EstiMate Desktop

Sign Pricing Software Built For Windows.

Rock solid, lightning fast pricing technology that
leaves you free to do what you do best - make and sell signs.

EstiMate Desktop

Sign Pricing Software Built For Windows.

General Features

Easily Networked	Use the Multi-User Server to serve EstiMate's data files from your server machine or any selected computer on your network. Can be run standalone or as a windows service.
QuickBooks Compatible	Use the QuickBooks link to easily export transactions to invoices, sales receipts or estimates in QuickBooks, retaining all the original line item detail from EstiMate.
Your Logo	Include your shop's logo on all of your estimates and invoices.
Find Transactions Easily	The find screen allows you to specify search criteria to look up estimates and jobs.
Backup & Restore	Easily backup and restore your data files from within EstiMate.
Vendor List	Maintain a list of all your vendors.
Customer List	Maintain a list of all your customers.
Import	You can import contacts from delimited text files or directly from QuickBooks.
Shop Rate	The hourly rate wizard helps you to determine your shop rate and make sure you are always profitable.
Labor Rates	Customizable labor rates for pricing services.
Go On The Road	Check your shop's data out onto your laptop to go quote in the field then merge your changes when you return, or email your changes back to the shop in a small merge file.
Job Tracking	Customizable status flags allow you to manage the flow of jobs through your shop.
File Attachments	File attachments to estimates, jobs, customer and vendor records make it easy to keep everything in one place.
Working Days	Built in support for working days when scheduling jobs.
Job Timer	Integrated Job Timer that allows multiple logged in users to log into a job in the system and track actual work time against expected work time.
Machine Rates	Custom hourly rates for various production machines.

It has always frustrated me knowing that the computer would be far better at doing all this repetitive work if only it were properly programmed to do so. Thank goodness Mark came to the rescue with EstiMate. Prices of material are entered once and only updated when prices change. All of our overhead costs are entered only once, and are easily changed at yearend if needed. All I have to do is select the materials, tell it the size, etc., and it gives me the answer. Even better, it makes it so easy to do the "what if's". You know, the "well, what if it's only one colour?" "What if it's corrugated plastic instead of PVC?" "What if it's 18x24 instead of 24x36?" "What if I get two of them?" On and on and on. Ya gotta love it!

-- Diane Crowther, Metaline Graphics Ltd., Hubbards, Nova Scotia