maestro* Heavy Contractors

An all-inclusive tool integrating contact management, unit costing, daily cost reporting, sub-trade management and flexible billing. Maestro*Heavy Contractors is specifically designed to meet the estimating, project management and accounting needs of road and bridge builders, paving, sewer, water main and other heavy/civil construction industry contractors.

Estimating:

• Powerful import features available for integration with specialized estimating solutions
• Bid management

Budget Management:

• Original and modified budgets
• Drill down on changed budgets to see change orders details
• Lock-out individual phase/activity codes to stop posting of future expenses

Project Management:

• Unit cost and daily production reporting
• Detailed project inquiries with multi-level drill down
• Create submittal and drawing logs Customizable management of all project issues and other details
• Centralized management of project changes and issues with automatic update of budget, billing contract and subcontracts
• Manage small tool inventory

Commitment Management:

• Automatically create purchase orders from estimates
• Automatically create and update subcontracts from estimates and change orders
• Store multiple contacts in the global address book

Time & Equipment Costing:

• Easy entry timesheets including Excel import
• Enter time daily for daily cost reporting
• Linked payroll and equipment cost centres

Ticket Management:

• Quickly capture aggregate and asphalt ticket details in order to produce trucking and quarry payables
• Reconcile individual tickets to trucking and quarry invoices
• Enhance productivity by importing tickets

Billing Options:

• Multiple billing formats including progress billing, cost plus, lump sum, work order, time & material and others
• Automatically create and update billing contracts from estimating and change orders

Equipment Rental and Costing Management:

• Allocate equipment to projects for automatic costing
• Allocate equipment to customers for automatic billing by hour, day, week or month.
• Automatically optimize best billing method for each customer rental contract
• Track location of equipment

Garage & Fleet Management:

• Record equipment profiles and electronic documentation
• Track vehicle usage and drill down on maintenance records
• Generate preventative maintenance schedules and work orders

General Accounting:

• Automatic depreciation calculation and posting
• Apply holdbacks to all transactions
• Create payment approval processes and enter cash receipts
• Real-time drill-downs on financial reports

Payroll:

• Automatically import time from maestro* job costing
• Manage multiple unions and print ROE's, T4's and T4a's
• Supports both Canadian or US payroll

In addition, the following technology and general features are applicable to all business types mentioned.

• Fully bi-lingual (English/French)
• XML Transaction Engine
• XML Web Server
• MS Outlook Integration
• MS Excel Integration
• MS Word Integration
• MS Office Integration
• Pivotal Data Inquiries
• Unlimited Drill Down or Data Navigation
• Unlimited User Defined Fields
• Excel Import/Export
• List Generator
• Integrated Email/Fax with Transmittal History
• Integrated Electronic Document Management
• Extensive User Security