PlantDemand Review - why 4.7 stars?

• Shared Live Calendar: Contractors can share a plant order sales calendar with their entire team and get a shared view of their orders. This feature reduces the number of spreadsheets and the amount of communication. Everyone on the team can see the same thing!
• Customer Order Portal: This feature cokes with a Secure, simple, and accurate customer order portal that makes ordering easy and encourages loyalty, while reducing data entry required.
• Automated/On-Demand Reporting: With this feature, contractors can save time and stress by producing reports in a few clicks instead of a few hours. The library of reports delivers simple, clear reporting for better decision-making.
• Inventory Forecast: With just a few clicks, contractors can spot inventory shortages or surpluses and help manage cash flow by understanding what their sales, production, and inventory predictions are.
• Secured Data: The private information of end-users is never sold to a third party or made available to their rivals.

• PlantDemand offers live shared orders, with easy access for sales staff, plant operators, etc.
• The software enables users to get input materials needed in a few seconds for the upcoming days, weeks, or months to share with their suppliers
• The software also allows for budgeting, which makes work much easier for users

• Users complain of difficulty getting orders entered on an iPhone because of screen size

• Functionality: PlantDemand offers features like Customer order portal, Visual Order Calendar, Automated/On-Demand reporting, Inventory forecasts, security, Daily backups, Secure User Login, Flexible Permissions Management, Round-the-clock User Support, etc. Procore offers features like Project Management, Quality, and safety, Project Financials, Design Coordination, Invoice Management, Tender Management, Integrations, etc. Knowify offers features like Job Costing, Estimating, Bids, Contracts, Service Work, Time tracking, Scheduling, Integrations (available in Procore), e-Payments, Project management (available in Procore), Profitability & Reporting, Progress Billing, Subcontractor Management, Submittals & RFIs, etc. Fieldwire offers features like Track performance, Risk Management, Scheduling & reports (available in Knowify), Tasks, Punch lists, Inspections, Real-time Messaging, Mobile Plan Viewing, Markups & as-builts, Digitized forms, etc.
• Customers/Industries: Procore targets Owners, Main Contractors, and Subcontractors. Customers who use Procore are Lakeridge Middle School, Hoehn Motors Porsche, Villa World, Piety Group, Henry Boot Construction, Oxford Properties, Makati Development Corporation, Visioneer, Clear Height, BW: Workplace Experts, Ardmac, etc. Knowify targets construction workers in Electrical, HVAC, Plumbing, Painting, Roofing, Remodeling, General contracting, and others. Customers who use Knowify are Gregg Home Services, Safe Harbor Commercial Roofing, Serett Metalworks, etc. Fieldwire targets General Contractors, Specialty Contractors, owners, architects, designers, etc. Customers who use Fieldwire are Clark Construction, EllisDon, Graham, Brookfield, NGE, Sutter Health, Webcor, Clot, Houle Electric, SUEZ Consulting, Bear Construction, etc.
• Cost: The license cost information for PlantDemand is unavailable on its official website. However, according to ITQlick expert cost research, PlantDemand has a pricing plan that starts at $450month/plant. PlantDemand is cost-rated at 1.7/5, which means it is a low-cost construction software. The rating system considers this software rated 1-2 as low-cost and 4-5 as high cost. The license cost information for Procore is unavailable. Fieldwire starts at $29 per user per month billed annually and $44 monthly. Fieldwire offers a free trial and a free version. Knowify starts at $68 per month on annual billing and $86 monthly. Knowify offers a free trial.
• Cloud-based/On-premise: PlantDemand and all its alternatives are cloud-based.
• Popularity: PlantDemand is privately held with 167k+ tons of schedules. Procore is publicly traded on the NYSE under the PCOR symbol with 1M+ construction projects in 125+ countries. Fieldwire Is privately held and trusted by teams of 10 to 10,000. Fieldwire has carried out 1,000,000+ projects worldwide.
• Scalability: PlantDemand can accommodate small, medium-sized, and large construction businesses, while Fieldwire can accommodate small or medium-sized construction businesses.
• Support: Procore offers support channels like Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live Rep), and Chat. Knowify and Fieldwire offer all support channels of Procore, excluding 24/7 (Live Rep) support.

What is the REAL total cost of implementation? on top of the total cost of licenses which is easy to calculate you need to add the cost of training, customization, data migration, and other "hidden cost". ITQlick pricing score is 3.4 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Find here the REAL total cost breakdown for PlantDemand