Keep your trades and vendors connected to your organization and reduce calls to the back office with real-time information

• Push important information to your trades to keep them informed: schedules, documents and purchase orders, account payments, and communications.
• View data in real-time providing valuable management of construction scheduling.

On-site scheduling system for managers via the web.

• Visually display production tasks necessary to complete a job on time, while indicating the compounding impact of schedule changes on an overall completion date. Whether it's a job in progress or due tomorrow, you have a "need to know" look at all scheduled tasks.
• Field scheduling that allows for real-time data access and manipulation of construction schedules.
• Update schedules with task actions and view variance purchase order requests.
• Complete scheduling system contained within NEWSTAR – no integrations required.

Manage project details proactively instead of reactively with real time automated notifications.

• Automate email notifications delivering consistent, timely and accurate information to home buyers, internal staff, trades or suppliers at various stages of the production cycle from sales to warranty.
• Enhance internal communication between your sales, warranty, construction and accounting team members by staying up to date on project changes and automating report distribution on a schedule across all company functions.
• Notify suppliers for changes to scheduled Warranty work order activity including dates or times.

Improve vendor to builder communication through real-time information while on the field via mobile.

• Vendors and builders can view and combine their data into an integrated schedule and a single account.
• Simplify vendors’ daily tasks and communication while optimizing the return on investment for builders.
• Manage your workload more efficiently by sorting and setting priorities
• Get real-time information from all your builders to minimize errors and wasted effort
• Continue to work without an internet connection and synchronize your data when you reconnect

Increase efficiency of payment to vendors.

• Transfer money immediately and securely from one bank account to another bank account electronically, eliminating the use of paper checks.
• Pay your trades, vendors, and employees, immediately and securely.
• Reduce administration costs by automating tasks – electronic payment systems reduce clerical efforts and is more efficient in encouraging trades to complete work towards deadlines.

Work out payroll calculations and deductions quicker and with more accuracy.

• Enter employee earnings by hours or salary, and the system will automatically perform calculations over any pay period, apply deductions, and process electronic payments via direct deposit, while also keeping taxes in order.
• Allocate payroll costs directly to a project or job, ensuring that all costs are accounted for and applied correctly and exactly to an individual home.

Comprehensive high-level business reports to assist with decision making on the go.

• Visualize your information through personalized dashboards, customized charts, graphs, and pre-built lists with a comprehensive and easy-to-use Microsoft Excel reporting plug-in.
• Use ad-hoc queries and pivots without the need for specialized database knowledge.
• Easy to install spreadsheet reporting provides a drill-down capability to source transactions.

Get contracts signed faster.

• Reduce risk, achieve greater compliance, accelerate approval processes, and save time and money with electronic signatures.
• The easiest, fastest and more secure way to complete and sign contracts anytime, anywhere.
• Sign sales contracts at the sales center, at the construction site, or send them across the world and back in seconds.

Simplify the options selection process, increase customer upgrade revenue and improve design center workflow during your client design appointments. 

• Design Agent Portal: Simplify and improve the flow process through your design center with a powerful management tool linking physical products directly to the sales addendum.
• Customer Wish List Portal: Enhance the options selection process for new home purchasers with access to a personalized online portal to preview options prior to visiting the design center.
• Interactive Floor Plans: Enables designers to create digitally integrated red line floor plans.

Automatically record prospective homebuyers; including tracking prospect visits by sales office and type of prospect.

• Ensure that you never miss a thing with automated “to do” lists and compulsory follow-ups such as deposit dates, lot reservations, selling of release lots and other options.
• Determine a homebuyer’s pre-qualification based on credit applications and loan requirements.

Visually map lots to keep team members in sync.

• Visually map all lots and link to the latest sales information in the community from NEWSTAR Sales.
• Allows users in the field to easily access site map information in the NEWSTARWeb platform

Gain an unprecedented level of development control by utilizing flexible “best practices” to automate workflow, manage costs, and easily monitor cash flow and job schedules.

• Automate repetitive tasks and focus on issues as they arise.
• Maximize profitability by easily analyzing and controlling costs on every job, and effectively manage job schedules.
• Easily build a database of land parcels and manage acquisitions, entitlements and land banking.
• Track and organize documents to develop consistent “best practices” and improve efficiency throughout the company.
• Cash flow projections help manage, forecast and control long-term cash flow needs, as well as improve vendor relations with accurate and timely billing

Built specifically for new home builders and developers, offering fully interactive homeowner and builder specific portals that enhance the homeowner experience.

• Interactive homeowner portal: provides room-by-room access to unit-specific information including appliances, operating manuals, maintenance schedules, and warranty information.
• Builder portal: provides access to detailed project information like trades and specifications, homeowner contacts, service requests, messaging, deficiency reporting, and more.
• Service request management system: track and manage warranty-based homeowner service requests.
• Deficiency review app: automate your pre-delivery inspection process and key-release sign-off.

Get instant access to all homeowner data, contact information, status of work orders in progress, and all the warranty information you need at your fingertips.

• Signed Post Delivery Inspections are sent to NEWSTAR for archiving and the work order is created immediately, then tracked and updated.
• Users can include up to 5 images for a single deficiency that syncs back to NEWSTAR.
• Conduct on-site walkthroughs, pre-delivery QA checklists and post possession warranty inspections with the web-based product.
• Enjoy offline capabilities on the job site with the mobile Windows-based product.

Quickly qualify, personally respond and narrow your focus on prospects that are ready to purchase with an automated lead qualification and prospect management tool.

• Deliver the best sales results by promptly responding to prospects immediately.
• Convert and close more prospects by effectively qualifying and communicating with prospects in real time.

Convert prospects into buyers by creating an engaging experience that empowers visitors to take action.

• Built on an easy-to-use content management system, you will have all the tools necessary to market your homes or communities.