STACK Reviews

This product is incredibly simple to use, but a very powerful tool. The calendar makes organizing projects by due date easy. You can quickly see what's coming up and space them out when a larger project takes more time. The search function to find past projects is imperative.

Doing takeoffs is much easier now. I can export final dwgs and reports so that my sales rep can go back and see exactly what I quoted and where. All the work is saved so I can back and reference it or change it if plans change.

The lines and symbols are easy to read and quick to set up. You can dimension the plans when needed and add call outs. The cloud tool is useful for items I have a question about. I can even copy and paste a line several times instead of having to draw it out each time.

Being able to add labels to the takeoff is crucial. It makes my quotes much more powerful when I say exactly where I found each product. It also helps if there is a change to the plan later. I can easily remove one section by using the Geometric Report instead of having to dig through all the plans.

The ability to use two screens is awesome! When I find a particular detail and have to match it to the plan, it is much easier to have one screen with the detail and one with the plan.

Some things are not customizable. I can't change the default dimension color or size. But once you set it, it remembers the changes for that page only.

I can't rearrange the sheets with the tabs on top. I have to open them in the order I need. So if I find a detail on another sheet, I may have to close some tabs and them reopen them in the order I need.

It does integrate with Excel reports, but Excel charges a monthly subscription for that. I am also waiting for the symbol search tool.

Stack is customizable and formatted to provide a professional image with as much or as little detail as is needed.

Just didn't have project management implemented yet.

Works online so multiple people can have access at the same time

VERY hard to navigate between plans and takeoffs

We use a small portion of the STACK Product to do takeoffs on roofing, Siding and Metal only. It is a service we offer to our customers and the time savings of doing it digitaly and not with a print and scales is priceless. We are at a point that we can now charge a fee for the service as well

We only use a small portion of the product but pay for the whole thing. It would be great if you could pay for only the segments you use.

I love stack overall. Its super easy to use and we take advantage of the integration that’s in it.

I wish they had more mark up features. Such as arrows, boxes, circles, and I also wish they had a better cloud markup tool. To make it adjustable of the sizing and not just one size.

it's fairly easy to use if you only use the basics. The think that I like and the reason why I personally pushed for this software is the fact that is web-based providing liberty to use any platform (Mac or PC) and basically work from anywhere.

It's easy to use for those who work the basics. For others like me that like to get the most out of it, quite honestly there is a lot to improve. I would need to go through a whole lot of questions and requests I've made through tech support and find out that 80% or more of them are not features included in Stack. It's a little disappointing the way some aspects are handled.

Stack was a user friendly software. It only took me helping one time when time was a crunch to become good at it, and from there I became the company expert. Developing and re-developing assemblies until we had a system that works and is easily understood. We went from taking upwards of 8-10 hours per estimate, to 2-4. That is more than worth it for time saved

Not being able to change numbers on a project level without going into the excel type worksheets or affecting the database. And not having an audit trail of when something was changed in the database. both have caused us problems with numbers needing to be changed for one project because we deal with highly customized scenarios, and then it changed all projects going back. And because we rely so heavily on assemblies, we cant just plug a new custom item in every time.

I love the uploading of plans, it works so well! I love being able to develop our own products in the database and input our own expenses. It was so easy to convert our company information into Stack and input everything we needed to set up every job! We do all exteriors and it has the ability to measure and convert every product and need we have into the job project, plans, and estimates. EASY Training products and wonderful customer service!!

I can't really complain. They have integrated and added so many other programs and resources that you can find endless help. We Love This Product & Company!!

The fact that it is all online and our ops guys can see the plans at the jobsite from their phone.

I love using your software but there are 2 things that I would like for you to improve.Sometimes I upload multiple pages for a project.When I am working on the takeoff you can see On the left the plans that you are working on listed on listed by plan name . It would be nice to be able to go to the pages that you are working on by simply clicking on the page name that is listed on the left side.Slope factorIts great that we are able to measure the basic slope by using the built in slope factor calculator. But that is only helpful for measuring the basic slope of the roof area and the rake and sidewall. But it would be great if you can add the valley and hip factor as well. It is hard to get the exact measurement without that because the hip / valley slope factor is different than the basic slope of the roof. Please see the link below that will explain what I am talking about in regards to the hip and valley. [sensitive content hidden]

I use stack in for my work and I found it easily and very flexible and schedule project is the one of many important things

I found some minor errors, but they are not an obstacle in using Stack and can be easily fixed and make it flexible

Every member of our estimating team loves this program, even the members who are old school and used to only using printed blueprints. They converted seamlessly and love the software.

It is a bit expensive. We would like to have more users who could use the program simultaneously so we can get more projects done, but we have to limit our users due to cost.

Ease of use, the ability to save money by having all the options ala cart

Not much, they have corrected any issues we ever had with it, they always are improving the product

Take-offs are excellent. The customization options are also great when it comes to building the system.

The item and assembly folder management isn't great. If you put something in the wrong folder it's very difficult to move.

i like the take off part of stacked. i would like more training on how to use some of the other parts of stacked

not knowing how to use some parts of stacked

The software is incredibly easy to use. After one tutorial from the stack support team(which is also a huge plus), I felt very comfortable navigating the platform. Assemblies are a fantastic feature.

I could use a tutorial(maybe it already exists) for interchangeability from stack to estimating software like Sage, or Project Management software like procore. This will likely be a next step for the company.

Organization of my projects is what i like the best.

i dont like that there isnt a reminder for project due dates

There is someone always online to help via messaging.

Sometimes crashes, but the stack team gives us updates on when the problem will be fixed.

It gives you real time update for the team.

Not a thing. It does what we need it to do.

I like that it is easy to use when creating estimates to send to customers. Uploading plans and doing a take off are very simple task .

The new update is not the most functional when it comes to creating the project on the calendrer.

Cloud Based, User friendly and cost effective compared to alternative solutions

Assemblies can be a touch cumbersome, some of the takeoff funtionality i would like is not available

Stack is extremely customizable when it comes to what it's features are vs. what you actually need to use.

The only thing I don't like about Stack is that occasionally you have to refresh your page in order to sign in on the initial launch. Otherwise, everything I have done and used to far in Stack is great.

I appreciate STACK for it's use of ease. Everything is clearly listed and user friendly.

I wish that STACK allowed UNDO options or a data base for documents. Sometimes things can be deleted mistakenly and unable to be replaced