The organization and management tool
of architects and engineers
Why not put your planning office in your pocket?
Anytime. From anywhere. In every situation.
The organization and management tool
Why untermStrich X3 software?
It’s challenging to put software into words. We’ll do it anyway! Because that’s the best way for you to get an idea of what your everyday life with untermStrich can look like. So, we’re taking you on a week-long tour based, of course, on real experiences from our 67,000 users.
Anytime.
Your digital office is open 24/7. No matter when you need to access it via your tablet, smartphone or computer.
From anywhere.
London, Berlin, New York? No matter where your business trips take you. With untermStrich, you can pack your entire office in a suitcase.
In every situation in life.
Checking what’s going on in your office while on vacation only takes seconds. And then you can continue in relaxation mode…
Basis
As the name correctly states – this is the basis of untermStrich. So, these TOOLS are indispensable for you. All of the data for projects, people, the team and the master files is entered here.
For master data collectors:
Projects
Team
Addresses
BASIS
Projects
- Management and documentation with different project parameters
- Cash & fees according to project phases and/or individual criteria
- Order management, supplementation and master data entry
BASIS
Team
- Master data sheet with individual settings and access rights
- Separate cost estimates with different hourly rates
- Grouping according to job category, qualification, team affiliation and organizational unit
Appointments
Are you fully interlinked with each other yet? You can easily control everything you always wanted to record, link and document with each other on different dates, days and appointments, via the organizational TOOLS.
For appointment makers:
Tasks
Calendar
Vacation
Resources
APPOINTMENTS
Tasks
- Team-oriented TO-DOS
- Documentation of who completed which task and how
- Recurring TO-DOS for jour-fixe meetings
APPOINTMENTS
Calendar
- Planning according to staff qualifications
- Display of capacity utilization during planning, as well as permanent verification of capacity utilization
- Simple transfer of performed activities into the Hours tool.
APPOINTMENTS
Vacation
- Graphic vacation and absence overview
- Authorization control
- Display of remaining vacation
APPOINTMENTS
Resources
- Planning according to staff qualifications
- Display of capacity utilization during planning as well as permanent verification of capacity utilization
- Simple transfer of performed activities into the Hours tool.
Documentation
The favorite tools for office management! With us, secretaries can become office managers. These tools professionalize the daily work many times over. UntermStrich simply enables the easiest, fastest and most secure document management in the industry.
For frequent writers:
Documents
Plans
Post
DOCUMENTATON
Documents
- Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, LibreOffice and Office-independent document templates
- Template-based document creation with automatic project and address allocation
- Central document management, with full-text indexing, access rights and version management
DOCUMENTATON
Plans
- Plan register documentation
- Version management
- Delivery note creation
DOCUMENTATON
Mail Inbox /Outbox
- Documentation of incoming and outgoing information, whether e-mail, letter or fax
- Archiving incoming and outgoing e-mails with a direct connection to the e-mail server, including project mail accounts.
- Basis of quality management
Info
Networking and linking; that’s what’s on the agenda here. All of the data from untermStrich is in constant exchange with each other. These tools provide statements relevant to each day and on-demand answers to questions that previously could only be dealt with at great expense.
For data detectives:
Facts
Where to find what?
INFO
Facts
- Daily, weekly and monthly overviews of project statuses
- Recognition of cross-connections and affiliations – information advantage through data networking
- Universal, cross-module search functions with full-text search
INFO
Where to find what?
- Library and archive system (reference books, magazines, etc.)
- Office register (location)
- Digital management of analog data
Communication & CRM
More and more often, a targeted and multimodal communication solution is needed. For this purpose, untermStrich offers the essential TOOLS from the bulky title of customer relationship management (CRM).
For communication geniuses:
Communication
CRM
COMMUNICATION & CRM
Communication
- Chat
- Employee birthdays
- Whiteboard
- Employee list (Absent, Active, etc.)
- Your untermStrich e-mails
COMMUNICATION & CRM
CRM
- CRM
- Call log
- Customer birthdays
- Top 10 contractors and invoice recipients
- Nearby addresses – For your route planning
Controlling & Expense accounting
These TOOLS deal with the topic of cash. Thus, guiding the company and keeping it on course. From the most straightforward recording of hours to the high-quality budget calculation, everything needed to steer a successful planning office effectively and efficiently is in here.
For real captains:
Hours
Time protocol
Fees
Expenses
Billing
Control panel
Results
CONTROLLING & EXPENSE ACCOUNTING
Hours
- Simple hours recording with performance description according to project phases
- Project-related travel and incidental expenses
- Additional hours, overtime or comp-time documentation and overview
CONTROLLING & EXPENSE ACCOUNTING
Time protocol
- Semiautomatic time recording
- Documentation with protocol function
- Quick overview of the current availability status of your employees
CONTROLLING & EXPENSE ACCOUNTING
Fees
- Overview of open, partially-billed and billed fees as a basis for budgeting and liquidity forecasts
- Payment behavior and dunning lists
- Creation of e-invoices (XRechnung 1.2, ZUGFeRD 2.0, ebInterface 5.0) with continuous adaptation to current legislation
CONTROLLING & EXPENSE ACCOUNTING
Expenses
- Documentation of external project costs plan/target
- Management of sub-planner fees for general planners
- The basis for budgeting and liquidity forecasts
CONTROLLING & EXPENSE ACCOUNTING
Billing
- Logging of billed services
- Period-based cost and hour reporting
- Job-specific interim and final invoices, incl. a list of previously billed services, security deposit/retainer
CONTROLLING & EXPENSE ACCOUNTING
Control panel
- The project in facts and figures for office and project managers
- Interactive update options
- Project results on a fee and budget basis
CONTROLLING & EXPENSE ACCOUNTING
Results
- The most informative valuation analyses and cost analyses in the industry
- The change documentation as a basis for billing
– one of the most important analyses for planning offices - Corporate, office and project management displayed graphically and numerically
Butler
Our butler series enters a new era with version X3. With the latest updates, you now have more than 100 small support tools at your disposal. Evaluation windows, individual views and tens of possibilities of analyses and outputs at a glance – You name it; we have it!
Each employee can view their necessary and essential butlers in different tabs. A small selection of the most important Butler tools:
- Liquidity forecast
- Budget planning
- Productive analysis
- Mainstay analysis
- PEP-7 evaluation
- Cost-bast billing
- Allocation of tasks
- Alarm threshold notification
- Sales ratio
- Fee overview
- Payment behavior
- Outstanding invoices
- Critical projects
- Work in progress/global project evaluation
- Turnover per employee
- Overtime Analysis
- Change protocol
- Target/actual hours overview
- Break scheduling
- HOAI 2013, 2009 and RifT (Federation VBV-BW)
Customer reviews of X3
A few words from our customers
„A simple tool with a tremendous impact! Thanks to untermStrich, we can now log timesheets on a daily basis. This speeds up the billing process and makes change order management much easier.“
Moritz Köhn
Ingenieurbüro Köhn GbR
“After a short, intensive training period, untermStrich® now provides us with daily updates on the status of all projects. Within a few weeks, untermStrich® has become an indispensable controlling tool in my office.“
DI Christoph Skolaut
Skolaut NaturRaum
“We no longer give money away. Every project activity is promptly provided with a clear description and made available to our customers in clearly structured lists.“
Malte Kramer
SKAI Siemer Krame Architekten Ingenieure