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…
Basic Skill – Backing up an Estimate
If I was asked to come in a quickly evaluate an estimating team, one of the first things I would ask an estimator is to backup an estimate and email it to me. Simple but a fundamental skill that all HeavyBid users need to know….
Total Shifts for an Estimate
In training of new users, I often get the question “where are my total shifts?” Now the question is framed where total shifts will be the duration of the project. If the project is small and there is only one crew on the project then…
Attached Documents
The subject of where do the attached documents reside was discussed among the HeavyBid trainers the other day. A preview of the attachments or links is not printed out with the cost report however if you want to see where they are located it is…
HCSS Summer Newsletter 2020
Back in the day the HCSS newsletter was printed and mailed out. I always enjoyed reading it. Now of course it is emailed but it is still formatted in the old print style which I love. HCSS really took a lot of time on this…
Automatic Backup: Check this Setting
The automatic backup was a great feature added many years ago in HeavyBid that can potentially save a disaster from happening. When an estimator changes estimates, exits HeavyBid, or makes uses certain Edit functions HeavyBid makes an automatic backup. Unfortunately in the default setting that…
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