Measure off the plan, price as you go.
Set the scale once, then trace the whole job off the architect’s PDF. Every area, run and count prices itself against your own rates as you measure.
Estimation & Take-off turns the architect’s PDF into a priced job without a scale ruler, a highlighter and a spreadsheet on the side. Set the drawing scale once off a known dimension, then trace areas, runs and counts straight off the plan against your own library of what you sell, each item carrying its own price and its own minimum charge, so twelve small panes bill like twelve and not like six square metres. Costs come live off your supplier pricelists, so the margin moves on screen while you measure instead of turning up after the price has gone out. When the take-off is done it has two ways out: one button turns it into a quotation with every line filled in and the marked-up plans attached, and another sends the measured quantities to your suppliers for a project rate without showing them what you charge.
The scale ruler and the spreadsheet both go in the bin
Open the plan, set the scale once off a known dimension, and start tracing. Areas, runs and counts land as you go, labelled on the drawing and listed in the schedule beside it. Nine favourites sit on the number keys, so the item you use forty times is one keystroke and not four clicks.
Priced off your own rates, minimums and all
Every item in your library carries what you charge for it and the minimum you charge, so twelve panes at half a square metre bill as twelve. Costs come live off your supplier pricelists, so the margin moves while you measure and you find out the job is thin before the client does.
One take-off, two ways out
Turn it into a quotation and every line is already filled in with the marked-up plans attached, ready to send. Or ask your suppliers for a project rate first: they see the measured metres, never your prices, and the rate you award flows back onto the take-off as your cost.
Three steps, no faff.
Load the plan
Drop in the architect’s PDF, tick the pages you want, set the scale once.
Trace the job
Areas, runs and counts against your own library. Totals and margin build as you measure.
Send it out
Convert it to a quotation with the plans attached, or ask suppliers for a project rate.
Ready to run it properly?
Estimation & Take-off is one part of a system that does the whole job: quote to cash, end to end. Start your business pre-wired for your trade.
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