Getting Started

Set up your account, create your first project, and learn the basics of OwnerDraw.

• Welcome to OwnerDraw — An overview of what OwnerDraw does, who it's for, and the key features.
• Creating Your Account — Step-by-step instructions for signing up, verifying your email, and setting your password.
• Setting Up Your First Project — Walkthrough of project creation including project name, address, build type, and lender info.
• Creating and Managing Your Projects — Create a project, set it up properly, switch between projects, and understand statuses, filters and what can actually be deleted.
• Navigating the Dashboard — A tour of the main dashboard including project summary, phase progress, budget snapshot, and quick actions.
• Understanding the Playbook — What the Playbook is, how phases work, and how to follow the build sequence.
• Understanding Your Project Dashboard — What every dashboard card, amount, score and alert actually measures — including two figures to check on Budget and Draw Requests instead.
• Completing Your Profile — Why a complete profile matters and what fields to fill in.
• Getting Help & Support — How to use the help center, contact support, and submit feedback.
• Starting a Project: The Setup Questions and What They Do — The Project Setup questionnaire: what each question does, what is required, what Create & Start actually saves, and how it differs from the Build Playbook and Schedule.
• The Free Construction Calculators: What They Estimate — What each of the eleven calculators and the cost estimator work out, the waste factors and coverage rates built in, how results round, and why nothing is saved to your project.