What's new in Sage Construction Management
On this page, you can scan release highlights to get a quick understanding of what's new and review a list of all improvements organized by component.
The following enhancements have been added in the April 2025 release.
Browser solution
| Module | Feature | Feature description | Go there |
| General browser | Other | The user interface across multiple pages has been enhanced to provide a more user-friendly experience. | User interface enhancements |
| To reduce unnecessary alerts and improve clarity, checklist item alerts appear as a single notification in the Alerts tab. | Enhancement to checklist item alerts | ||
| Various browser improvements. | Other browser enhancements | ||
| Leads | Estimating | The Estimate Item Details page has been updated with a reorganized header and the Enable Locations option is now automatically selected when importing estimates with locations. | Enhancements in estimates |
| Invitation To Bid (ITB) | In the Add Vendors page, when selecting Add by Classification in the View dropdown, you have the option to use either the AND or the OR operator for the filtering options. | Enhanced filtering criteria for adding vendors to ITBs by classification | |
| Other | The order of the leads in the Kanban board has been updated for better organization and a new search field has been introduced for filtering. | Enhancements in the Kanban view of leads | |
| Projects | Multiple | The exported post status of project items now displays in the Accounting Status section. | Exported post status in the Accounting Status section |
| Contract Admin | The Markup Resources field in the default cost plus prime invoice markups form has been changed from a dropdown menu to checkboxes, enabling more flexible selection of the available options. |
Enhancement in the default cost plus prime invoice markups form |
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The following options have been added in the Markup Type dropdown of the default CPR/CO markups form, to specify different markups for the same cost code:
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Enhancement in the default CPR/CO markups form | ||
| If Sage Construction Management is configured to use a workflow for the Contract Administration transactions, you can specify which users can abandon the workflow. | New options to abandon workflow for Contract Administration and Procurement transactions | ||
| Procurement | You can use the PO CO feature in the Procurement section of projects to create change orders for approved purchase orders (POs). The PO CO feature in Sage Construction Management serves as a control mechanism that enables flexible, transparent, and accountable procurement management within dynamic construction environments. | ||
| If Sage Construction Management is configured with Sage Intacct as the accounting system, the new Subcontract Status page is available to provide additional insights. Additionally, new links have been added in the Subcontract Status Summary page and several existing links have been renamed in the subcontract form for improved clarity. | Enhancements for subcontracts | ||
| If Sage Construction Management is configured with Sage Intacct as the accounting system, the new PO Status page is available to provide additional insights. Additionally, new links have been added in the PO Status Summary page for quick access to relevant pages. | Enhancements for POs | ||
| If Sage Construction Management is configured to use a workflow for the Procurement transactions, you can specify which users can abandon the workflow. | New options to abandon workflow for Contract Administration and Procurement transactions | ||
| Project Team | Users receive a message when copying the project directory to a project with contacts enabled. In addition, search functionality has been refined, making it easier to retrieve information efficiently. | Enhancements to the project directory | |
| Documentation | The pages to import labor timecards, PO items, bills, equipment timecards, and employee miscellaneous expenses into work orders have been enhanced with new options and functionality. | Enhancements in multiple work order importing options | |
| Correspondence | The Copy Submittal For Resubmission wizard has been enhanced to streamline its functionality. | Enhancements in submittal resubmissions | |
| Reports | Financial Analytics | Various improvements in Analytics. | Enhancements in Analytics |
| Log Reports | Six new log reports have been added for the tracking of injuries, property damage, and safety incidents across multiple projects. | Multi-project safety incident log reports | |
| Two new log reports have been added for the tracking of service tickets for equipment items. | Equipment service ticket log reports |
TeamLink Portal
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| Updates to the order and grouping of journals, RFIs, and submittals. In addition, a new section has been added for insurance and license files uploaded as attachments in company records. | TeamLink Portal enhancements |
AccountingLink with Sage Intacct
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| You can now map Sage Construction Management tax codes to Sage Intacct tax schedules for Accounts Receivable transactions. | Tax code mapping to tax schedules for Accounts Receivable transactions |
| This release introduces a global change feature that enables you to clear all or copy tax schedules or items in Tax Codes from Accounts Payable to Accounts Receivable. | |
| This release introduces an option to view the posting preferences as read-only using the Batch Posting wizard. | |
| Sage Construction Management now validates the format of vendor tax IDs sent to Sage Intacct to ensure that vendor tax IDs are successfully posted. |
Validate tax IDs posted to Sage Intacct |
| You can now exclude job cost codes that haven't been invoiced through the Posting Preferences. | Exclude non-invoiced job cost codes |
AccountingLink with Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate
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You can manually post the total of an approved prime invoice to Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate. |
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| This release introduces an option to view the posting preferences as read-only using the Batch Posting wizard. | |
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Selecting Disconnect From 300 CRE on the top right and confirming removes all posting preferences that have been set. Sage Construction Management now prompts with two consecutive confirmation messages when you attempt to disconnect to prevent resetting the posting preferences and ensure that the disconnection is intentional. |
Double confirmation prompt when disconnecting from the AccountingLink |
| You can use the Cost Types to Sage CM Cost Resources section to specify how Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate cost types must be mapped to the available cost resources in Sage Construction Management | Map Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate cost types to Sage Construction Management cost resources |
| Additional options are now available for posting, reposting, linking prime contracts, and importing items. |
Prime contract actions for posting, reposting, linking, and importing items |
| New links have been added to the Project Menu and the Procurement Overview page to view the Job to Date (JTD) cost details for a project from Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate. | View Job to Date cost details |
| Other improvements. | Other improvements. |
AccountingLink with Sage 100 Contractor
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| You can use the Link Sage 100 Contractor Cost Types to Sage CM Cost Resources section to specify how Sage 100 Contractor cost types should be mapped to the available cost resources in Sage Construction Management. The mapping is used when querying job to date cost details. |
Map Sage 100 Contractor cost types to Sage Construction Management cost resources |
| You can manually post the total of an approved prime invoice to Sage 100 Contractor. | |
| You can manually link a prime contract in Sage Construction Management to a Sage 100 Contractor job. This is helpful if they’ve been accidentally unlinked. | Manually link prime contracts |
| A double confirmation prompt appears when you select Disconnect From Sage 100 Contractor to ensure that the selection was intentional, as all posting preferences will be permanently wiped. | Double confirmation required when disconnecting AccountingLink from Sage 100 Contractor |
| New links have been added to the Project Menu and the Procurement Overview page to view the Job to Date (JTD) cost details for a project from Sage 100 Contractor. | View Job to Date cost details |