I make a lot of sense for understaffed
small-office contractors — one place to
enter data, one interface to learn, and a
single set of office procedures to follow.
Omware’s The Master Builder (825
Gravenstein Hwy. North, Suite 5,
Sebastopol, CA 95472; 800/726-6278;
www.themasterbuilder.com) has been a
very good integrated solution for large
and mid-size contractors since the mid-
’80s, but has been priced beyond the
range of the typical small-volume
builder or remodeler.
That recently changed with the
release of Master Builder 7, Solo
Edition. As the name implies, MB7
Solo is a single-user version of
Omware’s Network Edition, but it isn’t
“Lite” by any means. Solo has the
same interface, same core program,
same basic modules, and the