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NextMinute offers a powerful mobile app designed for teams, allowing your crew to log time against a job, capture site photos, manage job tasks, and access essential job documents from anywhere. The app is user-friendly, ensuring that your on-site team can update job progress in real-time, reducing the risk of miscommunication and delays.
Xero Projects, while having a mobile app, primarily focuses on financial management tasks such as logging time, tracking expenses, and viewing financial summaries. It’s more suitable for business owners or managers who need to monitor project finances on the go rather than for a construction crew who require extensive job management features.
Key Takeaway: NextMinute’s mobile app is more comprehensive and better suited for construction teams, while Xero Projects offers a lighter app focused on financial management.
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NextMinute is designed as an all-in-one job management tool specifically for trade and construction businesses, offering extensive features for on-site job management, scheduling, quoting, and invoicing. It stands out for its mobile app, which empowers your crew to update job progress, log time, and manage tasks from anywhere.
Xero Projects, on the other hand, is a project management add-on to the Xero accounting software, focusing primarily on financial tracking. It’s best suited for businesses already using Xero that need basic project cost tracking, time logging, and financial summaries but lack the need for more robust job management features.
Built specifically for tradespeople and construction companies, NextMinute offers tailored tools to manage jobs from start to finish, ensuring that all aspects of your business are covered.
NextMinute's mobile app allows your team to manage tasks, log time, capture site photos, and access job details on-site, keeping everyone on the same page.
NextMinute's scheduling tools help you assign tasks, set deadlines, and manage your team’s workload efficiently, reducing downtime and improving productivity.
With a straightforward pricing model, NextMinute includes all features in a single subscription, avoiding the need for multiple add-ons or additional software.
Xero Projects is focused on helping businesses track project costs, profitability, and time, but lacks extensive job management features tailored to the construction industry.
The Xero Projects mobile app is designed for tracking time and expenses rather than full job management, making it less useful for on-site teams.
Xero Projects provides basic project tracking features, primarily suited for businesses already using Xero that need to monitor project financials.
As an add-on to Xero’s main accounting software, Xero Projects requires an additional subscription on top of your Xero plan.
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
Click on each feature to see a video of NextMinute in action.
NextMinute helps keep your crew in the loop and up-to-date with what needs to be done.
So simple, even the apprentice can figure it out.
The NextMinute app enables you and your crew to get your admin done anywhere, anytime on mobile or tablet.
NextMinute makes creating and sending final and progress payment invoices easy.
NextMinute makes managing client variations a breeze.
Get real time reporting on actuals vs estimates per project or stage.
Place supplier orders with a few clicks.
Quickly see what's been done on-site by the crew.
Keep track of job progress and send selected photos to clients.
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.
Easily import takeoffs from your software or quantity surveyor of choice.
Easily add in job expenses to keep track of your actuals vs. estimates.
Easily communicate with your crew within the NextMinute app.
Keep all your leads and client details in one secure location.
Your crew can easily view site plans – anywhere, any time.
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