PlanSwift

What do you like best?

Planswift is generally a good program with great organization. I often pull dozens of drawings from a bidset, and it can be difficult to keep them all on track. Folders, subfolders, renaming, easy moving/deleting is all helpful. A small bonus as well--a wide range of colors to keep my takeoff easy on the eyes. Hot pink is useful to no one. The cloud integration for our business network is great too, I can easily pull up information from other estimators if I need to.

What do you dislike?

It may just be my company/computer, but opening any archived jobs takes such a long time--perhaps because I have a lot of jobs stored. Also, sometimes Planswift randomly decides I don't have a license to use it and I have to reenter my company's information. Small, but annoying. It did require a bit of a learning curve, but if you're already familiar with construction software (I was), it's not too difficult to pick up.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Keep in mind this does have a bit of a learning curve--can't speak for everyone, but it did take me a bit of getting used to. It has the nice feature of overlaying different versions of drawings, so very helpful for additional addendums that may have changed things.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Without Plansiwft, I wouldn't be able to do takeoffs for my quotes. It easily exports to an excel spreadsheet to integrate with Corecon, our other main software. This keeps everything in one spot without putting our info through too many steps.