Price the job with your own rates, not someone else's averages
SmarteBuild builds an estimate from the three things that actually make it accurate: what your last job cost, what your suppliers charge today, and what your trades have quoted.
Three sources, one number
An estimate is only as good as what it was built from. SmarteBuild pulls from all three and shows you which is which.
Your own historical data
What the last job actually cost, carried forward. Reuse a cost centre structure and its rates instead of starting from a blank sheet.
Supplier price lists
Real products at real rates, kept current in your own price lists rather than guessed at or marked up from a national average.
Quotes you received
The most accurate number there is — what a trade actually said they would do it for. Push the winning quote straight into the BOQ.
Formulas, linked items, and quantities that update themselves
Link items to each other so a change in one carries through the rest. Set a formula once and the quantity recalculates when the drawing changes, instead of being retyped in nine places and wrong in two of them.
- Take-off measured straight off the PDF, feeding the BOQ
- Fields and formulas to automate repeated calculations
- Linked items, so an updated quantity propagates
- Cost centres to break a big costing into manageable chunks
- Reusable structures, so job two starts faster than job one
Send the package out, get the prices back, compare them properly
Build a tender package from the BOQ, send it to your trades from inside SmarteBuild using your own email address, and track who has responded. When the quotes come in, compare them in one view instead of across six PDFs and an inbox.
Pick the winner and it goes into the costing — no retyping, and a record of where the number came from.
Every view an estimator actually needs
- Bill of quantities, with prices or without, for one cost centre or the whole costing
- Customisable project specification for the client to review
- Provisional sums and prime cost allowances for the contract
- Supplier report per costing, for the site supervisor to call up from
- Profit and loss at item level or cost centre level
- Export the entire costing to Excel
Runs where you do
Browser-based, so it works on the office desktop, the laptop at the client's kitchen table and the phone on site. Nothing to install, and no lock-in contract.
Price a real job with it
Thirty days free, no credit card. Bring a live estimate and see whether the numbers come out where you expect.