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Using Google Drive for project management and estimating

I recently started working for a small general contracting company as a project manager, and this is really my first time in a major role like this. They've been using Google drive to organize jobs, create estimates, etc., and it works alright. But having used their method for about a month now, I'm trying to optimize it and make it more productive and efficient. They don't want to pay for a subscription to a true management software, because the scale of our jobs aren't really that massive. However, we do occasionally build custom homes and do fairly major remodels.

Does anyone here have any experience using Google Drive to essentially manage/estimate/organize all their jobs? If so, have you come up with a good system to make things flow efficiently? I think it would be great to have a template for new projects, starting with client information, then estimating, getting sub bids, applying the bids, making notes, and having it all populate a finished looking final draft ready to present to the clients.

I know most of you will probably say just pay for the damn software, but unfortunately I'm not actually the boss, so I'm trying to make my job as productive and easy as possible.

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