Maestro* ERP is an all-inclusive tool integrating contact management, timesheets, sub-trade management and flexible billing. Maestro* ERP is specifically designed to meet the estimating, job costing, project management and accounting needs of general contractors and construction managers.
Estimating:
- Automatically create budgets, subcontracts, purchase orders and billing contracts
- Maintain pricing in product and resource catalogues
- Quickly develop estimates using modules and templates
- Calculate profitability by applying various mark-up rates
- Extend functionality through embedded Excel worksheets
- Bid management
Budget Management:
- Original and modified budgets
- Drill down on changed budgets to see change orders details
- Lock-out individual phase/activity codes to stop posting of future expenses
Project Management:
- Detailed project inquiries with multi-level drill down
- Easily attach electronic documents such as faxes, emails, RFIs, RFQs, plans, photos and others
- Automatically log emails and fax transmittals
- Create submittal and drawing logs Customizable management of all project issues and other details
- Centralized management of project changes and issues with automatic update of budget, billing contract and subcontracts
Commitment Management:
- Automatically create purchase orders from estimates
- Automatically create and update subcontracts from estimates and change orders
Time & Equipment Costing:
- Easy entry timesheets including Excel import
- Linked payroll
In addition, the following technology and general features are applicable to all business types mentioned.
- Fully bi-lingual (English/French)
- XML Transaction Engine
- XML Web Server
- MS Outlook Integration
- MS Excel Integration
- MS Word Integration
- MS Office Integration
- Pivotal Data Inquiries
- Unlimited Drill Down or Data Navigation
- Unlimited User Defined Fields
- Excel Import/Export
- List Generator
- Integrated Email/Fax with Transmittal History
- Integrated Electronic Document Management
- Extensive User Security
- Billing options:
- Multiple billing formats including progress billing, cost plus, lump sum, time & material and others
- Automatically create and update billing contracts from estimating and change orders
- General Accounting:
- Apply holdbacks to all transactions
- Create payment approval processes and enter cash receipts
- Design comprehensive financial reporting
- Drill down on financial reports in real-time
- Payroll:
- Automatically import time from maestro* job costing
- Manage multiple unions and print ROE’s, T4’s and T4a’s
- Supports both Canadian or US payroll