Sage Housebuilding powered by SiteStream product features

• Quickly and easily assemble acquisition appraisals
• Catalogue land bank opportunities at every point of the planning and development process
• Comparison of KPI’s helps to effectively allocate funds and confirm resource requirements at group or regional level
• Gain a better understanding of variances by monitoring post-approval changes and house builder site performance against initial budget
• Produce accurate reports on profit margins and cash requirements with cashflow, cost-to-complete and ongoing house building cost value reconciliation (CVR) reports
• Select the best solution by creating a flexible finance model
• Have early sight of cost overruns
• See the latest site positioning reflected through revenue projections based on actual sales progress and revised sales plans
• Produce detailed reports to the level of analysis needed

• Avoid cost overruns with in-depth project budgeting and variance analysis providing early warning
• Build progress and cashflow is recorded easily with comprehensive variance and budget analysis
• Take-offs are easily generated from standard item and component libraries that allow new items to be added for one-off projects
• Improve productivity through automatic purchase order creation and subcontractor and supplier payment
• Take control of the house building procurement process with on-site delivery reporting
• Integrated house builder cost value reconciliation (CVR) - cost/value comparison facility for undertaking budget to actual reports
• Automatically recalculate cost-to-complete with variances or revised prices
• Make the most of cost savings through the comparison of supplier rates from the price database
• Enabled to e-build XML requirements with direct links to your finance system

• Gauge performance against targets with in-depth automatic sales reports
• Match customer needs to available developments with the prospective buyer database
• Send targeted marketing mailings to prospective customers from the database’s integrated mail merge facility
• Create house builder marketing plans and forecasts from the analysis of sales trends
• Increase efficiency with automatic sales administration
• Use connected showhome, website and property portals to send all enquiries to the central database for analysis, follow-up and sales development

• Bring the showhome into the sales process with a web-based system
• Prevent task duplication by giving sales staff the ability to input enquiries, reservations and options on-site

• Easy-to-use web browser interface
• Link your website to external property portals with an integrated sales and marketing system
• Save time with automatic updates to your website, generated in real-time from your sales system
• Provide a secure, password-protected customer homepage to supply your customers with additional information including progress reports, photos, drawings, house manuals and FAQs

• Log and track customer complaints until they are resolved, keeping full plot and customer history
• Identify whether design, customer or workmanship related issues are at fault through the comprehensive reporting functionality
• Simple access to plot specification records allows quick and effective responses to customer problems
• Quickly and easily log customer calls with partial-key searches on name and address
• Automate the allocation of suitable subcontractors to issues as they are logged
• Easily maintain appointments using a central diary

• Manage house building financials with Sage ERP EVision, financial software for contractors and house builders, and built on Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV (Alternatively, can be used alongside other leading accounting systems)
• Control house building cashflow, general ledger, payables, receivables, fixed assets, inventory
• Multi-geographical, multi-currency and multi-company
• Manage the lifecycle of assets
• Ensure returns and retentions meet industry standards through payment routines and cumulative billing
• Control payments and receipts with automated payment scheduling, tracking and document approvals
• Easy revenue recognition and improved cashflow through client and/or project-specific billing

Drive business decision making with quick analysis of issues from many different perspectives. Uncover important trends, identify opportunities and proactively detect issues before they escalate, all inside an application that you already know – Microsoft Excel.

Monitor key indicators across multiple companies and currencies.

• See how expenses are trending over time across multiple companies, departments and locations
• Monitor the value of assets across multiple companies and currencies

Spot trends and changes in your customers’ buying patterns. Adapt your offering to changing customer needs.

• Gain sight of which product numbers, categories or groups are generating the highest gross margin
• See which customer has the highest (or lowest) sales, gross margin amount, or gross margin percentage
• Observe existing trends in average sales price (by item, customer, salesperson, country or more)

Analyse inventory turns, quantity and values to ensure maximum efficiency

• See whether inventory turns are increasing or decreasing at different locations
• Monitor seasonal fluctuations by product, category, or location

Empower site teams with the ability to control and monitor all aspects of the build, with instant access to operational data in the back-office Sage Housebuilding system.

Site teams are provided with the necessary tools and information to control all aspects of the build, directly from an easy-to-use web-based plot management tool

• Review and allocating suppliers
• Notify internal and external contacts on project updates
• Issue text, email or fax directly from site
• Provide site team with detailed job, client and progress information

Centralise supplier and contract management information to plan and manage resource more effectively

• Verification of milestones and progress ensures resource is used efficiently
• Easy tracking of subcontractor and supplier performance
• Provide critical information for future negotiations

Enable central control of how policies and procedures are followed on site and generate consistent progress updates

• Manage construction processes
• Set priorities, task dependencies and supplier and contractor selection
• Provide one view of the project directly from site