Plan Review Routing Software for Small, Combined Departments

GovOwl plan review software routes one permit across Building, Planning, Environmental Health, and Fire on a single parcel record, cycles every resubmittal, and sends the applicant one set of comments instead of a separate email from each desk. It runs the review, the fees, and the resubmittals in one place, so everyone sees where a project stands.

Your reviewers keep marking up plans in whatever tool they already use, such as Bluebeam. GovOwl routes the record around that work, it does not replace it.

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How the Review Moves

GovOwl plan review software follows the path your department already runs:

  • Intake – the permit technician checks the submittal, triggers the plan review fee, and routes the record to the departments that must review
  • Review – each department reviews its portion on the same record using its own tools
  • Resubmittal – corrected plans stack as a new version with a date and time, nothing overwritten, every round kept
  • Comments – the permit technician compiles every department’s comments into one package, not separate emails from each desk
  • Multiparty portal – the applicant sees one compiled set of comments and uploads the corrected plans in one place, every round on the same record
  • Approval – once all required departments sign off, the permit moves forward on the same parcel record
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Built for Small, Combined Departments

GovOwl plan review software is built for the small agency where one office runs several programs at once, on the platform agencies in eleven states trust for inspections, code enforcement, and environmental health. It arrives shaped to a working review flow, then we tailor it to your departments, your fees, and your steps.
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Tell Us How You Review

See how GovOwl can run plan review across your departments.