Dear BuildIT User,
We are pleased to announce our latest update to the system - driven by your requests and suggestions.
Contact Schedules
Contact Schedules are a free and powerful service you can offer to anyone in your contact database:
Clients
Subtrades
Vendors
Contractors
Design Professionals
Other Employees
Contact Schedules give your contacts a real time view into the schedule, where they will see only those tasks assigned to them by you, the BuildIT user. When they open their free Contact Schedule online, your contacts can:
- view their tasks /action items
- change their views based on multiple filters
- and add comments to individual tasks which you, in turn, are notified of.
Status of tasks is now color coded, so contacts can see at a glance which tasks require attention immediately.
Contact Schedules are a key benefit to BuildIT users who want to keep their contacts updated with ever changing schedules. No more relying on outdated printed schedules, marked up calendars, and Gantt charts pieced together on the walls. Send out Contact Schedules to all you key players today, and start leveraging the power of real time scheduling.
Each and every contact in your database has a free Contact Schedule! For example, 200 contacts in your contact database means 200 separate, distinct, and available Contact Schedules that you can use to drive your business forward to the next level of keeping folks informed, keeping customers happy, and keeping your schedules on track.
Rich Text “HTML” Email Creator
Many BuildIT users rely heavily on the power of BuildIT’s email system. Without a doubt, it makes sense to keep all communications on the job in one place, organized, and accessible by all key players on your team.
Now, this powerful communications system has been improved with a rich text editor. You have been requesting this for months, and it has finally arrived! You can select different fonts, sizes, colors, bold, underline - the list goes one. Many of the key functions you have used in other common email systems like MSN, Hotmail, Gmail and Outlook, are now included with BuildIT. We’ve even made it easier to view your emails for those of you with larger monitors.
Additional Enhancements
We haven’t stopped there. BuildIT is a constant work in progress. Our Users (and other stakeholders) expect nothing less. You’ll also benefit from:
- Spell checker (now deployed in many dialogs, including documents, and enhanced for emails).
- DO IT control to create a schedule template from an existing job.
- New “form view” for viewing, printing, faxing, and emailing document templates.
- New controls allowing users to email or fax more than one document in one step.
- Contact Schedule preferences, allowing you to change the layout your customers see.
- Date header now displays on each page of a printed Gantt chart.
- Continued speed enhancements to the BuildIT engine and some fine-tuning to really make things hum.
- New Blog (you're reading it now) for research, power tips, and a dose of humor – for folks that are serious about getting the most from BuildIT.
We’re proud of the success of our customers who use BuildIT to manage their businesses. It’s your vote of confidence in the system, and your continued input that drives BuildIT forward. Stay profitable in 2008, and let us know where we can make a difference.
The BuildIT Team
1 866 585 5050 x1
www.builditsystems.com
