Sage Master Builder Estimating Standard

Built to accommodate company growth, Sage Master Builder Estimating Standard serves as the foundation of proven reliability, functionality, and flexibility. Maximize productivity and profitability by creating more bids in less time. You’ll win more jobs and curb risks with the assurance of accurate and error-free estimates.

Simplified Setup
Spend less time getting started and more time growing your business. The time-consuming task of setting up and building a database has been streamlined with the Database Builder Wizard. The Wizard walks you through the necessary steps of establishing your database more quickly and efficiently, saving you time and money and allowing you to take full advantage of the Estimating software sooner.

Easy to learn
Estimating Standard includes a comprehensive online help system that slashes the learning curve as you use software help to walk step-by-step through many of the common estimating tasks. You can also do key word searches, review the table of contents, and locate by topic answers to your questions. These capabilities make Estimating Standard extremely easy to learn—a good tool for getting new estimators up to speed quickly.

Advanced spreadsheet capability
With Estimating Standard’s spreadsheet, everything you need to build an estimate is available with the click of a mouse. Estimating Standard makes it easy to analyze and fine-tune your estimates. You can rename and move columns around. Open and compare several estimates at once. Even drag items from one spreadsheet into another for quick creation of new or alternate estimates.

Want to view your work by location? You can do that too. In fact, with the click of a mouse you can look at your estimate by division or item, takeoff order, assembly, bid item or other user-defined Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) code. You can also create and save unlimited, personalized views of the spreadsheet while you work. So later, you can see the estimate just the way you need to during review. Plus, estimates can be viewed in full detail or summarized to the major estimate divisions.

Ever forget to save your work? Don’t worry. Unlike typical memory-based spreadsheets, Estimating Standard’s disk-based spreadsheet resides on your hard drive. So you never have to save your estimate. Or worry about losing your work.

Fast takeoff
There’s more than one way to do takeoff. Estimating Standard gives you several—all designed to give you more accurate estimates, in less time:

Quick takeoff—Simply drag one or more items from the database directly into the spreadsheet on the screen. Enter dimensions and the software automatically calculates all quantities for you.

Item takeoff—If you want to work with database items before they go into your estimate, you can drag them into the item takeoff window. When you’re ready, just click the OK button to add them to your spreadsheet.

Smart Assemblies takeoff—To save lots of time, you can take off all the items of a wall, door, concrete slab or other building component in just one step. Estimating databases include a variety of common assemblies that you can modify. Or you can build your own.

Estimating Explorer
The key to estimate control is organization. Estimating Explorer eliminates time-intensive searches by automatically creating an up-to-date master list and description of every estimate in your system. Within seconds you can sort your estimates by estimator, bid date, estimate number or a variety of other criteria to locate an estimate. Once you do, you’re just one click away from the estimate’s spreadsheet.

Managing your estimates also means understanding the big picture. Estimating Explorer not only organizes your estimates, but gives you the tools to stand back and analyze your work. Need to know what your estimating volume is by estimator? Or your year-to-date estimate volume? You can find these and many other answers using Estimating Explorer’s management reports and graphs. Estimate information can also be exported directly to Microsoft Excel for further analysis or custom graphing.

Presentation-quality reports
These days, your numbers have to look good. With Estimating Standard, you can produce professional-looking, easy to-understand reports for clients and upper management. Not only can you control the look of your reports, you can control the content. You can create custom headers and footers and include graphics. And Estimating Standard’s WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) reporting lets you quickly strip, add to and tweak the estimate just the way you want. Then print. Professional reporting has never been simpler.

Because Sage Master Builder Estimating Standard integrates with the entire system, you’ll have ability to generate proposals faster than you ever thought possible—easily outpacing the number created using generic spreadsheets.