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The construction industry tends to quickly adjust to the changing reality. Mobile apps are playing an integral part of everyday operations and the benefits they are giving cannot be missed! Snappii has prepared a list of 5 benefits a construction business will get with a mobile app.

Snappii offers its Construction Estimator app to ensure the process of making an estimate is accurate and precise. The app contains an easy-to-use form that allows its users to collect required information in minutes, automatically calculate material and job cost, take photos and add gps locations. The estimate is easily converted into invoice that a customer can pay.

What will this app give to a construction business?

1. The ability to make an estimate at the spot. All you need is your mobile app. No laptops, no cameras, no calculators, no paper forms. Simply take your phone, open up the Construction Estimator app, fill in the fields and you will have a professional PDF with the accurate and timely estimate. Send this estimate to your client
2. Accelerate the estimation process and get paid faster. As soon as the estimate is complete, your client will review it and approve. In this case you generate an invoice instantly. Customer pays the invoice and this way, you will receive your payment faster.
3. Optimize the workflow. Instead of spending time retyping the information from your paper forms to your computer and printing it, then driving to your client to show the estimate and wait to receive the approval, use the Construction Estimator mobile app. With just one app, you will be able to provide sufficient information to your client in no time and get feedback immediately.
4. Save time and money. No need to drive to the client or to the office to drop off forms. The estimates and invoices are available 24/7 on your mobile device.
5. Legal documentation at your fingertips. Make sure you have all the estimates and invoices with the costs agreed on. Access this information anytime from anywhere.

Download the Construction Estimator app from Apple and Google stores and improve your workflow significantly. The Construction Estimator app can be customized to your business needs. Contact us to get a free app demo or tell us how you would like to change the app.

Success of any construction company is based on effective communication between the field and the office, and documentation. On an average, it takes up to 60 minutes to prepare and fill in a daily report at a construction site. Managing other documents like job estimates, tracking timesheet, work order assignments or construction equipment inspection is not easy. It requires time and effort to fill in the papers and then get them to the office.

Today in order to speed up the process of decision making and the response from the head office, more and more construction companies are turning to mobile apps.

How can mobile apps accelerate construction operations

Snappii has prepared a list of top apps that can significantly boost and improve some construction operations.

1. Construction Daily Log

Construction workers have to fill in their accomplishments on site on a daily basis. After a long hard day of work that’s the last thing they would want to do. Snappii has created a mobile app to help speed up and simplify this routine. Construction Daily Log is #1 mobile app for construction workers to create daily reports with ease. The app allows its users to automatically add weather conditions, utilize voice to text feature, take photos right in the report, automatically calculate the totals and instantly share with the office via email, messengers and cloud drives. The app is available for free download from Apple and Google Stores.

2. Construction Estimator App

When there is a need to quickly create on-site estimates for construction and repair projects, use  Construction Estimator App. The app allows users to quantify material, labor and other costs needed to complete a construction project. It will also do all the calculations, so once all the data is entered in, the user will get the total estimated project cost. Tax can be included into the estimated cost at user’s option. The app is available for free download from Apple and Google Stores and can be customized to any construction business needs.

3. Heavy Equipment Inspection App

Vehicle inspection is another pain for the construction workers. They need to make sure the equipment is operating smoothly, that it is safe to use. Proper work of the construction equipment affects on-site operations. Regular inspections are a must. One of the easiest ways to make sure the equipment is in a good condition, is mobile inspection apps. Heavy Equipment inspection App from Snappii allows users to conduct detailed inspections covering each major system and component of heavy equipment, indicate problems, disrepairs, malfunctions in the equipment performance, notify mechanics about maintenance issues or repair services required and much more. The app is available for free download from Apple and Google Stores and can be customized to the needs of any business.

4. Job Estimates and Invoices

The last but not least is the opportunity to send out professional estimates to clients and invoice them right away. The construction industry has a deep variety of functions, planning on new projects is one of them. Impressing prospect clients with fast and professional job estimates accelerates decision making. Turning estimates into invoices with one tap speeds up billing cycle. The Job Estimates and Invoices app is available for free download from Apple and Google Stores and can be customized to the needs of any business.

The world has gone mobile. People not only spend time browsing social media, online stores or reading, they a looking for ways to simplify their working routine with mobile apps. Snappii understands this need and keeps creating more powerful and useful apps to help any individual or team reach their goals.

Software has found it’s way to the work site.

Ten years ago, that statement would have been a joke. Workers were still marching out onto the field holding their giant blueprints, and unreal amounts of paperwork. The thought that all of this information would one day be available on a cellphone was unbelievable. Software was only available to the absolute biggest businesses, and even then it was hardly ever a mobile solution. Secretaries still had to pull blisters from their fingertips after long days of punching in every single field of every single form, one by one.

It goes without saying that things are a bit different now.

We’re starting to see more leaps and bounds in terms of technology. Take the halo light, for example. A helmet that surrounds the user in a 360 degree beam of light so that traffic from any direction will be able to see the wearer from miles away. While this is more of a life-saving technology, it won’t be long till workers are equipped with life-changing technology. And with that, comes the technology that’s going to save you a ridiculous amount of time on field-work, data-entry and, of course, funds.

Mobile forms work by transforming the traditional paper forms, which have become the backbone of your company, into apps that can be downloaded and used on any smart device – from LifeProof protected iPad’s to that cheap Android phone your daughter convinced you to buy. Snappii understands that most business apps were reserved for only the top rung of the ladder, requiring major time and money to complete even a simple application.

But again, things are a bit different now.

Snappii, a revolutionary app-building platform, has made it their mission to equip anyone with the ability to make a mobile app. The simple editor works by asking you what you would like to see in your app, and then allowing you to manipulate it by dragging and dropping where things go. Anything from equipment catalogs to GPS functionality can be configured in the editor. Hiring a team of software developers and programmers to make an app from scratch may cost tens of thousands of dollars, as well as an excessive amount of development time. But with Snappii, the platform takes care of most of the heavy listing. The barriers of entry become stepping stones.

So why haven’t more people converted yet? Fear.

For most construction firms, mobile forms jeopardize the process which built the company in the first place. Having adhered to it for so long, it can sometimes be difficult to transfer what has been a “perfect workflow in the making” for years into a totally different process that involves half of the moving pieces.

However, a lot of problems can be solved by simply digitizing your workflow. Although the idea hasn’t been widely received, the accessibility of software has never been so high. And when people finally do hear about how easy it is, they usually can’t believe their ears.

Snappii aims to redefine the misconception that creating a product for your business is ‘scary’ or ‘difficult’. Rather than solely creating apps unique for businesses, Snappii’s platform allows businesses to snap fields together in a fraction of the time it would take developers to make it from scratch. Using this technology, you can recreate your paper forms in mobile forms yourself, saving countless dollars.

On average, having an operation run off of paper cost most companies around $160 per employee. Do the math and you can see that there’s a massive cost for something that can be almost completely eliminated. Not to mention the employee time it takes to protect and drop-off the documents. Since everything is digital, finished forms can be mailed back to the headquarters, where secretaries can automatically input the information instead of committing hours to data-entry.

If fear is stopping you from trying out Snappii’s platform, use our free trial to see for yourself how easy it is. There’s no obligations unless you device to publish your app, and you can make as many prototypes as you need to get the perfect piece of software for your business.

If making an app from scratch doesn’t sound like fun, you can also hire one of our developers to leverage the platform for you. Since they would be using the platform we developed, turn-around time will be WEEKS instead of MONTHS, and the cost with surprise you (in a good way). Click here to send a custom request to sales with as much information as you can, and we’ll show you how fast our platform can turn your business around.