Sage Timberline Office estimating software offers the most comprehensive package of estimating tools available. Starting with the power of the Estimating Standard module, Extended offers greater takeoff, analysis, and productivity capabilities such as Model Estimating, an advanced conceptual estimating tool. Create detailed, accurate  conceptual estimates quickly through an onscreen project questionnaire—Model Estimating does the rest.

Simplified Setup
Spend less time getting started and more time growing your business with Sage Timberline Office estimating software. The time-consuming task of setting up and building a database has been streamlined with the Database Builder Wizard. The Wizard walks you through the necessary steps of establishing your database more quickly and efficiently, saving you time and money and allowing you to quickly take full advantage of the Estimating software sooner.

Slash takeoff time
Estimating Extended offers estimators several ways to take off estimates in less time. With quick takeoff, you simply drag individual or groups of items from the cost database directly into the spreadsheet on the screen. Enter dimensions, and Sage Timberline Office estimating  software calculates all quantities for you. Or, if you prefer, you can use item takeoff to work with items prior to pulling them into the spreadsheet.

For ultimate time-savings, Smart Assemblies or Model Takeoff is your tool, letting you take off all the items in a wall, door, concrete slab or an entire building core and shell all at once. A takeoff audit trail is also included in Estimating Extended, so you can double-check your work at any time.

Manage complex estimating with variable pricing
Choose the materials pricing and labor production rates that make the most sense for the job whether that means the default settings or your own custom prices and rates. You’re able to store up to 20 different prices for a single item and 10 different labor production rates.

Create detailed conceptual estimates in minutes
Model Estimating helps you generate detailed conceptual estimates by answering a series of basic questions about a project. You simply respond to an on-screen survey and let Model Estimating tap into the first-of-a-kind Knowledgebase of  Sage Timberline Office estimating software: Electrical, Commercial or Residential, to produce fast, precise estimates.  Backed by extensive detail, everything you need to support your bid, concept, or estimate is there in black and white—costs, quantities, crews, hours, and waste factors.

And with Model Estimating, you can easily modify and monitor your estimate as changes are made to the design or project plan. You'll know exactly how those changes impact your estimate, before they add up to a budget issue,

Keep bids and quotes within reach
The subcontractor bid grid of Sage Timberline Office estimating software offers a simple way to store, analyze and select subcontractor bids and quotes by individual or groups of items. Log each subcontractor’s name, bid quantity, unit price, total bid amount, and any notes in the pop-up grid. Then just click on the bid you’d like to use, and the estimate instantly calculates the item based on your decision. What if you change your mind? Simply check a replacement bid, and the substitution is made instantly.

See it all from a new angle
With Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) codes, you can organize estimates a variety of ways: by Phase Drawing detail or Location, like Floor 1 or 2. Just define and assign your own WBS codes to any estimate item, either in the database or during takeoff. With the ability to attach up to 12 WBS codes to each item, your analysis and reporting possibilities are endless with Sage Timberline Office estimating software. Not only can you work with an estimate in any order you choose, you can change the order instantly using the sequencing tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet.

Easily make adjustments
Whether it’s during analysis or at the last minute, making adjustments to an estimate is a snap in Estimating Extended. The software’s adjust columns feature lets you revise all, or a portion of, the quantities, amounts, and prices contained within a column at once. Calculate by a percentage, by multiplying or dividing and amount, by replacing an amount, or by spreading an amount proportionally over the selection.

On bid day, when time is everything, adjustments can be easily made through the Estimating Extended totals page. Log in last-minute cuts and adds, and the software automatically generates the change throughout all the affected areas of the estimate. Or use the adjust job totals feature to match a pre-defined job total or cost per unit, or to play with the final numbers.

Go global
Estimating Extended makes it easy for you to take off an estimate in one system of measurement and deliver it in another. With Sage Timberline Office estimating software, estimates can automatically be converted from Imperial units to metric units or vice versa.

Estimating Explorer
The key to estimate control is organization. Estimating Explorer eliminates time-intensive searches by automatically creating an up-to-date master list and description of every estimate in your system. Within seconds you can sort your estimates by estimator, bid date, estimate number or a variety of other criteria to locate an estimate. Once you do, you’re just one click away from the estimate’s spreadsheet

Managing your estimates also means understanding the big picture. Estimating Explorer not only organizes your estimates, but gives you the tools to stand back and analyze your work. Need to know what your estimating volume is by estimator? Or your year-to-date estimate volume? You can find these and many other answers using Estimating Explorer’s management reports and graphs. Estimate information can also be linked to Microsoft Excel or Access for further analysis or custom graphing.

Present your work with flair
With so much riding on it, it’s critical that the work you produce for clients and upper management be professional-looking and easy to understand. Estimating Extended reports are just that, with the ability to include different type fonts and sizes, bolding, italics and colors. Using Sage Timberline Office estimating software, you can create custom headers and footers, including graphics, and use WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) reporting to quickly strip, add to and tweak an estimate report just the way you want.

Sage Timberline Office estimating software also delivers a number of advanced reports to help in estimate analysis.

Print the cost variance report to quickly see where costs and quantities have varied between two similar projects. Or view the cost comparison report to zero in on where unit costs have changed between conceptual, interim, and final estimates on a project.

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