As builders, you stay in business by winning new projects. To keep your teams busy, and your pockets heavy, you’ve got to keep producing construction quotes!
The average closing rate for home services construction quotes, not accounting for referrals, or repeat business, typically floats around the 20% - 30%. In other words, for every job you win, you will have likely lost out on 2 or 3. If you can’t produce construction quotes efficiently, you’re going to see a lot of wasted hours in your schedule.
If you still use outdated estimating methods, keeping up with the pace is going to be a challenge, and can burn you out very quickly. This will often mean sacrificing your work-life balance, evenings, and weekends to spend hours parked in front of the computer. Instead of driving the business forward, you can become locked in, constantly adjusting the nuts and bolts to keep the engine running.
So let's skip the long hours of tinkering and get you into a new Ferrari. With Bolsters' lightning-fast estimates, you can quote in minutes and send interactive offers that outperform the competition.
There are a lot of negative drawbacks to an ineffective construction quotes process, or outdated estimation software, but it can be difficult to see them when you're knee deep in estimates. Here are a few:
Made by contractors, for contractors, Bolster is your partner for building better. Our patented software produces accurate quotes in a fraction of the time of other estimating software and ensures your clients have a smooth, and informative experience from the first quote to the final nail. Here are a couple of the standout benefits of using Bolster:
Bet you never thought you’d hear that construction quotes can be easy, but Bolster’s patented software does just that. Based on your best practices, material, and labor pricing, our customer success managers work with you to develop a customized estimating workflow for your most common, high volume jobs.
This allows you, or any new member of your team, to be able to pick up Bolster for the first time, punch in the measurements of the job, and produce an accurate estimate within minutes.
Construction estimates have typically taken place in an excel spreadsheet, written on a piece of paper, and calculated by hand. While this may get to a similar outcome, it will take hours, not minutes, and still requires even the most expert member of your team to take it back to the office and finalize.
With Bolster, you can throw those excel sheets back into the 2000’s where they belong, and say hello to a beautiful, easy to learn user interface. By uploading, and storing your business’ vendor pricing sheets, average subcontractor costs, and typical overhead expenses in Bolster, our system can produce accurate quotes in minutes. You can qualify your customers in minutes, and even make the sale during the initial quote.
This is done by linking your line items, and costs to dimensions in your customized estimate templates, creating a cobweb of data that instantly adjusts pricing whenever measurements are updated. In fact, you just need to input measurement, and Bolster does the rest, creating adjustable, accurate quotes in a fraction of the time.
Bolster’s AutoCost feature brings your team a ton of horsepower. With AutoCost, you get live market pricing for over 25,000 construction items specific to your location. With your own pricing data, and AutoCost pricing data, Bolster removes any risk of submitting an incorrectly priced estimate.
Even with this system, especially if you’re rushing to produce quotes, sometimes people might mis-click, add an extra 0 to an item, or place a decimal point in the wrong spot. But we’ve got your back, and Bolster will automatically flag any unusual measurement or pricing entry for review prior to finalizing your quote.
The quoting process rarely ends after the first bid is sent off, and clients want to shop around, swap materials, and really paint a picture for what their project could look like. Bolster helps them do this, without any hassle on your end.
Homeowners love the interactive and customized nature of our estimates. When you send an estimate through Bolster, you send more than line items, and associated costs. You deliver a best-in-class customer experience that allows them to shop through different items, upgrade materials and watch the prices change live inside the quote itself. This reduces budget creep, and allows them to design the perfect project from their living room couch.
Our one-click automated scheduling tool allows you to create a detailed schedule for the project in a matter of seconds. You can visualize the entire project, and effortlessly adjust where needed to ensure every project will progress smoothly from start to finish.
If you need to make any adjustments to the schedule, your team and subcontractors will receive notifications to alert them of the changes. This ensures the build goes smoothly, everybody is aligned, and you don’t need to manually communicate a small change to the whole team.
Traditional construction estimation methods often result in countless hours wasted performing manual tasks. With Bolster, you leave these outdated practices in the past, where they belong. Our construction estimating software streamlines your process from start to finish, enabling you to generate lightning-fast, accurate quotes and interactive proposals in minutes.
With Bolster, you’re not just upgrading your tools—you’re transforming the way you do business. Say goodbye to wasted hours and hello to faster, more accurate estimates that keep your projects moving and your profits growing. Get in the driver’s seat and experience the difference for yourself by booking a demo with our team today.