maestro* Trade Contractors

Maestro* is an all-inclusive tool that integrates contact management, material handling, labour management and flexible billing. Maestro*Trade Contractors is specifically designed to meet the project management, estimating and accounting needs of trade contractors.

Estimating:

• Automatically create budgets, subcontracts, purchase orders and billing contracts
• Import from several sources such as EMCO and ALLPRI$ER
• Quickly develop estimates using modules and templates
• Calculate profitability by applying various mark-up rates
• Extend functionality through embedded Excel worksheets

Budget Management:

• Record original and changed budgets
• Drill down on changed budgets to see change orders details

Project management:

• Detailed project inquiries with multi-level drill down
• Easily attach electronic documents such as faxes, emails, RFIs, RFQs, plans, photos and others
• Automatically log emails and fax transmittals
• 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

Commitment Management:

• Automatically create purchase orders and subcontracts from estimates and change orders

Time & Equipment Costing:

• Easy entry timesheets including Excel import
• Linked payroll and equipment cost centres

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

Work Orders:

• Quickly create work orders
• Automatically transfer time to maestro* payroll
• Assign work orders quickly using Work Order Dispatch
• Display material purchase orders on dispatch

Inventory:

• Manage multiple inventory sites
• Manage inventory order conditions such as min/max, economic order quantities and unit conversions
• Order for inventory or direct ship to site

General Accounting:

• Design comprehensive financial reporting
• Real-time drill-downs on financial reports

Payroll:

• Automatically import time from maestro* job costing
• Multiple unions, 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