Estimating Software

"What used to take 45 minutes now takes 5 minutes using ProjectPAK"

ProjectPAK solves your estimating problems. Not only will you estimate jobs faster and more accurately, our unique "build as you go" architecture will have you producing quality quotes within a week!

If you use pen and paper, or even a spreadsheet, you're wasting hour upon hour and missing opportunities to estimate profitable jobs. Stop throwing away valuable cost planning time! With its powerful database, ProjectPAK enables you to quickly re-use relevant cost information, prior quotations, product cost assemblies, and job information. The more you use it, the more your estimating productivity grows, giving you an awesome competitive advantage.

Additional Product Information

Contact Management
Product Library
Estimating
Estimate Totals
Paramentrics
Assemblies
Documents Generator
Quoting
Import/Export

Flexible

Handles all estimating styles including unit measurement (lineal metre, square metre, etc.), item composition (items are broken down into underlying material, labor, etc.), and parametric (mathematical formulas that define relationships between a product and its underlying parts). Enter information manually, or quickly drop reusable library items and prepackaged assemblies on to the estimate sheet. Customizable document templates let you create proposals to your exact specifications. Formula builder lets you modify standard estimate sheet calculations so they address custom estimating needs.

Precise

Automatically calculates detail and summary values. Built-in error checking pinpoints missing takeoff quantities. User defined precision up to 5 decimal places. Analysis reports show cost, overhead and profit margins, taxable and non-taxable amounts, as well as, cost and quantity breakdowns by product, location, phase, etc. Library Item Price Book ensures accurate and up to date costs. Assemblies always use current library costs and values.

Consistent

Document templates standardize document content and layout. Product assemblies standardize product cost and configuration. Security prevents unauthorized changes to the database. The shared database ensures up to date and accurate costs across all networked users. Moreover, since ProjectPAK uses a point and click interface, data entry errors are significantly reduced.

Fast

Copy reusable items from the library and from the assembly catalog into your estimate sheet. This eliminates typing the same thing over and over again. Copy, cut, and paste items within an estimate or between estimates. Change material type and species with a click of the mouse and instantly see cost differences. Automatically generate reports and professional looking budgets, quotations, revisions, and change orders with built in document generator. This eliminates the time consuming chore of typing quotations in a word processor

Easy

Intuitive design and layout make ProjectPAK easy to use and learn. Comes with a comprehensive user’s guide, tutorial, examples booklet, and context sensitive help. Sample databases are loaded with examples to help you get started. Knowledgeable and friendly technical support is always just a phone call away. In fact, customers consistently rate our support staff as far superior to anything they’ve experienced with other software vendors.

Contact Management

Forget your pin board’s and Business card holder ProjectPAK gives you access to all your clients, Contractors and Vendors with an easy to use Contact Manager.

Find Company details and Contacts, even send emails straight from ProjectPAK.

Forget spending days entering contacts you already have in your accounting packages or spreadsheets. ProjectPAK has an import facility that allows you to bring in your existing Contacts and Materials into the Product Library.

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Product Library

Use the customizable library/price book to quickly copy common items into an estimate. Stop retyping the same descriptions over and over. Using the ProjectPAK library ensures consistent pricing and improves productivity.

Organizing your library is a snap. You have complete control over Division, Sub-Division, and item content. Setting up a customized library structure speeds takeoff and is just one example of how ProjectPAK adapts to your business.

Some materials are available from multiple suppliers. Project Pak allows you declare more than one supplier for a product and then allows you to enter the different prices and product codes for this suppler. Allows you to estimate using the either highest cost so you do not get caught funding the difference or your prefered supplier to reduce the price.

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Estimating

ProjectPAK allows you to estimate the way you want to. Add individual line items and prices, use the library to bring in fix costs, labour items or materials or use your pre-built assemblies to build your quote. ProjectPAK gives you the same feel as your existing spreadsheets only without the headaches associated with them.

• Ignore tick - excludes rows from the cost.
• Replace - allows you to replace an item throughout the entire estimate or selected rows
• Copy - ProjectPAK allows you to copy entire or part estimates from one to another.
• Formulas - endless possibilities with your quoting.
• Assemblies - used to pre-define typical work "packages", complete with quantity, cost, pricing and notes.
• Job Spec - ProjectPAK has a comprehensive job spec that allows you to declare materials, hardware etc which automatically updates the estimate.

Estimate Totals

Break down your estimate using Sub Totals, Totals & Grand Totals. Gives you the flexibility to hide, ignore or even provide options for your clients to choose from. Forget having to re-quote ProjectPAK allows you to modify the original whilst leaving the original costs.

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Assemblies

Use assemblies to pre-define typical work "packages", complete with quantity, cost, pricing, and notes. Reuse them over and over again to turbo charge your quoting!

Always reflect current costs - automatically! ProjectPAK ensures assembly costs match current library costs when copying assemblies into an estimate.

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Parametrics

One of the most powerful tools ProjectPAK has to offer. Use parametric formulas to calculate things such as:
Part Sizes
Hardware Quantities
Wastage factors
Labour rates.
The sample show how we can calculate cam quantities for a standard base cabinet.

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Document Generator

ProjectPAK has a built in document generator. You can produce your own reports such as:

• Bill of Quantities

• Quotations

• Invoices

• Purchase Order

Attach your own logo, use your own letterhead. Select items to be shown or hidden. Each document can be tailored to suit each quote.
Apply a header and footer and even create a cover page for your quote. You can even export the document into word and customize it there if you like. ProjectPAK document generator is like no other.

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Quoting

ProjectPAK allows you to configure your quotes any way you like. Simply fill in the Document Options box as shown above to include or exclude any information you like. The sample quote shows how we can break down a quote to include:

• Client Details

• Ship To Details

• Project Information

• Header’s

• Job Description

• Sub Total rows

• Cabinets & Qty’s with or without costs.

• Totals

• Footers

• Acceptance signatures

This is just one of the many ways you can configure your quotes to suit your needs as well as your clients.

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Import/Export

Use ProjectPAK's powerful import/export utility for sharing information with other tools. For example, export invoicing and purchase order information to accounting software (including QuickBooks). Save time and streamline operations by reusing information instead of re-entering it.

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