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Estimating

The RemodelMAXHomeBuilderMAX residential cost databases are incorporated. 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

Two styles of estimating exist in the system. Jobs can be estimated using either style or a combination. 

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.

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

  • Save the job as an 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.

Estimating Database for each style

They contain the labor, materials, sub-contract, 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 that are carried into integrated Accounting and Job Costing. 

Extensions for once you have installed Priority One Plus software on your computer.

For those of you who are commercial contractors, PrioSoft's estimating can use the RS Means databases. The sample Light Commercial database is available.  Click Here to Download
Pricing  

Our estimating ties, seamlessly, with Cadsoft drawing system and, for those who have Cadsoft, there is a catalog for the interface.  Click Here to Download
 

Inventory Control is part of Priority One Plus - Contractor's Office

Materials, sub-contract and equipment can also be linked with inventory items in the working cost database or while building the estimate. This allows for completely tracking of usage and history for all the items as they flow through each process.

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