Maestro* Construction Management and Accounting Software

Designed for today’s challenging environment, maestro* helps construction
businesses operate more efficiently and improve profitability.
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General Contractor

Maestro* general contractor is an all-inclusive software providing everything you need from bid-to-bill in one powerful integrated solution.

Designed for general contractors and construction managers, maestro* eliminates duplicate information to ensure that your project managers focus solely on their projects. Maestro* helps create synergy between the estimating, purchasing, job costing, project management and accounting departments, leading to more efficient workflows.

General contractors must manage many risks. Maestro* general contractor helps mitigate them. From submitting the initial bid to tracking change order details to determining percentage completion, maestro* tracks every cost, revenue and communication from planning to closing. Maestro* lets you always know where you stand with every project—almost right to the minute. With access to this level of detail, you can confidently make proactive decisions.

Key features:
  • Bidding & estimating
  • Budget management
  • Project management
  • Subcontractor contract management
  • Change orders
  • Progress billing
  • Project costing
  • General accounting
  • Issue management
  • Payroll interface

General contractors manage a large volume of information. The daily management of subcontracts, progress draws, change orders, charge backs, drawing logs, daily logs, meeting minutes, transmissions, submissions, RFI’s, RFQ’s and many other documents is time consuming for any project manager. That’s why maestro*’s management solutions has everything you need to bid, manage and bill your jobs.

With maestro*, your project managers will have up-to-date (real-time) information at their fingertips. Accountants can automatically receive data from the project management system and control the posting of information. No information will be entered more than once. Separate spreadsheets and databases are eliminated. All information is recorded and reported consistently. Contacts can be managed centrally and all documents can be stored on-line for quick retrieval.

Given the growing complexity of the construction industry, maestro* offers what today’s General Contractors need to better manage company finances and projects.

Maestro* is a fully integrated management system that allows you to control and access data in real time, helping you maximize your profits through better budget and schedule management while reducing the risks of duplicating or losing data entries.

Bidding and Estimating
The maestro* estimating and bidding module is completely integrated with other key modules such as project management, project budgets, billing contracts and subcontract management. From your successful bids you can automatically produce your project’s initial budget, invoicing contract (in accordance with the bid), subcontractor contracts (pending approval) and material requirements (as a bill of materials, requisition or purchase order).
Maestro*’s material catalog, labor cost tables, equipment cost tables and easy access to previous project results all help your estimator to simplify his job while improving the accuracy of your bids.
Project Management
Maestro’s project management features help you to create, track, and monitor project communications; saving time and reducing risk. Track responses to Requests for Information (RFI’s), Requests for Quotation (RFQ’s), deliver meeting minutes to all the right people in a timely manner to ensure that assigned tasks are complete.
Budget Management
Drill down on budget modification numbers to view the individual detailed changes from the estimating or change management modules.
Committed Cost Management
Track purchase commitments in real time. Every detail of every purchase order and subcontract for a project can easily be accessed through project inquiry, project pivotal reporting, custom reports and many other reports in maestro*.
Project Costing
Maestro* offers one of the most sophisticated project cost management tools available today, a single tool that addresses the information analysis requirements of estimating, operations and accounting. With maestro*’s unique Pivotal Data Viewer, project cost information can be easily viewed in multiple dimensions. All information is shared in real-time between estimating, operations and accounting departments, eliminating redundant databases and spreadsheets. Maestro*’s project cost management and inquiry module is completely integrated with our other modules, including change orders, commitment, billing, projection, production and other management modules.
Issue and Change Orders Management
Creating, recording and tracking issues are critical to managing the profitability of a job. Maestro*’s issue management module allows you to quickly record and track the status of all issues for your projects. When issues are expected to affect project costs, they can be easily assigned to individual change orders. Outstanding issues are easily monitored to ensure that none are missed. Disputes will be resolved quickly by easily producing issue details from notification to resolution, including proof of transmission.
Subcontractor Contract Management
Maestro* offers sophisticated levels of flexibility for managing subcontractor contracts. Individual contracts are created for each project. The details of these contracts expand automatically through the change order management process. All of the details of every subcontractor subcontract can be accessed easily through maestro*’s supplier inquiry feature. Subcontracts may have multiple details on the original contract, each with proposed and accepted pricing. Additions to subcontracts from the change management process are easily identified and contain proposed and accepted pricing. Subcontracts are completely integrated with maestro*’s estimating module which allows automatic setup and aids in generating proposals.
Purchase Order Management
The maestro* purchase order module is very simple to use and completely integrated with purchasing and project management. This feature is designed for companies that do not require a catalog or detailed history of purchased items. Purchase orders can be printed quickly, faxed or emailed directly within maestro*. Maestro* automatically creates PDF documents for purchase orders that are emailed.
Time and Equipment Costing
This module allows you to automatically create invoices based on labor, material and equipment expenses. A catalog of billable items and rates is created and used during the design of the invoices. Forms may be customized to meet the requirements of each contract, client or invoice type. This module is completely integrated with the other maestro* modules, in particular the work order and equipment management modules.
Small Tool Management
The maestro* small tools management and tracking module allows you to build a small tool inventory and keep track of which employee, project or subcontractor they have been loaned to. This module is perfect for managing tool sheds for the whole company or at the job site. Repairs, serial numbers and any other valuable information can be recorded against each tool or tool type. By allowing tools to be quickly and easily located, there is an enforced accountability by users and a maximization of the return on these valuable investments.
Billing Management
The maestro* standard billing module allows you to quickly create free-form invoices and allocate receivables to projects. Invoices can be printed, faxed or emailed quickly and directly within maestro*. Maestro* automatically creates PDF documents for invoices that are emailed. More advanced billing forms such as progress and cost plus are also available.
Warranty Service
Customer service calls are captured in maestro*’s call manager. Service coordinators can quickly determine the sub-trade that performed the work on the customers lot and issue a work order for repair. Work orders can easily be tracked and closed.
General Accounting
Maestro* offers a complete accounting solution that is fully integrated into all of maestro*’s specialized construction project management modules. All information passes through the project management modules automatically, eliminating wasteful entry duplication between operational and accounting systems. Maestro*’s design ensures that both the accounting and operations departments have the specific tools that they need to get the job done right, without compromising the availability or quality of the information they require.
Payroll Interface
Maestro* interfaces with several payroll service providers. For more information: Contact
Loan Management
The maestro* loan management module greatly simplifies financial operations by addressing key aspects related to the financing of goods and services. It allows the convenient management of loans payable, loans receivable, leases and other forms of financing. This module is integrated with maestro*’s general ledger module.
Consolidated Company Reporting
Consolidate two or more companies together to create an entity that may receive accounting entries and manage inter-company accounts.
Executive Dashboard
Executive dashboard provides a window into the current status of your business. Using maestro*’s executive dashboard, you can create many project and accounting information views that can be accessed simultaneously. Imagine reviewing the status of your business while enjoying your morning coffee or taking a quick peek just before leaving for the day. Maestro*’s dashboard reports and views update automatically, offering a consolidated, real-time view of your business.
Full Excel Integration
Although maestro* has gone to great lengths to ensure that spreadsheets are no-longer a business management requirement, we respect the fact that users still feel more comfortable knowing that they have access to this tool. Maestro* offers one-click access to Microsoft Excel virtually everywhere throughout our application. Information transferred to Excel through maestro* is pre-formatted and ready to be used (numbers are numbers, dates are dates and so on). Year-end details can be easily provided to your auditors in Excel format. Whatever your needs, accessing details from within maestro* is as easy as a point and click.
Document & Contact Management
Finally, a document management and scheduling solution to help you coordinate the many documents produced for each job. Exclusive to maestro*, our electronic document management module is fully integrated throughout all other modules. Drawings, site directives, meeting minutes, daily diaries and many other documents can be stored and organized within maestro*, creating a virtual job book that can be accessed from anywhere you can access maestro*. For example, a shop drawing linked to a requisition could be sent with an order. It will then be accessible from the requisition, order, project and even the related suppliers’ file. You can define custom document categories (using your own terminology) for projects, customers, suppliers, contracts, employees, etc. Help shield yourself against future claims by being able to reproduce all communications (e-mail, fax, etc.) and documents for your projects, even if the project manager is no longer with your team. Maestro* is the only software to offer this level of project management and collaboration in a fully integrated ERP software solution.
Powerful Report/Form Viewer
Everything printed from maestro* can be displayed on your screen in maestro*’s advanced report/form viewer. Instantly search reports using our powerful, built-in hypertext search engine. Send your reports and forms through the Internet via email. Maestro* automatically generates a PDF document mirroring your report or form and attaches it to your email message. Your recipients will receive an “exact” copy of the report or form that can be easily viewed using Adobe’s® free industry standard viewer. With just a click, the viewer also allows you to export the reports to Excel. Your data will be formatted and ready to use. Exclusive to maestro*, our report/form viewer even allows you to select groups and columns for viewing or change the sorting order in real-time. This feature is available even for standard system reports.
Report/Form Generators
The Maestro* report generators are powerful tools that will allow you to create a wide range of reports from the simplest listings to the most sophisticated analysis.