Vista

We use Vista as our construction company's ERP. Vista helps us with job costs and compares current and past jobs. It also allows us to manage our material and aggregate sales and inventory. We still have some fine-tuning to do with the software, but it has functioned as expected.

Good for large companies that can afford the expensive licenses and implementation costs. Not great for small companies.

I use Viewpoint Vista as a Project Manager and Department Manager. The major problems this addresses are the communication between our Accounting Team and us along with how we communicate with our project owners. Bills and documents were created by hand before, and now everything flows seamlessly together to make a great products. Our whole team will now use this software to improve our communication.

Viewpoint Vista is well suited for companies that have multiple departments or needs to track multiple branches. It is also very simple for sending out bills.

This system would be overkill for a company with fewer that 50 employees in my mind.

Vista by Viewpoint handles our Payroll, Accounting (AP, AR), Equipment Management and Project Management needs. It's a fully-functioning ERP software that handles every basic construction need as well as many complex construction needs. It can be fully utilized or utilized by just a few of your departments. Since I'm on the accounting side, we use it for our AP entries, Bank Recs, Journal Entries, Pay Apps, Cash Receipts, and more.

I worked for Viewpoint for 5 1/2 years in the past and for the last 6 1/2 years, I have been the guru of Viewpoint for the past 3 companies I've worked for. I've been the go-to for implementation in all parts of the software. Simple tasks are self-explanatory however, there are multiple ways each task can be done providing more detail the more you add to your workflow. We have implemented other 3rd party products that fit well with Viewpoint and interact well to give us the results we want. Payroll is super detailed and can be a pain to set up but once it's set up, you don't need to do much other than enter timecard entries (either through import or manual entry). AP is easy for end users to enter and easy for reviewers to approve invoices. Equipment usage is easy once set up (it's even easy to set up) and it is maintained through location transfers of the equipment. The general ledger is self-explanatory for journal entries. There is so much you can customize to give you the results needed throughout the software.

Shortly after starting in my position, I initiated the process of electronic payment to vendors. We partnered with Corpay and Viewpoint for this process. The implementation took less than a month, and we have had very few issues. This process has saved about 10 hours per week for our Accounting staff, not to mention postage expenses and rebate income.

Viewpoint Vista meets our needs between the field and payroll processing extremely well.

For the past years it's been mainly used for accounts payables, recently we are implementing new users to expand its use to bidding, quoting and planning.

Several modules for different uses with different departments. Customization to fit our needs. Cover all areas of accounting making accounting faster and accurate without a lot of input. There are so many reports available, sometimes it can be hard to find what you are looking for.
Looking forward to start using it for quoting, bidding and other departments in our company.

We use Viewpoint for all reporting for financials, labor, invoices, etc.

Best for job forecasting and project analysis. Being able to export into excel is a great feature. Logging in to Viewpoint is slow and burdensome, if there was a way to speed up this process that would be preferrable. The invoice review system works adequately as well, but I feel like the interface could be more user friendly. Viewpoint is not intuitive so any way to make it more like using an iPhone or another device we use daily would help new users become more proficient.

I think it is highly customizable and helps gets info in a quick way. There is a steep learning curve... but once you figure it out it's great.

I think it would work out for vet record-keeping. The system has a lot of tricks to make tracking down information easy.

I use Vista for organizing/billing large Mechanical Contracting Projects. This helps track job costs.

My biggest complaint with this software systems is entering the data in more than one category to complete an action such as a Change Order. I have worked in several customer software systems and this is by far the most complicated.

We use VP for every aspect of our construction company from writing subcontracts, purchase orders, billing owners, tracking costs, entering supplier invoices, printing checks, sending and receiving payments, month end closing and payroll. We might use some secondary programs, but they all tie back into Viewpoint for a one stop view of our projects and overall company profit and loss.

We use Vista for financial controls and for Project management.

Vista's core features shine bright and allow our company to operate smoothly. We are happy with how the application performs and runs on our systems. Their support is top notch and additional resources help us gain knowledge and fix problems quickly. Their additional modules could use some work, but they aren't needed in our use cases.