Procore Review from Regional Multifamily View
July 10, 2017
Procore Review from Regional Multifamily View
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Procore
My company has an office in Columbia, MO and Atlanta, GA, plus jobsites across the country. Team members can get the latest plans, share photos, check on submittal status, and request commitments from wherever they are. Our entire team uses Procore, as well as several of our owners to keep tabs on project progress. Procore solves the problems of storage, accessibility, and transparency.
Pros
- I have a good feel for where my projects are at and how things are progressing. Procore does not completely replace an in-person site visit, but it does help me keep a pulse on my projects, no matter where I am or how far away the project is; as long as I have internet access.
- Our executives can access reports and summaries from Procore to use at their discretion without having to take up my time. It allows me to focus more on the project. The reports are only as good as the information put in, but that leads me to another strength of Procore.
- I can track daily logs and photos to make sure documentation is being uploaded regularly. This information is then safely stored and accessible whenever and wherever I need it.
Cons
- Procore seems to take up a lot of bandwidth. Sometimes it takes a long time for me to complete a simple task waiting for each screen to upload.
- The list of subcontractors that we invite to bid can get to be several pages long. With only 100 bidders visible per page, it can be time consuming going through each page to find a bid.
- My company has experienced some bugs with email notifications going out for contract approvals or ball in court. Not directly related to Procore, but many of our subs have their email accounts set up where our invitation to bid emails go to their junk or spam files., and are never opened.
- The transfer of large files can be accomplished directly from Procore. I do not need to upload something to Dropbox, or another ftp site. And typically, the file I want to send is already on Procore, so it helps me to accomplish my task quicker.
- With the risk of litigation always looming overhead, it is reassuring knowing that our documentation is easily accessed in one place and secure. Our collective butts have been covered by reports, photos, or documents that were saved to Procore.
- We have experienced some difficulty with participation by unwilling employees and subcontractors to utilize Procore. Typically over time we have been able to bring them around to seeing the benefits. We did have one architectural firm that just flat out refused to use Procore, or any similar software.
I do not have much experience with other programs similar to Procore. I have used the submittal and documentation software that was required by the US Army Corp of Engineers, which was very limited and not user friendly in the slightest. I have used Dropbox for an ftp of large files, but it seems cumbersome for the limited scope of work it performs.
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