What does EstimatorXpress® v.8 do?
EstimatorXpress is designed by a House Builder & Developer with 25 years experience in the trade and an expert on estimating and project management.
Adrian Wild, founder of HBXL, built over 80 houses and apartments during his career and has produced EstimatorXpress to work they way you need it to. It's packed full of estimating and project management features to make sure you stick to budget, make a decent profit and complete the project on time!
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1. Create a new estimate in seconds with the estimate wizard
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Use the speedy Estimate Wizard to take you through creating each estimate in just 9 quick steps.
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Copy existing estimates and amend basic dimensions to cost similar houses in minutes. Just download latest prices to update the material costs!
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Better still, you can import a CAD drawing from PlansXpress and watch EstimatorXpress automatically estimate the entire set of plans in an instant.
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2. 250+ clever calculators price up your building work
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No other estimating software can boast the flexibility or simplicity of EstimatorXpress with detailed building drawings throughout for inputting your dimensions.
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Simply select your estimating calculators (such as the Brick & Block Cavity Wall calculator) and work your way through the drawings entering dimensions and answering Yes/No questions. And that's it! Your Brickwork, foundations, footings and interiors are all priced up in an instant.
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3. Fully customisable labour and plant rates
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EstimatorXpress comes set up with all labour and plant costs built-in. It's just a 10 minute job to update the prices
to the rates you pay. We know that labour rates can vary significantly
within any one town, city or area and so it's important that you have
the flexibility to easily update the rates to reflect your business.
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Choose to pay your men on day rates, hourly, per unit - the choice is yours!
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4. Latest material costs at your fingertips
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5. Exclusive! Link to your merchant account
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Exclusive to EstimatorXpress is the function to link your software to one of our merchant partners. You can choose to link to Jewson, Travis Perkins, Keyline, Builderwarehouse, Graham, AW Champion or TBS. Plus more coming soon...
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6. Calculates all profit, wastage and inflation
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7. 80+ reports and professional charts
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As well as a full breakdown of costs, cutting lists, material schedules (Bill of quantities) and labour schedules it will also tell you how much profit you are going to make and provide cashflow analysis. Plus the new Stage Payment Calculator will help ensure you get paid on time.
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8. Project Management Tools
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The EstimatorXpress Bar Chart Planner allows you to accurately schedule each phase of the project to ensure you stay on track.
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Hand the schedule to your contractors, customers and bank manager to keep everyone in the loop.
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The chart automatically links to cost reports, schedules and cash flow - even telling you when to order materials and when they need to arrive on site!
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9. Support and updates from day one
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Your estimating software comes with the HBXL Support and Updates programme so you can rest assured that superb, expert guidance is just a call away. Our dedicated team will get you up and running with ease. If you like, our Support Advisors can even troubleshoot your computer remotely using an internet connection.
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HBXL Support and Updates also covers you for all software updates so you know you're always using the very latest technology from HBXL.
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