What does EstimatorXpress® Roofing Trade edition do?
EstimatorXpress is designed by a builder with 25 years experience in the trade and an expert on estimating and project management.
Adrian Wild, founder of HBXL, produced EstimatorXpress to speak a builder’s language. It's packed full of estimating and project management features to make sure you win the job, stick to budget, make a decent profit and complete the project on time!
With the tailor-made roofing edition you can cost any roof of any size using slate, tile etc – whether it’s an apex roof, apex valley roof, flat roof, lean to roof, hipped roof, half hip or truss roof. In fact the calculators can handle any kind of roof geometry with ease.
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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 quote similar jobs in even less time. Just download latest prices to update the costs!
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2. 40+ clever calculators price up your building work
Simply enter dimensions into the diagram and EstimatorXpress accurately calculates all the resources you need such as timber, tiles, felt, fixings, labour and plant… No guesswork. Nothing is missed. A roof can be done in just 5 minutes by simply amending the dimensions on the picture.
EstimatorXpress is an all in 1 package that will do all your renovation work estimating too. This Internal Renovator allows you to input dimensions and answer Yes/No questions for renovating parts of the roof.
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No other estimating software can boast the flexibility or simplicity of EstimatorXpress with detailed drawings throughout for inputting your dimensions.
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Simply work your way through the drawings entering dimensions and answering Yes/No questions. And that's it! Rafters, battens, membrane, tiles, soffits, guttering, pointing, lead flashing, 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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Just highlight the labour resource and confirm how much you pay them – then every job will use your rates for complete accuracy.
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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 Builders Express, Screwfix, Electricfix, Plumbfix, TradePoint, Travis Perkins, Jewson, Keyline, Builderwarehouse and Graham. Plus more coming soon...
Please note: merchant links are only available to merchant account holders. You must own a copy of EstimatorXpress to access these prices. Accounts with TradePoint, Plumbfix & Electricfix are subject to membership validation. Each merchant link costs £25+VAT per year and is renewable annually.
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6. Calculates all profit, wastage and inflation
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7. 80+ reports and professional customer quotes
Produce cost and profit pie charts so you can see how much money you’ll make on the job before you start plus cashflow graphs to control your finances. Get organised. Easily produce professional, full colour build programs to show off your competency to take on the job and ensure your men are on site and on schedule to keep your project on track and on budget. EstimatorXpress Roofing Trade edition automatically produces a complete cutting list of materials down to the very last nail.
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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. 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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Trade edition
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