For the past 18 years, Builders Software Enterprises has been supplying estimating, accounting and internet solutions to the construction industry. These solutions are mainly geared for home builders, remodelers, & light commercial contractors. The newly released "BSE Estimator" is integrated with QuickBooks Pro or Premier. It features a built in scheduling system, and a master database structure that makes retrieving and updating pricing a snap!
In the building business, you can be the best bookkeeper in the world, but you can lose your shirt in a heart beat if you don’t master the estimating part of the process. In this industry, accounting is the process of keeping score once the game is already won or lost! A builder lives or dies by the ESTIMATE! The more you build, the more you will need up to the second information on where you stand vs. where you thought you would be on any given project at a moments notice. Not having this information in a timely manner can allow a mistake on a current project to have a rippling affect over multiple projects. These mistakes can be very costly to you & your company!
The "BSE Estimator" is a powerful, yet simple to use tool. It houses a Primary Master file which contains all your price structures & formulas. As you do your take-off from your plans, simply fill in the quantities to the "BSE Estimator" program, and this system will do the rest. Produce estimates in a fraction of the time it would take you to complete them manually. Retrieve historical data at lightning speed.
Once the estimate is complete, import the data through QuickBooks new dynamic back door. The QuickBooks estimating module will act as a holding tank for the data inserted from the "BSE Estimator" program. Now that the data is in QuickBooks, you can pull up to the second variance information (actual vs. estimated), purchase orders, work orders, & change orders. We even supply a QuickBooks company file that makes closing projects to the general ledger & printing Profit & Loss or Balance Sheets fast and simple.
Next, you can import pricing changes from QuickBooks back to the "BSE Estimator". If a window price goes up, and you write the check for more than the estimated price, you can import the new higher price from QuickBooks to the "BSE Estimator". This new price change will be available for your next new estimate. The "BSE Estimator" talks to QuickBooks and QuickBooks talks back!
All job costs are followed as assets & job revenues are followed as liabilities while the job is open. Assets convert to "Cost of Goods Sold" & liabilities convert to "Income" when you close the job to the general ledger. The system is setup to accommodate the "Completed Contract Method of Accounting".
For more information, please go to our website and watch our online demo, or call our office at 800-659-6410.