What builders see
Customized, role-based portals. Choose from defaults that serve the specific needs of an individual supervisor, sales rep, business administrator, estimator, accountant, etc. Add or change what they can see.
Detailed development planning. Available lots, the specific models that can go on them and selections for that plan elevation and neighborhood.
Plan elevation information. Store detailed data about each model, allowing the home to be costed and margins determined.
Catalog and selections management. Create pricing levels, selection groups, bundles, interdependent and displacing options, spending allowances.
Scheduling. Manage conflict resolution, trade partner-specific workdays and holidays, insurance tracking, suspensions, buffering for delays, materials ordering, task management, checklists, punchlists.
Budgeting and bidding. Capture take-offs, estimating, bid requesting, contract awarding and management, automated PO releasing.
What trade partners see
Dynamic schedules.Trade partners can access their daily tasks, or plan for the future.
Task checklists. So they know what’s expected of them.
Auto-generated punchlists. To fix what they missed.
Bid requests. Contract awards. Everything’s there in the portal, ready for action.
Purchase orders. Payment pipeline. Quick information that’s always available.
What homebuyers see
The Design Center, where available selections are narrowed according to their model, lot, neighborhood and region.
Real-time total price, including change orders and selections.
Pictures of the home-in-progress.
It’s not just the features.
Many of these capabilities are found on the spec sheets of other construction management software. BuildLinks ties them all together into a single, comprehensive platform.
Forget cobbling together multiple-vendor components and resolving software versioning issues. No more error-prone data re-entry from one application to the next.
Business intelligence
BuildLinks manages the data every step of the construction process. From sales to closing, bidding to warranty, you have deep insight into your business.
Reporting and analysis
BuildLinks provides a single source of information where different departments can easily identify cost-reduction possibilities and ways to improve operations, like:
- Performance-to-standard variance
- True dollar cost of a selection (including analysis specific to models and regions, from materials to labor to call-backs to warranty issues)
- Every installation of a recalled item
- Trade partner scorecarding (speed, cost, call-backs, etc.)
- Model- and selection-specific schedules
- Actual cost and variance from budget
- True dollar costs for creating selections pricing levels (“Level I Granite”)
- Neighborhood, model or project profit
This level of insight opens the doors to carving out costs and boosting profit margins.
Why Software-as-a-Service?
Grow your business, not your CAPEX.
Unlike traditional construction management software, BuildLinks is Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and requires no hardware or capital expenditure. It’s delivered through a web-based interface with secure login, so there's nothing to install in your datacenter. Upgrades happen automatically.
And because BuildLinks is hosted on the cloud, you can scale up or down based on market fluctuations, freeing up money to grow your business instead of your IT spend. Your technology is always current, and your data is automatically backed up.
Lower risk. Lower cost of entry. Cost-effective scalability. And lower cost of ownership.