Maestro* is an all-inclusive tool integrating contact management, timesheets, sub-trade management and flexible billing. Maestro*Construction is specifically designed to meet the estimating, job costing, project management and accounting needs of general contractors and construction managers.

Estimating:

• Automatically create budgets, subcontracts, purchase orders and billing contracts
• Maintain pricing in product and resource catalogues
• Quickly develop estimates using modules and templates
• Calculate profitability by applying various mark-up rates
• Extend functionality through embedded Excel worksheets
• Bid management

Budget Management:

• Original and modified budgets
• Drill down on changed budgets to see change orders details
• Lock-out individual phase/activity codes to stop posting of future expenses

Project management:

• Detailed project inquiries with multi-level drill down
• Easily attach electronic documents such as faxes, emails, RFIs, RFQs, plans, photos and others
• Automatically log emails and fax transmittals
• Create submittal and drawing logs Customizable management of all project issues and other details
• Centralized management of project changes and issues with automatic update of budget, billing contract and subcontracts

Commitment Management:

• Automatically create purchase orders from estimates
• Automatically create and update subcontracts from estimates and change orders

Time & Equipment Costing:

• Easy entry timesheets including Excel import
• Linked payroll

In addition, the following technology and general features are applicable to all business types mentioned.

• Fully bi-lingual (English/French)
• XML Transaction Engine
• XML Web Server
• MS Outlook Integration
• MS Excel Integration
• MS Word Integration
• MS Office Integration
• Pivotal Data Inquiries
• Unlimited Drill Down or Data Navigation
• Unlimited User Defined Fields
• Excel Import/Export
• List Generator
• Integrated Email/Fax with Transmittal History
• Integrated Electronic Document Management
• Extensive User Security
• Billing options:
  • Multiple billing formats including progress billing, cost plus, lump sum, time & material and others
  • Automatically create and update billing contracts from estimating and change orders
• General Accounting:
  • Apply holdbacks to all transactions
  • Create payment approval processes and enter cash receipts
  • Design comprehensive financial reporting
  • Drill down on financial reports in real-time
• Payroll:
  • Automatically import time from maestro* job costing
  • Manage multiple unions and print ROE’s, T4’s and T4a’s
  • Supports both Canadian or US payroll