Exploring Buildxact alternatives in Australia? Here’s an honest comparison with NextMinute.
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Short on time? Here’s the quick take on Buildxact vs NextMinute.
Switching from Buildxact? NextMinute’s mobile app goes beyond viewing jobs and site diaries. Manage quotes, invoices, timesheets, scheduling and more from your phone.
"It helps you stay organised, keeps you across your numbers and takes the pressure off. It’s one of the only tools I’ve used that actually suits how we work in construction."
Michael Higgins Constructions, New South Wales
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NextMinute helps keep your crew in the loop and up-to-date with what needs to be done.
Job Scheduling
The NextMinute app enables you and your crew to get your admin done anywhere, anytime on mobile or tablet.
Mobile App
Need to invoice part way through a project? NextMinute makes progress payments and claims super simple.
NextMinute Invoicing
Place supplier orders with a few clicks.
Set custom buy/sell rates for machinery and have your crew log the hours.
Create and send estimates or import take-offs from your QS/software.
Quoting Software for Trades
Easily import takeoffs from your software or quantity surveyor of choice.
Takeoff Imports
Easily add in job expenses to keep track of your actuals vs. estimates.
Expense Tracking
Easily communicate with your crew within the NextMinute app.
Your crew can easily view site plans – anywhere, any time.
NextMinute enables you to change your plan month-to-month depending on your crew size. You also get charged a much lower rate for crew members who only need a few features like timesheets and site notes.
NextMinute and Buildxact are popular job management software options for residential builders and tradies in Australia. Both cover core needs for small to mid-sized construction businesses, including job management, quoting, timesheets, invoicing and cost tracking.
Mobile app and day-to-day site work
NextMinute’s mobile app mirrors almost all desktop functionality (Gantt excluded), so your team can manage jobs and finances on the go, and record timesheets, notes and photos against tasks. Buildxact’s mobile app focuses on viewing jobs and entering site diaries.
Estimating and takeoffs
Buildxact stands out with built-in takeoff tools for precise estimating and quoting. NextMinute doesn’t include native takeoffs, but you can import takeoffs from other providers.
Pricing and fit
NextMinute offers flexible month-to-month pricing in line with business size and needs, making it a cost-effective option. Buildxact is strong for office-based estimating and planning, but it’s less suited to running day-to-day site operations compared with NextMinute’s field-ready app.
Designed specifically for builders with 3-30 crew members. Flexible pricing means you pay only for what you require with a simple split between admin staff and team members.
All your team’s timesheets in one place. Job hours flow straight onto the job invoice and straight through to payroll at the click of a button. Simple and inexpensive, as timesheeting is included in the team member role.
Our product, support, and development are based on what our customers require to make their business management simple.
Starting with a single Admin membership, you can build your team (and pricing) to exactly what suits your business needs.
Full integration with Xero, QuickBooks, and MYOB allows you to sync contacts, timesheets to payroll, invoices, and supplier bills with their line items into NextMinute jobs.
Supported by local specialists who know trade business like the back of their hand.. Read our reviews on how first class our support is, no bots, just real people ready to work WITH you.
Full visibility of all jobs in one place with filters and different views.
To manage a residential construction business and team (beyond simply quoting), Buildxact requires either the Pro or Team membership, effectively locking every user into a higher price point regardless of what features they need.
To record your team's time and apply it to your jobs, you need to purchase a separate expensive system. More cost, another system, more hassle.
Either an expensive quoting-only system or you need to have your entire team signed up as “all-access” users. To limit control of your team members you need to pay even more.
The ‘Entry’ tier has a limited number of features and is double the price of a full access NextMinute admin membership. The Team tier locks all users at a single and high price point making it inflexible.
Limited integration to accounting systems, with no bills import from Xero. Supplier bill integration is also very limited because you cannot push line items into individual jobs.
As per their support page and Google reviews, support is not “people first” as you may have to wait some time to get any response at all.
No simple way to see all your jobs in one place
Pricing
Comparing NextMinute (1 Admin and 5 Team users) against Buildxact Pro (6 users).
Full-featured mobile app
Run your projects from your phone
Job Management
All job information in one place, available anywhere – contacts, files, notes, photos etc
Job planning
Fully drag and drop gantt chart including multiple jobs
Timesheets
Easy to use timesheets with configurable rate cards
Payroll integration
Accounting system payroll integration and standard payroll extracts for other systems
Invoicing
Quick job invoicing for both fixed price and cost plus, integrated to accounting system
Supplier invoice integration
2-way supplier invoicing sync, match supplier invoices to jobs for accurate cost allocation
Detailed back costing
Job and stage level profitability analysis incorporating all material and labour costs
Reporting
Full reporting suite including live WIP report, job profitability and timesheet analysis
Customer Portal
Customer facing portal incorporating progress updates, invoices, variations and customer interactions
Quoting
Template driven job quoting and workflows
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Run the job from your phone. Create quotes and invoices, raise POs, track timesheets, add photos and notes, and see schedules while you’re on site. Buildxact’s app is mainly for viewing jobs and logging site diaries.
Yep. Connect to Xero or MYOB so contacts, invoices and payments stay in sync. Timesheets can flow through to payroll too, meaning less double handling for busy Aussie builders.
It does. Progress invoices and client variations are easy to track, with live actuals vs estimates so you can keep margins rock solid.
Not natively. If you estimate elsewhere (or use a QS), you can import takeoffs into NextMinute. Buildxact is strong on takeoffs and office estimating. Use whatever suits your workflow.
For running the job on site (scheduling, time capture, quotes, invoices and updates), NextMinute is built for crews on the tools. Buildxact is great for estimating and admin work back at the desk.
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