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The World Economic Forum predicts a digital future for construction businesses. It said that in the next 10 years, the industry could save an estimated $1.7 trillion by embracing digital technologies.
At Software Advice we see a similar trend, with many small businesses looking to automate processes using a plethora of construction software and technologies.
One such technology is paving software, which helps small paving contractors streamline different construction processes such as cost estimation, proposal generation, time-tracking of field agents and contact management.
However, paving solutions differ in pricing, features and deployment. For instance, how do you choose between cloud-based and on-premise deployment options? The right choice depends on understanding your software budget, having employees with the right IT expertise and asking for custom software.
Businesses should carefully evaluate these key factors when considering to purchase a solution. However, not everyone has the time to do exhaustive research. That's why, we created this buyer's guide to give you a general overview of paving software, its common features and buyer considerations. This will help you identify the right solution.
Here's what we'll cover:
What Is Paving Software?
Common Features of Paving Software
What Type of Buyer Are You?
Key Considerations
Paving software helps contractors manage different aspects of the construction process. For instance, it can be used to track the time of field workers in multiple locations. They can log in their time and job details from their smartphones, while contractors can use the online dashboards to track the data, create billable hour reports and determine pay.
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Likewise, contractors can use paving software to manage client information, create job quotes, generate invoices, handle project schedules and so on.
Paving software has a wide range of functionality such as cost estimation, proposal generation, job management and project scheduling. Here are the common features of these solutions:
Document management | Store project data, such as drawings, customer requirements and requests for information (RFIs), in a central location. |
Contact management | Track contacts and communications between organizations, customers, subcontractors and suppliers. |
Estimation and proposal | Calculate the cost of labor and materials to create professional-looking bid proposals. |
Project scheduling | Break down projects into phases to identify constraints and assign tasks to workers based on their availability, location and the work order. |
Time tracking | Maintain records of the time employees spend on specific tasks to understand team performance and create billable hour reports. |
Accounting | Keep track of payroll for subcontractors and employees, in addition to managing customer receipts, invoices and other expenses. |
Besides the above features, most paving software offer mobile solutions that allow employees to manage project documents and record working hours from their smartphones.
In addition, these solutions offer third-party integration with related construction tools such as takeoff software that's useful in building construction plans (drawings or blueprints) to understand a project's requirements for materials and labor.
Paving software can be used to manage different kinds of projects such as asphalt paving in a construction site, office parking lot paving and residential driveway paving.
Choosing the right tool depends on the kind of projects your organization handles, your software budget and your specific business requirements.
Below are the three common buyer categories of paving software:
To learn more about such specialized solutions, read our buyer's guide on construction software.
Making software purchase decisions requires you to consider additional factors than just checking out the features of a tool or knowing your business size. Given below are three top considerations to keep in mind when purchasing paving software.