Estimating

The Residential cost databases is included with the software. All RS Means databases available.

• All items you might need

• Easy and accurate process

• Current costs for the entire list of unit cost items

• The opportunity to customize the database for your specific needs

• Localize your database costs by simply updating the basic labor and materials factors with your costs

Estimating Database for each style.

The software contains the labor, materials, subcontract, equipment and miscellaneous breakdown and gives you a base for unit costing and pricing. That breakdown follows each transaction through the entire process, into generated Work Orders, Requests for Quotation and Purchase Orders and into accounting, posting the labor, materials and miscellaneous revenue items for Job Costing. Divisions or Job Costing categories to each cost segment of each line item are carried into integrated Accounting and Job Costing.

• Detail or Line Item - Commercial contractors, Remodelers, General Contractors, Builders or other larger jobs

  • Create the Scope of Work

  • Click on  groups of or individual line items from your working cost database. 

  • Include Assemblies which come with the system and those you have generated

  • Adjust the estimate by applying measurements to the entire estimate or any part

  • Requests for Quotation can be generated and, when the bids com back with the real numbers, the right ones can be incorporated into the estimate with just a few clicks of the mouse.

  • Save the estimate as the Budget when it is sold

  • Use the reports right there to see the estimate to actual along the way through the job

  • Create a Payment schedule or record % of Completion to use for tracking job as well as for billing.

  • Schedule task that carry all the information intricately through to the Job Schedule. 

  • Save the job as an template (assembly) to be used in future estimates for similar jobs

  Click Here to Review  the Detail Job document.  Right click on the link will allow you to save the document to your computer for future review.

• Summary -  Painters, Handyman, Custom Builders and other types of contractors

  • Estimating is done by adding each task to a job with its unique text, labor, materials and miscellaneous charges and/or by using the Estimate Database of tasks you have stored.

  • Requests for Quotation can be generated and, when the bids com back with the real numbers, the right ones can be incorporated into the estimate with just a few clicks of the mouse.

   Click Here to Review  the Summary Job document.  Right click on the link will allow you to save the document to your computer for future review.

  Combination - Remodelers, General Contractors, Builders combining summary of each sub with detail for in-house items.

  Job Costing categories to each cost segment of each line item that are carried into integrated Accounting and Job Costing. 

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