This week, Procore has brought more power to our construction project management software with the addition of several customer-suggested improvements. Procore tries hard to accomodate customer requests, and our users are our best source of ideas for new features and enhancements.
Customer-driven features range from large improvements to smaller "tweaks" made to our construction project management software. For example, during early April our team responded to a customer's request to limit the number of meetings included in the "Old Business" section of his firm's customized Meeting Minutes. The feature was designed, coded, tested and released to the customer within the month.
Other recent improvements affect all users for our tools, and not just one specific client account. An example of this type of recent improvement is in the Bidding emails that are sent out by a contractor to sub-contractors. Formerly, those emails came from "support@procore.com". Project bidders would hit "reply" to answer the email, and would get confused when emails did not get returned to the contractor. Now, all Procore Bidding emailed invitations-to-bid and addendums come from the sender, and not from Procore.
Some Procore enhancements are specialized, but are vital to enabling our customers' business processes. A recent change to Procore's Contract Management tool for construction project managment has enabled Amount Based accounting in addition to the pre-existing Unit/Quantity Based accounting method. When creating a new contract, Procore users can select Amount Based (G702/703) from the Accounting Method dropdown toggle. Contract line items will then contain the following fields: Budget Line Item (if applicable), Cost Code, Description, Funding Source, Type and Amount. All change orders and change order requests tied to the contract will reflect the accounting method that the contract is set to within Procore.
Procore's users also suggest changes to the workflow within Procore's construction project management software, which can cause us to make global changes to how the construction project software manages items such as permissions and routings.
Prior to last month, for example, only Procore company administrators were able to create new projects. Many of our customers requested that their Project Managers be able to create new projects without having to grant them access to the Company Admininstration Tool, or the Company Directory.
The solution that Procore has come up with is to allow users with Portfolio Administrator-level access to add new projects to Procore if that user has the permission setting selected to be added to all new projects. Procore users recognize that this is a simple yet effective solution to the customer request.
Procore's construction project management software keeps getting better, thanks in no small part to our rapidly growing user base. Each month, we add more features and more functionality to what is becoming the construction project management software industry's fastest growing product.
If you're not a Procore user, contact us today at sales@procore.com for a free online demo.
Monday, August 29, 2011 at 4:15PM 
Congratulations to The Build Group (San Francisco, CA) for being named to the Inc. Magazine 500, the list of America's fastest growing private companies.