BuilderMT | Trade Portal

The Trade Portal is a web-based application that gives homebuilders flexible, interactive, real-time communications with their trades about trade-specific information like bid requests and quotations, schedules, payments, purchase orders and notifications. Whenever a change is made in WMS, it is instantly communicated to the trades without the need to send e-mails, make phone calls, or perform downloads to wireless devices.

From the Trade's perspective, vital information is available in real-time from builders using just one easy-to-use, secure web site.

Greatly reducing the inherent expense of lost voice messages, faxes, E-mails, and other types of miscommunication with builders, Trade Portal gives builders superior communication with their construction trades.

Trade Portal provides the following features through an easy-to-use trade dashboard:

Provides real-time access to data and complete trade communication
Follows recommended best practices for secured user-access
Customize the company dashboard with frequently visited links, recent activities and company updates
Maintain updated communication between builders and trades using message boards

Purchase Order View:

Post approved, issued, and cancelled purchase orders online for trades
Able to "audit" by seeing who viewed PO records, when, and who archived them
Check purchase order status at anytime
Sort and group purchase orders using multiple columns
Archive purchase orders as necessary
In the Payments Menu, display payment data by issue date or check number

Bid Management View

Trade Contractor or Supplier can review all bid details from the builder
Ability to enter in Bid Items and Submit Bid back to WMS Bid Management Dashboard
Ability to receive documents, plans, drawings, specifications via the Document attachments tab
Ability to ask questions and receive answers between the Trade and the builder in the Question and Answer tab
Ability to see rebid or deny bid information

Schedule View

Keep better informed of scheduled activities
View schedules by projected, scheduled and completed dates
View daily, weekly, monthly and yearly schedules
The List view allows the sorting of schedules by start and end dates, activity, trade crew and other job criteria
In the Notifications menu, view new and archived schedule notifications using multiple sort criteria

Notifications View:

Displays lot number, activity, old and newly-scheduled start dates
Differentiates notification types as scheduled, projected, or archived
Displays the dates and initials of the Trade Portal user who last viewed the notification
Sortable by site address, lot number, activity, old scheduled start, new scheduled start, viewed date, and viewed by

Payments View (Available only for builders using Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Sage 300 CRE and Explorer Contract Manager Accounting):

Displays checks issued in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Sage 300 CRE and Explorer Contract Manager Accounting
Includes check number, date issued, and check amount
Includes attachment of the purchase order associated with the check

BuilderMT Trade Portal is the superior solution for trade management. For more information on Trade Portal, please contact a product specialist today at 888-757-1991, or fill out our contact form, to have a representative contact you.