Bidding & estimating
Construction bidding software: itemised bids, signed online
Write a bid from your own price list, send it as a real document from your own email, and let the customer accept and sign it in about a minute.
A number in an email is not a bid
Plenty of good work is quoted as a figure in the body of an email. It wins jobs, and then it loses arguments: there is no itemisation to point at, nothing signed, no record of whether the customer opened it, and nothing that stops them treating the total as negotiable months later.
What you get
What it does
A grid your office already knows
Description, quantity, unit, rate, amount. Fill in any two of quantity, rate and amount and the third follows. Enter adds the next row.
Priced from your own catalogue
Search your products as you type a line, and the unit and rate come with the pick. Charging more or less than the book price is shown beside it, never corrected or blocked.
Import a bid from a PDF
Upload an estimate PDF and every line and field is read into a new bid for you to check. It is read twice, by different models where configured, and any disagreement with the printed total is a decision you make rather than a plug we insert.
Sent as a real email
From your own address with the PDF attached, previewed exactly as the customer will see it, on a mobile-responsive layout because most builders read on a phone.
Accepted and signed online
A link to a page where the customer reviews the scope and signs. You see when it was opened and how often.
Dead bids die
A sent bid nobody answered for six months is aged to no response, so it leaves your open pipeline and stops distorting your win rate. Any view, response or signature means hands off.
How it works
Start to finish
- 1
Write the bid
By hand, from a blueprint takeoff, or imported from an existing PDF.
- 2
Check the arithmetic
The total is the sum of the lines whenever there are lines. A bid cannot print an itemisation that disagrees with its own total.
- 3
Send it
From your own email, with the PDF attached and an accept link if you want one.
- 4
Convert the win to a job
The accepted bid becomes a job carrying its number, its line items and the customer's acceptance note.
Why the bid number is the invoice number
One number runs from estimate to job to invoice. That single decision removes a whole category of reconciliation work: there is no second numbering scheme to match against, so an invoice arriving in a builder's accounts payable can be tied to the estimate they approved without anybody doing it by hand.
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A signed bid is frozen. Its terms and its lines cannot be edited by anyone after the customer signs, because the whole point of the signature is that the document did not change afterwards.
If you bill under more than one entity, the bid and the invoice both render under the identity mapped to that trade, so a job quotes and invoices under the same DBA end to end.
Common questions
- No. A hand-written itemised bid is first class, and the grid is the same one a takeoff-derived bid uses.
See it on your own jobs.
A 20-minute walkthrough, on your real pipeline. No slide deck, no pressure.