"Donald Powers Architects is a small firm of 7 people based in Providence, RI. Before we learned about ArchiOffice, we were exploring separate software programs for billing, time tracking, contact management and a shared calendar. We were thrilled to learn that ArchiOffice does all of the above and more.
There was practically no learning curve for our employees. The ArchiOffice templates for correspondence and project administration are very comprehensive and easy to customize with our fonts and logo. The billing summaries have been a great tool for everyone to get an up-to-the-minute snapshot of how a project is doing in budgeted vs. actual time.
Before ArchiOffice, I entered everyone’s time manually into QuickBooks time keeper to generate invoices. Having everyone enter their own time in ArchiOffice has made invoicing much simpler. There are a lot of options for how a project can be billed, i.e. hourly vs. fixed fee, etc… and the invoices look very professional. I continue to use QuickBooks which interfaces with ArchiOffice smoothly.
From a customer service standpoint, I’ve been extremely impressed. Anytime I have a question, someone responds right away. Each new release includes great new features which demonstrate their commitment to continuing to improve the software. It’s a great tool and we rely on it. "
- Dana Powers, Donald Powers Architects, Inc., USA
"This is the product we have been waiting for. Even though we are on different continents, with different time zones it has not impacted on the support and help given to us in the UK. This has been exemplary. Our staff and Directors are all extremely impressed with the power of the product and ease of use."
- Graham Lobb, Form Design Group, UK
"As a principal looking to move our office forward, I've found ArchiOffice to be a powerful tool to leverage ability to track projects. We' re still in the learning process; however, the power of ArchiOffice to bring together all the elements of practice is evident. I've been impressed with the willingness to improve the software. We have received 3 upgrades since the start of the year that have addressed issues we were just discovering. We're moving toward full implementation to realize the full potential. Stay tuned.........I'm confident the accolades will continue."
- Shedrick Coleman, Cowart Coleman Group, GA, USA
"As a small firm, ours is to design and produce for our clients, meeting their needs and wants. The last thing we need to do is impede that process by having to expend too much energy with administrative tasks that burden the employees. While administration is an unavoidable task and part of architecture, ArchiOffice facilitates and streamlines it…. That freedom for other endeavors alone was worth the price of the software. Thank you."
- Irving A. Gonzales, Gonzales Architects, CA, USA
"We've been using ArchiOffice for about 6 months now and love it! It has simplified running the office and keeping track of projects. Having everything in one place makes it much easier to track where we are at any given moment. Thank you so much for a great product."
- Adele Webster, PGH Architects, Alberta, Canada
"ArchiOffice is that rare thing in software - it not only looks great but it is a pleasure to use. So well thought out - you can tell it is put together by professionals who rely on this software themselves. The support is outstanding - fast, friendly and enthusiastic. I enthuse about ArchiOffice to every fellow Architect I meet - that's the effect it has on you."
- William Sutherland, WS Architecture Ltd., UK
"Our firm has been using ArchiOffice for well over a year and it is now very much integrated into the essential operations for our practice. We have customized the templates and checklist in line with our QM and professional practice procedures and have not had any real problems with the customization……We have been able to analyze our firm's use of time in detail over the last year and making adjustments to improve profitability for the firm……It is time architects get organized in the delivery of services to their clients, and AO helps us to do just that."
- Brian Lewis, acla:works, Trinidad
"ArchiOffice is a really superb piece of software, brilliantly thought out and organized, comprehensive, clever, easy to use, and attractively presented."
- John Lewis, John Lewis + Associates, UK
"We just got through our first small invoicing period. I need to learn more varied options for billing but I am working on it and it seems easy enough. Love the software. It really does what you claim; it works the way architects do. Great invoice format and style…... Great summary windows. Your team has been great supporting us through the setup. Thank you."
- Clayton L. Carter, CLCPE, Inc., WV, USA
"I love ArchiOffice. With all the paper generated by our office, ArchiOffice helps us organize and keep track of the paperwork electronically. It allows us to present a professional face to our clients. Billing is extremely easy. We have found that we can track our extra services with greater ease while providing more detail for our clients."
- Michael Smith, MDS Architects, CA, USA
"We have tried a lot of time & billing programs over the years and developed our own in house templates and databases, but they never worked together….ArchiOffice has all these things integrated into one package………The productivity of having all the contacts, documents and time & billing at our finger tips anything has really allowed us to spend more time on design rather than administration."
- Sandy Barker, Barker Associates, California, USA
"Introducing ArchiOffice to my office saw my billing increase 300% in one month! It is an extremely effective tool for managing time and ensuring expenses are recouped."
- James Osborne, Material Landscape Architecture, Australia
"We just got through our first invoicing period! Compared to our two prior attempts with billing applications, it was a breeze. Love the software. It really does what you claim; it works the way architects do. Great invoice format and style, great reports and summary windows….And, your support team has been extremely helpful assisting us with the setup."
- Mark Christopher, Mark Lee Christopher, Architects, CA, USA
" ArchiOffice is so well targeted to the workflow in an architectural office that we have found it extremely easy to set up and use. This is refreshing after dealing with the other products that are supposedly aimed at the AEC market. Also, the fact that ArchiOffice is based upon FileMaker database software means that it is truly friendly to a cross-platform computing environment. Most importantly, we feel we are dealing with friendly, smart people who actually use the program themselves, and are committed to making it better and better as time goes on."
- Robert Dean, Robert Dean Architects, CT, USA.
"As a start-up firm we we drawn to ArchiOffice as a way to standardize our approach to various task - billing, tracking time and even the creation of documents (such as transmittals, etc.). We have been very pleased with the results. We ARE the IT staff as of now - and as such have appreciated the ease with which the software can be manipulated and altered. We also have been appreciated of the support staff's willingness to work through questions or problems we have encountered."
- Andrew Rosenthal, GRA+D architects, OH, USA.
"We noticed immediately that the document templates were better organized than the type of documents we had been using in the past and started utilizing these before we even completed the installation. the flexibility of of accounting and billing options is a valuable tool and the invoice format and appearance gives us a much more professional look than would be possible with quickbooks, our previous billing software."
- Warren Lloyd, Lloyd Architects, UT, USA.
"We had used a few systems to record our time but nothing really catered for the way an Architect works, apart from really expensive overblown products suited to large corporations, nothing decent for the small practice. The other professional services software packages were too market specific and the generic ones really didn't cover all the bases. Along came ArchiOffice. I became quite excited when I found it and followed the progress of the product from its infancy, even contributing a little feedback when using the early Demo, which was received and acted upon with remarkable enthusiasm. We don't yet use it to it's full potential, but this product really is a fantastic management tool, that can easily be tailored to suit any size of architectural practice."
- Simon Cottell, Cresswell, Cuttle & Dyke, UK.
"Our architectural team has struggled with other software packages
that promised to accomplish what ArchiOffice has actually provided.
We were looking for a way to get a handle on project budgets and
the actual time it takes to accomplish the various tasks involved
in the design of projects, and ArchiOffice has certainly helped
our design staff see where the hours go and how it relates to the
billing process."
- Terri Johnson, Ruff + Associates, CA, USA.
"Thank you for such a great service. You are very much appreciated.
Your support service is second to none."
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