My Return to Estimating
I had the opportunity this week to put together an estimate for a hard bid. I trained the company several months ago but they have been busy and just couldn’t get to HeavyBid and I just love doing takeoffs and estimating. It gives me the…
Starting a New Company
I get phone calls periodically from someone who I have trained that is starting a new construction company and is seeking my advice. Here is a summary of my recommendations: HeavyBid – go with a standalone at first and if cash flow is an issue…
Vendor Business Contact System – Video
I find that existing HeavyBid users rarely have the above setup or if they do they don’t take the time to add the necessary information like product codes to really make the system useful. This YouTube video combined with the downloadable Excel spreadsheet will assist…
Version Update Notifications
I always tell HCSS customers that all software especially products like HeavyBid has to be managed. A part of that is knowing when updates come out and timing the update so that the team is not impacted if they are in the middle of a…
Some V2020.2 Features
I was training some very sharp estimators this week and we were diving deep into HeavyBid and I noticed two new features in V2020.2 that you might find useful. I know the list of improvements is under the “What’s New” but until you actually see…
See the Future!
Your company is heavily invested in one or more HCSS products. My experience is most customers have at least two HCSS products in use or at least under consideration. So shouldn’t you be aware of new features coming so you can better prepare for them?…
Vendor Business Contact System – Huge!
If there is one module that is often ignored in HeavyBid setup it is the Vendor Contact System. A little quirky (where is the save button!) and I think it needs some updating but the benefits are huge in getting this setup and setup correctly….
Basic Version Heavybid
I have a confession here. Just about all my blogs pretty much target Advanced and Comprehensive versions of HeavyBid. In fact, I use to have a healthy dislike for the Basic Version until I was put on a salesperson’s hat. It was at the recent…
HeavyBid 2020.2
This caught me by surprise but there is a new release of 2020.2. There is some good stuff here. For me having the ability to run an “estimate has changed” in Quote Folders anytime is huge. Before if it did not show up in the…
Settings in Quote Folders
If you are new to quote folders there are a few settings that you should consider setting up. These are user specific so everyone on the team would have to do this individually. Go to Quote Folders and enter on an existing quote folder for…
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