FOUNDATION Reviews

We’ve only been usi by a foundation for a year and a half but I like that I’m continuously finding new benefits. There are tons of ways to rearrange and view your data and there are even better options with each update.

It’s not amazing for our material billing when it comes to construction, but I still like it better than Maxwell.

Do it!

It’s become very helpful to be able to dig into an invoice without having to pull the paperwork from the file.

What i like best about foundation is that it is very user friendly.

When you have uploaded a file to the system it takes awhile to load

It is very easy to use. Entering files is very quick. My company uses the attachment feature in the system so we can look at the file without physically having it.

Foundation has made it easier as a company to see all the information of the jobs we enter.

Everything we need to do or access is in one program.

Multi-state tax reporting. We cross other states and need to pay sales and use tax. Difficult to report, most is manual.

Acquire it, you won't be disappointed!

Quick and easy access to reports

I like that all of the modules integrate with each other to give a total picture in one location. It eliminates the need for multiple tracking sources.

Sometimes it's a little difficult to get report parameters set up properly to see the exact information needed

Having all information tracked in one location, and all departments integrating

There are multiple layers to Foundation and their customer service is excellent.

There are lots of layers to Foundation and it can feel a little cumbersome. It also doesn't talk to our other software, which is difficult.

We are quickly balancing our a/p and a/r, as well as payroll and financial reporting. We have saved a lot of money through the evaluative reporting.

The job costing module is fully integrated with the general ledger and payroll modules making the booking of entries into the various modules seamless. The financial reporting module is very flexible in terms of exporting to PDF, Excel or word formats and editing of reports in these formats is very easy.

Some of the WIP reports are a little to basic and could do with more substantive reporting features.

Detailed job costing is critical to understanding where you are on a job in terms of profitability and this is excellent with Foundation. Enables you to consolidate multiple entities financial information into one consolidated FS module.

Very user friendly and easy to navigate.

It would be very helpful if Foundation had spellcheck and also larger character limits.

Great software for construction based companies!

Job Costing projects is much easier.

Everything is at your fingertips as long as you know how to look for it. All your numbers, figures, jobs, vendors, everything. Once you understand the workings of the program, it is all fairly simple: Enter information and fill in the blanks then hit enter. You want to know how much we spent on masonry on a job? Dumpsters? Easy. Want to know which invoice came first? Whether an invoice has been paid already? All at the touch of your keyboard. Reports can show you a wide range of variables: money spent, money left, money to be collected, money already collected, where the money was spent and on what.

If you are new to using the program and don't have a kind mentor or some REALLY good notes you will never get anywhere. Kind of complicated to learn, but very simple once you've got it.

Be sure to have someone who actually knows and works with the program teach it to you upon installation. Also, the people over there at Foundation Help are really awesome and will help you with anything you may need.

I must keep hundreds of vendors and jobs straight. All the invoices, payments, and company info comes through my desk. Foundation is the only thing standing between me and utter chaos. My boss needs a report? Easy as a few keystrokes and clicks on my mouse. Never would be so on top of the info on my own.

The business I worked for could use Foundation for almost all aspects of their construction business. I appreciated the frequent, timely updates, the multiple available reports we used for compliance tracking, and the ease of use for payroll recordkeeping.

We were not able to integrate Foundation with our heavy equipment usage and service schedule. It was also a daily annoyance that I could not "search" for an employee by their name.

All steps of payroll processing, including taxes and compliance reporting. The one-stop shop, especially the system-generated reports, saved me HOURS! The ability to regenerate old W2s was also quite helpful.

The most useful items that we used repeatedly were documentation and their training courses to help understand the structure and interworkings. The Training provided the needed help with Report writing to get the full potential out of the software

The existing reports didn't always give you all the information needed. The need for custom Reports was a must. Foundation has been making improvements, but our best reports are still created in MS Query and pulled into Access or Excel.

It goes back to reporting and custom Reports. My biggest suggestion and what helped me the most is the MS Query Training Course that Foundation offers. It is an online class that is once a month for the year and goes over linking tables building reports, and evening gives you templates to build your reports from. It allowed me to create customized detail Job Analysis reports and Aging reports pulling in information not usually found on a built in report.

Once Foundation is set up correctly, you can pull all the information you want from the program. Utilizing our custom reports, we can get down to the nitty-gritty. You are identifying where problems lay and is the most profitable parts.