Timberline was first sold as mainframe software in 1971; Sage acquired it in 2003. Today Sage Timberline Office provides financial and operations management solutions to a variety of contractors -- commercial, industrial, electrical, mechanical, specialty and service -- as well as residential homebuilders and real estate developers and managers. Sage Timberline comes with up to 60 construction accounting, estimating, and project management modules, which are organized into several different suites.

• Timerbline's accounting suite includes regular accounting features, allowing users to manage accounts payable/receivable, job costing, payroll, and billing, in addition to equipment cost, contracts, financial statements, and a general ledger.
• The estimating suite comes with information about thousands of industry items, and also allows users to add their own items and formulas. It can be integrated with RSMeans databases. Sage also offers a digitizer add-on. Finally, with modeling estimating, it is possible to see what various changes to a plan would cost, the vendor noted.
• Sage Timberline Office Procurement allows users to create purchase orders, receipts, and track change orders following the estimating process, the vendor said.
• The production management suite helps contractors manage purchase orders and communicate with other team members, the vendor said.
• The project management suite has features that aid contractors in managing change orders, RFIs, subcontracts and purchase orders.
• Sage Timberline Office's property management suite provides developers and property owners/managers with the tools to manage many aspects of leases, such as interest on deposits, billing, lease options, overage rents, lease information, and credits. This module also comes with accounting features specific to property management, a billing module, and property management reports.
• Sage Timberline Office's reporting module includes features such as an address book, integration with Crystal Reports, a report designer and a module to initiate tasks, the vendor said.
• Finally, the service management module assists contractors with field purchasing, service agreements and warranties, and preventive maintenance.