Ardovia vs Buildertrend: built for specialty builders

In Ardovia you build your pricing once as a template. Inputs like length, width, depth, and equipment drive the quantity and price of every catalog product through your own formulas.

Your designer works through the template, and every total recalculates as they go. Change an option with the homeowner and the price, scope, and output update instantly. You control exactly what the customer-facing proposal shows.

Selections are built once and reused across templates. Each option can carry data, like coverage per box, that flows into every formula that uses it. One tile list, one source of truth.

A signed Ardovia job keeps the scope it was sold with. When the homeowner changes a selection or a dimension, you edit the job's specifications in the same builder.

Ardovia re-runs your pricing template and shows the price difference. Apply it and you get one change order for the whole session, ready for signature. The project total, job items, and estimates vs actuals follow.

Every step of your build becomes a scheduled item in a reusable template. Apply it to a job and the chain runs itself. Finishing one item starts the next.

Items do real work when they fire. They create tasks, send emails, request a draw, place a purchase order task, start a permit, or update the job status.

Assignments are dynamic. Assign an item to the job's supervisor or designer, and Ardovia resolves the person when it fires. Change the supervisor later and open work moves with the role.

Set up each permitting authority once as a jurisdiction template. Add its coverage ZIP codes, review and expiration timelines, required inspections, setbacks, and the authority's real PDF forms.

Create a permit from the job and the application arrives pre-filled from the job and customer. Generate a single packet, send it for signature, and move it across a board from incomplete to issued.