CSM includes everything you need to run your construction contracting business. It helps contractor to effectively manage each construction project from start to finish. It handles bids, project billing, change orders, project paperwork and many other details for each project.
Main functionalities
- Accounting/Billing
- Track expenses and income in your business. It tracks job costs, and handles your general bookkeeping.
- Handles all of your accounting needs-- accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory, job costing, payroll and project billing. It gives you financial statements and a wide variety of reports.
- Provide info on your building costs, so you can see where you are making money and where you aren't.
- Includes specialized billing for drawn schedules, progress payments and time-and-materials work. It also handles allowances, change orders and retainage.
- Estimation
- Give a quick and accurate building cost estimate for residential and light commercial construction projects.
- Lets you make "whole project" estimates for new construction and additions, and "room by room" estimates for remodeling. It tracks subcontactor bids and calculates a final project price.
- Includes a library of unit cost items and assemblies that cover the complete range of construction. You can easily create your own cost items library or change components in any of the assemblies.
- Gives you material takeoffs (Bill of Material) and a simple project schedule.
- Scheduling
- Gantt chart tells you when you can finish each job, so you can tell clients "how long" as well as "how much". .
- It calculates the completion date of each item in an estimate, based on the person-hours that are included in the assembly, and the crew size you use for that work.
- It calculates each schedule based on your actual working hours. You can add delays of any kind, and you can change the actual start date of any step in the schedule
- Building Site Management
- Site diary keeps track of equipments, labors, and materials in inventory.
- Designed specifically for tracking six types of expenses for construction work:
- Equipment hours
- Labor hours
- Inventory used
- Material purchases
- Subcontractor costs
- Other costs
Some screen shots
| - Manage, update any of the costs and add as many new unit cost items as you need. |  |
| - Manage catalog. CSM includes "smart dimensions" which take simple project measurements, and convert them into actual quantities for the items in your estimates. |  |
- It calculates the duration of each item by getting the total labor hours from the Assembly, adjusted for the crew size. You can assign different working hours to the project and see how that affects the completion date. |  |
| - Site diary keeps track of equipments, labors, and materials in inventory. |  |
| - Subcontractor management |  |
| - Tracks and manages deposits, payments, and balance-sheets |  |
| - Generated reports are XML open-standard. Allows export to Microsoft Word, Excel. |  |
