--- title: "Base Builders Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026" description: "Review of Base Builders Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs." source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/psa/praesto-profile/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Project Tracking Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/project-tracking-comparison/) / Base Builders 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 [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/praesto-profile/alternatives/) # Base Builders Review From $13.50-$31.50/month Free trial 3 plans Wondering if Base Builders is right for your organization? Our Project Tracking Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview Base Builders 4.2 [(22)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/praesto-profile/#reviews) Pricing Starting at $13.50 per user per month ### About Base Builders Built for ARCHITECTS and ENGINEERS that design and draw BLUEPRINTS. BaseBuilders.com is developed specifically for architecture and engineering firms by a veteran of the industry. It handles everything from time tracking to invoicing. It will even manage your sub-consultant contracts and payouts. The super-simple QuickBooks integration means that you will not need to learn a new accounting system. Every aspect of your project information is housed in a searchable database giving you immediate access to the information you want to see. And the robust reporting system will give you the answers you are looking for. You will know the profitability of each project in real-time - no more waiting until the end of the month to get a report. If you are looking to simplify your operations and improve your bottom line, look no further. We are ready to help you reach your goals. Do you work for Base Builders? [Manage this product listing](https://www.g2.com/products/basebuilders/claim_requests/new?auto=true) Wondering if Base Builders is right for your organization? Our Project Tracking Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. ## Base Builders User Interface ## Popular Base Builders Alternatives Main Product Base Builders 4.2 [(22)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/praesto-profile/#reviews) Ratings Breakdown - 3.80Ease of use - 3.0Value for money - 4.36Customer support - 4.27Functionality Pricing Starting at $13.50 per month Get Price Alternative Product [BQE CORE Suite](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/bqe-core-accounting-profile/) 4.5 [(796)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/bqe-core-accounting-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.37Ease of use - 4.50Value for money - 4.61Customer support - 4.44Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [monday AI Work Platform](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/monday-com-profile/) 4.6 [(6123)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/monday-com-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.49Ease of use - 4.28Value for money - 4.43Customer support - 4.45Functionality Pricing Starting at $9.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Wrike](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/wrike-profile/) 4.4 [(3044)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/wrike-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.18Ease of use - 4.21Value for money - 4.33Customer support - 4.31Functionality Pricing Starting at $10.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Smartsheet](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/smartsheet-profile/) 4.5 [(3567)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/smartsheet-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.32Ease of use - 4.36Value for money - 4.32Customer support - 4.35Functionality Pricing Starting at $9.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Project Insight](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/project-insight-profile/) 4.5 [(94)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/project-insight-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.37Ease of use - 4.50Value for money - 4.52Customer support - 4.37Functionality Pricing Starting at $9.00 per month Get Price ## Base Builders Pricing and Plans Starting price: $13.50 per month Free Trial Free Version Limited users $13.50 per user, per month Plan includes: - Companies - Complete Quickbooks Integration - Contacts - Cost-Effective Pricing - Easy to Use - Expenses - Mac and Ios - Time Slips - Todos - Unlimited Free Support Read More Production Users $22.50 per user, per month Plan includes: - Construction Budgets - Documents - Logbook - Notes - Project Reports - Projects - Time Reports Financial Users $31.50 per user, per month Plan includes: - Quickbooks Integration - Proposals - Pay Requests - Payouts - Invoices - Income - Financial Reports - Contracts Confused about pricing? 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Get a personalized pricing breakdown tailored to your specific needs—no guesswork, no generic estimates. ## Base Builders Features - Popular features found in Project Tracking Activity Tracking Alerts/Notifications Multiple Projects Prioritization Project Planning Project Time Tracking Status Tracking Task Management Task Scheduling Workflow Management - More features of Base Builders Access Controls/Permissions Accounting Billing & Invoicing Commenting/Notes Contact Management Customizable Branding Data Import/Export Deadline Management Expense Tracking Invoice Management Percent-Complete Tracking Project Management Project Workflow Proposal Generation Quotes/Estimates Role-Based Permissions Search/Filter Summary Reports Tagging Time & Expense Tracking ## Base Builders Integrations Microsoft Power BI Integration rated undefined from -1 review ## Base Builders User Reviews ## Base Builders customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.2/5 - Total reviews: 22 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 12 reviews (55%) - 4 stars: 6 reviews (27%) - 3 stars: 4 reviews (18%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 3.8/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4.4/5 - Functionality: 4.3/5 --- Have you used Base Builders and would like to share your experience with others? ### Base Builders Great planner - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Redemptor R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Great experience with software. It generally needs time to get used to. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Tailored Access the ability to create and customize roles according to the specific needs of the organization allows for flexible and precise control over who can access what. This customization ensures that permissions align with the organization’s workflow and hierarchy. #### Cons There might be constraints in customizing certain features or workflows to fully match specific organizational needs, which can be a drawback for highly specialized projects. #### Reasons for choosing Base Builders I am still they all have good items but i require the best for the business of my clients. #### Reasons for switching to Base Builders I wanted to look at all my options for the business planning software. --- ### LOVE Praesto! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Shirlene C. - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Product usage: Used unspecified for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2015 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 #### Pros The staff at BaseBuilders have been so easy to work with! After spending 16 months unsuccessfully trying to implement a different software, we were leery of investing a lot of time and money into yet another product. I made an online query about price and within an hour we got a phone call. We were able to schedule a webinar for the next day and a second the following week for our owners. We were already using QuickBooks (QB) prior to the unsuccessful launch so Praesto seemed to be a natural fit for us. I created a new QB file so it would be easy to track how Praesto integrated with QB. With BaseBuilders support and the tools they have available, I was ready to go live in less than 6 weeks. It would have taken less time if I started the process before the 1st of the year and not 6 weeks after. That 6 weeks included the time it took to create the new QB file with all year-to-date transactions. The software is easy and almost fun to use, the data it provides is very useful and it all just makes sense! If we have questions or problems, the staff at BaseBuilders is super responsive! They regularly reach out to us if they haven't heard from us to make sure we are happy with the program. A huge selling point to this program was that we got all of the features WITH unlimited technical support for one very affordable price. #### Cons After 5 months, I haven't found anything I don't like about BaseBuilders or Praesto. I might be a little biased after the experience with the product we were unsuccessful in implementing, but any issues we've had have been quickly and successfully addressed. --- ### Good bones but in need of new interface - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Bekah B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I like the ability to add consultants on projects and being able to set their fee up as part of the project fee or additional. Being able to track pay requests and pay outs is very ideal. #### Cons The interface is hard to use and it's difficult to search and find items in lists. --- ### Anthony P.'s review - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Reviewer: Anthony P. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: April 2012 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We have been using Project Management software on the Macintosh for the last twelve years and this is simply the program "You Must Have" if you are in the A/E community. Not only is this a robust solution to Digital Project Management, but it also runs on the Macintosh by using Filemaker as the database. We have been working with BaseBuilders for over a year now and have watched this program blossom into a very robust solution that covers every aspect of a project's life from proposal to closeout. Implementation was straightforward. We where running ArchiOffice and the data generated from that program was easily transferred to the new system. BaseBuilders to this day have always been simply a phone call away and the Owner actually calls you to help you resolve problems. The program allows you to develop proposals, track time and cost and then convert that proposal into a live project. Forecasting of cash flow and the project tracking of payables and receivables has been an invaluable tool for our firm. We recently installed the latest upgrade and where happy to see a few of the upgrades we had requested from BaseBuilders to handle administrative duties during construction. Simply stated, software is only as good as the customer support behind it, and everyone writing and selling software should take a lesson or two from these guys. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 --- ### Good software to track time, mileage, and project billing - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: justin a. - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 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 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is easy to set up projects and have multiple people log their hours. Far easier than doing it manually. Makes end of the month timekeeping and billing much easier. Being able to link Praesto with Quickbooks is a huge plus. #### Cons The program tends to slow my computer down when using the software. It would be nice if the software was cloud-based rather than server-based --- ### Dave T.'s review - Overall rating: 2.5/5 - Reviewer: Dave T. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: March 2012 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have been using the program for over a year. Admittedly, I do not have an accounting background, but it has taken me this long to feel like I am starting to understand how the program works. There are no contextual help notes; you just have to figure things out on your own as you go. For example, you just have to know somehow that you have to add and refresh any new billable rates and/or staff to each job; why should you have to do that in the first place? Seems like that database would be available automatically. It would be great to have some cancel buttons when you start to set up a job, or an invoice. If you change your mind, you have to delete it, or allow it to be created and then go back and delete it. I almost always get a quick response when I e-mail a question. Doug has been great to get on-line and show us how things work. Some training videos would be nice. We have devoted many, many hours to get the Proposal and Invoice modules to work pretty well, but we still have to remember to check every box, fill in every line, etc., or we get unpredictable results. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 2/5 --- ### LOVE PRAESTO!! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Judy W. - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Product usage: Used unspecified for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2015 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4.5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I found the software to be logical and easy to use (after a learning curve, of course!). We replaced software we had used for 28 years with Praesto and Quick Books. Moving the necessary data to Quick Books is very easy - even more so after this last update. I have called for technical support several times and the attitude is always "I can help you with that." We were able to get our data imported in easily and began to use the program for basic functions. We have used it for several months now and are beginning to utilize more of the functions as we become more familiar with the software #### Cons I don't have any complaints about the product or the vendor. --- ### David H.'s review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: David H. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: March 2012 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered As a small engineering firm we handled all of our accounting through QuickBooks but needed something to help our Project Managers manage their project budgets, schedules, and office manpower. We found Praesto AE and after learning more decided Praesto looked like it was written for us. We now use Praesto timesheets for all of our time entry, which allows us to see real time staff utilization, monitor project budgets, easy invoicing, proposal tracking, etc. Praesto has been easy to learn and use. The customer support has by far been the best I have ever seen from any company in my career. Praesto AE has greatly benefited our firm and all of our project managers. Each manager can quickly and easily check budgets so they can spend more time focused on clients and projects. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 --- ### Paul H.'s review - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Reviewer: Paul H. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: March 2012 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We are a one-person design office that receives a mountain of email and phone calls each day on many projects. Praesto AE allows us to record, manage, and keep on top of all the information. Nothing gets "lost"! Apart from information storage, we now have control over our time, costs, fees and profitability. Having a thorough centralized record of our projects means we also satisfy our PI insurer with our record keeping procedures. Start-up and implementation went smoothly. It took us about a month to work out what we needed and how to do it. Customer Support has been excellent. We are in Australia, and we either get an immediate email or phone call to our requests, or it is there the next morning. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 --- ### Arthur G.'s review - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Reviewer: Arthur G. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: March 2012 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Preasto AE is the replacement for another Filemaker based accounting and management system our design firm had used for years. As we were already familiar with Filemaker, the transition was easy. The Preasto team has been very diligent in helping move all our data to the new system and extremely helpful in showing us the myriad of new accounting and management tools at our disposal. We look forward to populating the central database with past and future project data to help identify project costing; in the past it was scattered throughout office computers. Also, from an accounting standpoint, being able to push all entries directly into Quickbooks from Praesto AE will eliminate duplicate entries. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 --- Showing 1 - 10 of 22 Reviews Load More Reviews ## Base Builders Popular Comparisons [monday AI Work Platform vs Base Builders](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/monday-com-profile/vs/praesto/)[BigTime vs Base Builders](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/bigtime-profile/vs/praesto/) [Compare All Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/praesto-profile/alternatives/) ## Other Top Recommended Project Tracking Software [Smartsheet](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/smartsheet-profile/) **4.5** (3567) Recently recommended **46** times [Wrike](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/wrike-profile/) **4.4** (3044) Recently recommended **32** times [Project Insight](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/project-insight-profile/) **4.5** (94) Recently recommended **32** times [kintone](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/kintone-profile/) **4.7** (154) Recently recommended **22** times Stuck Between Options? 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