Very Cool V2020 Feature
HeavyBid Version 2020 has many improvements but outside of improvements to the export to accounting there is not a whole lot you will notice. The feature I am referring to above is the exception and you like me have probably not used the “Estimate Review…
HeavyBid Info Sheet
Here is a small project I have been working on. Intended for new users as a basic one page information sheet but I will expand it to include information (on another sheet) for more advanced users. Fink it on the link below LINK
Master Estimate Code – Best Practices
I had a blog a while back on best practices for coding estimates but this blog is on actually coding Master Estimates. When I am setting up a new company I always recommend not using the “ESTMAST” estimate as the default Master estimate for the…
Change Material Costs & Non-Add Activities
If you have been reading my blog posts for a while you know that I like the Change Material Cost screen. If you are not familiar with this screen and its powerful change options watch my Youtube video on it (LINK). But I found a…
Lock Estimates
An estimator leaves your company and brings with him or her some or all of your company’s estimates. That is a huge amount of intellectual data that is on the streets. I see other company’s estimates at my trainings so I know this occurs. HCSS…
Holding Accounts & Self Perform Work
This is one of those blogs that probably most estimators using HeavyBid won’t know what I am talking about but there are those users that setup Self Perform work with Holding Account activities. So if the sub is selected more than likely the holding account…
HeavyBid in Dark Mode
I was at a customer site and one of the people I was training asked if HeavyBid had a “Dark” mode. If you don’t know what “Dark” mode is, it was recently rolled out for IOS (Apple) products. What this mode does is reverse the…
Addons-Job Value Calculation
I am pretty sure Addons has been around since the first DOS version of HeavyBid. In my recent blog I covered how to use an Addons entry to calculate G&A expenses so that they are separated from markup. Many companies calculate it on “Job Value”…
Part III: G&A Walkthrough Video
I made a quick video walking through my favorite way to deal with overhead costs in an estimate. Estimating best practices is to separate G&A Expenses from Markup. HERE is a link to the video or click below.
HCSS Support Team Bios
I enjoyed scrolling down the list of support people at HCSS and see who I have been talking to. After you talk to someone on the phone it is fun to go read their bio. Who knew that Michael Pham taught in Qatar after graduating…
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