| 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. |
Mark, I've got to hand it to you. I downloaded your demo off the web and within 1 hour had it installed, configured and pumped out 3 estimates. I then spent another hour and a half calculating prices for the same signs the "old way" just to find myself within 5% of ESTIMATE's price. One of the quotes I faxed to a customer from my PC while she was still on the phone. She was so pleased with the quick service that she signed the estimate and faxed it right back. The best one though, was a quote that I had figured both manually and with ESTIMATE. Estimate's price came up 35% higher than mine (I underestimated my labor). I figured I'd present the printed estimate to the customer with the higher price and see what happened. Much to my surprise, he looked at the estimate and said, "that's about what I figured I'd spend". The price difference was enough to pay for the software! I believe a computer generated price is much more credible to the consumer than a hip-shot quote. Thanks for giving us a tool to make that easy to do!
-- Pete Kouchis, Say it with SIGNS, Inc., Orland Park, IL