Successful building projects start with HBXL. Arm yourself with the best software & support in the industry. Builders win 230% more business with our estimating software EstimatorXpress. Furthermore, the odds get even better when you do your own plans, project management, customer contracts and health & safety.
You can subscribe to all and any of the software tools on a 12-month or 24-month basis. As a subscriber you automatically benefit from our Support & Updates package.
Alternatively, you can buy the software outright to receive a lifetime licence. Support & Updates is free of charge in year one (there’s a small fee to pay each subsequent year to benefit from software updates and award-winning support). So you can rest assured that you’re in safe hands! We even offer a 50:50 Help to buy scheme.
Jump to the section you are interested in:
» EstimatorXpress from £399 + VAT
» PlansXpress from £249 + VAT
» Health & Safety Xpert from £499 + VAT
» ProjectXpert from £259 + VAT
» ContractsXpert from £199 + VAT
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Superfast, accurate take-off and estimating software for costed estimates of building plans. Lifetime Licence: £1,599+VAT
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Draft architect quality plans with an instant 3D model and a detailed cost breakdown.
Lifetime Licence: £1,999+VAT
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All the tools you need for accurate, business-winning quotes, impressive plans & designs and full H&S docs.
Lifetime Licence: £2,559+VAT
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EstimatorXpress
| Software features & types of work you can estimate | Core | Plus | Premium | Enterprise |
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| Lifetime Licence | £999+VAT | £1,299+VAT | £1,699+VAT | £1,999+VAT |
| Annual Subscription | £399+VAT | £499+VAT | £599+VAT | £699+VAT |
| Quote Templates | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Extensions | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Renovations (Internal & External) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Maintenance & alterations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Loft Conversions | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Advanced plumbing & heating | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| New Buildings | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Apartments & flats | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Options | ||||
| New Build Basements & Retaining Walls | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Office Refits & Shop Fitting | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Stage Payments | ✔ | |||
| Invoice Generator | ✔ | |||
| Project Management | ✔ | |||
| Manager/Collaborator features | ✔ | |||
| Other features | ||||
| Creates professional quotes, covering letters and t&c’s | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatic production of 80+ professional reports (cost reports & tasklists, materials order schedules, cashflow and profit analysis) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatically produces Building Regulation notes from your estimate | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Live material price link available to Travis Perkins, Keyline, TradePoint and more (optional extra) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Job Management, Gantt charts and labour schedules | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Export into MS Excel and Word | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Backup to the cloud/server | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Looking for estimating or take-off software to power your estimating service, so you can provide estimates to 3rd party companies? Please call us on 0117 916 7898 and ask about our EstimatorXpress Commercial Edition.
PlansXpress
| SOFTWARE FEATURES & TYPES OF WORK YOU CAN ESTIMATE | PLANSXPRESS TAKE-OFF | PLANSXPRESS PLUS | PLANSXPRESS PREMIUM |
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| Lifetime Licence | £599+VAT | £899+VAT | £1,199+VAT |
| Annual Subscription | £249+VAT | £399+VAT | £499+VAT |
| Easy Drag & Draw functionality | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Auto dimension walls | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Suitable for planning applications | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Suitable for building regulation submissions | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Elevations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatic 3D visualisations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatic 3D sections | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 3D Architectural symbols (subject to Support & Updates being in place) | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Place and amend cross sections quickly & easily | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Additional tools for loft conversions | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Additional drawing/architectural symbols | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Additional drawing tools for complex roof lines | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Additional drawing tools for timber frame | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Additional drawing tools for timber frame | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Compatible with DXF and DWG fles | Import only | ✔ | ✔ |
| Ability to import JPEG and BMP image fles | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Produce quotes when linked with EstimatorXpress | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automated Building Regs notes production when combined with EstimatorXpress | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Scan & Trace for scanning/importing existing drawings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Export & Print | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Photographic 3D Modelling using PhotoVisualiser™ Plugin | ✔ | ||
| Electrics and Plumbing placement templates | ✔ | ||
Health & Safety Xpert
| Documents it produces | Health & Safety Xpert Plus | Health & Safety Xpert Premium |
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| Lifetime Licence: | £1,299+VAT | £1,499+VAT |
| Annual Subscription | £499+VAT | £599+VAT |
| Risk Assessments | ||
| COSHH Assessments | ✓ | ✓ |
| Method Statement Templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| 84+ Toolbox Talks | ✓ | ✓ |
| Preconstruction Information Document | ✓ | ✓ |
| Construction Phase Health & Safety Plan | ✓ | ✓ |
| Company Health & Safety Policy | ✓ | ✓ |
| CDM Duty holders document to CDM 2015 Checklist | ✓ | ✓ |
| User guide to reflect CDM 2015 Regulations | ✓ | ✓ |
| Domestic Client Responsibilities under CDM 2015 guidance | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contractors Responsibilities for Domestic Clients under CDM 2015 guidance | ✓ | ✓ |
| Health & Safety File | ✓ | ✓ |
| And other Management Documents including: | ||
| Client Acknowledgement of Risk Assessment | ✓ | ✓ |
| COSHH Coversheet | ✓ | ✓ |
| Accident & Incident Record | ✓ | ✓ |
| Accident & Incident Investigation Form | ✓ | ✓ |
| PPE Register | ✓ | ✓ |
| Toolbox Talks Register | ✓ | ✓ |
| Toolbox Talks Training Record | ✓ | ✓ |
| Written Record of Breach document | ✓ | ✓ |
| Plant Inspection Record | ✓ | ✓ |
| Site Set Up Checklist | ✓ | ✓ |
| Site Rules | ✓ | ✓ |
| Site Safety Induction | ✓ | ✓ |
| Site Induction Register | ✓ | ✓ |
| Site Attendance (Visitors) Register | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fire Plan | ✓ | ✓ |
| Report of Inspection Scaffold/Excavation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Noise Assessments | ✓ | ✓ |
| Site Inspection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Health & Safety Audit | ✓ | ✓ |
| Permit to Work Electricals | ✓ | ✓ |
| Permit to Work Excavations (Permit to Dig) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Permit to Work Asbestos | ✓ | ✓ |
| Permit to Work Confined Spaces | ✓ | ✓ |
| Permit to Work at Height | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hot Works Permit | ✓ | ✓ |
| Permit Register | ✓ | ✓ |
| Excavation Pre-Works Checklist | ✓ | ✓ |
| Excavation Inspection Record | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scaffolding Inspection Record | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ladder Inspection Record | ✓ | ✓ |
| HAVS Exposure Record | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scaffolding Handover Sheet | ✓ | ✓ |
| Harness Inspection Record | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lifting Equipment Inspection Record | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contractor Questionnaire | ✓ | ✓ |
| Project Waste Management Checklist | ✓ | ✓ |
| Design Risk Management Document | ✓ | ✓ |
| Training Record | ✓ | ✓ |
| Covid-19 Specific Health & Safety Documents | ||
| Covid-19 Risk Assessment for your sites - all firms with over 5 employees must record one by law | ✓ | ✓ |
| Covid-19 Risk Assessment for your office - all firms with over 5 employees must record one by law | ✓ | ✓ |
| Covid-19 Toolbox Talk | ✓ | ✓ |
| Company Health & Safety Policy with Covid-19 clauses | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pre-Construction Info with Covid-19 clauses | ✓ | ✓ |
| Construction Phase Health & Safety Plan with Covid-19 clauses | ✓ | ✓ |
| Young Persons Risk Assessment with additional Covid-19 clauses | ✓ | ✓ |
| Site rules with Covid-19 instructions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Site Induction with Covid-19 instructions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Work Equipment Inspection record | ✓ | ✓ |
| Additional Features: | ||
| Handy New Project ‘wizard’ that speeds up customisation of your project at the start | ✓ | ✓ |
| EstimatorXpress user? Imported your job? Now add additional build phases (including ones not already in your estimate ) to customise the paperwork you need further | ✓ | ✓ |
| Handy job management "what document I need and when" feature; Gantt, Timetable or HSG65 Table / List views | ✓ | |
| Create your own Gantt charts that documents are assigned to | ✓ | |
| Other members of the team have a Health & Safety Xpert licence? Now share the project and health and safety Gantt chart so all the team can see what’s planned | ✓ | |
ProjectXpert
| WHAT CAN IT DO? | INCLUDED IN THE SOFTWARE |
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| Lifetime Licence | £599+VAT |
| Annual Subscription | £259+VAT |
| Create, edit or delete tasks and build phases with ease | ✓ |
| Add milestones or decision points | ✓ |
| Add sub-tasks to tasks and link related activities | ✓ |
| Assign resources to tasks, sub-tasks and build phases | ✓ |
| Add “Baselines” to track any amends to the project | ✓ |
| Show planned vs actual progress on the job | ✓ |
| Monitor allocation of resources, cash flow and revenue | ✓ |
| Customise the look and feel of your charts | ✓ |
| Export dates into iCalendar format to put into MS Outlook, Google Calendar etc | ✓ |
| Print your chart, export to MS Excel or email to clients | ✓ |
| Links with EstimatorXpress | ✓ |
ContractsXpert
| DOCUMENTS IT PRODUCES | INCLUDED IN THE SOFTWARE |
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| Lifetime Licence | £499+VAT |
| Annual Subscription | £199+VAT |
| Domestic Building Contract | ✓ |
| Commercial and Industrial Building Contract | ✓ |
| Domestic Building Subcontract | ✓ |
| Notice of right cancel | ✓ |
| Cancellation Form | ✓ |
| Start Work Now | ✓ |
| Changing Work Form | ✓ |
Got a Mac?
All HBXL software packages have been written for PC’s but that does not mean the software does not work on a Mac. If you are a Mac User and want to know how to run HBXL software there are certain things you need to be aware of – you can read more here.
