Latest News from the Buildxact team

We've taken the Blu Assembly/Recipe Assistant to the next level!

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Shared by Kalya • August 12, 2025

Check out these new functions and features:

  • Optimized Accuracy & Consistency
    Create more precise assemblies and recipes for complete rooms.
  • Generic Supplier Feature
    New Zealand customers can now power up their business with the generic supplier option in the assistant. Aussie customers can also access this feature when not connected to a specific supplier.
  • Save Time with Recent & Saved Prompts
    Build your own prompt library! Quickly reuse your favorite prompts across projects to speed up your workflow.
  • Labor Rates Made Easy
    Industry-standard labor rates are now included for all regions, no more guesswork.
Feature Update

Our new Timesheets reporting makes it easy to stay on top of your team’s hours

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Shared by Kalya • August 05, 2025

See every hour logged in Buildxact at a glance, filter by job, contract, or date to find what you need fast, and track total hours for each pay period.


Export to Excel to update your payroll or dig deeper into the numbers.


It’s a simple way to keep labor costs in check and stay in control.

Check out what's new in takeoffs!

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Shared by Kalya • July 31, 2025

Delete all measurements in one click – Clean up your takeoffs faster than ever.

Try the new Blu auto-scale – Now available as a single-page option in the scale drop-down.

Spot scale instantly – Scale indicators are back on your plan thumbnails.

Edit with ease – Use the point-edit tool from the toolbar anytime or tap the polygon shape right after Blu auto-measure finishes.

Set to manual scale before you upload plans – Choose your process upfront.

Rename and rotate like before – You can now rename pages and rotate them right in canvas view.

Auto-measure rooms in a flash – Quickly calculate room area or perimeter directly from your floorplans.

Introducing Blu - your new AI powered construction assistant!

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Shared by Kalya • July 04, 2025

Did you miss the recent webinars outlining all the exciting new AI-powered functionality recently launched in Buildxact?

Don't sweat it, we've included the links below so that you can watch when it suits you.

For Australian & New Zealand customers:

For our North American customers:

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Ready to explore what's new in Buildxact?

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Shared by Kalya • July 02, 2025

There has been a lot going on at lately so you may have missed some important feature upgrades and handy enhancements.

Digital signatures - did you know your clients can now sign off on project documents in Buildxact? Digital signatures eliminate the need for email exchanges and speed up the approval processes.

Read more here.

No more user limits - with the launch of the new Buildxact subscription plans we've done away with user limits. This means you can have as many users as you need using Buildxact.

Read more here.

Auto-measuring the area or perimeter of your plans - the exciting new AI driven Blu: Takeoff Assistant can quickly give you accurate measurements across all your uploaded plans, but this doesn't mean you can't edit the results. Click on your plan using the point edit tool and change any measurement you want.

Read more here.

Feature Update

New! Easily search your projects

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Shared by Kalya • June 27, 2025

You can now search across even more areas of your projects, from job costings, orders and variations to invoices.

Find what you need faster, simplify your workflow, and save valuable time.

Feature Update

You can now bulk book your contacts!

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Shared by Kalya • March 26, 2025

This feature allows you to send emails to any contacts (with an email address) that you have assigned to a task in the job schedule.

The sent status and the contact's response status are then captured and reflected in the Job Schedule.

Contacts that accept the tasks they are booked on will also receive an automated email invitation to join the related job on the mobile app, Buildxact Onsite.

Read more about bulk bookings/communications here

New feature

You can now show order notes on your cost-plus invoices!

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Shared by Kalya • December 18, 2024

We know this is something you've been waiting for.

With one easy click you can show any purchase and work order notes on your invoices for cost-plus projects.

Good news for Deputy users - employee notes can also be shown.

Take a look at the help guide below to see how.

Feature Update

We've launched the new and improved email integration function!

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Shared by Kalya • November 13, 2024

Email integration with Buildxact has been updated and enhanced to help streamline your productivity and save you time. You can now:

  • Send messages directly from your domain via Buildxact.
  • View all your sent emails from within your Jobs and Estimates.
  • Quickly check the status of your emails, seeing when they were sent, delivered and opened.
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Simple financing solutions for your clients

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Shared by Kalya • November 06, 2024

We have partnered with Slice® by FNBO to offer flexible financing options to your clients. Start now with a quick and easy application process and in about a week you can offer financing to all your interested clients.