Easily Networked | Use the Multi-User Server to serve EstiMate's data files from your server machine or any selected computer on your network. Can be run standalone or as a windows service. |
QuickBooks Compatible | Use the QuickBooks link to easily export transactions to invoices, sales receipts or estimates in QuickBooks, retaining all the original line item detail from EstiMate. |
Your Logo | Include your shop's logo on all of your estimates and invoices. |
Find Transactions Easily | The find screen allows you to specify search criteria to look up estimates and jobs. |
Backup & Restore | Easily backup and restore your data files from within EstiMate. |
Vendor List | Maintain a list of all your vendors. |
Customer List | Maintain a list of all your customers. |
Import | You can import contacts from delimited text files or directly from QuickBooks. |
Shop Rate | The hourly rate wizard helps you to determine your shop rate and make sure you are always profitable. |
Labor Rates | Customizable labor rates for pricing services. |
Go On The Road | Check your shop's data out onto your laptop to go quote in the field then merge your changes when you return, or email your changes back to the shop in a small merge file. |
Job Tracking | Customizable status flags allow you to manage the flow of jobs through your shop. |
File Attachments | File attachments to estimates, jobs, customer and vendor records make it easy to keep everything in one place. |
Working Days | Built in support for working days when scheduling jobs. |
Job Timer | Integrated Job Timer that allows multiple logged in users to log into a job in the system and track actual work time against expected work time. |
Machine Rates | Custom hourly rates for various production machines. |
I like the EstiMate program because I can present my customers with a clear and concise printed estimate. If they do not like the price I quoted, fine! I know with ESTIMATE it is the price we need to charge in our shop to be in business and yes have profit left! I see now why you say "stop using your head." I no longer have to give my customers that "far away look" when they ask: "how much is it?" With the ESTIMATE program I feel confident in my pricing "SYSTEM". I was able to "groom" all of my material costs into the ESTIMATE program and then let ESTIMATE coordinate all those costs I used to miss.
-- John Seeley, Seeley Sign Co., Sylvania, PA