asta easyplan product features

Key features in Asta Easyplan

Get in control of your projects and impress your clients with easy-to-use project planning software that's 100% designed for construction.

With Asta Easyplan you can quickly create professional looking plans, record progress, track costs, and schedule labour. The software can handle up to 250 tasks at a time making it the ideal tool for managing smaller construction projects.

A quick look at what's great about Asta Easyplan

1. Ideal for project planning novices

	Includes seven Project Wizards for step-by-step guidance on how to set up and manage your projects - all in plain English!
	Allows you to 'undo' all your past actions so you can fix any mistake, even after the project has been saved.
	If you can draw, you can use Asta Easyplan! You simply draw tasks onto the bar chart and link them using the mouse.

2. Produce professional looking project plans that impress your clients

	Produce high quality project plans as electronic files (e.g. PDF) or as colour print-outs scaled to any size.
	Customise your project plans with the client name, project name and revision number around the border.
	Control what you show clients. Everything within Asta Easyplan can be switched on or off (e.g. links and holidays).

3. Share project files with more people

	Save Asta Easyplan project files into Asta Powerproject, Microsoft Project and Primavera file formats* and then email them to 3rd parties. You can also import files from these different software tools into Asta Easyplan.
	Import and export task lists between Asta Easyplan and Microsoft Excel.
	Export project plans into XML format and output to HTML.

4. Keep tight control over what's happening

	Show the logical order of activities by clicking a button that instantly schedules activities from their earliest possible start position.
	Mark up progress against each activity so you can see what's actually happening compared to the original plan.
	Compare where you should be on a project against where you actually are. Essential for keeping clients well-informed!

5. Track project costs and labour requirements

	Record fixed and variable costs against activities, labour and materials.
	Accurately forecast cash flow by combining time and cost.
	See who is responsible for each activity by producing plans that show your labour requirements on each project.

* File formats you can save Asta Easyplan version 3 project files into include:

- Asta Powerproject version 9
- Asta Poweproject version 8 (first save into Asta Easyplan version 2)
- Asta Easyplan version 2
- Primavera XER file format (compatible with P3e versions 3.1 and 4.1, as well as P5 and P6)
- Primavera P3
- HTML, PDF and CS