444 reviews (42%) - 4 stars: 371 reviews (35%) - 3 stars: 157 reviews (15%) - 2 stars: 60 reviews (6%) - 1 star: 29 reviews (3%) ### Most mentioned pros - It’s a powerful system that does a good job handling accounting, job costing, and project management in one place. Once users are familiar with it, it’s dependable and gives good visibility into project financials. - I like the Intacct cloud based software and ease of creating dashboards, reports, and rules that will help our company run effectively and smoothly as the company continues to grow. - It’s best suited for mid-sized to larger companies that require detailed financial tracking and are prepared to invest time in setup and training. ### Most mentioned cons - For example, I need to pull the top 5 vendors every year for our IRS return, the current options don't make it easy to pull aggregate data by vendor for a certain period. - I have literally one option for payables approvals and importing and it costs as much as the annual on Sage itself. - The interface feels a bit dated compared to newer platforms, and performance can slow down when working with large datasets or complex reports. ## Sage Construction Suite customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 1,061 (page 1). ### Great software for the construction industry - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Kelly B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I am extremely pleased with all the construction software combined. We were able to downsize the different programs we used and integrate everything into basically one system. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The software was user friendly. When I first used Sage years ago, it was brand new on the construction scene but it by far blew the software we were using away. It seems to have gotten better with age. #### Cons Initial setup was not as smooth as I feel it should have been. The reports are great however, customizing certain items specifically rails for us. We just run several reports and get the numbers anyway. #### Reasons for switching to Sage Construction Suite Our software was a bit antiquated and we used several programs that we knew we could've been using one that does all aspects of the construction industry. --- ### great potential if the suites can sync/talk better - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: kyrsten r. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. A lot of hiccups with the transition from S100 to SCM (or merger in our case as we need to keep s100 for accounting) #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros ability to keep accounting and PM systems connected. And most of the time tracking and reporting abilities are thorough #### Cons SCM shows great promise but dang why cant ALL the project information match up/sync. Only job numbers pull over and i need to double enter. #### Reasons for choosing Sage Construction Suite connectivity to our existing S100 was priority --- ### Great project managing software - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Anita C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Having the ability to manage a project from start to finish is possible. #### Cons Sage is very particular about the manner in which you enter information. It often is not as user friendly as programs I have used in the past. Correcting information/entries can be difficult. --- ### Think hard about buying Sage Construction products - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Bianca B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, if I hadn't spent over $15000 implementing this I would no longer be using Sage 100. We are currently implementing shop management software (Strumis) that I'm hoping will cover our project management and payables approvals requirements, and if it does I will no longer use Sage 100. And *no surprise* Strumis and Sage will not be able to exchange any information at all. The costs are way too high for the lack of features, lack of integration options, amount of headaches, and lack of support. We're paying almost $8000 CAD per year on this, I absolutely do not find it worth it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros The internal integrations between PM and accounting and payroll work really well. Handling COs and progress bills is super easy. There's great accounting features - being able to lock periods is wonderful, and having a period option instead of just a date option (as in Sage 50) is amazing. Customizing reports is great. It's very NOT user-friendly, but if you can figure it out it's great, and you don't need any 3rd party to make it work. #### Cons As per usual Sage, almost NOTHING integrates with it. I have literally one option for payables approvals and importing and it costs as much as the annual on Sage itself. For the amount of money it costs leaves a lot to be desired. I can't even import a .csv without some sort of 3rd party something that I can't even be bothered to look into because there's no way any additional costs will be worth it. My "business partner" is fairly terrible and Sage won't let me deal with someone else. Getting support for Sage is awful. I have to go through the chat every single time, then escalate it, then wait for a callback. I have Sage 100 Contractor Canada, and Sage Paperless, but apparently they're two different companies and two entirely different support channels. But I can't get support directly from Paperless, I have to go through Sage who has no idea how to troubleshoot anything about Paperless. Nightmare. #### Reasons for choosing Sage Construction Suite I can't actually remember what else we looked at. We already used Sage so figured the switch would be less painful, and we knew the accounting end would be good. Were unsure about the accounting functionality of other products looked at. #### Reasons for switching to Sage Construction Suite needed to progress bill our customers. that's the only reason. --- ### Good Program for Construction Companies - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Cheri P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I like Sage 100 Contractor it functions well for construction Companies. I like that you can fix common issues and make sure that all purchase orders and Change orders are added and you can audit them as well. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Value for Money, Construction Management, Customer Support, Takeoff, Budget planning and certified Payroll #### Cons It can be complicated to use if you are not familiar with the program. The customer support has always been helpful with any issues we have faced #### Reasons for switching to Sage Construction Suite To utilize the construction based software that caters to General Contractors --- ### Office Manager - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Brittney C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience with Sage is a love-hate relationship to say the least. In order to get the exact report that you need, you need to make sure you have all the proper modules or have an outside agency create a specific report for you or if you make a report of your own, you need to have a degree in CSS coding or some sort of coding experience #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros There really isn't anything in particular that I like most about it. I'm used to it by now, so I understand how it works and that's really the most I can tell you. #### Cons It's not as user friendly as they make it out to be. If you need something specific, you need to have an outside agency do it for you, which costs money. With today's economy, you'd think they would make something a bit easier on the wallet, but that's not the case. They make you believe that what you need is included, but if you need something like estimating, that's not included in the base program. Despite needing an estimating module for construction, that's an extra. If you do serviceable work, that's an extra module added. I call Sage a money pit, because that's exactly what it is. #### Reasons for choosing Sage Construction Suite Archdesk is similar to Sage and we would be in the same situation but with a new company. --- ### Sage intacct - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rachel B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We haven’t migrated over yet but overall it has been wonderful. Our integration team is extremely helpful in training and answering all questions we have no matter how complicated. They have also been open to finding new ways to make the intacct process similar to certain functions we currently use in 300. The cloud based software is amazing and much faster functionality wise than Sage 300. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like the Intacct cloud based software and ease of creating dashboards, reports, and rules that will help our company run effectively and smoothly as the company continues to grow. It also has a much easier user interface than our current sage 300 CRE, which will be helpful in training new hires, our PMs, and those not necessarily technologically inclined. #### Cons It’s much different than sage 300, in a good way, but the transition is a bit difficult. There are different terms for invoicing (order entry) and purchase orders, which are 2 of my top functions in the current Sage software. Job cost reports are also interactive which is a pro and con, just will take some time getting used to it. #### Reasons for switching to Sage Construction Suite Sage 300 is old and out of date for the functions we are trying to do as the company grows. --- ### accountant - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: mark s. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. great system for us. If need help someone if always available at year end or during the year if any issues do come up. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Works for what we need. Easy to run reports and simply to use. Able to drop reports into excel to use the numbers that I need for report. #### Cons can only go back one year for payroll reports. Hard at beginning of year and if need to what did prior year closeouts. #### Reasons for choosing Sage Construction Suite Outside accounting firm with job cost system is better and cost. #### Reasons for switching to Sage Construction Suite better for construction industry with job cost. --- ### Sage 300 and intacct - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Brooke J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I’ve used sage 100 and 300 so far. I’ve enjoyed it much better than quickbooks. We are implementing intact soon, and it definitely seems like it will be more user friendly. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Ease of use as far as billing and report tracking. It is definitely easier to use than previous systems I’ve used for accounting. #### Cons It can be a bit daunting with Sage 300. There are so many separate windows to get in and out of in order to complete a task. #### Reasons for switching to Sage Construction Suite Ease of use for sage intacct. 300 is not the most user friendly --- ### Intacct Sage - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Devan M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall it has been great implementing Sage Intacct. Very seamless and the support staff is awesome. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like that Sage Intacct changes to a dimension based system where all costs can be associated directly with that dimension. It is great at keeping the GL cleaner. #### Cons There's not a lot bad to say. If I had to complain, it would be that the system gets very granule, so it can be time consuming. However, that means you get exactly what you want. #### Reasons for switching to Sage Construction Suite We were looking for a platform that was more user friendly and can track our costs better. --- ### ongonig problems with timberline - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: michael c. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. frustrating as hell starting 2002, the constant change for the sake of change has not been beneficial to me, it has infact cost me time and money. unfortunately im so invested in the program that it doesnt make sense for me to change at this point in time. I may just go back to simple spreadsheets in the future #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros the stuff you didnt change, when something works stick with it, change for the sake of change is not a benefit #### Cons you changed items and how the items updating of cost works, ive used timberline estimating since 1999 and now I have to figure out how to use items again --- ### Aquamotion - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: KARLA A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Consumer Goods - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Value for Money, Customer Support very helpful, Access to Information, Information Access, Reporting, #### Cons Not that easy to understand, Likely there is a very good support system, still would do it again in future --- ### Sage is okay. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Robert T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have used sage products all the way back to Peachtree, Goldmine and Act! CRM. Sage 300 feels pretty much the same as it did 20 years ago, and that isn't necessarily a good thing. There is inconsistency across modules (some use list, others use different terminology for same function) #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Mostly easy to use once the quirks are figured out. If you know the software it is great, the reporting is decent. #### Cons The UI is not intuitive, feels dated. I hate the inconsistency across modules in Sage 300 CRE. List should be the same across all modules as an example. --- ### Sage Construction Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jemal D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. This is a reliable and user-friendly solution that balances functionality with simplicity. It performs very well in day-to-day operations and delivers strong value for its cost. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I’ve had a solid experience using this platform overall, with a few standout strengths, the pricing feels fair for the range of features offered. Customer support has been responsive and helpful whenever issues come up. #### Cons The app can be difficult for new users to navigate so definitely a learning curve and some training needed. --- ### Sage Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Dave M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Good to have a user friendly app that has tech support. Has been a positive interaction and will continue with Sage at our business #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to use. Non techy senior is able to use the parts of Sage that are needed for our business without issue #### Cons Cost seems high. Some parts of the app don't apply to our needs so I have not fully utilized everything. --- ### Terrible product for a lot of money - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Holly K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Libraries - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Only easy to use if you’re a professional bookkeeper, apparently. Not intuitive at all. I wish I could start over with another product. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros That I have figured it out, mostly. It took many years but I can do just the basics now, thank goodness. #### Cons So expensive! Gone from 300 to 900 in 10 years. Clunky. Not intuitive. Easy to make errors that aren’t flagged. --- ### Great Product with loads of features - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Lyle K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Networking - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall it is a great product, it has many features to help track what is needed, however it can feel a bit cumbersome due to its outdated interface. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Sage Construction Suite works really well on how it connects the financial side of construction business on what is happening on the job site. Instead of juggling separate systems, everything is tracked inside one system #### Cons I wish sage would update the interface as the current interface feels dated and clunky compared to newer systems. It can take time to learn as it as a large number of features and is fairly complex --- ### Master Builder, master program - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Michael M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Master Builder is very easy to use and to run reports. Able to do many tasks from one program which saves time #### Cons The program is DOS based to it is difficult to use at times because everything is not windows based. Not easy to use remotely. --- ### Timberline is intuitive and easy to use - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Tara H. - Industry: Construction - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like this software because of the user interface. It's not overly complicated and fairly intuitive. It's easy to track change orders and pull reports. #### Cons I don't believe there is a way to attach and view documents related to change orders. That would be a great feature to have. --- ### Sage Construction Suite is great! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Heather R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for free trial - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Great program that I recommend any construction company utilize to run their business smoothly and keep it up-to-date. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It’s a great tool to help streamline our business needs. We have access to all our information in one spot, reports, estimates, and it is super easy to use. #### Cons Honestly there is nothing off of the top of my head that I can say I honestly don’t like about the program currently. --- ### 10+ years of Sage - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall I have had very little problems in Sage for the my 10+ years of using the product. I think it flows rather well, but when I had to train someone else because of concerns over COVID, it was a little tricky. There are some deductions I have to compute manually because I can't tell it to include overtime, but not vacation or sick when creating the deduction. I also don't like that when creating a paygroup you need to save before adding benefits, but that's a minor inconvenience. I have also adapted paygroup for the different benefit levels of my employees who attend school and have different impact to compensation. Overall I would recommend. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is easy to input invoices and do most of payroll. The certified payroll still needs a little work for those of us not doing it electronically. I have never had an issue with the quarterly or end of yea tax reports. Archiving previous years and locking down transactions prior to archiving has become much simpler. I do customized reports from time to time and generally they are rather easy to do. #### Cons I would like to see a tab in the jobs that has all the information needed for the A1-131 top section report. I would like to see date added when it notifies you in accounts payable that you have a duplicate invoice number. Lately I have had to install the program onto new computers. The install was not as smooth due to Microsoft. I wish I had a updated list that said you also will need to download these applications as they are no longer automatically provided by Microsoft - ie Framework, SQL 2014. #### Reasons for choosing Sage Construction Suite We chose Sage back in 2002. At that time there were not many options. We have maintained through the years albeit looked at other products. We started with Sage 100 Contractor and have stuck with Sage 100 Contractor although we do not use it to its fullest protentional. #### Vendor response Thank you for your feedback! We appreciate your business and look forward to helping drive your continued success in construction and real estate. Replied May 2021 --- ### Next level accounting - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Debora B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We were able to have multiple users with out them seeing what we don't want them to see. Also it improved the reporting and bill paying process. It has been great to have estimating incorporated in the program and the ability to export into excel. Some parts however are very clunky and take multiple steps (such as entering info twice in change orders or having to create a job after a client. It would be nice to click a button on client that creates the job automatically. Grateful the capability to transfer between accounts was added, however the fact that I have to enter a journal entry to use the vacation time costs on my balance sheet when someone uses it in payroll seems a miss-step. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Accounting is great. The level of personalization for each user, being able to lock down per line what each user sees and use of PO/SO takes us to the next level of what we were looking for. Also personalization of reports and ability to change things how we need them is excellent. Have been using as our CRM as well. That there are constant improvements and ability to request them. Love the dashboard and how I can customize it. I feel much more informed about our numbers and the auto-reports are very helpful. #### Cons So much to learn and implement. Our onboarding was less than impressive (trainer distracted and taking another phone call while I'm paying for her time) Also very expensive. There was no information as to the set up of the computers required, or even how to go about implementing the program until we were involved with the trainers and they didn't cover that first part. Had to learn by trial and error. We felt like there was very little help and a lot of miscommunications. We need more field access (online) but that is not on the accounting side...all project management. Also, when exporting to word or excel it is in tables and not easy to manipulate. #### Reasons for choosing Sage Construction Suite We didn't really look at too many others, Sage100c was recommended by [SENSITIVE CONTENT] and we trust her. #### Reasons for switching to Sage Construction Suite wanted better coverage with PO, better lock downs for multi users. --- ### Robin H.'s review - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Reviewer: Robin H. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: December 2011 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Why choose Timberline estimating over Excel or the Big Chief notepad? 1. Integration, Integration, Integration a. Dynamic link to Onscreen takeoff tools (I can be in the estimate quantity field and jump to the plans, measure the quantity while color coding it using the mouse, and it inserts the quantity in the estimate). b. Quotation/Procurement - one of the most important add-ons. Allows the user to create quote sheets from takeoff items, email them to vendors, negotiate prices, then choose to use that quote in the estimate budget or push it through to a purchase order or subcontract. Remarkably powerful integration tool, plus you develop a bid history library. c. CAD - beyond onscreen takeoff (which is only an image of the drawing where you still measure quantities). CAD integration uses CAD item libraries to electronically feed CAD driven quantities from the drawings (but you still have to "estimate" the work to be performed). CAD primarily provides the material components and quantities. d. Scheduling Integration - the ability to generate a text file recap of the estimate sorted by a schedule activity, or export the recap to a Microsoft Project Schedule native file format, or to create a Primavera native file format. NOTE - it is not a scheduling program; it is a utility to convert the estimate to specific data file format used by specific scheduling software products. 2. Reduction in errors. a. Database formulas work every time and warn you when something is missing. Excel can break formula links, fields, worksheet links, and references and become too complex to manage and generate a wrong calculation with no warning. b. Database estimates can be sorted in almost unlimited ways using "WBS codes" (work breakdown structures). This is a fancy name for tagging an item with a sortable field such as material class, building number, floor number, alternate, and then sorting the estimate by those tags in a multiple level sequence - on the fly. Very important with so many cuts and adds taking place in today's estimating processes. It also quickly generates field-oriented docs (bill of materials; by floor, by area, etc.), Budgets - sort by job cost summary instantly, etc. c. Cuts and Adds are a given in today's fast paced estimate environment, recalling a scope section and revising it repeatedly is a reality. This is the most common cause of estimating errors when bidding. Having an audit trail of changes and to quickly make a revision to all components by answering simple questions is very powerful (see smart assemblies and Modeling as well). d. Parametric estimates - increase the production of an estimator without increased rework or errors. Answer a set of parametric scope questions and the assembly generates all detail components for the estimator. Eliminates errors, reduces rework, ends the "takeoff for a bid - then takeoff again to build it" issue. 3. Database standards a. A standard item library for everyone in the company to use creating ease of assimilating new estimators, improving cross training of roles, having common logic that can be reviewed easily to see how the result was generated. How many times has an excel estimate template morphed into multiple complicated versions within a company? Not with a database central price book and takeoff system. b. Flexibility - allows the estimating "artist" to be flexible with their style of results. The assemblies will allow scope questions to be used differently by each estimator (one wants unit price, another wants man-hours, another wants total Square Footage). They can get all of that with a single common system setup. c. Pricing - many cost pricing service products integrate and can be combined with a company's own in-house price components. Run into that goofy system you have no idea what it costs - look it up in the pricing service system (and by regional pricing in the market). Have your own factors - apply them to the pricing. There are many other reasons to consider a database driven integrated estimating system. The above are just a few that show why excel or paper are outdated for today's fast paced estimating demands. It is not just the takeoff - it is all the other integration of "clerical / admin" grunt work stuff that an integrated solution improves within an organization. Four stars - there is no PERFECT system... but no others come close to this overall solution. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 --- ### The best guarantee to complete the work within the budget - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Obada O. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I consider myself lucky because the company I work for uses Sega300, as it has a pivotal role in organizing all the functions of the work team, and also a great role in organizing the financial affairs of projects, and through it we avoid mistakes when preparing bills and financial reports. Keeping track of the work by ensuring that you do not exceed the specified budget. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is one of the best tools for estimating the business value and managing project finances. Sega300 enables construction companies of all sizes organize and track tasks. In short, the Sega300 tells project managers what they need to do, and owners what their firm is actually about. The Sega300 eliminates duplicate entries by integrating and updating modules in real time. The Sega300 protects data transmission by limiting access to authorized individuals only. It will guard against changing financial data or losing jobs. The sequential and traffic order of customers and vendors helps integrate monthly accounting surveys for settlements and retrieve invoices accurately and efficiently. #### Cons There is nothing undesirable, it just needs some training to learn how to work correctly, and after completing the training, you will find it easy and quick to implement the required operations and extract reports. --- ### Make construction easy - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall experience is good , going to suggest to other users also , this software make the construction work much more reliable. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I most liked about this software is estimation calculation and payroll management which is good to use feature. And make the construction much more easy and fast. #### Cons The cons is there that sometimes future estimation is calculated wrong and not matched , except all others things are fine and good. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/185440-Sage-Construction-Suite/reviews/?page=2) --- Sage Construction Suite Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice