Construction cost software?

[yeldogt]

Wondering what others are using to keep track/ records of construction costs.

Much of the demo has been completed on my 1870's stone church. The fun now begins ......... turing it into my new house and studio.

I have set up accounts that will only be used for the project ... I can see the balance falling! I want a bit more. This project has an architect, builder with a lead -- so I'm not going to be paying subs and buying wire. Previously, I would simply create ledgers w/totals .. must be a cooler way.

I have business software -- but its too involved. Most of my life runs through my business and the rest is on auto pay .... so I am out of the loop on simple accounting software.

 

[yeldogt]

I guess everybody just spends until they are out of money!

 

[wnstwolf]

I am a project manager by trade and use procore at work. We are talking $300m project so may be overkill.

I have used a trial version of builder trend which was actually real nice for smaller scale projects.

Really what I find is my go to tool is excel. I have some homemade base files that track budgets pull in Microsoft projects gant charts and do all that I need to do for tracking both schedules and budgets.

 

[kwb]

Quicken is pretty good - I have a really old copy that I run all of our accounts through and would be easy enough to set up category for areas relative to budget.

Excel would be the other easy choice and is what I use to track budgets at work.

With a lot of these kind of projects - it is better to not know, it just gets depressing. I know for our boat I lump it all into one place just to not get too detailed.

 

[Thumper68]

I have used excel in the past, seems to work well and is easy to set up exactly how you want it.