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P & S Paving Inc.<\/a> is a Florida heavy-highway contractor with over 20 years in the industry. Whether it\u2019s asphalt, site prep, excavation, grading, milling or resurfacing, they\u2019ve got Northeast Florida covered.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Running Short on Road<\/span><\/h3>\n

Like most contractors, P & S started small \u2014 with just a single employee and a used bulldozer in 1993. Over time they grew out of that tractor, grew into a larger staff and, not surprisingly, started growing out of their small-business accounting software<\/a> as well. Off-the-shelf\u00a0software worked early on, but within their first decade, its limitations started to limit P & S.<\/p>\n

In 2002 P & S hired their accounting manager \u2014 her first assigned task: find construction accounting software, something that could grow with the company. \u201cWe were manually job costing,\u201d Diana recalls, \u201cdoing everything on Excel spreadsheets.\u201d That forced job cost reporting to be an afterthought. \u201cYou\u2019d have to wait until the job was practically over, then pull up the spreadsheets, have copies of all the invoices and try to pull together the data you needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Payroll also presented major problems. P & S was an asphalt contractor that had just been approved for state projects, but with a general-purpose accounting system, they had to do all of their certified payroll by hand. \u201cWe needed to be able to go after DOT jobs, but our system couldn\u2019t handle them. It just wasn\u2019t practical.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before coming to P & S, Diana\u2019s experience of construction accounting software wasn\u2019t much more positive. Her previous company had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars just to get trained and set up on one system. She didn\u2019t want anyone to go through that again. As she looked at what else was available on the market, she found some options. But ultimately, she wasn\u2019t impressed enough to believe she found a fit. Fortunately, a former co-worker had left to work for a company that ran on FOUNDATION<\/a>, and she insisted that Diana check it out for herself. Once she and the owner saw how convenient it was for a real-life business like theirs, they were sold. Almost 15 years later, they\u2019re still trucking with FOUNDATION.<\/p>\n

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The biggest perks? Job costing<\/a>, for one. Because daily transactions from invoices and inventory receipts to payroll are coded with the user\u2019s job cost structure, there\u2019s no need to reenter and track data separately. \u201cAny time you want to pull anything up, it\u2019s there. Any time someone comes to me and says, \u2018I want to see this.<\/i> Can you do it?\u2019 I can.\u201d The custom construction report designers<\/a> have made FOUNDATION a solid choice as well. \u201cJust being able to drag over what you want to see and add a few formulas \u2014 it\u2019s incredible.\u201d Whether it\u2019s building job cost reports, lien waivers or import tools, P & S has come to know what they need and know how to get it, because they\u2019re always able to. \u201cAnything you want to do, you can figure out how to do it, quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Payroll has been another major payoff. Not only can they now generate completed DOT certified payroll reports<\/a> within seconds but, from the Affordable Care Act employer mandates to the HIRE Act, P & S has been impressed with how FOUNDATION keeps up with the changes.<\/p>\n

An additional big requirement for this heavy-highway contractor was equipment tracking<\/a>. After all, they had more than just one bulldozer to look after now. Beyond just usage tracking, FOUNDATION also enables them to report profits per item, calculate depreciation and even generate work orders right from the Equipment Module.<\/p>\n

Finally, Diana couldn\u2019t be happier with the support. \u201cThe support is awesome. With past companies, you\u2019d be stalled for a couple of days waiting. With FOUNDATION, you can hear back within an hour.\u201d Even when it\u2019s just to remind her how to perform a transaction or let her know she\u2019s on the right track, she\u2019s glad to know they\u2019re a short phone call away. The support department is always happy to help, however major or minor<\/i> the question. \u201cIt\u2019s their greatest asset. They\u2019re just wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even if P & S couldn\u2019t feel the difference, anyone can see the difference over time. Since 2002, their revenues grew from $14 million to $80 million. Let\u2019s be clear, of course: that\u2019s the hard work that\u2019s characterized P & S from the beginning. But as Diana reflects, \u201cWe\u2019re able to do so much more work. We were able to increase our volume without having to increase staff.\u201d And they still have the potential to keep<\/i> growing, with Foundation Software walking right alongside them to give them the tools they need.<\/p>\n

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P & S Paving Inc. is a Florida heavy-highway contractor with over 20 years in the industry. Whether it\u2019s asphalt, site prep, excavation, grading, milling or resurfacing, they\u2019ve got Northeast Florida covered. Running Short on Road Like most contractors, P & S started small \u2014 with just a single employee and a used bulldozer in 1993. Over time they grew … <\/p>\n

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