Purchasing and Estimating
Manage costs and increase the profitability of your business with powerful purchasing and construction estimating software.
End-to-end construction estimating
Real-time budget management
Streamlined trade partner bids
Options management to optimize sales
Automated processes for purchase orders
Financial insights and reports
All-in-one Purchasing, Bidding and Estimating Software
Streamline your business processes with software designed to optimize your homebuilder scheduling and management of budgets, purchase orders, margins, vendor bids, and beyond.
Purchasing
Streamline your end-to-end finances with a single control system that is fully integrated with your other business functions and track purchase orders and costs in real time.
Estimating
Complete oversight of input costs ensuring job estimates accuracy and the ability to establish multiple budgets throughout the building cycle.
Track Expenses
Track purchase order costs and selling prices, aligning all invoices within the system and ensuring each job remains on time and on budget.
Production Management
Drive better margins with Home Product Management, which helps ensure you make or exceed budgeted and targeted profits.
Offer Management
Easily control selections, upgrade options, and available pricing to boost sales and manage predictability with Option Management.
Centralized Control
Drive down costs and improve profits from a central system, homebuilders have rapid access to comprehensive data, real-time pricing and effective ad-hoc reporting.
Vendor Bids
Secure online portal for complete bid management to efficiently organize, manage, analyze, and award bids while providing smooth, standardized experience for trade partners.
Financial Reports
Develop user-defined custom reports for any business function, delivered automatically to targeted employees when they need them.
How estimation software for construction impacts your business
With a single control system for purchasing, estimating, and project bidding, homebuilders gain a powerful hub of insights and tools to run an efficient and profitable home construction business.
- Track budgets and costs.
- Save time with easy approval flows.
- Improve margins with option management.
- Gain transparency between vendors and builders.
- View and analyze real-time financial data.
Our Software
The leading single integrated software for builders and developers.
- Land Development and Construction
- Estimating and Purchasing
- Accounting and Finance
- Construction Scheduling
- With built-in Accounting, integrate construction accounting practices and make informed decisions at a glance.
Powerful cloud-based construction project management software for builders.
- Real-time project management
- CRM and Sales Automation
- Seamless Accounting Integration
- Customized Buyer Experience
- Integrates with most Accounting platforms, giving you flexibility to use the software you prefer.
Bid Manager provides a secure online portal to efficiently organize, manage, and award bidding projects, cutting tedious manual tasks.
- Populate bid fields directly from NEWSTAR
- Empower vendors with an online bid portal
- Gain data insights and comparison reports
Powering homebuilders since 2004
What our customers are saying
BuildTopia is pretty easy to use. We run our entire business through it. Without it, we back to spreadsheets and phone calls.
— Guy Dark, Vice President of Purchasing
NHLS has been a game changer for our marketing department! The team at NHLS has worked tirelessly to make sure we were able to integrate our website with our builder management system … We were able to easily communicate with the team our specific use case scenarios and the output was an intuitive, user-friendly software that makes the daily workload as home builder marketing professionals much easier!
— Whitney Pryor, Inbound Marketing Manager
We are excited for the 3 year partnership with NHLS. We see the long term potential for this web destination and feel it fills a void for consumers in the market place. We at Red Tree believe this will help us connect with the new buyers marketplace on a different level than we are used to. It's going to be an exciting 3 years!
— Brett Taylor, CEO/Founder
My team at Opus Homes is incredibly impressed with NEWSTAR Design Studio Manager software. As a home builder, a segment of our business revolves around our Decor Studio. The "wish list" feature really helped narrow down exactly what our clients wanted for their home based on price, aesthetics and overall appeal.
— Kimberly Bianchi, Decor Studio Manager
Our Design Consultants have now completed 100 charts with ease and ability to create addendums while performing color appointment. This has been made so easily accessible with Design Studio Manager.
— Louis Tancredi, Corporate Controller
When our buyers see that there is a comprehensive, engaging program in place, it gives them immediate confidence in their purchasing decision, and shows them that we care. Homeowner Central helps us create a more productive building process, streamline warranty requests, raise customer satisfaction, and ultimately, scale our business with confidence.
— Linda Rempel, Customer Care Manager
The Homeowner Central platform will positively impact almost all facets of our business, from how we engage and interact with our homeowners to how we are perceived as an industry innovator. But more importantly it will allow us to provide an enhanced home ownership experience and allow our residents to better understand and enjoy their home.
— Chris Colbeck, VP Sales & Marketing
Intracorp is committed to providing an extraordinary experience to our Homeowners. Our partnership with Homeowner Central by CONASYS and its Homeowner Portal platform adds to this experience, providing a market leading tool for Homeowners to have an always-available, resource for accessing information on their individual home.
— Don Forsgren, President & CEO
We could not do what we do without BuildTopia. This system puts real-time information the hands of our superintendents, trades, and back here in the office. This sounds straightforward but it’s crucial. Our team is always on the same page.
— Todd Everest, Director of Construction
The most cutting-edge technology and tools are ineffective without skilled hands to operate them effectively. We now have the tools to be the most efficient builder in Arizona, and our team is committed to using these tools to build incredible, top-quality homes for our customers.
— Karen Dresher, Director of Operations
Our relationship with Constellation HomeBuilder Systems goes beyond software. Constellation has been with us every step of the way. Every time we had a problem, they had a solution that was personalized for our needs. From BuildSoft, to Builder360 and now NEWSTAR, we have been able to operate more efficiently to further strengthen our businesses.
— David Grant, Owner
NEWSTAR is built on builder best practices. Because we came in on the ground floor with Homes by West Bay, we were able to create a structure to build on. NEWSTAR helps us analyze our business, make informed decisions, access real-time information, and achieve a level of efficiency that simply wasn’t possible before.
— Brent Dunham, Director of Purchasing
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