The Construction Contract Admin Blog of StatsLog Software
All good projects – and even the not-so-good ones – must come to an end. When they do, you’re sitting on a mountain of documentation, from change notices to certificates for payment, shop drawing logs to incremental progress billings.
If you’re a user of our software, this documentation is all tucked away nicely in the digital filing cabinet that is FIVE – perfectly organized and ready for archival. But what if you want to keep copies of your project data outside of FIVE?
(more…)FIVE’s Document Queue tab is a handy place to collect and combine multiple documents into a single PDF for distribution. Now you can also clip and collate documents for total flexibility!
(more…)StatsLog has been in the construction contract admin business for over 35 years. That’s an eternity in the software business, and we’ve seen many technologies come and go.
The same can’t be said of our customers though – some of our relationships go back decades. Those customers have amassed an impressive amount of project data over that time, and we’ve ensured that they can migrate it seamlessly from update to update.
The missing piece – at least up until now – is that there hasn’t been an easy way to get an arm’s length view of all that accumulated project data. We’ve traditionally considered projects to be separate silos of unrelated information, but the truth is that there are connecting threads between each and every project you work on.
(more…)…is taxes! Now FIVE has the flexibility to handle multiple tax rates, making it easier to accurately administer construction contracts with complex tax requirements.
There are 4 tax types available to be configured and assigned to any contract or order item:
(more…)While in the minority, some FIVE system administrators don’t like automatic updates – they’re concerned that fresh-off-the-tree software might be a little too green.
(more…)We’re pleased as punch to announce the expansion of our FIVE Hosted Cloud platform with the launch of a new cloud system on the west coast of North America!
We’ve already migrated our existing subscribers that are closer to the new system geographically, giving them an improved experience at no extra charge.
If you are interested in starting a FIVE Hosted Cloud trial and your offices are located on or near the west coast, make sure to let us know that you’d like to have FIVE hosted on our west coast cloud system!
Featured image copyright by Wolfgang Staudt. Some rights reserved.
One thing FIVE has always done exceptionally well is make it quick and easy to distribute your construction documents. Whether it’s smart distribution lists, automatic PDF and image collation and merging, or report scheduling, distributing documentation is one task that you’ll spend a lot less time doing with FIVE than with any alternative. And guess what? It’s even faster and easier with the new Send To button, available now in FIVE by StatsLog.
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