Comparisons

Partial Listing of Key Features ...	Bid4Build Software
Note: V = Version / 3.0 is the current release		V.3.0 Lite	V.3.0 Standard	Future
My Company Information
- Setup multiple reporting companies		X	X	X
- Insert your company digital logo for reports		X	X	X
Customer Functionality
- Generate map of Customer location (by assigned address)		X	X	X
- Get customer directions (from your location to Customer)		X	X	X
- Import of Customers from 3rd party software applications		X	X	X
- Customer email facility		X	X	X
- Customer database (not a spreadsheet)		X	X	X
Project Functionality
- Track 3rd party Estimators		X	X	X
- Labor, Material, Subcontract & Equipment Markups & Taxes		X	X	X
- Customized report defaults by Estimate		X	X	X
- Multi-Tax capability (Primary and Secondary for Canada Reqs.)		X	X	X
- Markups (Profit & Overhead by Mat, Lab, Sub & Equ)		X	X	X
- Project Photo database		X	X	X
- Calendar Management			X	X
- Project database (not a spreadsheet)		X	X	X
Supplier Functionality
- Assign Suppliers to Items		X	X	X
- Generate map of Supplier location (by assigned address)		X	X	X
- Get Supplier directions (from your location to Supplier)		X	X	X
My To-Do List			X	X
Estimate Phases
- Define up to 50 Phase definitions (higher level Area rollups)		X	X	X
Estimate Areas
- Define Primary Areas and 10 associated Offsets per Area		X	X	X
- Define Common Virtual Walls, Interior and Exterior Offsets		X	X	X
- Assign Perimeter, Walls, Floors, Ceiling results to Estimate Items		X	X	X
- Estimate Phase and Area Wizards		X	X	X
Estimate Items
- Import/Export (save and retrieve) estimates to/from disk		X	X	X
- Estimate "Templating" - clone estimates to assign to Customers		X	X	X
- Detailed Estimate financial analysis			X	X
- Estimate maintenance utilities (using spreadsheet familiar format)		X	X	X
- Create an Estimate Wizards		X	X	X
Item Costbook Database
- Free 3000 Item Repair & Remodeling database		X	X	X
- Import/Export of Item Costbook database to MS Excel		X	X	X
- Full Item Costbook customization & support services		X	X	X
- Internal Backup and Restore of Item database		X	X	X
- Optional 60,000 Item Costbooks - Residential & Commercial data		X	X	X
- Integration with selected Craftsman National Costbook databases		X	X	X
- Regionalization of Costbook data		X	X	X
- Crew Composition management		X	X	X
- Labor and Productivity Rate assignments and management		X	X	X
- Pre-Defined formulas for items using SF, LF and Volume				X
Assemblies
- Assembly definition builder			X	X
- Assembly analysis utilities			X	X
- Transfer Assemblies to Item Costbook			X	X
- Fully Populated Assembly database				X
- Import / Export of Assembly database			X	X
Construction Calculators
- Bid4Build Construction Calculator		X	X	X
- Roofing calculator			X	X
- Stud calculator			X	X
- Concrete calculator			X	X
- Conversion Calculators		X	X	X
- Expression Calculator			X	X
Reporting
- Estimate, Customer, Project, Supplier, Costbook reports		X	X	X
- Export of reports to industry standard formats		X	X	X
- Extra Estimate-based reports			X	X
- Print report to screen or printer		X	X	X
- Report output to PDF file format		X	X	X
- Report Checker utility		X	X	X
Bid Package Management System			X	X
- Slice & Dice an Estimate by multiple parameters to create bids			X	X
Digital Photo Library		X	X	X
Tools & Utilities				X
- Customize screen colors			X	X
- Password features			X	X
- Access to Production download site for ongoing updates			X	X
- MS Access database utility (customize database & reports)			X	X
Bid4Build Contract Writer & Report Library			X	X
Scheduling System			X	X
- Detail and Summary level scheduling			X	X
- Scheduling of multiple simultaneous projects			X	X
- Gantt Charts and Scheduling reports			X	X
- Direct integration with MS Project			X	X
- Direct integration with Excel			X	X
- Direct integration with QuickGantt			X	X
- Scheduling by Phase/Area and/or Category specification				X
- Budget vs. Actual Analysis based upon productivity rates			X	X
- Scheduling Reports			X	X
Job Costing, Tracking & Reporting			X	X
Job Summary Analysis			X	X
Tax Management System (ideal for Canadian users)			X	X
Change Orders			X	X
Purchase Order System				X
Invoices			X	X
- Partial Invoice billing			X	X
- Tracking of paid in full and partial paid invoices			X	X
- 30, 60, 90 day invoice tracking			X	X
- Invoice reporting			X	X
QuickBooks Interface			X	X
- Import QuickBooks customers to Bid4Build			X	X
- Export Bid4Build customers to QuickBooks			X	X
- Detail and Summary Estimates sent to QuickBooks			X	X
- Detail and Summary Invoices sent to QuickBooks			X	X
- User-defined Income and Cost of Goods definitions			X	X
Import / Export
- Import / Export to Microsoft Project			X	X
- Import / Export to VirtualBoss			X	X
- Import / Export to MS Access			X	X
- Import / Export to QuickBooks			X	X
- Import / Export to QuickGantt			X	X
- Import / Export to Excel			X	X
Miscellaneous
- CAD Interface				X
- Mobile Computing Interface (via Virtual Boss)			X	X
- Pre-Populated Letters and Contracts Library				X
Networking (multi-user capability)			X	X