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# DesignSpec

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> DesignSpec is a cloud-based platform that helps users streamline design projects all from a single platform. Features include - 
- Organize projects by areas, rooms, and floors.
- Record quantities and let the platform handle the calculations.
- Manage project dates and revisions.
- Safely access from anywhere using our secure cloud storage.

Spec Books
- 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.

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.

Areas and 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 Clipper
- Capture every detail of a product directly from the vendor's website faster than ever before.
- Safely access your DesignSpec account with a 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 the 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 fill in different sections of the order automatically.
- Manage procurement settings and defaults at the 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.
- 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.
> 
> Verdict: Rated \*\*\*\* by 0 users. Top-rated for **Overall Quality**.

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## About the vendor

- **Company**: SpacedIn

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$59.00
- **Pricing model**: Per User (Free Trial)
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Chromebook (Desktop)
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 209 more

## Features

- Activity Dashboard
- Approval Process Control
- Billing & Invoicing
- Commenting/Notes
- Contact Management
- Contract/License Management
- Customisable Branding
- Customisable Reports
- Customisable Templates
- Data Import/Export
- Design Management
- Document Management
- Document Storage
- Drag & Drop
- For AEC Industry
- Invoice Management
- Job Costing
- Multiple Projects
- Planning Tools
- Presentation Tools

## Integrations (2 total)

- Revit
- Slack

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base

## Category

- [Architecture Design Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4182/architecture/software)

## Alternatives

1. [Design Flex](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/196096/2020-design-live) — 4.3/5 (354 reviews)
2. [RIB SpecLink](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/409156/speclink) — 4.5/5 (117 reviews)
3. [Programa](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/346282/programa) — 4.8/5 (73 reviews)
4. [AutoCAD](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/390127/autocad) — 4.7/5 (3205 reviews)
5. [Revit](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/422899/revit) — 4.6/5 (479 reviews)

## Links

- [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/437401/designspec)

## This page is available in the following languages

| Locale | URL |
| en | <https://www.softwareadvice.com/architecture/designspec-profile/> |
| en-AU | <https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/437401/designspec> |
| en-GB | <https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/437401/designspec> |
| en-IE | <https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/437401/designspec> |
| en-NZ | <https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/437401/designspec> |

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