Construction Estimating Software Top Ten List Of Must Haves #7

My Top 3

Your construction estimating software should allow you to make notes in your estimates.

Notes in your construction estimates are important for several reasons:

1. You can remind yourself why you estimated a line, or a section, a particular way so when you’re looking at the estimate a week or a month from now you’ll understand what you were thinking. I don’t know about you, but I will look at something I did a week ago and wonder what I was thinking when I did it.

2. You can describe what you are doing in specific areas of the job, like what material you’re going to use and why. This allows you to demonstrate to your customer that you understand what needs to be done and how you’re going to do it. You also have a written agreement on how specific items are going to be handled because it’s and integral part of the estimate.

3. Having notes in your construction estimates also makes them a part of the permanent record of your estimate. This means that your customer knows exactly what they are getting and therefore there is less chance that there will be a disagreement over what’s going to be done on the job. And, that means that you’ll have fewer headaches dealing with your customers.

 Construction estimating software is a great time saver, but it must do certain things if it’s going to save you time and effort.