Buildxact

4,5 (122)
Online construction management for builders & remodelers.

Overall rating

4,5 /5
(122)
Value for Money
4,4/5
Features
4,3/5
Ease of Use
4,5/5
Customer Support
4,5/5

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Barry
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Buildxact Experience

Reviewed on 2021/11/03

My overall experience with Buildxact is great.Estimates are Professional and build confidence in your clients. This program will help you win Quotes.

Pros

The product was easy to use. Uploading your company logo for branding was easy. This program is backed up by fantastic support which I accessed .

Cons

Could have smoother transition between estimate and invoice. Should be in same drop down box. Ex convert current estimate to invoice.

Alternatives Considered

CoConstruct

Reasons for Choosing Buildxact

Buildxact was superior in functionality and ease of use. You cannot upload a print in CoConstruct and do take offs.

Switched From

CoConstruct

Reasons for Switching to Buildxact

It took me very little time with some articles and bit of conversation to start putting out professional looking estimates, in total time a couple days and your up and running providing detailed Quotes

Response from Buildxact

Great to hear you're enjoying the software so much Barry.

Nick
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Residential Renovations building Company review

Reviewed on 2022/01/31

My experience with BuildXact has definitely been positive. It has streamlined and simplified our quoting and cost planning processes.

Pros

I find the estimating features to be easy to use and effective in generating accurate project estimates / quotations.
Leading on to 'Job' stage the historical data and cost plan is essential for reviewing and maintaining project cost controls.
The Variation portal is also very beneficial with submitting and tracking any changes as the project progresses

Cons

I dont find the Accounting Software integration to be beneficial as the communication between Xero and Build Xact is not 2-way.

Alternatives Considered

Buildertrend

Reasons for Switching to Buildxact

Subscription Fees and options Australian based and supported Best suited for the features I was chasing
Gary
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

Bx

Reviewed on 2022/04/05

Pros

The set out and ease of use is good.
The take off allows for basic functions and calculations.
Job control is good

Cons

Bx Has some annoying traits
Take off is slow when a decent template is used. You have to go in and out of the take off for every item.
The program basically shuts down by8:30 , 9pm and is useless.
the email functions eg emailing Po's from the system are so unreliable that we don't use them. We save and email from outlook.
The client portal is not very good and we are not using it.
POs cant be ordered by supplier which is very annoying.
Invoices get scrambled if you try to move the order.

Chris
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

BX user from 2016

Reviewed on 2023/01/15

good

Pros

once you. have learned how to use it is very effective an as its cloud based it will allow mobility from one workplace to another an saves time each day.

Cons

Sometimes the effectiveness of the actual connection cab be slow and cause issues.

Glenn
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great work tool

Reviewed on 2021/12/15

Pros

Keeping my jobs costed and follow profit to each job

Cons

Nothing to mention, everything works as I need

Response from Buildxact

Glad you're enjoying the software Glenn!

Steve
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  • Industry: Building Materials
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Ease of use

Reviewed on 2019/09/03

Pros

how easy it is to use, provide digital take off, purchase orders

Cons

not a great fan of the schedule, im sure its easy to use as well but never got around to it.

Luke
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Buildxact Review

Reviewed on 2023/01/01

Very Happy to have the support and a company that is keen to develop the software.

Pros

I love how it is secure in the cloud with no concerns of back-ups being lost. Also that we can have two uses at the same time.

Cons

That it can be a little hard to keep up with features that are added and things changing just as you get use to it.

Justin
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

dsb

Reviewed on 2022/12/19

Buildxact has been great for us as a building company.

Pros

Copying estimates to fast track the next similar estimate

Cons

Employees/subcontractors portal - This would be handy like the client portal to sheer plans, documents for each project so employee's can see all these's documents on the job.

Claire
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Buildxact for residential building companies

Reviewed on 2022/07/03

Pros

VERY easy program to use, gives a great insight into overall budgeting throughout a particular job, ease of use, generation of invoices, compatible with our MYOB software

Cons

It can be a likely clunky with MYOB and generating "design" invoices appears to be sometimes challenging. It would also be great to run cost centre reports

Tristan
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great software for any size building firm

Reviewed on 2022/05/29

job cost tracking, Material ordering and job scheduling

Pros

Ease of use and a great way to keep track of jobs/Quotes from start to finish

Cons

I feel a dedicated app that could be used onsite would be great although the web browser is ok on mobile

Steve
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Product Review

Reviewed on 2019/08/27

10 out of 10

Pros

The ease of being able to transfer a price​ list to Build Xact and supply a formal quote​ all in one place is amazing​. All integrated​ with Xero !!

Cons

Cannot see the final price figure including​ mark up, on the quoting system before opening​ the quote.

Joshua
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Construction management made easy

Reviewed on 2021/08/26

Pros

I love that i never have to worry "did i send that order or book that tradie?" It is so easy to issue price requests, purchase orders, work orders and program my jobs/subbies and if i ever need to check that a task has been done i have the reassurance that the systems are in place to control all that communication.

Cons

The invoicing when completing cost plus projects could have more options and be more customisable.

Alternatives Considered

iTWO costX and Buildertrend

Response from Buildxact

Thanks for the great feedback and for using Buildxact.

Grant
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Buildxact

Reviewed on 2021/08/26

The main benefit is that we can have processes in place to assist us with quoting clients homes

Pros

Great software and they are continually improving their service offering. Easy to do take offs and manipulate the software to your individual requirements. The support teams are great, always ready to help you and assist you in getting the most out of the software. They continually run sessions on their updates to ensure you are across them. All of their support are based in Melbourne and Australian owned company which is great for local business.

Cons

Their quoting system wasn't ideal at the start however they have just released a newer version and it's great.

Response from Buildxact

Thanks for the great feedback Grant. Thank you for using Buildxact.

Jim
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Finally I found some suitable software in my 33rd year of building

Reviewed on 2022/01/11

I am combining many areas into one. I used to write my quote detail for my manager and she would produce the quote on a template - now this is built in. Having invoiced pre-populate in Xero and the Variation process is very handy and a big time saver too.

Pros

The video tutorials and the rapid response of the Australian support team

Cons

I like Team Gantt how it gives you options to colour code the gantt chart. I used to have all of my carpentry labour a single colour which allowed me at a glance to see if all positions were full each week etc.

Response from Buildxact

Thanks for such great feedback Jim.

John
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Easy Estimating

Reviewed on 2021/08/26

Easy estimation production that has saved us hundreds of hours over the past few years. Also pricing client variations and options is easy. I though our last estimating product was quick and easy to use until we trialed BuildXact.

Pros

Easy and intuitive to use, simple import plans and scaling. Its also easy to used similar quotes as templates.

Cons

Labeling all the plan pages takes a while, but once that is done then your off to the races.

Alternatives Considered

Buildertrend

Reasons for Choosing Buildxact

Initially looked to save costs and the ability to quote more complex multi level projects.

Response from Buildxact

Thanks, John for the great feedback.

Jacob
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

A great product!

Reviewed on 2021/09/14

I've thoroughly enjoyed the software.

Pros

The BuildXact software implements very well with our accounting software and makes the task of reconciling job costings hassle free!
I really like the invoice and quote design functionality - the fact that you can customise the design and layouts, and save these templates for future next project is a real time saver, and the quotes come out looking great!
The take-off tool is a game changer, to be able to scale your drawings digitally and calculate required materials using the distance and area ruler saves a heap of time with pricing and ordering materials!

Cons

It would be nice to have a mobile app, although not essential.

Response from Buildxact

Thanks for using Buildxact.

Jamie
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

JAK Build

Reviewed on 2022/04/23

Great after sales services , and follow you up. Always looking to improve and up grade, asking for our thoughts and also testing some new ideas.

Pros

The integration with email, suppliers and other products is great. The client Portal is another good add on, you can also make suggestion for up grades

Cons

Some better training for the the more experienced users, look a t the schedule side of the program. Some subbies and rated the request quote side of things.

Sera
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Buildxact is the game-changer we needed in our business

Reviewed on 2021/10/06

Pros

We found it very easy to use and easy to teach our employees. We all use it daily!

Cons

Aspects of workflow could be better. We came from using on-site companion software, and believe that check-lists would be beneficial.

Response from Buildxact

Thanks for the great review Sera.

Natacha
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great programme and much more user friendly than others.

Reviewed on 2021/09/15

We like it. It works well for our proposals/quotes and something we will continue using for this purpose.

Pros

It's very easy to navigate when it comes to the basics and the proposals you produce look great for clients.

Cons

Probably like most programmes, it has a lot of functions that we have to pay for, but do not use. Also annoying when you are putting a proposal together and you enter an item, hit TAB and if there is a receipe it autofills and if it's not what you were wanting, you have to delete the line and start again.

Response from Buildxact

Thank you for the awesome review.

Dan
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Review

Reviewed on 2023/01/10

Pretty happy, customer service where you can speak to someone straight away to resolve issue, you could do that a couple of years ago but the last time I couldn’t speak to anyone and needed to resolve an invoice that couldn’t be done.

Pros

Take off is easy and keeping track of cost is handy.

Cons

Actual costs could be intergrated better rather then doing it all manually. Can site management, ohs requirements be introduced.

Brendan
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Happy customer

Reviewed on 2021/08/26

Great service and support to resolve issues and provide further training

Pros

the overall management from costings, to accepting the job, to running the job and contractors

Cons

With some of the roll out of new features, we had some minor hiccups with an old quote being accepted and not all the fields running across

Response from Buildxact

Thanks for the great feedback and for using Buildxact.

Dj
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Necessary

Reviewed on 2022/08/14

Pros

after setting up the recipes for regular used items I found it so easy to use

Cons

the software is a little slow, when you are trying to do things quickly, the program tells you to slow down. this is then you are using quick features like setting tasks in scheduling

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Accessible

Reviewed on 2021/08/26

Easy and good

Pros

Accessible from anywhere and any device.

Cons

Take off and onscreen measure isn't useful.
Would suggest to add site details on to the job so that it's not manually typed everytime.

Response from Buildxact

Thanks for the review.

Rayden
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

Getting your materials to site quick and easy

Reviewed on 2021/09/22

The ease in putting a quote together

Pros

The ease to quote and obtain Quantities for jobs

Cons

Financials, budgeting and the biggest is no cost controls

Response from Buildxact

Thanks for the feedback Rayden.

Adam
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Construction Estimating Management software review

Reviewed on 2021/08/26

Pros

Ease to setup and implement the software

Cons

While they continue to improve the software, still some feature lacking

Response from Buildxact

Thanks for the quality feedback Adam.