April 2008

The BMF are delighted to welcome new member, HBXL, who have joined this spring.

HBXL are one of the UK’s leading providers of estimating and take off software to the building industry, with over £1Billion of estimating being carried out per annum by thousands of small to medium builders. HBXL have now launched a Merchant edition of their award winning software EstimatorXpress.

In-house Take Off Services
What happens when builders turn up to your branches with plans in their hand wanting a materials take-off? Are they sent away saying you can’t do it and lose the business? Are the plans sent off to an expensive estimating service and then your products, prices and discount structure are applied manually when the take-off is received back? Do you have a centralized estimating department but it takes weeks to turnaround by hand?

HBXL provides a solution to all these problems with the launch of their new EstimatorXpress Merchant edition which will allow builders’ merchants to work out take-offs for customers, calculating the costs and quantities of materials and plant required for a project quickly and easily.

EstimatorXpress® is unique in that it links in to the HBXL Online Gateway which provides access to the builders merchants own products and pricing when scheduling materials thereby providing priced and coded material schedules with a very quick turnaround.

The benefits of EstimatorXpress are clear to see:

• Take-offs of building materials can be turned around in minutes saving branches and estimating department massive amounts of time
• EstimatorXpress schedules ALL materials (and plant and labour if required) can be linked into the merchants products, pricing and product codes with no costly IT infrastructure integration
• Plus the merchants customer discount structure can be incorporated (if required and by arrangement)
• Full training and telephone assistance from the HBXL dedicated support team

Access to HBXL’s Customer Base of EstimatorXpress builder users
HBXL also provides an enormous opportunity to the merchant to promote their product range and catalogue to thousands of builder users of EstimatorXpress® who price the job and produce materials schedules themselves.

In recent HBXL polls, users of EstimatorXpress® requested that we link the software through the HBXL Online Gateway to other regional and local merchants pricing as well as to national suppliers.

This is supported by statistics from Professional Builder magazine, which indicates that 88% of readers regularly trade with two to five builders merchants.

Want more information?
If you would like more information either to link your catalogue to EstimatorXpress® builder users or would like to set up your own in-house take off services through the use of our software in order to gain further market share, please contact Joanna Mulgrew at HBXL on 0117 916 7871.