Raken Review - why 4.7 stars?

• Daily Report: This feature offers a quick way to wrap up the day for the field crew and agents. It enables its users to snap photos, write down notes, and include attachments on the go.
• Time Cards: This feature provides a streamlined payroll with the enablement of time tracking covering the entire crew or field agents. Users can use this feature to assign hours to cost orders and easily split time between regular or overtime.
• Production Tracking: This feature helps users or field agents/crew capture project data and record equipment usage and quantities of installed materials. It provides historical data to give insight to its users on potential issues.
• Toolbox Talks: This feature ensures the delivery of pre-loaded approved toolbox talks straight to the app of the field crew/agents. This is specifically to ensure safety across all construction projects and make sure that compliance is adhered to.

• The software Time cards are automatically updated
• Raken features notifications systems that send weekly summaries to their customer email
• The software can have the ability to provide a project update in the form of pictures or videos
• Daily field reports can be easily modified for different jobs

• Users complain of limited search abilities on the app
• Needs more GPS functionalities
• Uploading pictures sometimes crashes

• Functionality: Raken shares similar features like Incident Reporting, Mobile Access, Offline Access, Commercial and Contractor Management with all its closest alternatives. Raken closest alternatives like Procore, Fieldwire, and Autodesk construction cloud offer CRM and Change Order Management unavailable in Raken.
• Customers/Industries: Raken targets field management and construction tasks ranging from General Contractors to Trade Contractors, Concrete Contractors, Electrical Contractors, Excavating Contractors, and Mechanical Contractors. Companies like Hensel Phelps, Level 10 Construction, Webcor, Barton Malow, and Danforth use Raken. Procore targets owners, main contractors, and subcontractors. Over 1 million construction projects in over 125 countries use Procore. Customers like Turner, Honeywell, and Balfour Beatty use Procore. Autodesk construction cloud targets contractors in commercial, industrial, infrastructure, and institutional. Customers like AECOM, Balfour Beatty, Skanska, and Rosendin Electric use Autodesk construction cloud. Fieldwire targets General Contractors, Specialty Contractors, Architects, and Designers. Constructions companies using Fieldwire are Webcor, Clark Constructions, and Colt Builders.
• Cost: Cost: According to expert research, Raken is cost-rated 1 (where 1-2 is low-cost and 4-5 is high-cost), which means it is a low-cost software amongst its closest alternatives. The cost information for Procore is unavailable on its official website. Fieldwire license price starts at $44 per user/month and $29 per user/year, and it has a free trial and a free version. Autodesk construction cloud starts at £60 per month and £720 per year on monthly billing. It also starts at £46 per month and £546 per year on annual billing.
• Cloud-based/On-premise: Raken and its closest alternatives are cloud-based software systems.
• Popularity: Raken started in 2014 as a privately held. Procore started in 2002 and is publicly traded (NYSC: PCOR). Fieldwire (privately held) was founded in 2013. Procore is more popular than all the alternatives.
• Scalability: Raken and all its closest alternatives can accommodate construction projects of all sizes.
• Support: Raken and its alternatives share similar features like Email, Knowledge base, Phone support, and chat support features. Procore offers 24/7 live rep. All the alternatives offer FAQs/forums aside Raken.

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 2 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). You can fine here the REAL total cost breakdown for Raken. You can also find here pricing information from Raken's website.