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ToolBox

With the ToolBox module, businesses have a comprehensive set of tools designed to help manage, analyze, and store bids, jobs, submittals, RFIs, change orders, and more.

You can organize all your jobs with a virtual toolbox that helps you improve document management, storage, and analysis.

Did you ever wonder why you won or lost a bid or what made the job over or under budget? ToolBox stores all the entered data for your pre-bids, current bids, lost bids, won bids, and jobs, allowing you to generate reports for tracking the history and analyzing the estimate, bid, and job data. It also includes capability to manage and store your documents, such as submittals, RFIs, change orders, correspondences, and contacts.

Using ToolBox, you can:

  • Track the due dates of bids so that you don’t miss out on the opportunity.
  • Track the expiration date of blueprints so that you can return them without paying a fee.
  • Track the size, number of floors, footage, etc. on your jobs so you can have the important analysis and data history for your project management needs.
  • Track data to provide analysis reports to determine the factors involved in the bids you won versus the bids you lost (i.e. size of projects, the competition, type of jobs - commercial vs. government, etc.); this will provide you an analysis of your bidding history to ascertain if there is a pattern providing you valuable intelligence to help you in your bidding process.
  • Track your job status for projects in progress, on hold, important deadline dates, contract extensions, etc.
  • Check change orders to determine when a request was made, approved, resubmitted, or denied.
  • Track if the completion date extends the original due date of the contract.
  • Track if it is a time and materials job verses a project-based job.

 
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Increasing Profit Margins with Better Bids

Learn how you can bid quickly and accurately, streamline processes, and cut costs. 

Dorvin D. Leis Co, Inc.

Dorvin D. Leis is a mechanical contractor using Maxwell Systems Estimation software to improve their takeoff, estimating, and procurement processes. Not only has the solution sped up their bidding efforts, but also allows them to easily find material pricing, evaluate labor for optimal productivity, track materials purchased, and have instant access to purchasing history. Ultimately, DDL has achieved greater efficiency and cost savings and improved control by replacing their previous time-consuming manual methods. 

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Our Story of Complete Construction Software

Maxwell Systems provides construction software solutions that help contractors to streamline workflow, increase productivity, and improve profitability. Furthermore, we understand that today's contractors must optimize processes across all business areas to gain or maintain an increasingly important competitive edge and ensure a successful business. Critical, to that end, is timely and efficient communication and information access among estimating, job cost accounting, and project management teams.

By using a Maxwell Systems complete construction software solution, you'll be able to better operate your business with increased efficiency and streamlined operations, and confidently increase profitability on every project. You will have the tools you need to accomplish more in less time; taking the guesswork out of reaching true profit potential; and improving financial stability for long-term benefit.

Why Maxwell Systems?

Maxwell Systems is truly unique with its ability to offer contractors a complete, seamless software solution that allows:

  • A new level of continuity and productivity among estimating, job cost accounting, and project management
  • Better insight, analysis, and financial oversight for owners to make informed and timely decisions
  • Improved operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and increased profits

Contractors value having an end-to-end solution from one company:

  • All applications work together seamlessly
  • Efficient access to comprehensive support and services
  • A stable technology partner committed to customer success

How Your Business Benefits

A complete construction software solution from Maxwell Systems provides end-to-end control of your business so you can see a day's profit potential at a glance, identify and prevent potential financial losses, spot discrepancies and errors, and manage projects with accurate information in real-time.

With tailored features designed to fit each member on your team, construction company management software ultimately allows your business to:

  • Attain end-to-end control and increased visibility
  • Achieve easy and accurate reporting with real-time data
  • Optimize project execution for maximum profitability
  • Streamline operations with seamless workflow

The Bid-to-Cash Cycle Explained

Managing each of the key process areas of a construction business – Estimating, Construction Accounting, and Project Management – requires vastly different talents and areas of expertise. The reality is that each of these functional groups is related and dependent on one another.

For your organization to run in an optimal fashion, the groups much work together in an optimal fashion. Together, these functional areas compromise what we describe as the Bid-to-Cash Cycle. And our goal at Maxwell Systems is to provide software for construction so you can bridge the needs of the functional groups, better manage this cycle, and so maximize profitability.

When construction estimating software, construction accounting software, and construction project management software are working together in a seamless system as a complete construction business management software solution, then a contractor is truly poised for optimal profit and productivity.

How does a complete solution fit your part of the cycle? Here are a few examples:

  • Owner: It's all about reducing waste, uncovering lost opportunity, exposing shortcomings, and maximizing resources – all which impact profit and the bottom line. With end-to-end visibility of every project, executives can hone business strategy, improve control of cash flow, and keep financials in the black with accurate ROI.
  • Estimator: Beyond estimating projects, the estimator can access more accurate information in regards to how the project actually performs. This will allow the estimator to improve accuracy on future estimates with actual labor and production rates, updated material prices, and other resource related items.
  • Accounting: Not only a company's construction accounting system, a complete solution helps to streamline the procurement processes for optimal efficiencies and produces more accurate purchasing processes. Additionally, billing processes, inventory issuances, and many other processes are streamlined. Less data entry, better accuracy, and reliable audit trail allow convenience and peace of mind.
  • Project Manager: The seamless workflow from Estimating to Project Tracking allows for a streamlined method of creating the job and then tracking performance against the estimate. Within the complete solution, the construction project management programs also provide the detail required for the Project Manager to understand what the Estimator was thinking when the bid was put together. Plus, by accessing real-time information whether in the office or in the field, the project manager can track progress, be more agile, and better handle all aspects of jobs from beginning to end.

Bottom Line

To succeed in today's competitive marketplace, construction business owners must improve productivity and have end-to-end visibility to see how jobs perform (and turn profit) from start to finish. Maxwell Systems knows construction company software and can be your partner by offering truly unique products (as well as support and services) that address the entire construction project lifecycle – from digital takeoff through final cash payment. Our seamless system provides your company with all the capabilities you need for estimating, job cost accounting, and project management, and ultimately for superior insight and analysis of your business.

Imagine the flexibility and insight by having one solution for estimating projects, for construction accounting programs, and for construction project software! All that and more in one system will help your business be more competitive and profitable.

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