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Robert
Construction, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2023
All the Bang, Not so much Buck
CDR takes a very small construction company and instantly gives you a professional look and feel that is comparable to companies worth millions$ more. Overall, I am excited to say I am a CDR customer, and I think it is a beneficial program for any construction company to use.
PROSThe thing I like the most about CDR is it doesn’t try to be something that it’s not. Construction Daily Report (CDR) is just what it says it is. And it shouldn’t be anything else. And, it is great. A lot of time and attention was obviously put into the design and layout and functionality. Thank you, CDR, for making a program that does exactly what it should in a very professional way.
CONSI have no dislikes. But let me say this, every time I have had a dislike, in the past, it was always quickly resolved by the [sensitive content hidden] and tech team.
Reason for choosing CDR
Procore has too many bells and whistles that I am just not interested in nor had a use for. It was like getting into a Cadillac to drive to the end of the driveway just to get the mail. Sure, it’s capable of doing CDR’s daily reports and much more…but I only was looking for what CDR does, and does well.
Brad
Civil Engineering, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
1
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2023
Great product, however
Ease of useQuick set upPreloaded questions Project calendar needs an additional color dot to indicate if any daily entry has been made or skipped
CONSProject is completed and I wanted to archive the project reports away on external drive in case of client questions…contacted customer service, was informed that I was to print off reports each day from the beginning to save them, (ridiculous) and that no data down load was available. Was informed that access to project data would remain available on your servers for the reoccurring monthly fee of 20.00. (Again, ridiculous)I paid for the use of the tool, which was great, however the reports/data is mine and should be available to me to download and archive at project close out.Time between active projects cannot support the monthly fee, which is not your fault, but this disappointing ending with impact a repeat customer.I am happy to pay the fee while using the tool, so there should be a way for you to figure this out.Currently paying for the service 3 months after project completion, hoping for a better solutionExpecting to cancel subscription shortly.
Reasons for switching to CDR
Ease of use
Curtis
Construction, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2023
Great bargain
overall CDR has made my job much easier and it’s a good bargain so I give them a good thumbs up
PROSCDR is easy to use in the field and does not take up much extra time. As a guy who is NOT a tech guy I still find this to be very user friendly, very much like a fill in the blank test where I already have all the answers. Although I am good with math another great feature is I just fill in the blanks daily and they keep track of man hours, subcontract labor, etc. for the duration of the job. Finally, compared to other similar programs this one is much more affordable.
CONSHonestly the only real issue I have had is that it is not as good on my I-pad as it is on my laptop and I use my i-pad daily. Sometimes if I need to review photos at full size I have to break out my computer which is not as handy to tote around on the job site.
Reasons for switching to CDR
Price
Kristin
Construction, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2023
Great tool that is user-friendly and priced fairly
I cut back on the amount of time needed to complete reports and get them to the proper party. These reports are also much neater than the ones I used to use - very professional looking. Of the few MINOR issues I've had with this product, the customer service reps were always helpful in communicating the issue and working to resolve them. In the ~2 years I've used this product, I've had 3 minor issues that were fixed the same day (2/3 times my issues were fixed within the hour).
PROSI like the neat interface and user-friendly design that this product offers. The immediate send-off of reports is very helpful and it cuts back on the amount of time I used to have to spend gathering, organizing, and disseminating reports. This was also easy to switch to, and I believe the field personnel agree as they don't have any issues using the software. Great price too! Very inexpensive for what you are getting.
CONSThe only thing I have a mild grievance with is the fact that I can't "archive" projects when they are completed. So they just stay on the projects screen mixed in with active projects. It's a mild inconvenience when scrolling through to get to reports.
Reason for choosing CDR
Price, trial time to test product, user-friendly interface, professional-looking, ease of information dissemination.
Toni
Construction, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2023
Construction
This program helps us keep track of all our subs that show up for work, it's give us an opportunity to discuss any daily issues we come across out in the field.
PROSWe like that it's very user friendly, the office and field employees can all access it with ease.
CONSEverything is great to us, and we wouldn't change a thing for what we are needing.
Reason for choosing CDR
They were too expensive.
Reasons for switching to CDR
The went out of business and got purchased by an IT company that no longer supported what we needed.
Bryan
Construction, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed February 2023
CDR has great potential.
I need to be able to convey status of project on a daily basis for clients that are far away. With the limited amount of characters available in a note entry, I can only hit the highlights, and then add more detail into the cover email that the report is attached to.
PROSI liked the ability to attach photos to specifc statements. I like the weather feature.
CONSLearning curve. It was not intuitive for me to find the proper order to click to get where I needed to go. Every day stands on its own. As I learned the software, I cannot go back and add or subtract questions or categories. I wish the weather feature was changable to something closer to my site. When adding notes, I am limited in amount of characters.
Reason for choosing CDR
Price to get my foot in the door was attractive.
Reasons for switching to CDR
I am looking for a more convenient and more efficient method to create project status reports.
Candice
Construction, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2019
Used for Roofing Foremans / Projects
We had multiple large projects in progress at the same time. Our foremans had access to CDR for daily reports. This was great, we had a central management site that kept up with hours, days worked, photos of the jobs progress and open dialogue.
CONSOnce the project was complete I wanted to print out a full report of the daily reports. This is not an option for CDR right now. I did ask and they said this is something they are working on.
Vendor Response
Candice, thank you for your feedback and review! We have recently launched a monthly and weekly report summaries feature but have not officially announced it quite yet. If you go to your project and using the website then click view report, you will now have an option to view a daily report, a weekly report summary, or a monthly report summary. Hopefully that is helpful as we continue to develop and improve our product and service. We will continue to work to get that 5th star, thanks again for the review!
Replied March 2019
Ashlee
Construction, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2023
Construction Daily Reports - Muliple jobs
I like the calendar feature - showing any days where an entry wasn't made the best, this is a QC feature that helps ensure we're tracking our jobs daily. Anyone can see from Superintendent to PM, what days entries were made.
CONSI wish the daily report was customizable with question 'tiers'.For example, we have entered (customized) the question "Was a safety meeting conducted today?"Then followed by safety meeting applicable questions. I wish the applicable questions were tiered so that they only appeared if the checkbox for "Was a safety meeting conducted today?" was checked in the affirmative.
Roy
Construction, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2023
Thoughts
Smooth and easy
PROSThe automatic weather options is great. The ease of recording time & adding employees is great
CONSAfter about a month I stopped receiving the auto emails when my crew did their reports. I alerted customer support and they said "we are working on it" but I have never seen a change.
Reason for choosing CDR
CDR seemed to be a smother operating app and was more cost efficient to my organazation.
Jim
Civil Engineering, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2023
SPINELLO-DCS review.
Very satisfied...
PROSVery user friendly. Client's like format.
CONSTo obtain one project DFR-PDF for project closeouts.
Reason for choosing CDR
Liked website.
Reasons for switching to CDR
They were having many issues during merger.
Dallas
Construction, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed February 2023
CDR Review
We are using this for daily reports - seems to be doing a nice job organizing and reporting daily activity on jobsites.
PROSTracking daily construction site logs - weather - delays - equipment - site visitors - changes - updates
CONSThat I have to click each link to view photos that are attached - would be nice to open all at one time
Herschel
Construction, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2023
CDR Daily Reporting
Overall my experience has been great. The support has been there in a timely manner and help resolve some reporting issue.
PROSI think the product is somewhat easy to use. Some of my team didn't find it the most user friendly, it took them a little to figure out what they needed to do.
CONSThe one real issue I have is when there are multiple foreman on the same project, I had to add a differently named project so that both could do their daily reports and send separate reports.
Tahja
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Reliable, Easy to use and facilitate training for.
Ease of visibility, easy to organize data and lightweight on system resources.
CONSThere could be more functions to sort through your database. This is however a minor nitpick.
Dean
Construction, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2018
Really easy to use and price was much better than other options. Saves a lot of time on my reports.
Simplified my daily reporting and allows me to go home at least 30 minutes earlier every day.
PROSI like that it does weather automatically and I enjoy the professional forma of the PDF it creates. My company uses Google Drive and Dropbox and CDR automatically drops all my reports in each company account without me having to lift a finger. Saves me a ton of time.
CONSI wish it was free but it definitely is lower cost than their competition. I want the hours logs to automatically roll over but a customer service rep told me that they are building this feature now.
Vendor Response
Thank you very much for the positive review Dean, we are happy to hear how much you have been enjoying our service! We have added the hours rollover feature you mentioned along with some other improvements since your review. We hope that has improved your experience even further!
Replied August 2018
Lindsay
Construction, 11-50 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2023
Great for productivity and progress reviews!
Being in construction, it's easy to forget "where you started" on a project. I love that it is easy to attach photos of progress. We can go back and see all the different phases of the project! This is a great way for us to review the productivity of our teams without being on every single site every day. Our managers can upload photos and hiding what did or did not happen that day gets much more difficult!
CONSI wish there was an easier way to see the series of reports from any given project. If I want to know what happened on a project I have to hope that we saved it in a logical manner and search through each report. I would love to see a "see this project" option, where we could scroll through the entire series of reports for a specific project or timeline
Stephen
Construction, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed March 2023
Review
I am not sure as my employees are the ones giving me feed back.
CONSInputting daily activity ie trade hours per project, is onerous , this process needs to be streamlined.
Brandy
Construction, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2018
Daily reports completed
It does the job, happy for what we pay.
PROSAbility to change the questions for the price, fast easy.
CONSPictures aren't big enough, wish we could get bigger ones in there for jobs. Doesn't work offline.
Vendor Response
Brandy, Thank you for reviewing us here! We are definitely looking into ways to allow offline use on the mobile app. For pictures, we currently have a photo gallery accessible on the website for full size project photos but we are looking into better ways to access those full size images from reports more easily. Thanks again for the feedback, we truly appreciate your business and will continue to improve to try and earn that 5th star from you!
Replied November 2018
Mathew
Military, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2018
Worth the investment
It was easy. Helped significantly reduce the amount of man hours spent on writing reports and also standardizing the format for my team. Very simple to find and pull old reports. It makes it especially nice for tracking projects because I get a report in my inbox right when it gets signed.
CONSIt costs money. It was definitely a much lower cost option than others we saw out there and seemed to be a little easier and more fine tuned than some others.
Vendor Response
Mathew, Thank you for the positive review, we appreciate your business!
Replied November 2018
Marsha
Construction, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed March 2023
CDR Reporting tool
It's a good tool for the cost. Support is there to help you get set up and even when continuing with expanding your knowledge of the product.
PROSAbility to create your own report template
CONSFlexibility to create a more in-dept reporting tool
Reason for choosing CDR
Pricing, flexibility of use
Paul
Construction, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed March 2023
review
Do believe it has helped in documenting issue and safety item for projects
PROSBasic Format of it is nice, like the ease of added and changing questions, Does work great with adding additional personal, s
CONSThe touch arrows and touch details are to small and dont always react when touched.Reports could be set up better and easier to get to
Reason for choosing CDR
It look like it was easy to work with