Groundplan - Avis

The Take-off abilities are efficient, templated and save time and energy! Initial set-up is easy and you are away!

I would love to see an auto count function developed in the future, I feel this is the only thing i want for.

Just the user friendly aspects of the whole software. Very easy to learn and pick up on how to use it from the get go. Help tab is also very helpful as it has all the information the user will need. The Ground plan team are always ready to help when you need them too.

At this stage nothing. Everything I need for my takeoff is included in the software.

Ease of use. Without consulting the help guide it's easy to work out how to use the progream.But the help guide is extremely helpful & easy to follow when needed.

A multi coloured eraser tool would be good for the times when the plan has different colours.The ability to hide quantities on the pdf print of a plan legend.There is always room for more icons.

Ground plan is easy to use with many features and has become an essential part of our business. Ground plan is used every day to quote, keep track of stages within a job and can be used to draw up asbuilts and changes within plans as required. The development team add features to make our quoting experience pleasant and the team should be proud of their product.

I don't have any issues with Groundplan that impact me negatively at all.

I can price a plan on any computer/device with the internet not just the computer the software is on, and its so good being able to ring and get an answer straight away from someone in my own country.

There were a few things that i was not use to from using my old software but after 1 training session has got those sorted and was actually better than my old software

Great easy to use interface and featuresSaves time on clicking with new symbol recognition Tech support and service is impeccable

Nothing much I didn’t like other then some integration capabilities but the team have solved that problem!

I was able to trial the program (and many others) and Groundplan was the easiest one to use! The detailed videos on how to work through the site was incredible. I was able to use it immediately and pass onto my boss who thought it was also incredible! Very professional and looks great for our new clients!

I haven't found anything I don't like about the program - if I get stuck on trying to find something the team is only a message or zoom call away

ease of use and ability to create mark ups

billing is US dollars

AccuracyTimeEfficiencyAbility to modify on the fly

Slightly difficult to manipulate symbols etcPlan preview could be biggerMan hours to enter individual symbols with no auto shuffle button for symbols

measurements and pricing for materials on jobs

everything is fine so far ................

Take-off calculation is a breeze with this software.

As with any change in software use, you will always compare what you're using now to what you used to use. Although Groundplan is better overall, there are some little things which are clunky to use (e.g. editing text), or perhaps the functionality doesn't exist at all (e.g. moving symbols using arrow keys).
Also don't like the fact that you have no control over how symbols are "layered" on a drawing (e.g. arcs always on top of symbols).

Groundplan saves me hours each and every day now that I have my template set up and understand how the program works it honestly saves me hours each and every plan I look at.

There are not too many features that don’t work beautifully and now that it is integrated with xero it is going to make my life even easier as it will spit out a quote once I have time to takeoff

Sync's directly with Simpro
Can zoom into drawings and see everything
Scale the drawings, and do take-offs for cable, tray and conduits
Easily outsource the take-off and see what has been allowed for and if anything is missing

Ease of use. Flexible. Ability to integrate to our other business system. Well priced, with concurrent licencing model available.

Nothing, it's a great tool

This product, I think is essential for the quoting and documentation side of our business. It has shown us how much we were actually missing when we were previously quoting jobs. It also allows us to document on the go for the project managers, and helps them to accurately run the jobs.

I would like to be able to customise the symbols but being there is so many to choose from, it’s not a big deal.

Its super easy to use and was easy to move off my old ways of estimating using excel and highlighters.

Ease of use. Plan measuring and scaling.

Inability to fully integrate with Smartbiz software.

Ease of Use
Speed on the web platform
Web Based
Integration with simPRO

Notations on drawings. Should integrate arrows

Scale tool, integration with simpro. The ability to layer up into cost centres.

Can't edit the PDF plan to 'clean it up'

Ease of use. Integration with SIMPRO is fantastic. Being able to do take offs and not miss anything is worth the money alone.

There are minimal cons with this software. There are small flaws throughout but nothing to sour the experience.

Ease of use and job management , stores all of our plans

Other people have it, I want it all to myself!!

Easy to use

Zero issues

Our customers love this product, it has been a real game changer. It's got the balance right between being easy to use but having the features needed. Supports multiple file formats and integrates with simPRO AND it's cloud-based.. can't go wrong for the price.

There isn't a mobile app, not that it would really be practical to look at plans on a small screen, so you really need to be using an iPad or a Surface Pro or something if you're away from you PC.

The Help Line is my favourite feature.

Old SIMPRO prebuilds that I have deleted do not delete from Groundplan.

The Take off lists and Intergration are amazing.

Just the Fact of having to learn something different and get your head around it. ( Its unavoidable to make progress though)