Sections Are Incredible, Here's Why...Organize your estimates like you do your work - with sections, such as Foundations, Framing, Roofing, and so on. Sections are a very powerful way of estimating and using them is simple to learn and will save you at least an hour a week in estimating and job costing - guaranteed! Sections help you spot missing or duplicated items in your estimate. You can add any missing items to the estimate where they belong, not tacked on at the end. When you prepare an estimate for your customers, you'll look like the professional you are. You can also pull the completed estimate into a word processing program, like MS Word, and add any additional formatting or contractual terms and conditions you want.
The key to job cost is... doing it. If you don't keep track of your job cost, it's impossible to Bid Right! The key to doing job cost is ... keep it simple. If keeping track of your costs is difficult and tedious, you'll do it for a while and then, because you don't have time (or any of a hundred other excuses), it falls by the wayside. You tell yourself "I'll catch it up later." For most of us, "later" never comes. If it's easy to do, it gets done. Keeping track of your costs will save your business! Simplified Job Cost in QuickBooksJob budgets are created in QuickBooks by section. So when you're paying your bills, you select the job and select the section the bill is for, no matter how many items were used in the section. For example, if you got a bill for concrete, which is Foundation materials, you'd charge it to the Foundation Materials line in your job budget. You don't have to search through dozens or hundreds of lines of the budget looking for concrete. It's very simple, and VERY effective. Need more information about Sections in LiteningFast? Click here. Speaking of QuickBooks, we have a newsletter that will give you tips and tricks to help you get the most out of QuickBooks and LiteningFast Estimating plus provide information that will help you more effectively and profitably run your construction business. We'll also send you our report "Keep Thousand$ More In Your Pocket...A Report For Contractors", a $29.95 value, with our compliments. Our privacy statement.
"Power Items", Like QuickBooks, And MorePower items save you time. Each LiteningFast item has the cost for materials, labor, equipment, subcontracts, and miscellaneous built in. So, when you enter the take off quantity for an item, you're taking off the equivalent of up to 5 QuickBooks items. This saves you time and reduces mistakes. If you need to make adjustments in the estimate, you change one item, not three or four. If you'd like more information about items and how we use them in LiteningFast, click here. Since items are organized by section, it's easy for you to find what you're looking for. You just have to "Point and Click" the section you want, like Framing, and you'll see the list of items for that section. Click on the item, enter the takeoff quantity, and it's added to the estimate. You can also add items on-the-fly when you're estimating. If you need an entry that's not in the database just add it. It will be included in your estimate and it will be there next time you need it. You can also adjust prices on-the-fly, and save the changes.
Copying Estimates / FrameworksDo you do the same, or similar, kinds of jobs over and over, like house plans? Do you find yourself preparing estimates that are almost identical to one another? With LiteningFast, you can copy the previous estimate and just make changes to it. Or, maybe you have a customer who wants to look at several different ways of doing the job. Make copies and then just plug in the adjustments. How much flexibility does this give you? How good do you look to the customer? How likely are you to get the job? How many hours will you save? To get more details on copying, click here. Phases are a way that you can break a job down into pieces. For example, let's say you're doing a room addition and a kitchen remodel for Ralph & Mary Smith. Break out the costs of the room addition from the costs of the kitchen remodel. You can show your customer the cost of each phase of the project. If you do insurance work this is a must have. Click here for more information on phases. Making your estimate "notable"Depending on the type of work you do, you may want to make notes as you are doing the take off. These notes may be for your own reference, to refresh your mind why you estimated a certain way. Or, they could be to share with the customer to more explain why a certain item is being used, how it's being used, or detailed specifications of the item. LiteningFast allows you to easily add notes to estimate lines, sections, and phases. And you can selectively print them, or not, on the estimate. Price updates of materials, labor, and equipment are very easy. Let's say your carpenters are paid $10 and hour and you're going to give them a raise to $11 an hour. You make the change in one place and click the "Update" button. Every item that has carpenter labor will be updated to reflect the change. Learn more on price updates by clicking here. You save many hours with these automatic price updates. More time to prepare more estimates - or more time with the family. Automatic Job SchedulesLiteningFast automatically creates schedules for your jobs as you're estimating. The schedules give you and your customer a picture of how and when the job will be completed. This is a great sales tool and gives you more control over your jobs. Assemblies allow you to group commonly used items together so you can do a takeoff of one item that really takes off 3, 5, 10, or 20 items with one entry. Assemblies, or groups, as they're called in QuickBooks, can save you hours of entry time and reduce missed items and other errors. They save you time for the things you want to do, and the put you in control. Click here for more details.
No Problem!Our unique GetStarted! tutorials make learning so quick and easy, you'll be amazed at how soon you will be "up and running". They take you step-by-step through the features of the program and you create a sample estimate so you can prove how easy LiteningFast Estimating is to use. In addition to the GetStarted! tutorial, we also give you Cue Cards, which are on-screen helpers that guide you through specific operations. If you need help in a specific area, you can turn on the Cue Card to give you the help you need to get the job done - no more struggling to learn the program.
"90 Day No-Strings Attached Money Back Guarantee"We are so convinced that you will find LiteningFast Estimating everything we say it is, we make you the cast-iron promise. "If within 90 days, and for any reason whatsoever, you feel that LiteningFast Estimating is not for you, simply return it to us and receive a full and courteous refund." Can we possibly be any fairer than that? We'll even refund the shipping and handling. Click here for more details. This is the longest and strongest guarantee in the industry! Special Gift #1Browse N' Build Cost Book, A $49.95 value. 20,000+ items to create your own price catalog. Browse n' Build lets you select the items you use regularly for your database. Instead of scanning through thousands of items every time you estimate, you will only have the items you need to do your work. The cost book includes material costs and labor production rates. Special Gift #2We will include one year of free support, a $249 value. You can either email us, support@litening.com, or call us 510-713-7090. We're committed to your success. Special Gift #3The AcuFast System for contractors to keep thousands more in their pockets. A $19.95 value. This is a seven step plan that shows you how to get the best results from LiteningFast and QuickBooks. It's a step-by-step plan that show you how to enter your bills, what reports to look at, how to analyze the reports, what to look for in the reports, how to make the adjustments in your estimating so you don't make the same mistakes over and over. Its designed for general and specialty contractors find the thousands of dollars that are lost in their jobs, in as little as 15 minutes a week! You will:
You will estimate faster, easier and more accurately than ever before. You'll be able to quickly track your job cost so you're Bidding Right, confident that if you get the job, you'll make money on it. And because it's so efficient, you'll have more time to do the things you REALLY want to do. And without any risk to you in the slightest. No worries about making the wrong decision with our 90 day unconditional money back guarantee. I'm sure your answer is yes. After all, you have nothing to lose. Just click here to order LiteningFast Estimating and start enjoying the feeling of being in control of your estimating and your projects NOW. Don't you deserve that? Call 1-800-211-4931 to Order Now! or Order online through our secure order process. LiteningFast Expert Estimator only $397 + 9.95 s&h Click Here & Order Online Now! Copyrights,
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