Premier Reviews

Quickly generating Change Orders, POs for all projects and the ability for the software to handle RFIs, Submittals and Transmittals for US Government projects kept systems organized well.

During the original set up, the tutorials and training were very well done.

Having an option for internal payroll through Jonas would be a helpful option.

We really love the ability to automate several functions of the project management duties. Before, we were keeping a variety of spreadsheets updated manually to track certain functions, sometimes touching the same information multiple times. Now, we input the data into Premier once, and we're able to report on the financial data, for example, multiple ways with just a few clicks.

We'd like to see them enhance their accounting system specialties, such as partnering with a payroll processing company and an employee expense tracking solution (such as Concur) to streamline both payroll and tracking of credit card expenses. Having these functions automated as part of the Premier package would really help out!

We enjoy the scalability and functionality of Jonas. As a small business, it allows us to function at a much larger scale with less woman-power.

Previous to using Jonas, we were doing most business functions manually, such as AP, AR, and Subcontracts. In the last year, we have been able to integrate these processes into Jonas which has improved workflow tremendously! We love the reporting options we have and how we can get real-time​ information without having to search through a bunch of emails and hard files.

The release of the Sub Pay App has been heaven sent for us! It has eliminated all confusion on contract amounts, approved change orders, and our subcontractors submitting various different invoice formats at various different times in the month. Our subs find the process easy to use and our admins get all the information they need with one click. ​

We have noticed in working in certain areas that even after saving and refreshing the tabs, we will have to completely log out and log back in to see changes.

It is also very difficult to correct/delete certain things after they have been processed. We understand this is to protect the integrity of our data, however,​ there have been times when we would have liked to override/remove items for our own ease of use. ​

1) The software is very user-friendly, the upgrades are very useful and the support is good.
2) Cloud Based - can be accessed from any where.
3) The development team does listen to recommendations for software use and tries
to develop and implement those suggestions.

1) We had a very difficult startup and implementation period. Our recommendation would be to someone looking into the software - Once you go through the group training, there should be one on one training to custom the software to the individual organization's needs. We were rushed through the training and right into one-on-one. We did not have enough time to convert the information from our old system in order to know what questions to ask.
2 ) We have issues with the software rounding, so reports and invoices are out of balance by pennies.
3 ) Could not use the mobile app - The APP does not work for Daily Reports

The software is web based which makes set up/maintenance a breeze. It's intuitive and flexible which makes day to day tasks much easier. We reviewed multiple options, but Jonas was the one best suited to our needs.

Reports. The boxed reports are great, but don't always provide what we need so we build a lot of custom reports with the Excel-Add-In. The issue with that is that not all the fields in the database are available in the data downloads which often results in having to link several sheets in order to get the information we require.

The software has very robust workflow routing capabilities and can help companies transition to a paperless workflow approval process. Controls within Jonas are strong and there is a lot of ability to customize what each of the users can and cannot do in the system.
The implementation team is very helpful and responsive to questions/concerns. They work hard to address issues encountered and have helped to ensure that the transition process goes smoothly as possible.

The software is mainly geared to sub-contractors and not real estate developers. As such, Jonas currently lacks some capabilities which cater to developers (e.g. currently the Change Order report only looks at changes from the revenue perspective as opposed to the cost perspective). However, Jonas is working on addressing these issues.
Navigation within the system can be improved to increase efficiencies (e.g. being able to select multiple invoices within a batch to approve as opposed to doing one by one if you don't want to approve the whole batch, or not being constantly asked whether you want to save changes while you're still scrolling within the same module). Also, sometimes there are bugs in the system (e.g. not reflecting the changes that were made) but most of these can be resolved quickly by logging in and out of the system.

The newly released Premier is very responsive; crisp and quick, with drill down capability throughout. We have yet to fully use the capabilities of the software.

Although all of the data is accessible via Odata and can be formatted and reported in unlimited ways, I'd like a few additional canned reports.

I like the job dashboard, and was surprised to learn I can create a company budget which will be really useful for corporate to prepare and compare against budgets without having to utilize the project modules

The program really needs a report to summarize revenue by client and the number of projects or even number of transactions. I would really like to see year over year, revenue by client, what the average revenue is per project and how many projects or transactions happen. Is this an active client, a big one with lot's of little jobs or a few big ones, etc. The same could apply for vendors. Employee reports could be improved. It is difficult to quickly see rolled up time for an employee or series of employee per projects with hour and dollar value totals. Project labour reports could be improved with getting total hours without having to export to excell

Very intuitive and easy to use with nice features

The Excel Add-In doesn't currently have all of the SQL tables available so it is sometimes hard to get to some of the data without doing Excel dumps directly from out of the application

The like the Job Dashboard very much. It gives you a quick view of your job to see the progress and status of each stage. Also I really like the Estimate upload feature because it makes creating subcontracts, purchase orders and change orders with a simple click of few buttons. Also the AIA Progress Billing process and T&M Billing process is very easy. Again with a click of a few buttons the AIAs and AR invoices are created with all supporting documentation attached and tied back to subcontracts or purchase orders. Also if AP or AR invoices need to be reverse the process is very simple again with the click of a few buttons.

I found the company logo upload was not as easy and it should have been. There is no way to really edit the existing company logo. Also the check formatting has been a challenge getting it to line up correctly. So over all the forms creation is very time consuming and not an easy as it should be. Also setting up role security for users is not as simple.

The reports in Premier are amazing and very easy to use/understand. It's so easy to access information by vendors, by project, by account! They have drill down features on their reports as well which makes it easy to keep track of where you are with a project. I also really love the Job Dashboard. This dashboard allows me to keep track of compliances, retainage and AP for my job.

We initially did struggle to bring over some of our information per project. It would be nice to be able to easily adjust opening invoices.

We have a fairly complicated structure for a real estate company with different subsidiaries using different cost structures and revenue types. Premier was able to adapt the software for our business fairly easily. Having just past the year mark, it is functioning very well for our business.

Nothing that I have found yet. Despite using it for over a year, I still feel like we are only using a small percentage of its capabilities.

Being able to see where each project stands for cash flow

Some of the year end financial reports are not liked by our accountant.

Great Value and Great Customer Service when the software doesn't process data the way intuition would dictate.

Seems I'm always uncovering "bugs" or situations that require creative work-a-rounds.

Easy to use. Good reporting system. Good AP system.

That you can't copy vendor information between projects. It would be nice to be able to enter the vendor once and then assign it to a project or projects.

The intuitive nature of the software is incredible. The menu is lined up in logical order making completing unfamiliar tasks easy to learn. From handling compliances to managing AR and AP, Jonas Premier really helps solve problematic issues in job costing and keeping up with the details critical to success.

The field management. It would be nice to see an access point of the dashboard into an app field managers could use. Also, having the ability to assign punch items from multiple jobs to laborers with alerts for due dates and completion alerts back to the pm would be a wonderful feature. Out of all Premier offers, the field management has the room for most improvement.

The Jonas Premier Software is allowing us to pull the two key functions of our business together, the Project Management and the Accounting. Running a successful project involves two areas for a Project manager, good coordination and solid financial oversight. Jonas Premier is bringing these two functions together for us.

Perhaps an estimating feature which would eliminate the need to push the estimate template into Jonas.

I love that everything is on one platform, tech support/customer support is AMAZING! The job dashboard is very easy to navigate for Po's and CO's. This system has improved level of accuracy, and time when entering data in AP. I am still learning how to run payments and entering daily reports but both modules have increased our efficiency.

I have no issues with Jonas, just with my extensions.

I have used this software for awhile now, and I can say it it very easy to use, and whenever I had problems, the customer service solved it.

Everything is good so far, there were some problem at the beginning, but that might not be the software's problem, and the few bugs have been fixed already.

functionality, reporting & analysis, ease of use, mobility, clean interface, no capital expenditure or maintenance

lacks email function to send reports directly to others, tax module and real property management module

The product is fairly straight forward and easy to use. The support staff is very knowledgeable and works in a timely fashion

Still working through some bugs with the rollout of the newest release, but the support team is on top of things to help them get resolved quickly

Has significant reporting and job costings benifits for small to medium builders. Intersgrates well with Microsoft Power BI software to make reporting easier to present. It's been great to have all contract and variations in the one place.

Can be a little difficult at first to get your head around, and some clunky aspects to processes having to move through several screens to process AP and AR invocies.

Very easy to use once you get acclimated to it - I had a hard time switching from IE to the cloud but I'm getting the hang of it !

I'm working on those.Using the cloud tends to make it a bit slower when adding info - I'm used to Internet Explorer and zipping thru but I'll get it ! Thanks to Team - the absolute best and MOST patient team EVER!

Accounting and purchasing all in one system. Broad range of features. Cloud-based system makes for accessibility from anywhere. Able to setup users with various role securities. Awesome training and implementation team, and customer service all around is prompt and responsive.

A pro and also a con is that they build out all modules themselves instead of integrating with other technologies. Sometimes this leads to modules that aren't quite as sophisticated, however they are consistently providing updates and improvements on a regular basis to better these features.

Jonas Premier allows our team to be able to have a single entry solution that allows for complete transparency and know the immediate impact to our bottom line, all while knowing exactly what is our job cost for every project. The increase in efficiency and accountability is palpable. We had attempted to implement other software in the past like Corecon and Sage 300 (Timberline); Jonas Premier is leaps and bounds ahead.

Previously we had been using Sage 50 and Excel spreadsheets to manage our accounting and job costing. Learning Jonas Premier required us to gain another skillset. Our team is stronger because of this experience and we look forward in growing our book of business without increasing our overhead.