Mastering your money: How to unleash the power of Cost Inbox

Zach Wojtowicz:

Welcome to another episode of “The Building Code.” I’m Zach Wojtowicz.

Charley Burtwistle:

And I’m Charley Burtwistle.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Are we always going to say our names? We might need to switch it up.

Charley Burtwistle:

I think I’ve said your name before. Actually, I know I did. I just watched the episode, and then I said, being Zach Wojtowicz would be my worst nightmare.

Zach Wojtowicz:

It’s almost like we’re trying to be like, no, we’re still the host.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah. Well, I don’t know if we ever officially removed our interim titles. I think we’re just permanent interim hosts.

Zach Wojtowicz:

I hope not. That’d be really great.

Charley Burtwistle:

Today is my sister’s birthday.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Oh my gosh.

Charley Burtwistle:

So, happy birthday, Samantha.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Huge shout-out. Happy birthday, Samantha.

Charley Burtwistle:

It’s funny because I guess technically today is not my sister’s birthday when we’re recording this, but it will go live on my sister’s birthday.

Zach Wojtowicz:

We’re getting real meta on the intro on this podcast.

Charley Burtwistle:

And if there’s any other Samanthas listening whose birthday happens to be today, happy birthday to you guys, too.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Hit us up on Twitter if you’re Samantha and it’s your birthday.

Charley Burtwistle:

No doubt, Zach. Mr. Social Media says hit us up on Twitter. That’s enough fun. Let’s get into the business today.

Zach Wojtowicz:

What do you mean? “The Building Code’s” always fun. Tell us who we have on the podcast, Charley.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah, you just skipped over what I was going to say. Today we have Amanda Geer who was recently at a Buildertrend University, and this happens every now and then, rarely. Our Marketing team or one of the C-Suite people meet someone and is just blown away and says you guys have to have them on the podcast, they’re incredible. That happened with Amanda Geer. So, we are lucky. Zach and I and our listeners are lucky enough to meet her today because she made a big impact at Buildertrend University.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Yeah, she’s awesome. She’s an office administrator at Popularis Construction, and they’re based out of Massachusetts, which I’ve never been to. It’s on the bucket list. But we’re here to talk to her a little bit about her BTU experience, her business, a new feature that we’re rolling out, that I’m also very excited about. So, without further ado, let’s get Amanda in here. Hey Amanda, welcome to “The Building Code.” It’s great to have you here. First time on the podcast. How are you?

Amanda Geer:

I’m great. I’m super excited to be here. I can’t wait to dive in.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Love it, love it. First time on a podcast ever? I always like to ask people that.

Amanda Geer:

Yeah, never. I’ve never been on one before.

Charley Burtwistle:

Hey, a lot of big time podcasters got their start on “The Building Code,” so we like to think of ourselves as a jumping off platform here.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Don’t fact-check that one.

Amanda Geer:

 I’m launching my podcast career from here.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Yeah, we’re a well-known launchpad for a lot of successful podcasts. People don’t talk about that enough.

Charley Burtwistle:

So, Amanda, you were recently in Omaha at a Buildertrend University. Before you hopped on, people in the booth were just raving about you, that they got to know you here in Omaha. But for our listeners that were not fortunate enough to meet you, could you tell us a little bit about yourself, your role at Popularis and just kind of the company you work at?

Amanda Geer:

Yeah. So, obviously my name’s Amanda, we went over that already. I am the office administrator for Popularis Construction, and I’ve been here coming up on my second year now, which is very exciting. I’ve been with the company for two years, and I have a background with finance, I have a degree in finance, and I deal with all of the payments for our AP and all of our subcontractors and all that, kind of keep that going on our end.

Charley Burtwistle:

Awesome. And then Popularis, I was clicking around on your website a little bit. It sounds like you guys kind of dip your toe in a few different areas. Can you tell us a little overview of the company?

Amanda Geer:

Yeah. We do large scale renovations, and we do some commercial tenant fit-outs. So, some of our bigger projects that we’ve done are some higher-end kitchen renovations, bathrooms, master bathrooms. We’ve done additions. We just finished our first new home build this last couple months. So, we’ve kind of touched our toes in a little bit of different areas there.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah, that’s awesome. I mean, the work on your guys’ website looks incredible.

Amanda Geer:

Thank you. They do a really good job.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah. I’m currently going through the home buying, selling process, so I’ve been looking at a ton of homes. So, I am slowly and surely training my eye to spot good work.

Zach Wojtowicz:

It’s what we’ve learned from our guests on “The Building Code.” We’re turning Charley into quite the, you know, the designer’s eye is coming out.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Can’t wait to see the pics of his house.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah, absolutely. So, like I mentioned earlier, you’re here in Omaha for Buildertrend University. How was that experience?

Amanda Geer:

It was so much better than I thought it was going to be.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Well, I want to unpack that.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah, no kidding.

Amanda Geer:

Well, I’ve never even been on a business trip before or gone to conferences like that, so that was something new for me. I wasn’t sure really what to expect, but it was just a lot more fun and a very engaging environment than I could have expected. I learned a lot. I thought I knew a lot, and I learned even more than I thought I knew. And learned different ways to use the program that other people have used it, and that was huge for me, just to learn different ways to use the same things that I do.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Love that. We put on a good show for sure and people always come around with, “I’m a Buildertrend super user.” I’m like, all right, game on. Here we go. Let’s see what you really know. That’s amazing that you said that. I always like to ask people that are like, is it because it’s Omaha? Boston’s nearby, I’m going to Nebraska. We always exceed expectations in …

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah, it’s a classic under promise, over deliver.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Exactly. Yeah. I’d rather be in that territory. What was your favorite thing that you learned while you were here at BTU?

Amanda Geer:

Well, I didn’t come from a background of construction before I worked here, so learning the takeoff software was something that I found really interesting. That was huge. And to see that it was so user-friendly that even I could do it was even better.

Charley Burtwistle:

There might be a tagline in there somewhere saying, “So user-friendly, Amanda could do it.”

Zach Wojtowicz:

Yeah. Buildertrend Takeoff, so easy even Amanda Geer could do it.

Charley Burtwistle:

The other really cool thing that I saw in our notes here is you were part of the customer round table. That is a fairly new …

Zach Wojtowicz:

Yeah, we haven’t always done it.

Charley Burtwistle:

That’s been, I feel like three or four iterations of it now. Zach and I, you’re not in it, are you?

Zach Wojtowicz:

They won’t invite me, which is like …

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah, I was going to say.

Zach Wojtowicz:

My team puts it on and they’re like, you can’t come.

Charley Burtwistle:

I was going to say Zach and I aren’t important enough to get the invite, but I wanted to double check with Zach because sometimes he is. But it’s essentially kind of taking the best and brightest industry professionals, bringing them into our boardroom with founders, our C-suite, our executives and just allowing them to, like it sounds like, have a roundtable discussion around what’s happening in the industry. Well, I’m stealing your thunder. Sorry. What was the round table experience for you and could you tell our listeners a little bit about what transpired?

Amanda Geer:

Yeah. Like you said, we got to sit around in that conference room with all those higher-ups. You never think of a company really listening like that with people that are in those top roles. Being able to sit down, talk about what we really liked about the software, what we could see changing and even giving some suggestions was really cool. I never would’ve thought, and that was I guess one of the best things I even thought about the BTU was that they were actually listening and talking back with us like, oh, that’s a really good idea, we could do this. There’s a lot of different suggestions that came. There was five of us, I believe. There was five of us that were from BTU that were in there, and some of us were having the same issues, and we went back and forth with how we could do that a different way and with the higher-ups, too. So, that was a really cool experience.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Yeah, that’s awesome. Yeah, that’s why they don’t invite us. They’re like, Charley and Zach have too many ideas. We need them to just calm down. We haven’t been doing that for too long, but I think it actually came from a customer suggestion that they get a chance to talk up, and they went for it and yeah, I love it. I’m on the customer success team, so my life is spending talking to customers, and I think it’s more powerful when it comes from the customer directly and so, the more people that hear it, the bigger the impact. It just really helps you humanize the feedback as opposed to it just being kind of in a sea of feedback, so to speak.

Amanda Geer:

Right. Coming in reports, things like that. Yep.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah, I was just going to say, so my background is in data science and in open text fields and stuff like that, we’ll go through thousands and tens of thousands of feedback and present it to people time to time. Seeing a chart saying this is what we should do and what we should change versus hearing it from someone for real is just drastically different. That’s something Zach and I talked about, we committed to as a company a couple years ago, and our CEO started it as like we are 100% focusing on the customer moving forward, and I feel like the round table’s a cool opportunity to learn from the people actually using the product.

Zach Wojtowicz:

So, you guys have been Buildertrend customers since 2018?

Amanda Geer:

Yeah. Yep. Roughly, yep.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Yeah. What’s been your evolution of a business with Buildertrend? What were you like before? I know you’ve only been there about a year, but you probably hear, I call them war stories, the old days to where you are now.

Charley Burtwistle:

Oh, a lot of it was all spreadsheets before.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Excel, baby. The amount of things that people run off Excel. I’m like, Excel runs this country. It’s kind of impressive. Not to plug Microsoft, they got enough money.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah. No free shout-outs. We’ll cut that.

Amanda Geer:

There’s a lot you can do. Google Sheets, too. There’s a lot you can do.

Zach Wojtowicz:

I know. Finance gal.

Amanda Geer:

Yup.

Zach Wojtowicz:

You’ve probably got some amazing spreadsheets.

Amanda Geer:

Learning some coding things in there.

Charley Burtwistle:

Wow.

Amanda Geer:

To make things move around. But yeah, no, we were doing a lot of internal storage for everything. And now when they started using Buildertrend, we integrated over there, we have our QuickBooks integration, we have our file structure and ever since coming back from BTU we’re moving to use even more of it, like the specifications and things like that where it’s changed so much even in my two years being here, that I’ve seen so much growth that it’s made my job even easier.

Zach Wojtowicz:

That was going to be my follow-up. How do you quantify what it has helped you with? So, has it saved you time, is it money, is it everything? How do you guys look at Buildertrend the software and translate that into what I call value?

Amanda Geer:

Well, it’s saved a lot, specifically time. When it comes to inputting receipts, when it comes to inputting purchase orders or even just an invoice for clients, instead of having to wait for a check to come in. Most of our clients are all using the ACH method of making those payments online. It’s very rare we see a check now, so now we’re not having to wait as long and waiting for a check to have to clear into the bank. That cuts time out of the week. Or even having to wait for that bill to come in. Or same thing with some of our subcontractor payments. We can link all those up and reconcile our stuff a lot easier with QuickBooks and know when something was paid. It cuts a lot of time out from beginning to end. So, that’s my huge value I’ve seen in it.

Zach Wojtowicz:

I love it. I’m fired up.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah, I am, too. The ACH payment, specifically, I am currently waiting on a check to come in the mail for an insurance claim and every day that I check the mailbox and it’s not there, it just drives me insane.

Zach Wojtowicz:

You don’t want to see Charley when he is cranky. He gets real diva-y on the set.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah. I mean, I think in the next five to 10 years, we need to eliminate the concept of checks completely and everything should have a receipt.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Everything’s in crypto, bro.

Charley Burtwistle:

I don’t know about that.

Amanda Geer:

It’s moving that way.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Yeah, right.

Charley Burtwistle:

You’ve mentioned a few new features you guys are adopting, which is awesome to hear. Zach and I always like learning about the evolution of – because people can use Buildertrend for 10 years and roll out something new yesterday. Right?

Zach Wojtowicz:

Yeah. It’s your story. It’s really cool to see how these companies blossom and really, really successful businesses from very humble beginnings.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah, absolutely. And I know a couple of the new features that you’re using that we want to talk more about because they’re new features for Buildertrend in general is the Cost Inbox feature and the OCR receipt management stuff. Could you give a high-level overview for our customers that maybe haven’t adopted that, what it is and how you’re using it?

Amanda Geer:

So, it’s been my favorite feature because trying to chase down receipts has been not fun. So, the best way I guess I could explain it is the cost inbox is somewhere where you can take your mobile app on your phone or your tablet, go into your Buildertrend app, upload a receipt that you’ve taken, like from Home Depot, and it’s going to scan all of those line items that are on there. Use that AI technology and put it all into a folder there with a picture of the, not a folder, a file, sorry, with a picture of that receipt and you’re able to then go in and code it. It’s been a super great feature and to talk a little bit more about it, time-wise that’s been the thing I’ve seen cut down a lot of time for us in having to not manually type things in. So, I totally got off-topic there. I apologize.

Zach Wojtowicz:

No, no.

Amanda Geer:

It’s an amazing feature and I could not talk more highly of it.

Zach Wojtowicz:

I’m super psyched. So, I traveled full-time for Buildertrend two years, Amanda. So, I would go to people’s offices, trained them on Buildertrend, and I was always just blown away at the receipt chasing game. I mean, it didn’t matter where you’re at in the country. Everybody had that pain point. Bookkeepers chasing project managers, project managers chasing subs. It’s just so much effort on the paper trail stuff. So, I love hearing that you are loving it. I knew people would, if we could solve that problem, right? Because it was just like a sore thumb. But it’s also great that it’s going to be available to all of our customers because I just know it’s something that’s very easy to set up and use.

Amanda Geer:

Yep. It’s super easy. We have very few issues with it.

Zach Wojtowicz:

When stuff just works and it solves a problem, it just makes you feel good.

Amanda Geer:

Yeah. We’ve been using it since when it first came into testing, so being able to see the changes that it’s made even from that testing feature and see how much easier it’s even gotten is huge.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Did you get to give feedback, too?

Amanda Geer:

Yes, I did give feedback. Yep.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Love it. And did we change anything based off your feedback?

Amanda Geer:

I can’t remember. I gave more feedback recently when I spoke with Lauren, and I can’t remember if anything else came through, but either way it’s still an amazing, amazing thing that I’ve been able to use as a tool. Yeah.

Charley Burtwistle:

Just real quick, a fun little backstory about the receipt capture and the OCR technology for taking the picture. That was actually – Buildertrend does this thing called a hackathon every year, which is just a 24-to-48-hour window where anyone in the company can participate. They take time off work and pretty much lock themselves in a room and build something cool. And then they present to the whole company and the founders in the C-suite their idea and give it a little demo. And a couple years ago, someone built the, hey, you can take a picture of the receipt, this OCR technology reads it, beams into Buildertrend. And we’re all sitting in the crowd. We’re like, what? It’s one of those, it seems magic, right? It seems too good to be true. And I was also participating in Hackathon that year and I was pissed off because I thought my idea was really cool, too, but what are you going to do?

Zach Wojtowicz:

I got best sales pitch.

Charley Burtwistle:

Nice.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Which is the most participation trophy award of all time. You are really good at selling, but yeah, we’re not doing your idea.

Charley Burtwistle:

Well, yeah. Our idea that year was the search bar, which did eventually get rolled out.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Oh, look at you taking the victory lap.

Amanda Geer:

Hey, the search bar is still a really cool feature.

Zach Wojtowicz:

It is.

Charley Burtwistle:

Anyway, the OCR stuff is really, really cool. So, after the receipts get uploaded, you mentioned it goes into Buildertrend. Do you actually then, you mentioned you’re saying for the QuickBooks. Are you able to pull those line items in and spend stuff out, or what’s the next step after you get the receipt capture?

Amanda Geer:

So, once the receipt capture comes in, I go in, and I comment to our project managers that they need to go in and put their codes on there. From there we’ll take it and enter it as a bill, if it’s against the job that it’s supposed to be on. Now that it’s already coded, it’s going to hit there. If it’s a credit card receipt, I’m not going to sync that over to QuickBooks just because that gets a little messy, but I just match them up at the same time. And then if it’s an invoice that we got, I’m going to upload that as a bill, and that one I will sync over to QuickBooks because it’s going to be an accounts payable transaction. Because my hands are in it, once it’s been received into the Cost Inbox, it’s all on me after I’ve got my coding.

Charley Burtwistle:

Heck yeah. I’m getting some finance 101 here. I’ll take some notes down.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Yeah. Yeah. I mean that’s what I learned on the road. It’s an art form as much as it is a quantitative. There’s so many things to consider. Everybody’s got a little different process, too. That’s kind of what’s fun is people kind of handle it in their own way, but then the software can make everybody’s easier better, which this was a huge missing piece. I always just felt the palpable sense from our finance friends when you saw that they’re like, my weekends, my evenings, I could be done with reconciling in a day, not two weeks. It’s just all that stuff. And that’s what makes businesses run. It’s critical. So, love it.

Amanda Geer:

Yeah. When you talked about reconciling, I will say I normally have a list of receipts I’m missing, and it’s drastically dropped with this because it’s just all going into one place. It’s amazing. My field crew missing some receipts, that’s happened. It happens sometimes, but having that feature, they do it right then and there. We have no issues anymore. It’s amazing.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Yeah. It’s still humans having to get the receipts to the right spot. It’s just in a lot more scalable way, too.

Amanda Geer:

Yes. And it’s a lot easier. You’re not having to worry about keeping track of that receipt anymore once you’ve taken that picture and sent it up. It’s great.

Charley Burtwistle:

Another thing that I think is unique about your guys’ process, maybe, I guess you can tell me, is that you actually have all your subcontractors work with you through Buildertrend as well, too. So, when you’re talking about receipt chasing down, I know that was a pain point that Zach mentioned. How do you go about getting them on board with using the software and collaborating with you guys to streamline that communication and storage and receipt management?

Amanda Geer:

We don’t really give them a choice. The ones we’ve gotten online and using this with us, we want it to be the most organized as possible in using it. That’s I guess our big selling point is that this is going to keep everything in one place. You’ve got all your signatures here, this is why we’re going to use it, and then you don’t have to worry about something being missed. Our subcontractors can control sending in their insurance information. They can do a lot from there, but now they don’t even have to be signed in anymore, which was great. That was a big selling point, too, because not everybody wanted to sign up for something. So, even just being able to participate without signing up has been a huge tool in getting them to do it.

Zach Wojtowicz:

So, how often are you bringing on new subs? [inaudible 00:22:01] the subs you’re using the same crews pretty consistently?

Amanda Geer:

It’s kind of a mix. Consistently right now we’re using a lot of the same ones at the moment, but if we found somebody that we really want to work with, we’ll bring them on, do our whole process with requesting their certificates and everything and introducing them to Buildertrend if they’ve never been introduced to it before.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Yeah, that’s kind of what I was going to ask. So, you guys have an onboarding kind of plan, you show them a little bit of the platform, here’s how you’re going to get paid, here’s how you request payment sort of process.

Amanda Geer:

Yeah, so I have a whole email templated out …

Zach Wojtowicz:

Oh, nice.

Amanda Geer:

… that talks about this is how we get our bids submitted and things like that and then what our payment terms are. And then we also send them out that Buildertrend invite email right from the get go when we first create their profile within Buildertrend and let them know to look out for it because there’s going to be some information there for them to want to review.

Charley Burtwistle:

I would actually, maybe after this interview, I’d love to see that email that you send out onboarding them. I think that’s an area that we’re constantly thinking about at Buildertrend is our customer success team, incredible under the dictatorship that is Zach Wojtowicz over there, but they’re great …

Zach Wojtowicz:

Don’t get them on the pod. They’ll be like, ugh.

Charley Burtwistle:

… at training our customers, but the part that we struggle with is our customers also have to train their employees, their subcontractors, any new hire they have. So, how do you take the awesome customer success machine that we have and kind of cascade that knowledge down to everyone that needs to use Buildertrend? We should definitely talk about that after this. But I think the last question I have for you is you guys are clearly very I’d say motivated, and I don’t know the right word I want to use, but you seem to be continuing to push the boundaries of your current process and adopting new features and taking on new challenges. What kind of advice would you give to builders who are looking for a better way to manage their financial processes, maybe aren’t using some of the financial features in Buildertrend or are scared of the Cost Inbox, and what are the hurdles that you’ve jumped over that you would give new users advice for how to get going?

Amanda Geer:

So I guess my best advice would be not be afraid to do it. It’s a lot of learning, but it’s also, we go back to it being user-friendly. Like I said before, I never had any experience with any kind of software like this before. I’ve had finance experience, but not with construction or any of that kind of stuff. So, coming into using all of this, it’s not as hard as it looks. Take the classes that you guys have on here to learn the software and learn how to use it and just do it because if you don’t do it, A, you’re going to regret it and you’re going to be a lot more unorganized. I guess, yeah, the best way to say is just do it. You’re going to have to jump in feet first.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Just do it. Another great slogan that you should …

Charley Burtwistle:

Maybe we avoid that one.

Amanda Geer:

I would not copyright it.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Yeah. I think it’s really hard for new users to see that vision. Would you say even before you came that your company had the same fortitude or did it take some time? Did it take someone with …

Charley Burtwistle:

Fortitude. That’s the word I was looking for.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Fortitude? Came back to you.

Charley Burtwistle:

That’s the specific word I was …

Zach Wojtowicz:

That’s why you have two hosts of “The Building Code.” We pick each other up. Um …

Amanda Geer:

I would def …

Zach Wojtowicz:

Go ahead. Sorry.

Amanda Geer:

No, you’re fine. I would definitely say it took a little time and we’re always learning and learning more things that we can do to make our processes better and having that software there makes it even easier.

Charley Burtwistle:

Well, I think Buildertrend will continue to roll out new features over the course of this year and so, we’ll have to have you on next year after you adopt another new feature, and we’ll go through this whole thing again. But we’re actually perfectly at time, 25 minutes right on the head. Thank you so much, Amanda, for coming on today. I’m glad I got a chance to meet you. You lived up to the hype of what everyone was telling us before you hopped on, so really appreciate the time.

Amanda Geer:

Well, thank you. Thank you, guys, for having me. I appreciate it.

Zach Wojtowicz:

All right, Mr. Burtwistle, as is tradition here on “The Building Code,” what is your live reaction?

Charley Burtwistle:

Live reaction. That was great. Amanda lived up to the hype for sure. I always enjoy this because I am not, in my day to day here at Buildertrend, as in the weeds with the new features that we’re rolling out. I’m either involved very, very early kind of at the idea conception or very, very late at like, “Okay, how’s this performing?” Cost inbox was not one that I was involved in the front end, and it hasn’t been out long enough for me to be involved in it in the backend. So, it’s one of those terms I just keep hearing around the office. It’s like, oh, cost in cost inbox.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Cost inbox.

Charley Burtwistle:

Cost inbox. Cost inbox.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Whispers in the halls.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah. So, I saw it on the questions today and I got fired up because I’m like, okay, I’m finally going to be able to hear …

Zach Wojtowicz:

You’re going to learn about it.

Charley Burtwistle:

… what this is. And then I was scared to ask the question because I wanted to make sure I didn’t sound like an idiot. Did I seem like I knew what I was talking about?

Zach Wojtowicz:

I’ll be nice. You sounded so great.

Charley Burtwistle:

Well, luckily we had an expert in Amanda here to explain it to us. And yeah, obviously, it solves a huge pain point. I’m always super intrigued to hear how people are using Buildertrend because like you said, everyone uses it a little bit differently. I feel like we need to have a Buildertrend Olympics and people can apply to come to HQ and show off their Buildertrend skills.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Throw down the gauntlet, like the hackathon idea that you mentioned.

Charley Burtwistle:

Exactly, but for Buildertrend users.

Zach Wojtowicz:

But for Buildertrend users.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah.

Zach Wojtowicz:

It’s actually kind of a brilliant idea.

Charley Burtwistle:

Because I’m sure people use it a million different ways. And you have custom fields in there, and you can set up all your own automations and reports and stuff.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Like a Buildertrend builder crossover hackathon where they pair with a team. I love when great ideas are born here on “The Building Code.”

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah, this isn’t a bad idea. Let’s talk about this more after that. But Amanda was great. Popularis Construction sounds incredible. They’re, obviously, a ton of fortitude, diving headfirst into new features, new processes, and kind of leading the charge. So, I would say if you’re listening to this, and you think that you have good ideas or you really, really like your processes, or you think that there’s things that Buildertrend could be doing better, call your coach, ask to talk to Zach Wojtowicz, come to Buildertrend University, ask to be on the customer round table. We’re always listening and we want to partner with our customers to make the product as good as it can be.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Teamwork makes the dream work.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yes.

Zach Wojtowicz:

And just a little fun aside, this is out for all customers already, so you should have access to it, assuming you’re on the Advanced or Complete package. It is one of those things that in construction is just a huge pain point. The paper trails are long and tedious endeavors, but it’s totally worth what you get in return. The whole experience end to end just really makes everything connect, and if people are getting paid, they’re happy. If your cash flow’s tight, you’re happy. Everything just works better with the books and the finances are humming along and the easier it is, the better your business is running. And a lot of times that translates into growth and success.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yes. And also on a personal note, I’m currently waiting for a check from my insurance company.

Zach Wojtowicz:

You mentioned that.

Charley Burtwistle:

I’m waiting for a bill from my roofing company, and I’m waiting for a bill from my retaining wall company.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Yeah. Your cash flow’s looking weak.

Charley Burtwistle:

Yeah, it is. Well, I couldn’t even …

Zach Wojtowicz:

Somebody get this guy the cost inbox.

Charley Burtwistle:

I couldn’t even tell you what it is because I don’t have any of those things. I’m going to have to wait for them to come in the mail.

Zach Wojtowicz:

Yeah, true, true.

Charley Burtwistle:

So, pain point for your customers as well, too, if you’re a GC listening to this. Gosh, this outro’s going on forever. What else do you want to talk about?

Zach Wojtowicz:

It sounds like it’s time to wrap it up.

Charley Burtwistle:

All right, Zach, let’s wrap it up. As always, I am Charley Burtwistle.

Zach Wojtowicz:

I’m Zach Wojtowicz.

Charley Burtwistle:

And make sure you like, review and subscribe. That would really mean a lot to us.

Zach Wojtowicz:

It really would.