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Builders’ merchant estimating service

Turn Customer Drawings Into Material Sales

Give your customers a professional estimating service that also delivers for your branch team.

Estimators Online transforms building drawings into detailed labour and material estimates. Through API integration, estimate data can also be delivered directly into your merchant trading system.

We can even integrate customer-specific material pricing, with existing account terms already applied.

See How It Works
  1. Customer Building Drawings
  2. Estimators OnlineMeasure • Quantify • Estimate
  3. API Integration
  4. Your Merchant Trading SystemAccount • Terms • Customer Pricing
  5. Branch Quote → Material Order

More Than an Estimating Service

Your customers need to know what their project will cost. Your branch needs to know what materials they need to buy.

Local knowledge nationwide.

For Your Customer

A professional, detailed labour and materials estimate for their complete domestic building project.

For Your Branch

A fully quantified materials schedule in build stage ready to call off, delivered directly into your branch’s trading system.

API connected into your Merchant Trading System

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Our API technology can deliver completed estimate information directly into your existing merchant trading system, reducing the need to extract and re-key lengthy material schedules.

No Double Entry

Reduce manual re-keying of material information from completed estimates.

Faster Branch Quotations

Give branch teams the quantified information they need to start preparing the material quotation.

More Material Opportunities

Identify requirements across the complete project rather than responding only to today’s enquiry.

Customer-specific pricing

Their Account.
Their Terms. Their Prices.

Where supported by your trading system, API integration can retrieve customer-specific material pricing with the customer’s existing account terms already applied.

  1. Customer Account
  2. Agreed Terms
  3. Customer Pricing
  4. Estimate

Built to Deliver for Your Branch Team

The value shouldn’t stop when the customer receives the estimate.

Identify

Reveal material opportunities from the complete set of customer drawings.

Connect

Transfer estimate information electronically through API integration.

Convert

Give your branch team the information needed to quote, engage and supply.

From Drawings to Material Sales

  1. Upload Drawings

    Start with your customer’s building drawings.

  2. We Measure & Quantify

    We identify the labour and materials for the project.

  3. Estimate Produced

    A detailed estimate and quantified material schedule.

  4. API Connects

    Estimate information passes to your connected trading system.

  5. Branch Quotes & Supplies

    Your team can price, quote and supply the materials.

Materials across the complete project

  • Foundations
  • Groundworks
  • Drainage
  • Brickwork
  • Roofing
  • Insulation
  • Carpentry
  • Plastering
  • Plumbing
  • Finishes

Specialists in Domestic Building

Our estimating systems have been developed around domestic building work, from straightforward extensions through to complete new dwellings.

Trusted by the Building Industry Since 2000

More than two decades of online estimating experience, systems and data, built to provide estimating services at scale.

Built to scale

From One Branch to a National Network

Whether you’re an independent builders’ merchant or operate hundreds of branches, the service can be introduced around the requirements of your business.

Start Small. Prove the Process. Scale.

For larger merchant groups, we favour a controlled rollout so branch teams understand the service, the customer proposition and how to turn estimating enquiries into material opportunities.

Give Your Branches Something Your Customers Actually Need

Give customers the answer to “How much will my project cost?” while giving your branch team the information needed to supply the materials.

Estimating + Quantification + Merchant Pricing + API Integration

No One Else Measures Up

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