| 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. |
Estimate is the pricing software package written specifically for the sign industry that plays an essential role in the every day operation of thousands of sign companies all over the world. I talk to dozens of sign companies every week as editor of the Signs Never Sleep Blog (www.signsneversleep.com) and it always amazes me that almost all of them use Estimate and love it. Having Estimate software in your sign shop is like having oxygen in your sign shop. You can't live without it, it always works the way it is supposed to, it helps you breath easier, and you would sure miss it if it was gone!
-- J.D. Iles, SignsNeverSleep.com / Lincoln Sign Co.