• Stick

• Unit price

• Assembly

• And/or by lump sum bids

• Estimate multiple items with one takeoff unit of measure

• Includes many pre-built assemblies to speed the estimating process

• Easy to add other assemblies as needed

• There’s no limit to the number of cost items, assemblies or other catalog data you can maintain

• Attach detailed specifications to assemblies and items so as you’re building your scope of work you’re building your estimate at the same time

• Standardize your estimating process by building bid sheet templates of cost items, assemblies and specifications broken down by category of work and or by location

• Produce professional looking proposals/specifications for the customer to sign directly from the estimate
• Create detailed or summary proposals/specifications by location and/or by category of work

• Estimate, print or e-mail customer’s change orders

• Track pending, approved and/or rejected change orders along with changes to the vendor’s contract

Allows the ability to:

• Attach pictures to items and assemblies in the database
• View pictures of items/assemblies while estimating
• Change pictures assigned to those items/assemblies within a bid so they’re bid specific
• Print those pictures within the proposal/specification and or change orders bids

• Create PO’s, Subcontracts, Work Orders and Request for Quotes from Estimate in Seconds
• Print, fax or e-mail RFQ’s, PO’s and SC’s to vendors
• Print, fax or e-mail Work Orders to employees
• Print, fax or e-mail vendor’s change orders

• Maintains price lists for your various vendors for the same item

• Easily compares costs between suppliers so that you can negotiate for the best price.

• Can accommodate price updates electronically via Excel (.csv) or text (.txt) file from vendors

• Markup a bid by percentage, cost type, total costs or flat dollar amount.

• Use different markup percentages for each bid.

• TakeOff Plus allows you to modify the price of an item for a specific bid while maintaining the standard item price in the catalog

• Enter key measurements of a blue print and automatically update takeoff quantities for multiple items and assemblies. For instance, SF of Interior or LF of Perimeter

• Interfaces with Digitizers and Digital Takeoff software
• We can write an interface to your digital takeoff software at our applicable rates

• Currently integrate with Chief Architect, Cadsoft and Softplan

• SalesBuilder Plus client/job information is available in Takeoff Plus

• Bid information is available back in SalesBuilder Plus including
  • Bid Code and Bid Name
  • Bid Amount
  • Contract Date
  • Contract Status

• Integrates with Scheduling Plus and Microsoft Project

• Creates project tasks along with vendors associated with those tasks from Takeoff Plus

• Transfers bid information to Job Accounting Professional including: bid code, bid description, contract price, category budgets along with approved purchase orders, and sub-contracts
• Transfers all subsequent client change orders and their dollar amounts along with the associated category budgets, purchase orders and subcontracts for those changes