Sage Construction Project Center Software

DON'T BUY

RUN

Pros

It could be nice to have all your information in a central location and it does have quite a few different features.

Cons

Constantly glitching and unreliable. No customization. When we have an issue, sometimes it takes several days to get an answer from the support team. In the past they have said they have fixed something, and nothing was different at all. The process for submittals/transmittals/purchase orders is painstakingly complicated and redundant. I find myself irritated every single day because there is some type of issue with the program. And it is SO EXPENSIVE. PLEASE save yourself the stress and find any other solution. We have an in house Sage consultant and even she is floored by how ridiculous this program is. At this point you couldn't pay me to keep using it.

Sage Construction Review

Pros

I love how i can get any information that I need from a job in one, central location. I don't really need to pull up anything from the local server because Sage does such a good job organizing everything for us.

Cons

This software is not very user friendly. If i wasn't tech savvy i think my job would be a lot more difficult. It's a pain that you have to close certain windows before you can open another one.

Drastically improve your project management.

Great online resources and help from the company when needed.

Pros

My top pros for Sage is being able to effortlessly share files with team members, manage workflows, and track activities across multiple tasks from multiple locations.

Cons

I haven’t really come across any cons so far working with the software it has everything I need to effectively run multiple job sites.

Don't waste your time or money

It's overly cumbersome to use, very counter intuitive. Everything that I have tried to use it for taking much longer than it should and requires way too many steps. Requires you to pay up front for a year. After using it for a month I concluded that it cannot serve our needs. Requested a pro-rated refund from Sage. Too bad, we're stuck with it for a year. I was told there is naturally a learning curve with any new software. I've been using computers in business since the late 1970's so I'm pretty good at figuring out how to use new software. If it requires that much of a learning curve, you're best served to look elsewhere for something more user friendly.

Pros

None

Cons

Invitations to bid are system generated, cannot be changed. Vendors receive an invitation to bid from email, and unless they have been trained on the system would have no idea what to do with it. If they can figure it out, they're taken to the project center screen which requires them to dig several layers to find the plans, if they can even get that far, most will give up before that.

You can't use your own cost codes, must use the ones in the system, you can edit them one at a time if you have enough spare time to do that.

I could not believe so complicated, bugged, and not user friendly platform still exists in 2017.

Never ever buy this, or wait for a few years hoping for improvement.

Cons

Takes too long to submit RFI, Submittal. Process is very complicated. Tracking of anything is barely impossible. Expediting log shall be checked off manually. It is not enough to attach file: you have to upload, and make sure to check off the box in order to email. document numbering is manual- system does not do that. That means - good luck finding a certain submittal among a 1000 of them if you were not detail oriented while logging. Finally to compare, I am able to submit well tracked and easy to find item with 3 clicks with other software, and Sage takes 25 clicks with delays.

Good Software - High Price

Pros

Ease of use nice features, This software had everything I was looking for with the exception of payroll by job.

Cons

Cost was higher than what i was looking for, i have 100+ field reps and to allow them access it would cost me.