file extension BIU

BidMaker

The direct result of customer feedback and great software design, the third version of BidMaker is an even more powerful estimating program with numerous new features and enhancements.

• Total hours based on hourly factor in materials
• Calculate billable wage for each worker based on taxes, profit, and other burdens
• Combine workers into crews and set crews specific to dates or spread total hour factors into individual worker's time within the crew
• Save your bids as PDF files and email them
• Custom page for notes, terms, or other standard text
• Save as Quickbooks invoice import file
• Save as web page (htm)
• Bill of Materials (no pricing) and Material List (includes pricing)
• Detailed or simple Labor and Crew Cost reports
• Open your bid in Microsoft Word to add your company logo, import to Excel, or re-arrange data
• Other consumables cost report that can be grouped by category
• Add and edit master material list, change your pricing at any time
• Backup and email your master material list to your co-workers to update their prices
• Factors to calculate hours
• Price materials for rent or sell using custom rent and sell columns
• Price your materials for rent using % of list for each rental period
• Apply discounts for each rental period or an overall discount for all periods
• Discounts, markups and taxes
• Totals for weight and number of pieces for freight and other calculations
• Override prices in your bid for special situations
• Use Assemblies to group and add common materials and their relationships, then add them to your bid
• Add costs for consumables, freight, or other items
• Use other costs as unit-based items, defining your own units and items
• Discount and markup each item
• Taxes, discounts and markups for overall item list
• Quick costs for adding an item without adding it to the master item list
• Group unit cost items into categories
• Save bids as individual bid files
• Email bids to your customers or co-workers
• Integrated Windows standard help system
• Simple installation using reliable Microsoft msi installer and patching technology
• Plug-ins available to enhance material counting