Software is meant to be increase efficiency, and Budget4Cast checks that box with flying colors.

Budget4Cast is a one-of-a-kind software solution that allows simple and efficient, yet powerful and comprehensive management of project financials. It meets the needs of our development projects both small (<$5M) and large (>$100M) and it’s simplicity allows us to spend more time managing the project, and less time wasted on remedial data entry tasks.

It's a catch 22, because the software is so easy to use and efficient, sometimes there are features that we wish existed but do not. Reporting exports could be a bit more professional and customizable to allow for them to be used client facing.

Overall I like the software, however my previous software was so restrictive that it seems like a major improvement. There are a few functional issues that make the software not too user friendly. But at the same time, it is customizable and changeable to allow for quick corrections and creation.

I love the flexibility to update and make changes to entries on contracts and payables.

I don't like the project summary page, it has way too much information and then at the same time not the essential information that I need for my uses. It doesn't even fit on the default page size.

overall a positive experience. Able to work around most of the deficiency of the system.

Easy to implement and use. Did not have all the levels of approvals in similar software.

Not enough options for reporting and not strong in accounting features

I primarily use Budget4Cast as an Owner's Rep, tracking the budget and giving monthly reports on budget health, current change orders, pending change orders, reallocations of savings/overruns. Sharing budget viewing permissions adds a great level of transparency. And of course having a intuitive tool to generate draws is especially useful.

The report generation and disbursement register tools are most useful to me. Being able to upload documents during data entry and download them as attachments to budget reports or draws is a major time saver.

Moving between modules causes some lag as the contents populate, which is dead time waiting for data entry fields to be useable. This is especially noticeable on larger projects where Actual Costs can take just enough time to load that it's annoying. It's also tough to track a single budget with two separate funding sources. My solution has been to run a separate budget for each funding source, which is not ideal.

We love several things about the software. The first thing is that budget4cast is easy to use and user friendly. As we enter any expense, the system automatically calculates the project balances. All of our users can also log in from anywhere (from the office or the project) and add any expenses and see in real-time the balance remaining on the project. For years we've been using excel to organize and keep track of our budgets, but of course, budget4cast is more efficient, and you can see results in real-time.

I only dislike one thing, I wish that there was a small memo or note spot to add or leave a note along the way.

Budget4Cast helped organizing projected expenses against actual expenses. Very helpful in keeping a large project organized!

Clean interface, very low cost compared to competitors, simple to use, great future potential

Laborious initial deployment and very limited reporting options as of now

Very positive experience. It was easy to learn and work with the system. Additionally, my clients/stakeholders who are given access to the system find it easy to use as well.

This platform is an extremely user-friendly to track and manage cost information with relatively low risk for user-error or lost data.

It is much more cumbersome and time-consuming to manipulate or edit bulk data compared to a spreadsheet-based system. Additionally, it would be nice to monitor commitment/contract status within the software, without needing to download a .csv export.

Overall this has been a great program for our company.

B4C was great in taking our existing work and implementing it into the program. Software is quite user friendly and has been a great addition to our team.

Selecting dates (especially previous years) is cumbersome and we have reported it to B4C. Haven't seen an improvement yet. The auto forecasting feature proves to be confusing to users if used incorrectly. Always have to be aware if this feature is on/off.

Setting up a project is easy, you simply transfer those line items from one project to the next. I can't say enough good things about this software, this is the second employer where I have used budget4cast. I loved it so much that I suggested we use it to my supervisor and now the entire team of project managers loves using it to!

Budget4cast is extremely user-friendly and has all the tools to track a project budget. The ability to import invoices and contracts keeps everything you need in one place. The auto forecast tool helps reserve expenses you know will need to be paid without showing those funds as available. Reports are easy to read and export.

I honestly can't think of anything I don't like.

Very easy to use and understand how to do what you want with it.

Maybe a little too basic of work functionality--from a contract and invoicing perspective, it seems there are some unnecessary steps required.

Managing reports is always necessary and Budget4Cast easily allows reports to be created, sorted as needed, simplified or detailed, etc according to the needs or desires of the client. It is also very easy to pull down the data into an excel/csv file to work with the raw information and run analysis as needed.

A feature to allow an upload of a new project budget would be an exceptional addition to the program. Inputting budgets is manual currently and time consuming depending on the level of detail and extent of budget coding.

Our owners rep recommended Budget4Cast for a major renovation project. As our team had no prior experience managing a construction project, Budget4Cast was a tremendous help. The produce is easy to use and produces great reports. It was a great help in managing our construction budget.

Budget4Cast was very easy to use. The menus and reports are intuitive. This tool made it very easy to assess to keep our project on track.

For our use, we were pleased with all features.

Pleased with the trial, disappointed our team went another direction

Budget4cast was selected to manage our project budgets, however, at the time budget4cast did not track committed costs. Therefore, our construction team selected another software that we discarded after one year of use.

I liked budget4cast for the ease of use and seamless set up process.

Project data reporting

Versatile, enabled me to represent data as needed.

Need to create more video tutorials, quick sheets to help new users. Extended trials as well as subscription plans aimed at meeting the budgets of students and young professionals would really help users evangelize and become proficient enough to showcase the true capabilities of this software

so far so good. I am brand new to the software, and only use it once a month.

Very user friendly. to go in and out of categories, and assess/account for data.

No cons as of yet. as I am new to the program