Hard Dollar Software Solutions

The Complete Project Cost Management Solution

Hard Dollar Project Cost Management provides Estimating, Job Controls, Field Data Collection, and real-time integration to Scheduling, Accounting, and Design resulting in complete project visibility and control. From project initiation to completion, leverage the tools to manage your projects with greater accuracy, efficiency, confidence, and control over people and processes. With decades of field experience, Hard Dollar offers the know-how and real-world knowledge to provide critical information throughout the project.

Project Cost Management solutions enable organizations to gain confidence in Cost Estimating, Capital Planning, Productivity Management, Earned Value, and integration with Scheduling to enable:

Cost Loaded Resources and Live Cost Scheduling Updates

Cost Estimating

Estimating software by Hard Dollar allows you to create and manage estimates faster, increasing accuracy and gaining project confidence. Features include: centralized estimate management, third-party cost items, historical work estimates, cost escalation factors over project life cycles, real-time cash flow analysis, detailed earned value reporting, team collaboration, and standardized best practice estimating processes to simplify estimating activities across the company.

Project Cost Management

Hard Dollar's Project Cost Management suite delivers forecasted and real-time Cost and Productivity project management; enabling project members to accurately plan, create and control estimates and progress with integrated scheduling, resulting in higher project profits, increased accuracy, and greater project visibility.

Cost Resource Libraries

Scheduling Integration

The Hard Dollar Project Cost Management system is the only product available with true "Oneness" integration to leading scheduling software systems from Primavera® and Microsoft®. The impacts of "Oneness" integration for your employees is simplicity in usage, immediate interaction, no reproduction errors and eliminating hundreds of man hours in maintaining multiple systems. Connect project estimates and schedules together for live cost changes, keeping projects on budget and on time with our scheduling software. Making changes to a schedule automatically modifies the cost estimates in real-time, allowing instant assessment of how time affects costs. Estimates and schedules are in-sync throughout the project, saving calculation time, and increasing project accuracy.

Cost Escalation Over the Length of a Project

Accounting Integration

Collect and store timesheet data from jobsites, while sharing data electronically with accounting systems to eliminate double entry. Maintain time sheet standards with labor classifications, and other user defined tags. Import timesheet data from third-party systems or to any accounting system. Record notes for each cost item including assumptions, jobsite observations, and more. Increase communication for issues that include staging and additional information to the field operators. Provides crew based timesheets with pre-defined data streamlining foreman or supervisor completion.

Organizations use Hard Dollar to reduce the time it takes to build accurate estimates by 300%, increasing cost accuracy, speeding up customer response times, reducing administrative expenses, mitigating risk and improving profit margins.