Build Better: BRIX Brings Familiar Accounting Tools and Smarter Collaboration Together 

Ask most accounting, purchasing and operations teams how they answer a quick question about job costs, and you’ll hear the same thing: export it to Excel. Totaling takeoff quantities, comparing pricing across plans, checking how one community stacks up against another. The data is in BRIX, but the analysis happens somewhere else. 

That round trip adds up, especially for teams working across multiple jobs, plans and communities. 

The latest BRIX enhancements bring more of that familiar spreadsheet experience directly into the software. With the new Connection Grid, Builders can organize, filter, group, and analyze current financial and operational information without switching between BRIX, Excel, and separate reports. 

For example, a purchasing manager reviewing takeoffs can group items by plan and then by cost code, see how many line items fall in each group, and switch on pivot mode to total quantities in seconds.  An operations manager can pivot jobs by community and plan to compare average base price against total job price, save that layout as a named view, and bring it back with one click the next time the question comes up.  

What’s New with BRIX 

• Group and pivot like a spreadsheet. Drag any column into row groups, nest them (plan, then cost code), and turn on pivot mode to sum or average values across plans, communities and more. 

• Faster answers without running separate reports. Builders can summarize purchase orders, compare budgets, and review costs using current information already in the system. 

• Export any view. Whether you’re working in a standard grid, a grouped view or a pivot table, export it as you see it and share it with whoever needs it.  

• Saved views you can share. Save the columns, filters, groupings and pivots you use most, open them from the Views Menu with one click, and share them with colleagues.  

Looking Ahead: More Ways to Work Together in BRIX 

These enhancements are part of a broader focus on making BRIX more intuitive and efficient for the teams who use it every day. 

As we look toward the new year, we’re excited about opportunities to build on this experience with more connected ways to access information and collaborate. Planned in-app messaging capabilities will bring Microsoft Teams communication into BRIX, helping users share information and discuss questions with colleagues while working in the system. 

Combined with more flexible grids, saved views, and easier navigation, these capabilities are intended to help teams spend less time moving between applications and more time working together with the information they need. 

Operational Intelligence becomes more valuable when teams can access, understand, and act on information without unnecessary steps. As part of Hyphen’s Accounting + Operations for Builders solution set, BRIX continues to bring familiar accounting functionality, greater visibility, and more connected ways of working into the everyday experience of managing a Builder’s business. 

Explore how Hyphen Solutions continues to improve the software Builders rely on every day through our Build Better Product Innovation series.