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Construction Estimating Software for UK Builders

Estimatorxpress. Building estimating Software that’s right for you.

EstimatorXpress, packed with super-smart automation capabilities, is the most popular building estimating software with the UK’s small to medium sized building firms. You’ll love it. The advantages are huge – whether you’re retro-fitting and renovating properties or building loft conversions, two-storey extensions or five-bedroom houses.

Boost your profitability by saving time on estimating using automated calculators. It will improve your speed and accuracy, day in day out. It will also auto-generate professional quotes, material schedules and cash flow reports. Time you tried it?

EstimatorXpress is simple to use whether you’re estimating a loft conversion or a new build

Thanks to its clever automating abilities, our estimating software for builders is simple to use. That’s whether you select one of the hundreds of fully-automated readymade templates in the project library or build your estimate up from scratch, element by element. You even have the option to bolt on our ‘Take-off’ tool for an automatic estimate. Yes you read that correctly. Trace over your building plans, drop the file into EstimatorXpress, answer some questions and out comes an estimate (and quotation, Build Programme, Material Schedule…)! As the name suggests…EstimatorXpress is seriously fast!

Benefits of EstimatorXpress Estimating Software

Much Less Time Estimating

Latest Material Prices on 1000s of items

The software does the work

Accurate Estimates and Professional Quotes

Meet AutoMate – the AI GrandMaster working behind the scenes in EstimatorXpress. It does most of the leg work for you. It automatically selects the estimating calculators relevant to your project. Using the dimensions and material choices you enter, it then accurately builds your estimate and quotation. And that’s not all. It generates everything from your Build Programme to your materials schedule, your cash flow to your profit forecast — and then provides you with valuable analysis. Smart? Yes. Reliable? Absolutely. Magic? Almost. It’s the expert-coded automation that has powered EstimatorXpress for years — we’ve just finally given our skilful wizard a name.

EstimatorXpress Features

100’s of good-to-go estimating templates

I’m quoting on more jobs than ever because they’re so quick to produce.

There are a ton of different AI-powered job types from renovation work to extensions, loft conversions to new builds. Each template is made up of the relevant estimating calculators to get you quoting fast. Scroll down the page, answer a few questions and see the cost add up as you enter your dimensions and tweak the spec.

Over 700 Readymade Cost Estimating Calculators

What stress? It’s no longer down to me to remember every roll of lead and tube of mastic.

Take the ‘attic block wall’ calculator. It’s loaded with priced blocks, a steel to build the wall on, plaster, skirting, materials for decoration, plus the associated labour. It’s all there. In picture form on screen. Don’t need the steel? You can delete it. No more broad-brush. Everything is itemised. It’s informed by literally tens of thousands of UK builder-winning estimates.

Live price-tracked materials

I was literally losing money from out-of-date prices. Not anymore.

The built-in price book in our estimating software for builders has well over 6000 resources from sand to steels, ties to tiles, basins to boilers, wall plugs to windows… Our unique Price Tracker+ AI tool automatically fetches the latest prices from across the internet to keep your price book up-to-date. It means your estimates are based on current market conditions. Got your own special prices? Add them in.

Pre-populated labour price book

It comes with suggested trade rates. I can tweak when I need to – sadly always upwards!

Within the ‘Price Book’, as well as the Material Price section, you’ll find the Labour section with the different trade rates. The fields are pre-populated for each trade. You can leave as is, or adjust to reflect your local conditions. The same goes for Sub-Contract.

Intelligent Dashboard

I check ‘mission control’ to see what my win rate is, what quotes need following up…

The clever real-time dashboard shows all your projects and automatically does a load of analysis to give you a visual overview of profit, cash flow, expenditure, work-in-progress and more. What type of jobs are looking the most profitable? Do more of those.

The ’other’ Costs

Before, I added a rough 10% to the cost of the build as a mark-up. How wrong was I!?

Wastage. Wear & Tear. Overheads. Mark-up. Inflation. Client contingency. All crucial. You’re not quoting the full cost of a job – or sharing the unknowns – without them. Yet it’s fiddly doing it yourself. That’s why this award-winning estimating software for construction, does the calculations for you using clever coding.

Job Overview

I’ve never had a better understanding of my jobs. This dashboard has been a lightbulb moment.

Look at all the job details at a glance for the most profitable outcome. Get all the info on the job costs, the profit and overheads, plus the cost to the customer. Choose to view the cost by cash flow, build phase, trade, resource, subcontract type. It’s amazing what comes to light…

Readymade Business-Winning Quotation

The feedback I get on the quotes is amazing. They literally win us work

People are swayed by appearance not just price. Customers who recognise quality and have a profitable job for you, want to see professionalism. And the polished, auto-generated quote that this estimating software for builders produces from the estimate, says it all. It saves you hours of effort typing up your quotation.

AI Driven Auto Project Organisation

I can have three jobs on the go and know exactly what needs to be where, and when

Or more commonly known as a Build Programme or Gantt Chart. EstimatorXpress auto-generates your Gantt Chart schedule from the estimate. All you have to do is note when a delivery is postponed or weather is causing delays, and watch the software dynamically update work sequences and push back everything else.

Automatic Materials Schedule

I was trying to hold so much information in my head when all I needed was this bit of kit.

Using the estimate and Build Programme, the building estimating software automatically schedules your lists of materials required by order date and build phase. Give to your merchant early to get deliveries scheduled in, and negotiate a discount while you’re at it. You’ll be more organised and quids in. It automates your plant schedule and labour requirements too!

Yes To Cost Reports

I don’t recognise myself! I talk about being ‘on budget’. I keep tabs on hours. It’s all about profit!

You need more than an estimate and customer quotation. AI-powered auto-generated reports and financial tools in our construction estimating software show you cash in and out, a breakdown of your plant costs, your spend on labour hours, your sub-contractor outlay… keeping you on track and across all your expenditure, so you can make informed decisions and maintain profitability.

Smart Scheduling & Rounding

EstimatorXpress isn’t just about estimating, it’s about winning the work and then practically managing it too

The AI Rounding Tool cleverly analyses your job. It will tell you the ideal pack size to order, and the actual ‘buyable lengths’ of timber etc. It will give you an instant quote with the ‘all in’ price for your customer. A stage on from the Build Programme, the Smart Scheduler utilises AI to assess when you actually need to book in labour, and order plant and materials on specified dates.

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Pricing

Ready for the best building estimating software? You can choose between an annual or lifetime licence. Annual subscribers automatically get Support & Updates and customers who buy the software outright, have the package free of charge in year one. It includes software updates, regular material price updates, and uncapped award-winning telephone, email and chat support.

Frequently Asked Questions About Estimating Software

Estimating software, such as EstimatorXpress is a specialised tool designed to help builders and building businesses accurately calculate project and building costs. This software simplifies estimating by using job-specific templates, cost calculators, price tracking, automated quotations and various material and build schedules to name but a few. In short, estimating software helps builders, like you to estimate faster and with increased accuracy and reliability.

Estimating software, such as EstimatorXpress is important because it helps to not only improve the accuracy and reliability of your estimates, but also saves you loads of time whilst improving your profitability. Estimating software can reduce the time it takes to estimate building projects from hours to minutes, allowing you to spend more time wining work and increasing your profitability. Proper estimating software also improves your quotes, creates detailed material & build schedules and stops you from going over budget. That’s why thousands of UK builders are already using it. Now it’s your turn.

EstimatorXpress will help you simplify the entire cost estimation process, saving you valuable time and effort. Whether you are working on new builds, extensions, renovations, retrofits or doing loft conversions, estimating software helps keep your quotes accurate, your timetable reliable and your schedules on time.

Built-in templates, calculators and material libraries allow you to produce the required estimates quickly, but also giving you the flexibility to customise as you need. And you can produce reports covering MLPSs (materials, labour, plant and sundries). Everything that costs time and money is covered.

Yes, Estimating software, particularly one as comprehensive as EstimatorXpress, will help you to make money on each of your building projects. It reduces the risk of under-estimating and eating into your profits or over-estimating and losing out on potential work. Material prices checked and updated every month so that you don’t have to is a massive cost and time-saving.

Being able to give your clients detailed and professional-looking quotes along with clear cost breakdowns and schedules will help you to win more and better jobs. Also, because estimating software is faster and more accurate than manual estimating, you will be able to quote for more jobs in less time.

Using EstimatorXpress is significantly faster than relying on spreadsheets. Unlike spreadsheets, which require manual data entry and calculations, EstimatorXpress automates these processes. Templates, calculators and cost libraries cut down the time needed to create estimates. Plus, make a mistake in your master spreadsheet and the error will appear in all your estimates.

Another benefit of using Estimating software, like EstimatorXpress, instead of a spreadsheet is that it can integrate with other building software, such as PlansXpress, BuildProjex and Health & Safety Xpert. One set of data automatically generates your Health & Safety documents, creates your Build Programme and all the tasks, and even estimates directly from your drawings. No more wasted time.

Our Amazing Support Team is here to help you.

Joe and Tom are ready and waiting to point you in the right direction, answer questions on our software for builders – by phone, email or live chat – it’s all included in your Support & Updates package.

We know the software is great and our team is amazing, and clearly so do the award panels.