In order to exist as well as sustain its existence, any company would need to have an accounting section that would handle the comings and goings of each cent – any company, including those involved in larger specialty and service contracting as well as residential and commercial builders. This is the primary reason why Sage Timberline Office came into being.
Since it belongs to Sage’s suite of solutions, Timberline’s primary salient point is the ease by which one can get accustomed to using it. It has a set-up wizard that could assist first-time users in creating and customizing the general ledger, cash management, accounts receivables and payables, billing, and job costing.
With its modified home page, the Timberline Office allows the user to organize commonly used functions. Users can also set-up and activate various third-party applications as well as place links to important web sites. With its 250 user-defined fields, Timberline Office enables the user to create field names that they are most familiar with and relate it to functions that they regularly use.
The Sage Timberline software comes with more than 50 modules all aimed a providing support for large-scale contractors. Even report generation can be breeze since it allows seamless importing and exporting of data stored in Word, Excel and Access format. What’s more, the Timberline software is also scalable, a feature that has long been associated with all Sage suite of applications.
Timberline also features various Timberline estimating modules such as the Model Estimating and the ePlan takeoff. It also makes use of a number of estimating databases. Aside from this, Timberline also features a number of productivity tools such as the Information Assistant which provides authorized users access to financial and management reports, the Document Management which enables companies to do paperless transactions, and My Assistant, a feature that can help organize tasks.
Training and technical support is also not a problem with the Sage Timberline Software as each new purchase allows for a 60-day unlimited support courtesy of SmartStart. After 60 days, clients can choose from BasicCare, EssentialCare and PremierCare. The difference in the three lies in the method by which support is delivered (Knowledgebase, phone, email and fax) with PremierCare offering a more personalized help from a dedicated account manager.