Features

Partial Listing of Key Features ...
Bid4Build Takeoff Live & Bid4Build Enterprise Construction Estimating System	Takeoff Live 4.0	V.3.5.1 Enterprise
Advanced Menu Navigation & Quick Start Menu System		X
My Company Information
- Setup multiple reporting companies		X
- Insert your company digital logo for reports		X
Customer Functionality
- Generate map of Customer location (by assigned address)		X
- Get customer directions (from your location to Customer)		X
- Import of Customers from 3rd party software applications		X
- Customer email facility		X
- Customer database (not a spreadsheet)		X
Project Functionality
- Track 3rd party Estimators		X
- Labor, Material, Subcontract & Equipment Markups & Taxes		X
- Customized report defaults by Estimate		X
- Multi-Tax capability (Primary and Secondary for Canada Reqs.)		X
- Markups (Profit & Overhead by Mat, Lab, Sub & Equ)		X
- Project Photo database		X
- Calendar Management		X
- Project database (not a spreadsheet)		X
Supplier Functionality
- Assign Suppliers to Items		X
- Generate map of Supplier location (by assigned address)		X
- Get Supplier directions (from your location to Supplier)		X
My To-Do List
- Track Tasks		X
- Advanced Tracking and Estimate Management (pop up features)		X
- Advanced Reporting features of tasks due		X
Phase
- Define up to 50 Phase definitions (higher level Area rollups)		X
Area
- Define Primary Areas and 10 associated Offsets per Area		X
- Define Common Virtual Walls, Interior and Exterior Offsets		X
- Assign Perimeter, Walls, Floors, Ceiling results to Estimate Items		X
- Estimate Phase and Area Wizards		X
Estimate
- Import/Export (save and retrieve) estimates to/from disk		X
- Estimate "Templating" - clone estimates to assign to Customers		X
- Detailed & Advanced Estimate financial analysis		X
- Estimate maintenance utilities (using spreadsheet familiar format)		X
- Transfer Estimate Items to multiple Areas		X
- Merge Estimates		X
- Create Manual Estimates		X
- Create an Estimate Wizards		X
Costbook Database
- Free 3000 Item Repair & Remodeling database		X
- Import/Export of Item Costbook database to MS Excel		X
- Full Item Costbook customization & support services		X
- Internal Backup and Restore of Item database		X
- Optional 60,000 Item Costbooks - Residential & Commercial data		X
- Integration with selected Craftsman National Costbook databases		X
- Regionalization of Costbook data		X
- Crew Composition management		X
- Labor and Productivity Rate assignments and management		X
- Pre-Defined formulas for items using SF, LF and Volume		X
Assemblies
- Assembly definition builder		X
- Assembly analysis utilities		X
- Transfer Assemblies to Item Costbook		X
- Transfer Assembly Itmes to multiple Areas		X
- Import / Export of Assembly database		X
Construction Calculators
- Bid4Build Construction Calculator		X
- Roofing calculator		X
- Stud calculator		X
- Concrete calculator		X
- Conversion Calculators		X
- Expression Calculator		X
Reporting
- Estimate, Customer, Project, Supplier, Costbook reports		X
- Export of reports to industry standard formats		X
- Advanced Reporting controls & additional Reports		X
- Print report to screen or printer		X
- Report output to PDF file format		X
- Report Checker utility		X
Bid Package Management System
- Slice & Dice an Estimate by multiple parameters to create bids		X
Digital Photo Library		X
Tools & Utilities
- Customize screen colors		X
- Password features		X
- Access to Production download site for ongoing updates		X
- MS Access database utility (customize database & reports)		X
Bid4Build Contract Writer & Report Library		X
Scheduling System
- Detail and Summary level scheduling		X
- Scheduling of multiple simultaneous projects		X
- Gantt Charts and Scheduling reports		X
- Direct integration with MS Project		X
- Direct integration with Excel		X
- Direct integration with QuickGantt		X
- Direct integration with VirtualBoss		X
- Scheduling by Phase/Area and/or Category specification		X
- Budget vs. Actual Analysis based upon productivity rates		X
- Track local materials & Suppliers		X
- Scheduling Reports		X
Job Costing, Tracking & Reporting		X
Job Summary Analysis		X
Tax Management System (ideal for Canadian users)		X
Change Orders		X
- Advanced Change Order Management		X
Invoices
- Partial Invoice billing		X
- Tracking of paid in full and partial paid invoices		X
- 30, 60, 90 day invoice tracking		X
- Invoice reporting		X
QuickBooks Interface
- Import QuickBooks customers to Bid4Build		X
- Export Bid4Build customers to QuickBooks		X
- Detail and Summary Estimates sent to QuickBooks		X
- Detail and Summary Invoices sent to QuickBooks		X
- User-defined Income and Cost of Goods definitions		X
Import / Export
- Import / Export to Microsoft Project		X
- Import / Export to VirtualBoss		X
- Import / Export to MS Access		X
- Import / Export to QuickBooks		X
- Import / Export to QuickGantt		X
- Import / Export to Excel		X
Bid4Build Takeoff Live Integration
- Ability to import a Bid4Build Takeoff Live Plan Estimate		X
Miscellaneous
- CAD Interface		X
- Mobile Computing Interface (via Virtual Boss)		X
Bid4Build Takeoff Live Feature & Functions
- Works with multiple file formats including PDF, TIFF, JPEG. Full graphics capability	X
- Load multiple pages per plan and conversion quality	X
- Work with multiple plan sheets at the same time	X
- Drag and placement of plan view using plan viewer window	X
- Multiple levels of Zoom-In and Zoom-Out of a plan	X
- Dynamic Zoom view	X
- Dynamic screen movement on all vertical and horizontal quadrants	X
- Full screen, fit to screen, and section views of a plan	X
- Rotate plan view by percentage	X
- Multiple plan layer selections	X
- Set custom scales from a plan with user-defined units of measure	X
- Calculate Count, Length, Height, Perimeter, Area, Volume, Arc, User-defined quantity	X
- Apply Slope to Areas (used for Roofing)	X
- Draw Points, Lengths, Heights, Perimeters, Areas, Volumes, Arcs	X
- Add descriptions and notes to takeoff objects and costbook items	X
- Labels and Annotations	X
- Multiple colors assigned to multiple layers and takeoff objects	X
- Stamps & Symbols creation and assignment	X
- Use and Create Symbols and Stamps for Counting	X
- Magnify & Lens-View tools for selection modes	X
- Cross-Hair Marker & Color Assignment	X
- Point and click symbol markers	X
- Adjust Takeoff Quantity using percentages	X
- Auto-Leveling for corrections to manual skewing	X
- Auto-Panning for screen management	X
- Point Insertion (adding points to an area after the fact)	X
- Cursor magnification	X
- Arc measurement	X
- Stretch and Toggle Graphic Objects	X
- Sum multiple Areas or Lines	X
- Pan selection with "grab" function	X
- Toggle individual graphic objects on and off	X
- Auto-leveling and dragging of multiple selections	X
- Pictures may now be used as symbols	X
- Rember function for notes and descriptions	X
- Continue measurement function added	X
System Features	X
- Create takeoff from Image or existing plan	X
- Save plan and multiple plan sheets	X
- Multiple print features	X
- Tool Tip mode	X
- New Auto-Save/Backup feature	X
Estimating Features	X
- Internal tracking of measurements, items and takeoff objects	X
- Internal tracking of item and takeoff costs (Labor, Material, Subcontract, Equipment)	X
- Internal cost totaling (all costs combined)	X
- Built-in internal Accumulator system for combining items in groups	X
- Immediate export to Excel from within Bid4Build Takeoff Live	X
- Audit Spreadsheet and Filtering	X
- Multiple Area and Phase breakdown of plan estimate (via B4B estimate interface)	X
- Copy and paste of area and item groups (via B4B estimate interface)	X
- Merge plans (via B4B estimate interface)	X
- Assign plans to items from multiple industry costbooks (via B4B estimate interface)	X
- Regionalization of costbook data (via B4B estimate interface)	X
- Scheduling and project management of plan estimate (via B4B estimate interface)	X
- Direct link to advanced customer and project information (via B4B estimate interface)	X
- Breakdown of estimate plan for subs/suppliers (via B4B estimate interface)	X
- Multiple construction divisions and specialties (via B4B estimate interface)	X
- Instant estimate creation and robust, extensive reporting (via B4B estimate interface)	X
- Import multiple Takeoff plans & combine into one estimate (via B4B estimate interface)	X
- All estimating features, functions & analysis available (via B4B estimate interface)	X