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- Industry: Civil Engineering
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great for small engineering firms!
Reviewed on 18/12/2018
Overall we are very happy with Clearview. The attention to detail in each applet makes for a thorough accounting and project management system that can't be beat.
Pros
This software is easy to use and the support team is great for every question and issue you have. The daily financials and banking systems are easy to follow, and the way employee timesheets, bill reviews and invoicing systems are integrated make billing a breeze.
Cons
Custom reports can be tricky, but the support staff is very knowledgeable and will help you out.
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Very Easy to use compared to other time sheet systems.
Reviewed on 8/05/2017
Pros
The ability to document as much as possible...adding documents..no character limit for comments. also the ability to copy and paste existing information
Cons
Sometimes information is lost if more than one person accesses the time sheet. Also the ability to have more than one time sheet open at the same time and different information showing up on each.
- Industry: Civil Engineering
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
InFocus has been the glue that holds our organizational pieces in place.
Reviewed on 14/12/2018
We know have command of our numbers. It's fantastic to see our organization by the numbers in real time and be able to make financial and project decisions.
Pros
InFocus provides such an intuitive user interface and provides incredible flexibility.
Cons
There is a slight learning curve for folks who are not accounting savvy.
- Industry: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Overall product it good
Reviewed on 12/12/2019
Pros
What I like the most about this software is the ease of exporting reports to excel
Cons
What I like the least about this software is the billing of reimbursable expenses. When part of a fixed dollar amount it does not break out the time from expense.
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
User Friendly
Reviewed on 19/12/2018
Pros
The greatest pro for this product is just how user friendly InFocus is. Very clean interface. Minimal training needed.
Cons
The only really con is not enough people are using it. Other than that I don't really have any complaint from my perspective.
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Great customer Support, would like more data on features
Reviewed on 8/05/2017
Pros
Online, web based in the cloud. Dashboard is pretty easy to use, very visual. Need a better way to customize dashboard.
Cons
Need mac version. Need a better way to customize dashboard. Would like to be able to send help tickets direct from software.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Endless capabilities on a dated platform
Reviewed on 14/12/2018
Capturing employee time sheets, project costing, invoicing, etc.
Pros
The software has the ability to capture an unlimited amount of data and translate that into what seems to be and infinite number of custom reports for analysis.
Cons
The software platform is dated and does not appeal to the progressive user. Functionality is excellent if all data points and selections are properly input. Many erroneous mistakes are unidentified until you reach a failed attempt to export a related function.
- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Benefit of using Clearview Infocus
Reviewed on 12/12/2019
Pros
Clearview Infocus offers a lot of nice features to improve the project workflow, and save you a lot of time.
Cons
It is hard to learn at the beginning. you either need to have training by your own team or third party consultant.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Good collaboration software
Reviewed on 20/05/2016
Pros
Our firm project leaders are excited about abilities and integrations. it make their jobs easier to manage.
Before we used multiple excel spreadsheets, now Clearview help us organize everithing!
Cons
None yet. I like it. No disadvantages at this moment
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A software that fits our need
Reviewed on 23/03/2017
Even though, Stillwater Energy is a small company, we are an energy consulting firm, InFocus provides us a very good tool to keep track timesheet by projects, for managers to do project planning. Even better is whenever encounter a problem using the program, either get on the Help Center to browse articles or videos or open a ticket , we can always get our problems resolved almost instantly.
- Industry: Civil Engineering
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great software for small to medium size firms
Reviewed on 12/12/2019
Timesheets are in on time due to the capability to use app on cell phones. Can close the books in a day versus 3-5 days as in the past. Invoices are sent faster than before.
Pros
Easy to use, very intuitive, software is always available and have never had any issues with connectivity
Cons
Would love more canned reports to choose from
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
InFocus A Great System
Reviewed on 15/12/2018
With hundreds of projects and five offices our managers need to stay current on the status of their work and have the tools to develop new proposals. InFocus is indispensable for personnel management and project performance. Plus it provides financial statement and accounting data that is crucial for senior management and independent accountants. The data available and the variety of the reports are limitless. Also, our clients want their invoices and reports in a wide variety of styles. The open structure and adaptability of the InFocus system is a constant marvel at design and intuition.
Pros
Its flexibility, power and data retrieval ability. We have forty-five people in our company, with five office locations and six profit centers (disciplines). Of these forty-five people, more than two thirds are field personnel that are often asked to work in various disciplines or support the work in our other offices. At any one time we have a couple hundred projects open for scores of clients. Keeping track of this is incredibly difficult. We worked with Clearview for a couple of months in order to transfer our existing clients, projects, time records and accounting records to our new system. With over 16,000 historical projects and a current work in process in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, we matched to the penny. Working with them is a pleasure.
Not only is the InFocus package all that it claims to be, the folks at Clearview are great to work with. Sure there is a bit of a learning curve, but the answers are so intuitive you can’t believe you did not think of it yourself. Their support literature, training videos, white papers and support site are extremely helpful.
There may be comparable products out there, but I seriously doubt there is anything better. If there was a better product or solution, these folks would match or exceed it. We all have competition; we need competition to push us to do a better job.
Cons
Getting others in our organization to appreciate and better use this management too.
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great SAAS accounting solution for an ACEC firm
Reviewed on 26/02/2018
All accounting software and data is offsite, no servers or data to worry about locally! :)
Pros
* No need to keep software on servers on site. Everything is in the cloud.
* Local client install.
* Easy to use trouble ticket system when there is an issue.
* Since it is cloud based, it is always up to date.
Cons
* Occasional data slow downs which we have no control over because the software is running on Clearview's servers.
* The Microsoft ClickOnce technology used for the local client requires web browser ClickOnce integration which is built into Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers, but doesn't always work well with edge. You can get a ClickOnce plugin for Google Chrome, but it's not a transparent "click the icon on the desktop" scenario there either.
* No hosted SMTP server. If you want to send email, you'll have to utilize your own SMTP server, at an additional cost and there is also a charge if you want Clearview to help you set it up. This is my only real "gripe" about the service. It should come with it's own email capability for the cost and to truly be a service.
* I think it is a great Software As A Service overall, but you should know about the weaknesses going in.
- Industry: Civil Engineering
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Clearview InFocus gets the job done.
Reviewed on 17/12/2019
Pros
What I like the most about this software is the fact that it is very versatile and can be customized to suit your company's needs.
Cons
What I like least about this software is that when the product needs an update the users who are in the field and do not have access to good internet are left unable to do their time sheets because they cannot get into the screens without the update being done.
- Industry: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Top Notch Product
Reviewed on 19/12/2018
We are a small architectural firm and opted to change to Clearview InFocus when the program we were using was getting too complicated and too expensive. InFocus met our needs in all our required billing, project tracking, etc., but for a smaller investment.
I would highly recommend this product to anyone who wants a workhorse software. I can't say enough about it.
Pros
I like the ease of transition from one software to another. It is a very easy software to learn and use. I have been using since 2010, and it has progressively gotten better and better. New features are always coming on board. Trust met...you will like it!
Cons
Reports are good but I required a great deal of customization to get the results needed. The one downside is that it does not have a payroll application. If you do in-house payroll, you will need a separate software to run along side InFocus.
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Reviewed on 30/04/2012
As a mid-sized architectural design firm, we have found Clearview InFocus to be the best integrated accounting and project management software on the market. We migrated to InFocus in May 2010 after using two previous industry specific applications, which never performed as promised. The transition to InFocus was well managed and painless. InFocus is highly flexible and easy to learn and use. It is especially forgiving of input errors, with mistakes easily reversed or voided. As designers of large and highly complex institutional projects, we have sophisticated client invoicing needs. InFocus offers every conceivable billing scenario and allows for multiple billing types on the same project.
Likewise, the project management modules are flexible, user friendly, and cover all facets of project documentation. The default and custom reports are extensive and easily changed and manipulated. It is easy to pull data out of InFocus in a myriad of formats and easy to customize reports. Clearview's client support is also great - easily accessible with a highly responsive support team. They provide excellent software support as well as accounting solutions. The integration between the project management and accounting functions is seamless.
InFocus has allowed us to streamline our finance and project management functions and provided real savings in accounting consultant and in-house staff costs. InFocus is the best performing software I have ever had the pleasure to purchase. It exceeds expectations and has more than met every promise of the developer. This is top-notch software with top-notch support. Any size firm in the design industry would be well advised to adopt InFocus for their accounting and project management software.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Clearview
Reviewed on 20/12/2018
Great product! Allows you to focus on operations as opposed to being a slave to the product
Pros
Flexibility
Scalability
Allows you to focus on operations as opposed to being a slave to the product.
Pricing was exceptional compared to the competitors
Cons
Tedious to setup multi-company - have to understand the relationships (i.e. Parent - Child - Sister) before you begin to setup.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
InFocus Review - Great Product
Reviewed on 14/12/2018
Pros
For a small firm like ours, InFocus is very affordable, yet has all the functionality that we can function like a medium to large firm from a financial perspective. We can also meet all of the government FAR regulations.
Cons
The only con is that there are so many features, it sometimes takes me time to remember what they all do.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Awesome software
Reviewed on 12/03/2019
Clearview Infocus is the best accounting and project management software I have used so far. There is no waiting time, data is real time.
Pros
-functionality
-flexibility
-user friendly
Cons
-moving from project administration to project management and back when setting up budgets.
- Industry: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Simple and Spartan
Reviewed on 11/09/2018
Pros
Gets the job done, simple enough table input method for users. Simple layout
Cons
Difficult to search and identify clients and codes. From a user (non-administrative) perspective, it can be difficult to create a summary or identify things over time without scrolling back through dates and submissions
- Industry: Civil Engineering
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great Package for Small Engineering Firms
Reviewed on 17/03/2017
Software is extremely powerful and flexible. Clearview Team is fantastic. Best project management/accounting decision we made when we converted to Infocus. Highly recommend.
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Flexibility, capabilities, powerful analytics and reports
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Great Value for your money
Reviewed on 17/03/2017
I have used large ERP system: SAP,Great Plains, just to name a few. The Clearview team has taken their time to develop a great product. The helpdesk is a great team i always get a rely within a couple of hours and the IT is willing to take a few minutes and explain to me how the system works, help me find a resolution to my problem, and at times help me figure out a work around. With all ERPs as a company uses it more and more and develop their database management always wants to see more information or in different formats. SAP is very strike in what you see is what you get with minimum customization. You would need to export raw data and reformat or spend millions in a report builder app and IT support. I love the fact that i have the availability to create my own querries, reports, and see what information is available. Once i know what i want i can request Clearview to create something for me at a reasonable price. No system is perfect but that fact that Clearview is always looking at improving their system and helping their clients maximize the use of the software.
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
While the software is fine the implementation and customer service was terrible & well below...
Reviewed on 21/06/2017
Pros
The ability to make changes easily. Because of our terrible experience I do not have a lot of "Pro" comments to provide.
Cons
Dealing with customer service and conversion teams. It was a terrible experience. When we purchased this software we were told many things that were not true and did not happen as promised and because of that it took over a year for the conversion to be complete. This ended up costing us much more than proposed and the conversion was still not what we had initially asked for. I would not recommend working with this company.
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Luxury Hotel at motel price
Reviewed on 22/03/2017
InFocus is simple to use while compiling and organizing complex data. Constantly improving on an already comprehensive and component program.

- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Clearview Software Review - Infocus
Reviewed on 10/12/2018
I am extremely happy with Clearview Infocus. They have been amazing in their customer service department and help when I need it with trouble shooting. They have gotten better about adding tutorials and training modules, and even adding in person workshops to help expand my knowledge and learn more about the software. They are always listening to their customers and adding updates to include features their clients want to see.
Pros
I like that the software is able to integrate all aspects of our business, from timesheets to expense reports, invoicing, and bill payment, etc. It is a one stop shop kind of software.
Cons
The hardest part of the software is getting it to generate the reports you want if they are not already built into the system, if you want a custom report do you do need to know some sequel background to run a report. I have also found that it is an extremely powerful tool but I am only scrapping the surface, and if I knew more information it could be even more useful. Adding custom boxes to applets to make it more specific to our business.