Estimating software like PaintScout and Jobber cuts time on quotes by letting you input measurements, then automatically applies your production rates to generate accurate estimates and work orders. Load your rates once, and the software handles markup calculations and labor hour budgets for your crew.
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A lot of the estimating software out there now works along those lines where you are putting in the square footage or the length of the, of the chair rail or whatever, and it's assigning, you know, a value per foot for the estimate. Might just help some of the time we, we spend in doing the extra measuring and being able to put together a quicker estimate using some of the estimating software out there. Yes, absolutely.
Like PaintScout, Rocket, InterJobs, Jobber, most of those softwares, you'll still need to load it up with your production rates. Once you load it up, it can be pretty quick to, to generate those estimates. The, the most amount of time is really spent measuring the things. The other feature of these softwares is most of them generate work order as well. So generate the estimate. Here's what you're gonna charge the customer with your markup in there. Hopefully you're doing somewhere around 100% markup on your cost. So you're shooting for a 50% gross profit. Also, you're getting that estimate, but you're also getting the work order, which would then be handed off to your crew lead. And that will have the budget hours, which is based off the measurements you did and your production rates that are built into that software.
