QUESTIONS
- What size businesses does Databuild target and cater for?
- What makes Databuild stand out from the rest?
- Will Databuild make my business processes more streamlined?
- What support can I expect Databuild to provide me with?
- How can I be sure that I will continue to receive support?
- How does Databuild deal with e-commerce?
- How will I find staff to use Databuild?
- Which operating system or platform does Databuild run on?
- What sort of hardware does Databuild run on?
- How can I migrate my current data to Databuild?
- How do I know we have the most up to date Databuild software?
ANSWERS
What size business does Databuild target and cater for?
Databuild caters for all size builders from a small husband and wife team up to some of Australia’s largest home builders including HIA top 100. It is a scalable product designed to be easily implemented, maintained and operated. Some businesses will use only some features of the system while some will take advantage of all the available functions, placing it on the network where it is accessed by a variety of people for different reasons. No matter the size of your business, Databuild will streamline and simplify your daily operations from creating an initial quote through to receiving your final payment, all while leveraging the data in your system to automatically produce reliable information and reports that would normally take hours or days to produce manually
What makes Databuild stand out from the rest?
Databuild is celebrating 50 years of servicing the building and construction industry and strives to maintain a constant link between customers and our development team to ensure the software delivers exactly what builders need. Whilst you could use spreadsheets and generic accounting packages, Databuild is more specific and made for the building and construction industry. Databuild provides dedicated support via phone and email, with remote tools to help simplify the tasks you’re required to do on a regular basis. It has superior job cost reporting, order and invoice checking, and cloud payroll integration, along with a superior estimating package.
Will Databuild make my business processes more streamlined?
Databuild includes many features to enable you to easily review critical business information. This allows you to take better control over your company’s current and future directions. It will prevent jobs being double-ordered or bills being paid twice and can generate reports that alert you to non-profitable areas in your business. Developed from the ground up Databuild is a complete estimating and accounting system designed for the varying requirements in the building industry. The estimates become quotations this in turn become the bills of quantities, specifications and colour schedules. Purchase orders are linked to the same record to allow you to produce orders from the information you have quoted. Databuild is completely seamless from sales inquiry right through to the profit and loss and balance sheet.
What support can I expect Databuild to provide me with?
We are dedicated to providing a high quality support offering to all our customers through a range of support options. We have phone and email support available Monday to Friday, 9 AM – 5 PM (Australian Eastern Time). We offer a software maintenance subscription to ensure our clients have access to our support team for 1:1 assistance remotely over TeamViewer, online training workshops and the most up to date Databuild version downloads without any additional fees. There is also high-end technical support for hardware, communication and network issues.
How can I be sure that I will continue to receive support?
Databuild has been in business for over 40 years and in 2008, was acquired by Illinois Tool Works as part of its residential construction products division, taking Databuild full circle back to its founding days as part of the roof truss industry. This partnership ensured future investment into the product maintaining Databuild’s stance at the forefront of the industry along with creating even closer relationships with builders and their requirements now and well into the future. Our dedication to our customers is evident in the fact we have retained many of our original users.
How does Databuild deal with e-commerce?
Databuild was an early pioneer in e-commerce. It has the ability to transfer funds electronically, send invoices, broadcast requirements to suppliers through both e-mail and SMS. Further development to this process are currently in the pipeline.
How will I find staff to use Databuild?
There is a large pool of experienced users who can use Databuild. Because of Databuild’s dominant position in the market, there are more trained staff than all other systems combined. If your staff do require training however, please visit our training page to view all options available.
Which operating system of platform does Databuild run on?
Databuild is a Windows only based product. It integrates with Microsoft Office and writes to Access in small installations or SQL Server (or other high-end relational databases) in larger implementations. Visit our system requirements page for more information.
What sort of hardware does Databuild run on?
Please visit our system requirements page for further information.
How can I migrate my current data to Databuild?
Databuild has some very sophisticated import-export routines using XML, CSV (comma delimited), as well as other ASCII routines providing easy import from many other popular packages so can import your data with assistance where required from our support team.
How do I know we have the most up to date Databuild software?
In your Databuild software, click on the help menu then about Databuild. This screen will tell you the version number and build you are currently running. Databuild usually has 3 main releases each year and these are communicated both via our website, via email to our users and also by the RSS feed inside the software itself. Only software maintenance subscribers are eligible to update to the latest versions. To renew your software maintenance, please contact us on 1300 015 153.