PLATFORM FEATURES


SPECIFY


BUDGET


PROCURE
All from one easy to use, cloud-based software platform.
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.


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.




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.


INTEGRATION WITH REVIT®
- A true spec writing time saver, discover our custom integration with AutoCAD© Revit software
- Create specifications from product families in Revit©, and sync any changes to spec quantities and attributes.
- Choose which categories of product families and which attributes to export.
- Your settings are automatically saved for future imports.


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.


Ready to start saving time
and managing your design projects with the right software?