T - Tools

The Right Tools for the Right Outcomes

You wouldn’t hammer a nail in with a screw gun, and you wouldn’t drive a screw with a hammer - right?!

If you want the job done right, you have to use the right tools and you have to know how to use them!

With the L.I.I.F.T. Construction Accounting System, we will integrate and implement the most advanced, most streamlined, and most efficient tech tools to bring about the desired income - to transform your cost-plus bookkeeping workflows and maximize the value of your reporting system.

L.I.I.F.T. Accounting Platform Base Options

QuickBooks® Online - This is just the beginning. It starts with a strong cloud-based foundational platform from which to pull for bookkeeping and financial reporting. QuickBooks® Online serves as an excellent, capable tool on which to build your construction accounting system. This system will integrate seamlessly with other tools and work to help our systems work together like a well-oiled machine.

QuickBooks® Online has developed exponentially over the last few years and continues to evolve at an amazing rate, enabling us to utilize their robust set of new features as part of our complete financial system for your residential construction business.

Catalyst CAC will meet you where you are and work with you to catch-up or clean-up your current system, if you have one. We will then work to convert or set-up your system within the QuickBooks® Online.

This is the starting point. From here, we will integrate and implement the most advanced, most streamlined, and most efficient tech tools for your specific business.

Crewcost - This upstart is on our radar and has entered our evaluation process. We’re excited to consider a software tool that houses the best of project financial management with the best of an overall accounting system. We’re working closely in collaboration to help develop this tool so that it will pass the intense scrutiny every L.I.I.F.T. tool endures before it is considered as a solution for our clients.

L.I.I.F.T. Tool Evaluation Process

QuickBooks® Online - This is just the beginning. It starts with a strong cloud-based foundational platform from which to pull for bookkeeping and financial reporting. QuickBooks® Online serves as an excellent, capable tool on which to build your construction accounting system. This system will integrate seamlessly with other tools and work to help our systems work together like a well-oiled machine.

QuickBooks® Online has developed exponentially over the last few years and continues to evolve at an amazing rate, enabling us to utilize their robust set of new features as part of our complete financial system for your residential construction business.

Catalyst CAC will meet you where you are and work with you to catch-up or clean-up your current system, if you have one. We will then work to convert or set-up your system within the QuickBooks® Online.

This is the starting point. From here, we will integrate and implement the most advanced, most streamlined, and most efficient tech tools for your specific business.

L.I.I.F.T. Game Changers

• Adaptive.Build - Do you remember when you switched from a hammer to a framing nail gun? Or, how about when you changed out your screw driver for a cordless drill? - Those tools were Game Changers, right?!

  Adaptive.Build is your framing nail gun/cordless drill for cost-plus bookkeeping.

  This tool integrates directly with QuickBooks® Online and is a Game Changer for streamlining your cost plus workflows for both Accounts Payable as well as Accounts Receivable as well as project reporting. Adaptive.Build is a construction financial management powerhouse for bookkeeping and reporting. We will utilize this tool to its fullest for each eligible residential construction client.

• MakersHub.ai - Another powerful Accounts Payable option with robust features for approval workflows, payables management, and receipt/bill capturing. Depending on your most streamlined, ideal workflow, Makershub.ai may be the best tech integration for your Accounts Payable management.

• Dext Prepare - Depending on your project management software, Dext Prepare is yet another tool in our toolbox that we utilize for receipt/bill management.

• And More - Our L.I.I.F.T. accounting system develops the specific tech stack that will streamline your bookkeeping workflows and delivers the most advanced reporting analysis

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