SharpeSoft Estimator: Creating crews & assemblies while bidding
Crews and Assemblies can easily be created directly from items in the Bid Item Detail window. Saving these items as a unit allows them to...
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William O.
Jul 30, 20212 min read
SharpeSoft Estimator: Changing default tax rate and job tax rate
Tip and Trick # 85 - How to set a default tax rate and job tax rate There are times that you are not sure who the owner of a project is....
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William O.
Jul 28, 20211 min read
SharpeSoft Estimator: Prompt to keep existing item costs during item copy
Tip and Trick # 154 - How to set a default when copying items from other jobs Customizing Estimator Defaults: How To 1. In SharpeSoft -...
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William O.
Jul 27, 20212 min read
SharpeSoft Estimator: Equipment Rate Calculation
At SharpeSoft, Inc., we strive to make estimating and bidding easy and efficient, as we have for over 36 years. We are estimator-driven,...
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Ken W.
Jul 26, 20213 min read
SharpeSoft Estimator Fast Trax 1/7: Easy Steps for Creating and Activating a Job
Scroll down for a helpful video! To create a new job, you will go to the Jobs window, open the Insert Job wizard and enter information in...
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William O.
Jul 20, 20212 min read
SharpeSoft Estimator: Equipment Hauling Calculation
In this Tip & Trick, we use, for example, a 657G piece of Equipment (if you want to see how to add equipment in your Estimate and get a...
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Ken W.
May 27, 20212 min read
SharpeSoft Estimator: Change Proposal unit prices to 2nd decimal
It's true - Even a fraction of a cent difference in the unit price of a bid item can significantly affect your final overall bid price. ...
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Ken W.
Apr 15, 20197 min read
CREWS & ASSEMBLIES
Saving time saves you money and SharpeSoft Estimator is loaded with time-saving features – like Bid Item Masters and Subcontractor...
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Ken W.
Apr 1, 20194 min read
BACK IT UP!
Your database is an organized collection of company, job and resource data that is the foundation of your Estimator system. It is the...
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Ken W.
Feb 14, 20195 min read
SYSTEM MAINTENANCE - THE MATERIALS TABLE
No time is better than now to do a little basic housekeeping on your SharpeSoft Estimator system. Keeping your resource tables, system...
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Ken W.
Jan 31, 20192 min read
PROTECT JOB INFORMATION FROM UNAUTHORIZED CHANGES
All of your bid items have been costed out to the penny, you have spread your prorates, calculated your overhead, applied your markups...
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Ken W.
Nov 13, 20183 min read
FINE TUNING YOUR FUEL AND OIL COSTS
One of the ways SharpeSoft Estimator helps you to define your costs with pinpoint accuracy is by allowing you to customize your fuel and...
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Ken W.
Oct 31, 20184 min read
SUBCONTRACTOR COMPARISONS
If your company is like most heavy civil construction firms, you typically subcontract out some or even most of a project’s bid items....
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Ken W.
Sep 12, 20182 min read
LET ESTIMATOR KEEP TRACK OF YOUR DBES
When bidding on public works projects, contractors need to comply with federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) requirements, as...
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Ken W.
Sep 11, 20183 min read
EXCEL IMPORT/EXPORT
Although we discourage using spreadsheets for actual cost estimating (see our blog, Cast off Your Old Tired Spreadsheets), they are still...
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Ken W.
Sep 9, 20182 min read
MONITOR JOB CHANGES WITH THE AUDIT TRAIL
The Audit Trail is a cool little security feature in Estimator that allows you to monitor the changes made to a job in real time, from...
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Ken W.
Aug 5, 20182 min read
WHAT IS A WHAT-IF?
It's true, there is seldom only one way to approach a task and cost estimating for heavy civil construction is no exception. In fact, the...
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Ken W.
Jul 5, 20183 min read
RECYCLE, REUSE, SAVE TIME!
Creating a job estimate can be a tedious and time-consuming task that can take hours, if not days or even weeks. If you have ever...
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Ken W.
Jun 27, 20182 min read
ESTIMATOR TAKES THE HASSLE OUT OF ACCOUNTING FOR ARIZONA’S TPT
If you are an Arizona company, or your firm routinely bids jobs in the Grand Canyon state, then you are subject to their unique way of...
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Ken W.
May 24, 20182 min read
INSTALLING UPDATES: THE DESTINATION FOLDER
HERE’S THE LOWDOWN ON THE INSTALLATION DESTINATION FOLDER Typically, installing a new version of Estimator is a pretty straightforward...
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