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Foundation Software Construction Accounting

Score7.6 out of 10

15 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Foundation Software Construction Accounting?

Foundation Software headquartered in Strongsville, Ohio offers their construction accounting and payroll software. The vendor states that their job costing construction accounting software is designed to be easy to use and provides the accounting and management tools needed to run a successful construction business.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Foundation Software Construction Accounting has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 15 ratings of Foundation Software Construction Accounting's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Job profiles and administration

    Job profiles and descriptions can be created and edited.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)

    Compliance capabilities ensure full compliance with federal workplace regulations by capturing required data in central database.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Dashboards

    Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.

    Category average: 7.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Job costing

    Tracking and monitoring of the costs of all materials, labor, subcontractors, & equipment required for a given construction project. Allows users to compare actual costs to estimated costs, see how the job is progressing, identify which parts of the job are using the largest parts of the budget.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Change orders

    A change order (or variation order) is a component of the change management process in which changes in the scope of work (or project brief) agreed to by the client, contractor and architect are implemented.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Mobile app

    Users can easily access the system from the field on mobile devices such as phones and tablets.

    Category average: 7.4

Reviews

What users are saying about Foundation Software Construction Accounting.
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Awesome construction accounting software.

Incentivized
Derek HarshmanView profile
Controller in Finance and Accounting at Omega Building Company (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Foundation Software Construction Accounting for accounts payable, accounts receivable, some payroll, reports, and job costing. It addresses properly classifying work completed on different projects and tracking the percentage of completion on WIP reports.

Pros

  • Detail completion of all transactions.
  • Easily job cost all of your projects.
  • Easy reports.
  • Year end closing function.
  • Tracking work completed, percent of completion for all projects.
  • Detailed records.

Cons

  • I would not change a thing about Foundation.

Return on Investment

  • Monthly Fees for each base module is relatively low cost.
  • Easily accessible for multiple users and easy to access for CPA firms.
  • Customer support is great with any issues.

Usability

Other Software Used

QuickBooks Online, Sage Accounting

Foundationsoft

Verified User
Manager in Human Resources (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Foundations has been a wonderful relief. You can build reports that you need. Several normal reports are at the click of a button. It lets you add shortcuts on the side and reorder them easily. I love that when looking at a report in the system, if something is blue, I can click on it and it opens it in another tab. I can have multiple tabs open. Jump from doing one thing to another and back again. I import employees from the onboarding system. That saves enormous amounts of time. It tracks pto, eeo, tax info. It has made things more efficient for me.

Pros

  • stores images of documents with invoice or ar
  • imports time for payroll
  • imports employee information from onboarding

Cons

  • it has frozen on me while working-though this has not happened often
  • when saving, it has forgotten the mapping

Return on Investment

  • time management
  • efficiency
  • reporting

Usability

Other Software Used

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Foundation has been a great asset to our company!

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrator in Corporate (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our organization utilizes Foundation to streamline our accounting functions and process payroll, as well as to pull various reports. I personally utilize it for accounting functions such as billing, invoicing and pulling reports for reviewing with my managers. The reports and invoicing features are fairly easy to utilize and assist me with my job functions.

Pros

  • Invoicing
  • Reports
  • Payroll

Cons

  • Custom Reports
  • Templates
  • Purchase order approval process

Return on Investment

  • Financial Management
  • Return on Investmetn
  • Job Costing

Usability

Alternatives Considered

ADP GlobalView Payroll

Foundation Software Construction Accounting good for some things and not great at others

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Human Resources (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for A/P, A/R, Payroll, Accounting, Job Costing, and Equipment Management. It works well for prevailing wage payroll, but the timecard system is clunky and I think it could be streamlined. It does the bare minimum of job costing. It does not work for issuing purchase orders the way we need it to. It does the bare minimum for equipment tracking. In our experience, nothing is automated and very little can be customized.

Pros

  • Prevailing wage

Cons

  • I think A/P Invoice approval could be much smoother.
  • Purchase orders should be more detailed able to be issued and easily modified and enter invoices against them.
  • A/P check distribution should let you select checks for ACH payment and printed check in the same run.

Return on Investment

  • it has made payroll more efficient
  • it has allowed us to track some job costing
  • it allows us to get invoice approval electronically

Usability

Foundation Review

Incentivized
Erica WeinerView profile
Assistant Project Manager in Product Management at Mahogany Incorporated (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Time saver.
  • Web-based.
  • Work from anywhere.

Cons

  • Certified payroll reports.
  • Non-customized reports.
  • Security.

Return on Investment

  • Double input for payroll.
  • Certified payroll reports lacking.
  • Takes more time.

Alternatives Considered

ComputerEase Construction Software

Other Software Used

Procore, ComputerEase Construction Software, Microsoft Project