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  Features
Project Management
Buidingsteps allows you to easily create projects, and then sprints & tasks within that project.  Once a project is created, team members can be added & assigned tasks within that project. Team members can share updates, project related documents, access status reports and collaborate in one place, all while working remotely. Buildingsteps allows you to save the time and money of gathering information from several different sources in several different locations by centralizing all your project communication on your own customized micro site.
   
Easily create project, sprints, tasks
Add team members assign tasks
Follow up on pending tasks
Share updates
Share project related documents
Access control to have selective users view documents and feeds
Bring geographically diverse team together
Save Resources, time, money
Task Management
Within any project you initiate, you can then create sprints or milestones; create, assign and track tasks as well as follow up with and send reminders for pending tasks. Task management also includes a report function, allowing you to more efficiently manage deadlines
   
Create sprints or milestones
Create task and assign tasks
Manage Deadlines
Follow-up & reminders for Pending tasks
Tracking tasks of team members
Team Management
Buildingsteps allows new team members and organizations to join any project quickly and easily. Team members can be assigned specific access control giving them permission to access certain project details and documents as well as post documents & view their status. For example, project updates you wish to share with the whole team can be viewed by all members, but an invoice created for one client can be accessed and viewed by that client only.
   
Create roles & access control for team members
Share projects & Project doucments
Bring focus across the team
Post and view status updates
Project follow Up
Change Order Management
Within a project, requests for changes can be generated. Once a request for change is generated, it goes through an approval process, which provides an automatic audit trail for the change. This ensures accountability and reduces the impact on your budget and timeline caused by unsystematic changes.
   
Request for a change
Approval process for change to bring accountability
Bring accountability for the changes in project
Reduce the Impact on budget, timeline completions
Invoicing
Buildingsteps allows you to create invoice, send to clients and store invoice for future reference. You directly upload into the project so it may be shared with the client. Buildingsteps also enables the user to save and send the invoice as a PDF.
   
Create invoices for products / services
Save and send invoices on pdf files
Track payments
Increase cash flow
Purchase Orders
Buildingsteps offers a streamlined, effective way to communicate and manage purchases for your projects. Within a project, you can create and track purchase orders, as well as send PO’s to your vendors.
   
Track Purchases
Create Purchase orders
Sending PO's to vendors
Manage payments and bring visibility
Reports
Buildingsteps’ reporting function will keep you fully apprised of billing issues, including payments that have been made and are pending as well as providing you with a complete audit trail of all activity that has taken place on your micro site.
   
Get complete audit trail of every action
Get report on usability
Micro Sites
Buildingsteps’ micro sites allow you to create, or maintain, your brand identity within the Buildingsteps program. Buildingsteps offers several ways of using your micro site; you can quickly create one from our provided templates, link from your existing website and post content on the micro site, create a sub domain or have your own domain link to the micro site.  This not only facilitates communication, sharing and collaboration between you and your vendors and customers, but also acts as an extension of your marketing efforts.
   
Create your brand identity
Quickly create microsite from templates
Link from your existing website or post connect on Microsite
Create sub domain or have your own domain linked to the microsite
Promote your business online
Custom Templates
Buildingsteps offers several different types of templates so that you can completely customize your micro site. Whether you are a builder or an architect, you will find a template that reflects your business sensibility and can then customize it further to reflect your brand. Our easy-to-use drag and drop customization makes setting up your micro site simple and effective.
   
Quickly create microsite using numerous exiting templates
Customize color and designs to match your brand colors
Drag and drop section of the site to customize look and feel
Content Management
Managing the content on your micro site couldn’t be easier with simple drag and drop – no html or coding knowledge necessary. *For advanced users, html editor can be used
   
Easily manage content on your microsite with out programming knowledge
Simple drag and drop templates
Advanced users can use html editor
Privacy of data
We know that the security and privacy of the documents and communications within your network is paramount; that is why we have created a completely closed and secure environment. Your organization retains complete ownership and control of your data – nobody can view your information unless you choose to share it with them. Information on your micro site is accurate, available and secure at all times.  Any and all information shared on your micro site lives there; you never have to worry about files being too big for email or simply going astray – if it’s been sent, it’s been received. A full audit trail shows who communicated what, to who, and when so that any disputes may be resolved quickly.
   
Each organization retails ownership & control of its own data
Nobody can see your information unless you share it with them
A full audit trail shows who communicated what, and when, so disputes are quickly resolved
All Information sent and received from server with secure ssl
Alerts & Notifications
Buildingsteps provides a customizable system for alerting users throughout the project. Users can choose to receive alerts for each event or one consolidated message. Alerts can be sent when tasks are not completed on time, an event is scheduled on the calendar or a new document is shared, for example. This enables users to track the progress of a project according to what piece or pieces are relevant to them.
   
Each event can generate alerts
User can customize the alerts settings to receive alerts for each event or consolidated messages
Create alerts based on delay in task, calendar schedules,new documents etc.
Get notified on progress of the project
Document Sharing & Management
Through your micro site, you are able to share files and pictures by uploading them, as well as attaching images and files to emails.
   
Share files and Pictures
Attach images or files and email them
Review and markup documents
Social Media Integration
With social media becoming more and more relevant to the business world, Buildingsteps has enabled its’ users to publish content directly from their mirco site to Facebook or Twitter. You also have the option of publishing polls on social media and sending out mailers, which can then be published on social media sites.
   
Publish polls on social media
Send out mailers which can be published on social media
Surveys
Create, publish and track your surveys easily within your network of users or outside the network contacts.
   
Customize Surveys
Publish Survey link on website
Protected responses via SSL/HTTPS
Add custom logo to your survey
Unlimited questions/ responses
Download result to Excel / Pdf
Send Survey via email
Geo-Visualization-Track survey responses geographically on world map
Real-time fast results
Share your survey on social media sites
Polls
Create online poll using our wizard. Customize fonts, color, background. Publish on your network or externally
   
Creat and customize polls
Multiple answer type options
Unlimited responses
Publish poll on website or social media
Send polls as email
View graphical report and download results
Email Marketing
Create personalized, dynamic email messages and newsletter to your contacts.
   
Import contacts from yahoo / gmail or spread sheet
Create and launch email campaign
Create new template using html editor or use ready to use templates.
Track campaign with open rate, bounce rate, and click through.
Get visibility of your market with Geo visualization reporting
Calendars
Utilizing the calendar function, you are able to keep all schedules for your project in one centralized location. You can use the calendar to set up tasks and deadlines for your project and then set up alerts so that you are notified when deadlines are or aren’t met. The calendar is also a great visual tool providing everyone involved with a comprehensive overview of your project
   
Share events and projects dates on calendar
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