{"id":572,"date":"2014-01-26T21:06:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T21:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easyestimate.co.nz\/?p=572"},"modified":"2019-03-04T14:25:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T14:25:31","slug":"construction-software-why-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easyestimate.co.nz\/index.php\/construction-software-why-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction Software &#8211; Why Use it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.19.18&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Many <strong>general\u00a0builders<\/strong>\u00a0traditionally have used Microsoft Excel, \u00a0Microsoft Word, or a combination of both documents to produce their quotes for their customers. Both of those bits of <strong>software<\/strong> are good, but not designed solely to price and quote for <strong>building costing,<\/strong> you ideally need both of them to be combined, one piece of software for the calculations and the other for presentation of the quote. We know that you can make the software do it, but they are not\u00a0designed\u00a0solely\u00a0for this\u00a0purpose\u00a0and the average builder does not have the time to create these complicated systems. The problem is that getting your <strong>estimate<\/strong> for costing the job tender correctly is the single most important part of running a building company, unless you get the sums right at the start, the whole job could lose you money, if you over price the quote you won&#8217;t even get the chance to win the job. Using software can help in getting your figures right, imagine the Ford motor company not knowing how much a car would cost to put\u00a0together,\u00a0they could not possibly know what to sell it for. The problem with <strong>construction<\/strong> work is that almost every job is different, and the job changes as you go along. This is where our <strong>software<\/strong> helps you out;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can cost the job and submit the tender &#8211; all from one simple interface &#8211; no software to install.<\/li>\n<li>As the job commences you can add the extras to the job live on site* to make sure you bill for everything.<\/li>\n<li>Pricing a similar job ? just copy the original job using our templates system and just change the items that are different &#8211; speeding up your <strong>estimating.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This makes your\u00a0tendering\u00a0and estimating process as\u00a0efficient\u00a0and as accurate as possible. Another great thing about our software, you can try it at almost no risk, some companies charge \u00a3100&#8217;s of pounds, our is just \u00a39.99 a month and if you don&#8217;t like or use it you simply stop paying! \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.19.18&#8243;] Many general\u00a0builders\u00a0traditionally have used Microsoft Excel, \u00a0Microsoft Word, or a combination of both documents to produce their quotes for their customers. Both of those bits of software are good, but not designed solely to price and quote for building costing, you ideally need both of them to be combined, one piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p>Many <strong>general\u00a0builders<\/strong>\u00a0traditionally have used Microsoft Excel, \u00a0Microsoft Word, or a combination of both documents to produce their quotes for their customers.<\/p><p>Both of those bits of <strong>software<\/strong> are good, but not designed solely to price and quote for <strong>building costing,<\/strong> you ideally need both of them to be combined, one piece of software for the calculations and the other for presentation of the quote. We know that you can make the software do it, but they are not\u00a0designed\u00a0solely\u00a0for this\u00a0purpose\u00a0and the average builder does not have the time to create these complicated systems.<\/p><p>The problem is that getting your <strong>estimate<\/strong> for costing the job tender correctly is the single most important part of running a building company, unless you get the sums right at the start, the whole job could lose you money, if you over price the quote you won't even get the chance to win the job.<\/p><p>Using software can help in getting your figures right, imagine the Ford motor company not knowing how much a car would cost to put\u00a0together,\u00a0they could not possibly know what to sell it for. The problem with <strong>construction<\/strong> work is that almost every job is different, and the job changes as you go along. This is where our <strong>software<\/strong> helps you out;<\/p><ul><li>You can cost the job and submit the tender - all from one simple interface - no software to install.<\/li><li>As the job commences you can add the extras to the job live on site* to make sure you bill for everything.<\/li><li>Pricing a similar job ? just copy the original job using our templates system and just change the items that are different - speeding up your <strong>estimating.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>This makes your\u00a0tendering\u00a0and estimating process as\u00a0efficient\u00a0and as accurate as possible.<\/p><p>Another great thing about our software, you can try it at almost no risk, some companies charge \u00a3100's of pounds, our is just \u00a39.99 a month and if you don't like or use it you simply stop paying!<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyestimate.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyestimate.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyestimate.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyestimate.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyestimate.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyestimate.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2634,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyestimate.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/2634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyestimate.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyestimate.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyestimate.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyestimate.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}