COMPARISON
Beamcore or separate tools: one system or five?
A planning tool, a drawing program, a time app, a Wkb app and an accounting package: many timber frame businesses work with a row of separate tools. Each good on its own, but the data does not flow through. This is how Beamcore compares.
Beamcore and separate tools side by side
| Beamcore | Separate tools | |
|---|---|---|
| Data | One project with drawings, planning, hours, materials and invoices together | A separate project list per tool, so entering everything twice |
| A change in a drawing | The new version is visible straight away to production, assembly and client | Forwarding it and updating each tool separately |
| Users and rights | One login, rights per role, client and contractor in the portal | Separate users, passwords and rights per tool |
| Integrations | All modules work together; connect your accounting package with the accounting integration (add-on) | Having integrations built or retyping data |
| Made for timber frame | IFC per element, timber list, production drawing, assembly and Wkb | General tools for construction or administration |
| Overview | Dashboard and a start page per role across all modules | Reporting per tool, merged in Excel |
| App | One app for planning, hours, Wkb and messages | A separate app per tool, or none |
| Costs | One subscription, add-ons only when you need them | Several subscriptions with several suppliers |
| Support | One point of contact | A helpdesk per tool; when an integration breaks they point at each other |
When separate tools still make sense
If your accounting package works well, keep it. Beamcore does not replace your accounting, but sends invoices to it and fetches the payment status back. Your drawing program stays too: Beamcore reads the drawings and IFC models you make with it.
Where Beamcore makes the difference
The difference is in between the tools: where a drawing goes into the workshop, where the schedule arrives on site and where the hours belong in the job costing. With separate tools, time is lost there on retyping and asking around. In Beamcore it is one project, from quote to handover.
Curious which tools Beamcore can replace for you?
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