With EstiMate 2011, the Wide Format Inkjet Plugin is getting some hardcore material waste calculation logic.
When we debuted the Flatbed Digital Printing plugin, one of it’s key features was material waste calculation, taken from art to science. This is being introduced into the Wide Format Inkjet Plugin with EstiMate 2011. Watch this 1.5 minute video to learn more!
If you don’t know about EstiMate 2011 yet, read the complete announcement here.
The new Find Transactions screen in EstiMate 2011 makes it quick and easy to find any existing transactions without having to hunt and peck through your “Open List.”
Watch this 2 1/2 minute video to learn more!
EstiMate 2011 will be released October 1 – read the full announcement here.
Many folks have been asking us for a complete feature list in addition to the “feature of the day” blogs.
I’ve been struggling with how to present it, because it’s so long, and finally decided the best way would be to break it into “big picture,” “significantly helpful,” and “useful additions” features. Then, as I write new articles about individual features, I can hyperlink the item in this list over to that new blog entry. So… keep up with this list and you can learn as we go…
These features represent literally thousands of person-hours of effort, and I’m beyond excited to get them released with EstiMate 2011!
Discount Line Items are a really cool new feature in EstiMate 2011.
With Discount Line Items, you can discount only a portion of an estimate rather than the whole thing. In previous versions, there was only one discount field (for the whole quote), but EstiMate 2011 adds the ability to fine tune your discounting. Ken asked the other day about discounting all but shipping on an estimate, so that’s the example I’ll use to show this to you.
This is a very simple feature but one of my absolute favorites: your templates are now attached to the “add items” menu on the Job and Estimate screens!
In EstiMate 2011 any logged in user can keep an actual time sheet for a job!
We’ve added a new Job Timer screen that brings up the list of active jobs in EstiMate and presents the opportunity to track actual time worked on the job. This time can then be checked against the expected times on the work order and allows you to see how well times are being estimated in your shop.
This is a long-awaited feature, and it’s now yours!
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Important Note: Please read the original announcement about EstiMate 2011 to learn about the EstiMate 2011 pricing plans.
I’ve got huge news today… on October 1st, we are releasing a new version of EstiMate that’s absolutely packed with new features.
We have come a long way towards fulfilling our original mission: providing rock solid pricing software and “light” shop management tools to sign and graphics companies. EstiMate has arguably established the standard for pricing sign work and helped literally thousands of sign shops find profits they never thought possible. We are grateful beyond measure for the customer and industry support we have experienced.
Now that we have reached this point, it’s time to push forward and evolve EstiMate with a tidal wave of capabilities and enhancements!
EstiMate 2011 ups the ante by deeply improving the “speed quoting” features of EstiMate 2 and bringing a more robust feature set to the shop management side of things. Such additions as business insight, customer metric measurement, purchase order generation and workflow management tools really round out the software.
Have you ever “just known” that if you were more efficient, or organized, you could be making more money from your business? EstiMate DiamondMine takes those feelings and boils them down to math. Using EstiMate DiamondMine, you can now very easily see where the financial “leaks” are in your business and learn how to plug them, all by answering a few simple questions and generating a free report.
We’ve been asked over and over again to provide an easy way for potential customers to configure and price the EstiMate system that fits their shop. Well, we are proud to announce our new configurator! The EstiMate configurator will allow you to select options that describe how you want to use EstiMate in your shop and will build a system for you, ready to go. Enjoy!
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