Optional Features

The below list of features can be added to your BCS software to enhance your business and user experience.

These additional features have been designed to positively impact the types of projects you work on, provide greater efficiency capabilities and better business reporting.

BCS API

The API Pack allows clients to send project and quote data to external CRMs or other accounting platforms other than XERO.

The information that can be transferred to external packages, allows businesses to perform more in-depth analysis on their business performance.

Allows API Keys to be generated and for the transfer of the following information between BCS and external software, such as CRM’s.

  • Contact Information
  • Specific Quote Data
  • Specific Project Data

Can also provide integration to build reports directly in Excel using Power Query or Power BI.

*Requires you to engage an external contractor to complete any integration work.

Price:

Starter $49.00/month
Team $99.00/month
Corporate $149.00/month

BCS-EasySign*

Send multiple documents from BCS using BCS-EasySign (via FuseSign) to recipients and have them signed and returned to you within minutes.

BCS uses FuseSign’s API to send documents to FuseSign for signing, receives notifications and signed documents back once your client has signed.

In the initial release of this integration, signing is configured at a document level within BCS. If you require signature placeholders and other text fields you can add these once the document moves to FuseSign.

*You must have a FuseSign account to use this feature

  1. Pricing Per Month - FuseSign

    BCS has negotiated discounted pricing with FuseSign for BCS Customers. Contact us to find out more.

  2. From FuseSign’s Website www.fusesign.com

    FuseSign is a digital signature platform like no other. Send documents for signing and have them back within hours, not days, with granular control of viewing and signing permissions and security levels, including a full audit trail, all for the price of a stamp.

    With FuseSign, your clients will be given one link and page to sign all relevant documents, with no need to remember username and passwords, or even needing to use a desktop computer – FuseSign is mobile friendly, so can be accessed while out of the office! Plus your brand and messaging will be shown on the email notifications and signing page, so they feel secure in the whole process.

    Electronic signatures have been recognised by law in Australia since 1999 when the Electronic Transactions Act was passed.  In New Zealand, it was 2002 when the legislation was passed. Under Australian law, contracts can be deemed valid regardless of being concluded verbally, electronically or in a physical paper document format.  The Transactions Act confirms that provided certain requirements are met a contract cannot be denied because it has been concluded electronically. The digital signing platform’s primary objective is to authenticate a signature – to confirm who is actually signing the document and protect the information from tampering.

Price:

Starter $19.00/month
Team $49.00/month
Corporate $99.00/month
Enterprise $99.00/month

BCS Insights

Get access to the BCS Insights Power BI portal showing graphical data layers of projects, inspections, invoicing and budgets that relate to your business and assist in decision making.

 

Price:

Starter $49.00/month
Teams $99.00/month
Corporate $149.00/month

Business Units

Improved project and financial management for multi-departmental businesses.
The Business Units option pack allows businesses to assign users to a single business unit entity, to be able to run business reports around the entities, to create Project Teams within projects, and to report on outstanding invoices by business units.

  1. Business Unit

    Clients with this feature can create multiple Business Units within an office and assign users to a single Business Unit. User-select lists group users into their assigned Business Unit, Projects and Standalone Quotes must be assigned to a Business Unit, and Billing Entity Lines such as on Quotes, Bills, and Invoices must be assigned to a specific Business Unit

  2. Project Teams

    Enables a typeahead search field on Projects and Standalone Quotes, where users can be searched for and added to the project or quote, regardless of whether there is a specific role they can be assigned or not (i.e. Project Manager, Accredited Certifier, etc.). Users selected into a specific role will automatically be added to the Project Team. These details will be visible on the List All Projects dashboard.

Price:

Starter NA
Team NA
Corporate $149.00/month

Defective Inspection Report

Report on all failed inspections by date range. Contains Builder Name, Project Number, Project Title, Proposal Address, Inspection Name, Inspection Date.

Price:

Starter $10/month
Team $10/month

Director Role

Enables the Director Role for users. Only a user who with the Director role can grant this role to other users. With the role enabled, the following reports are restricted to a user’s own data unless they are a Director: Operations Report, Invoice Shares Report, Invoice Activity Report. With the feature enabled, the following reports are hidden from non-Directors: Quotes Summary, Timesheets Invoice Amounts

 

Price:

Starter NA
Team $19.00/month
Corporate $19.00/month

Guest Portal

The BCS Guest Portal is a gateway for customers of BCS clients, to review, update, submit applications and provide feedback instantaneously.

Those clients can provide information on any platform (Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, etc..) using any device. The portal allows those clients to lodge applications, upload and download files, access documentation and provide comments. The portal can also be presented with your company logo and colours that align with the company branding.

  1. Guest Access

    Allows those contacts that have been provided a login access to view, upload and download attachments that relate to project files of the client.

  2. Guest Application Forms

    Allows the selected guest users to create applications to be approved as new projects.

  3. External Inspector Access

    Clients can add external inspectors as users to their company and assign them inspections. External Inspectors can remotely login, upload their inspection results plus use the BCS Mobile App

  4. External Access Report

    Can access External Access report to see which clients have access to your portal

Price:

Starter NA
Team $99.00/month

Multi Office

The Multi-Office option assists managing businesses in multiple locations.

This option pack allows businesses with multiple offices to maintain a collaborative working approach and improves communication between all offices.  This feature enables clients to allocate projects to specific offices and management to report on performance.

Price:

Starter NA
Team $49.00/month

Mandated Reporting

Allows NSW Planning Portal integration with BCS for Certificate Registration, Critical Stage Inspection and Written Direction Notice Reporting.

Client evaluation has proven processing efficiencies (time savings) of in excess of 50%.

  1. NSW ePlanning Certificate Registration

    Enables NSW ePlanning integration with the Certificate Registration Service. This enables the ePlanning dashboard on a project which lists certificates issued on the project. A user with the “NSW Certificate Registration” role can lodge certificates with council and pay the lodgement fees without using the Planning Portal. Additional communications between council and the certifier are handled via the creation of tasks, e.g.: the council can request further information be provided or can accept or reject the .

  2. Critical Stage Inspections

    Replaces the BPB/Certability Reporting.

    Allows for the seamless reporting of Critical Stage Inspection results & documentation directly to the NSW Planning Portal from BCS

  3. Written Direction Notices

    Allows for the seamless reporting of Written Direction Data directly to the NSW Planning Portal from BCS

Price:

Starter $99.00/month
Team $149.00/month
Corporate $199.00/month
Enterprise $249.00/month

Operations Report

Enables access to the Operations Report. This is an activity-based report for a user – i.e.: for the given period, data about quotes, invoices, payments, projects, inspections. E.g.: Details of quotes Won in that timeframe, invoices (drafted, issued, sent, paid), inspections booked/completed/results, projects opened/closed

Price:

Starter NA
Team $19.00/month

Revenue Recognition

Treat all payments as “pre-payments” and only assign as revenue when work or milestones are completed. Can have possible benefits with taxable income and PI Insurance Calculations.

NOTE: You should refer to your accountant of financial advisor for appropriate advice on Revenue Recognition

  1. Progressive Revenue Recognition

    Allows the client to carry out a revenue recognition process by creating automated journals for invoices where payment is received in advance of services being delivered (accrual-based accounting). When an invoice is raised, users can code line items against liability accounts (whether this feature is enabled or not). The revenue recognition feature then allows clients to automate the raising of journals in BCS to move amounts from liability accounts to revenue accounts. The journals are raised as Draft Journals and must be approved by a user with the Accounts role. If a Xero account is connected, then when approved, these are posted to Xero. BCS tracks the amounts remaining to be recognised as revenue.

    This feature can also be used by a user to manually create Journals, but it can integrate with the Workflow Automation feature to do this automatically. For revenue to be recognised automatically, the client must define milestones, then set these milestones at the point they occur in the list of fees. Workflows can then be triggered to recognise all remaining revenue above the milestone when a triggering event occurs.

    NOTE: This feature cannot be used in conjunction with User Revenue Allocation

Price:

Starter NA
Team $99.00/month

SharePoint API

Allows those clients that have a Microsoft 365 account to sync your documentation via SharePoint to One Drive in place of Dropbox. this allows a client to backup those documents to any location they require.

Requires a SharePoint Account.

Price:

Starter 10 $14.00/month
Starter 20 $28.00/month
Starter 30 $42.00/month
Team 40 $70.00/month
Team 50 $87.50/month
Team 60 $105.00/month
Corporate 60 $120.00/month
Corporate 80 $160.00/month
Corporate 100 $200.00/month
Corporate 120 $240.00/month
Corporate 150 $300.00/month
Enterprise $3 per created project

Staged Invoicing

Staged-Invoicing allows customers to be billed at the appropriate stages of a project, providing BCS clients with consistent cash flow.

Clients can make progress claims aligned with agreed milestones, automatically generating a summary of past progress claims, and recouping additional costs, including disbursements and where applicable, time-based work defined on timesheets*.

  1. Staged Invoicing

    Allows the client to create staged invoices and enables the Accepted Fees tab for tracking staging of invoicing and payments.

  2. Show line lookup on large invoices

    Allows client to opt in to showing a line lookup on staged invoices that contain large numbers of staged billing header lines, for the user to pick from and add to the staged invoice. This is to mitigate searching issues on staged invoice pages where many quote/bill etc lines exist.

     

Price:

Starter NA
Team $99.00/month

Statements

Allows user to produce a statement of approved but unpaid invoices, for a given client across multiple projects. The statement is based on a word template.

Price:

Starter NA
Teams $10.00/month

Strict Contact Management

Forces a contact saved on a project or quote to have an association with a contact in the master contact list.

Price:

Starter NA
Team $19.00/month
Corporate

Timesheets & Budgets

BCS Timesheets & Budgets provides management with the tools to manage time, costs and profitability of projects.

BCS clients can use this feature to assess the profitability of a project by setting cost and charge values against the time logged by the user. They can also gain insight into hours spent on tasks to track profitability for each project.

  1. Timesheets

    Allows users to record time against tasks/roles and projects

  2. Timesheet Rate Billing

    Users will log work on Timesheets which will calculate the cost of work, based on the user’s Cost Rate. The sum of the cost of Timesheets can determine the cost of a Phase.

  3. Timesheets Invoice Amounts

    Clients can add an Invoice Amount to Timesheet entries including reviewing and invoicing time.

  4. Timesheet Budgets

    Add budgeted dollars and time to a project. Run the Summary report to provide an overview of project profitability.

  5. Timesheet Reports

    • Timesheet for Project File Report
    • Timesheet for User Report
    • Timesheets Invoice Amounts Report
    • Timesheet Summary Report

Price:

Starter NA
Team $99.00/month
Corporate $149.00/month

Xero Tracking Categories*

Xero Tracking Categories lets you see how different areas of your business are performing, so you can make proactive business decisions. Xero allows you to create “tags” that can be applied to your bank reconciliation, bills, and invoices. This means you can add a tracking category to a transaction but continue to use the same account codes you normally would when reconciling or allocating sales. For example, let’s say you’re a business with multiple work locations. You can track sales for each location by setting up a tracking category with tracking options for each location.

*Requires a Xero account to be connected

Price:

Starter NA
Team $49.00/month