Sage Master Builder General Description

Sage Master Builder is a powerful, fully integrated business management tool brought to you by Sage Software, one of the largest software application providers in the world.  It is positioned as the “move-up” business management solution for the construction and service contracting industry.  As companies expand and outgrow their basic accounting packages, they see the need for a more powerful, industry-specific application, and now Sage Software has an excellent solution for them. Sage Master Builder is a seamlessly integrated package that provides all the tools that today´s construction and service contractors need:

• Powerful accounting is fully integrated with job costing.
• Construction oriented payroll module
• Effortlessly posts fully burdened payroll to job costs
• Calculates and job costs prevailing wage and union benefits
• Easily prepares and prints Certified Payroll reports
• Industry specific accounts receivable and accounts payable functions.
• Easily and correctly handle retentions in both accounts receivable and payable.
• Progress billing module creates complex billings quickly and accurately.
• Time and material billing module is exceptionally flexible.
• Rock-solid and easy-to-use subcontract and purchase order modules make effective control of subcontracts and purchase orders a reality.
• Power Takeoff estimating module is a terrific tool for estimating and pricing work.
• This flexible estimating system lets a contractor estimate
• The way its company works,
• With its production rates and
• With its prices
• From its suppliers and subcontractors.
• Create parts, assemblies and templates that can be used over and over to quickly create detailed and accurate estimates and proposals.
• Taskmaster scheduling module helps create a tight CPM schedule to orchestrate work and finish it efficiently.
• The easy-to-use change order module helps estimate the cost of change orders, create a professional change order document for customers, create related change orders for subcontractors and update the job budget, all in one screen.
• Powerful and effective security controls access to important operating data by estimators and managers without sensitive data ending up on the wrong person´s monitor.
• The service management module
• Permits the creation of quotes, work orders and related invoices from a single record.
• Has a “drag and drop” dispatch board to graphically schedule work orders that may be created for deliveries, installations or repair services.
• Interfaces with inventory and payroll modules to aid in prompt, easy and effective allocations of costs associated with the execution of work orders.
• Document control module (Why Document Control?)
• Helps create and track communications about projects:
• Requests for proposals.
• Requests for information
• Submittals
• Transmittals
• Project Punch List records, tracks and controls the tasks and related backcharges for completion of projects.
• Project Hot List gathers on one screen for management review all the records, including invoices, documents, change orders, purchase orders and subcontracts that require attention.
• Inventory module tracks quantities and costs of inventory items and posts the cost of inventory used to related jobs and work orders.
• Equipment management module tracks costs of owning and operating equipment and charging those costs to jobs.

All of these powerful tools are seamlessly integrated into one package. Data is entered once and, with the click of a mouse, moved from module to module as needed.  Over a thousand reports are included to help manage the business and gain insight into the financial keys to profitability.