Change Order Feature
In the July 2024 HCSS HeavyBid webinar, Aaron Allshouse covered this new feature. If you have not checked out the monthly webinars, especially for 2024, you need to do so. LINK What the function does is export to accounting only the changes in the estimate…
Classic Export to Accounting – Bye Bye
I know there are a number of HCSS customers are still using the Classic Export to Accounting (and HeavyJob). This export has not been updated in many years but some customers for whatever reason are still using it. This will be removed in Version 2026…
HeavyBid Version 2024.1
Version 2024.1 was released last week. I always like updates. This one is a significant one with some cool features, but I am still figuring them out. The major features are: Also PreCon has a new feature which I just tried out yesterday. You can…
Web-Based Contact Management System
With version 2024.0, you can export all your contacts in HeavyBid’s Business Contact System to the web-based “Contact Management” system. I am not going to get into the pros or cons of this migration in this blog, but this is an excellent help article that…
HCSS Webinar – What’s New V2024
This is a recent webinar that HCSS did on the new features of V2024. Good to see HCSS doing these webinars on the updates, and I will be posting some blogs on them as well. You will need your HCSS credentials to log into the…
V2024 HeavyBid Available
Version 2024 is now available. There are some notable new features, but as it is a new version, common bugs and annoyances have been fixed. One new feature is the ability to search for resources in Tree View on the View Pane. Pretty cool. Go…
Version 2023.2 Improvement
I noticed a significant improvement in Version 2023.2 that I never expected. A redesign of the Estimate Information screen. It shows me that the HeavyBid Dataflex version will continue to improve as the rewrite of HeavyBid is underway. I don’t expect to use the new…
HeavyBid 2023.2 Release!
I will admit that I love new releases of about any software. For those of you that want direct export to HeavyJob Web your wait is over. I am interested also on how the Autobackups to the Web will work as well as the Codebooks…
New Support Phone Number
HCSS just announced that tech support for HeavyBid will have a dedicated phone number. It is unclear to me yet if this means there will be dedicated HeavyBid Tech Support people but at least when the tech Support person picks up the phone when you…
HeavyBid Version 2023.1
The new version has been released. Call Tech Support if you don’t know how to download the update. Here is a list of the major improvements.
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