Construction estimating software

Pricing a house happens inside a real document here, not in a spreadsheet that nobody can find six months later. Each line carries its quantity, unit, unit cost and markup, and the margin appears while the figures are still being typed. The overview lists every estimate with its costs, net total, margin percentage, validity and status, next to the open opportunities that still have no document at all.

Overheads, risk and profit, discount and the tax rate are set once in the header. Line entry works in either direction: give a unit cost and a markup and the unit price follows, or type the price you want and the markup is derived from it. Section lines split the document into readable parts, optional items appear for the customer without counting toward the total, and every line takes a cost type from the company catalog, prefilled with the DIN 276 cost groups.

The printed document shows the customer prices only, never costs, markup or margin. Marking an estimate as accepted pushes its opportunity into the contract stage and copies the net total across as the volume, so board and document cannot disagree. With the finance permission, the same lines build the project budget grouped by cost group, and the transfer can be repeated without creating duplicates. Accepted and rejected documents freeze; later commercial changes run as change orders.