Innovative Features for Interior Design and Specbooks

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Everything you need to streamline your workflows, whether that’s spec writing, procurement, or full service design services. Whether you’re an independent designer or a global multi-office design team, our platform has you covered.

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ORGANIZED SPEC SHEETS

  • Generate beautiful, detailed, concise spec sheets for your FF&E design specifications.
  • Use our prebuilt report templates to generate full page specs, spec index reports, schedules, and more.
  • Filter specifications by area, revision date, and spec type, to name a few.
  • Upload documents such as tear sheets and shop drawings to include in the spec book.
  • Export to PDF, Excel, and MS Word.
  • Save report settings for one-click report generation.

CUSTOMIZABLE REPORTING

  • Generate professional, detailed reports in seconds.
  • Filter on areas, spec types, classifications, and more.
  • Customize the look of every report, and design your own reports from scratch.
  • Choose fonts, colors, spacing, alignment and more.
  • Create your own table-based or full page spec reports from scratch, specifying columns, groupings, styling, and more.
  • Export to a variety of formats including Excel and PDF.
  • Include optional and customizable cover page and table of contents on all reports.

DETAILED DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS

  • Define your own FF&E spec attributes, or use our industry standard spec templates.
  • Build composite specs by linking specs to one another.
  • Group specs into areas and separate delivery categories.
  • Upload images and documents to be included in your reports.
  • Track project revision dates.
  • Enter quantity by area or simply total quantity.
  • View the complete change history of any spec.
    Revisions are automatically highlighted on reports (optional).
  • Specify designer approvals required.
  • Mark specifications as hidden or removed to manage the different phases of your project.

AREAS & FLOORS

  • Manage large hospitality projects with confidence.
  • Specify each floor of a hotel, and allocate room and area quantities per floor.
  • Specify room types, such as Guest Rooms or Offices.
  • Enter specification quantity per area and let DesignSpec calculate the rest.
  • Print Room Matrices and Floor Matrices tailored to your needs.

WEB CLIPPING

  • Capture every detail of a product directly from the vendor website, faster than ever before.
  • Safely access your DesignSpec account with secure login, and choose which spec type to create.
  • Quickly grab the text, images and documents you need with a few simple clicks, no more manual copy and paste!
  • Create new design specifications or update existing specs, and save them directly to your DesignSpec account.
  • Currently available for Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Brave web browsers.

CLIENT PORTAL

  • Conveniently accessible from a desktop browser or mobile device, the portal beautifully presents your project items organized by area, with all your images and linked specs included.  
  • Stakeholders can review, approve, reject, or comment on each item, and submit to you when ready.
  • Your specs are then automatically updated as approved or rejected once the review is complete, using your configurable spec stages.
  • Get notified via email and directly through the DesignSpec app when a review is completed by one of your clients.

BUDGETING

  • Manage your project budget from a single screen, spreadsheet style.
  • Add markup, taxes, allowances, and any type of costs such as shipping, procurement fees and more.
  • Enter costs individually per item or at the entire budget level.
  • Specify costs as fixed amounts or as a percentage of item or total budget.
  • Bulk edit multiple items at once to save repetitive data entry.
  • Instantly generate quotes and budget reports for your entire project or a particular area.

PROCUREMENT

  • Instantly create detailed purchase orders directly from FF&E specifications.
  • Select from your list of contacts to automatically fill in different sections of the order.
  • Manage procurement settings and defaults at global level and per project, and decide how much detail to include.
  • Generate reports on purchase orders and items, filter on areas, spec types and more.

VENDOR BIDDING

  • Instantly generate RFQs from specifications and send them directly to vendors.
  • Allow vendors to securely enter quote information directly in your account with a simple invite via email, so you don’t have to.
  • Compare quotes and track accepted and rejected deals, and upload related documents.
  • Instantly convert accepted quotes into purchase orders with a few clicks.

SHIPMENT TRACKING

  • Track quantities of purchase order items shipped and received.
  • Keep detailed shipment notes alongside a status summary that can be easily searched on.
  • Track full, split and partial shipments with ease.
  • View, search and update your project shipments from a single list.
  • Quickly drill down into shipment items without leaving the project Tracking screen.
  • Keep your shipments and purchase orders in sync with smart status update recommendations.
  • Instantly download your project tracking list to Excel or CSV, and generate PDF reports of item quantities ordered, shipped and received.

INTEGRATION WITH QUICKBOOKS®

  • Export Purchase Orders and Budgets directly to Intuit QuickBooks©, no more double entry.
  • Automatically create new customers and vendors during export.
  • Configure your default settings for optimal efficiency.

SPEC INSTRUCTIONS

  • Pick from our library of industry standard spec instructions, or define your own.
  • Customize which spec types your instructions are added to by default.
  • Search and filter instructions by keyword for easy management.

TAILORED SPEC TEMPLATES

  • Take advantage of our industry standard spec templates, or tailor your spec writing to meet your firms standards.
  • Create your own spec types from scratch.
  • Specify defaults and required fields.
  • Delete or archive old spec templates to keep things clean and organized as your standards evolve.

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