Estimating software designed for ductwork projects

⠀⠀Create winning bids in less than half the time

⠀⠀Excellent 1:1 training and support

⠀⠀Designed to make estimating easy for tradies

Is Rapid suitable for ductwork contractors?

RapidBid is designed around your workflow as a contractor.

Ductwork is a perfect example, since take-offs and estimates in this trade can often take almost as long as the work itself. RapidBid transforms the way you work, cutting this time down to a minimum and boosting your profits immediately.

Why traditional ductwork estimating doesn’t work

It’s essential in any business to work quickly and efficiently if you want to make more money in a given amount of time. For ductwork contractors, this is a delicate balance to strike. Accuracy is hugely important, as small mistakes in your calculations can cause major issues later in the project.

You need to know you have the right materials and components when you start installing the system, otherwise you risk errors and delays that can cost a lot of money and jeopardise your relationship with your customer.

On the other hand, taking too long to put together your quote might mean you miss out on the opportunity altogether. The client might not realise you’re taking your time on a manual take-off to ensure it’s accurate for them, especially if one of your competitors is doing it faster using estimating software.

The problem stems from doing everything manually. Printing and analysing drawings, counting and calculating by hand… there are way too many opportunities for errors, and it simply takes too long. Surely technology can make this much simpler? That’s where RapidBid can help.

“I have a mate who is an electrical contractor and he was telling me that he spent three weeks pricing a $200,000 job by hand. I told him that with my estimating and PDF take off software, I started a $700,000 job yesterday and finished it today!”

Ashley AJDR

“As much as I would hate to help any of my competitors, I have to completely endorse RapidBid in all that it offers for a business. Our quotation rate has increased from 50 to over 200 quotations per month.”

On Tap Plumbing

“RapidBid is a lifesaver. It’s so easy to use, I just open the drawings and within minutes I have scaled, marked and priced up all my materials and labour. It has increased the speed that we can win work four times over, at least.”

AL Contract Services

“At last, take-offs for the 21^st century! After years spent marking up drawings with highlighters and producing takeoff sheets, this is a revolution in estimating. Just can’t live without it – I now takeoff five projects in the time it used to take to do just one.”

MJL Contracts

“Now, overall from top to bottom, RapidBid’s software saves me about 70% of my time, and that makes an amazing difference. Quotes that took me five days before now take me less than two days, and I’ve only been estimating since January.”

JKM Contracts

“I work as an estimator Monday-to-Friday, 9-to-5, and your software and support is first class. I can takeoff and price well over 10 drawings in less than an hour, this used to take me half a day before! I just love how simple it is.”

Wiltons

We used to do takeoffs with a scale ruler and a pencil which was very time consuming, and now we have a much quicker takeoff time. We only spend around 1 or 2 hours doing takeoffs with RapidBid’s software and before it used to take us about 5 or 6 hours.

AG Contracting

“We used to have a three or four-process estimate which was over-complicated, but now we have a simple, one-process estimate. We definitely recommend!”

Pure Services Group

“Time saving is the biggest advantage for us by far. RapidBid saved us about 80% of our time and increased our productivity 50%.”

Environ Group

“Our monthly quotation output has increased from 60 to in excess of 180 quotations per month. That is a staggering 300% increase.”

D. R. Matthews

Better ductwork software, higher profits

When you use RapidBid to handle your ductwork estimating workflow, everything changes for the better. Eliminating the need for any paper, pens, rulers, highlighters and so on, you can simply rely on the suite of on-screen tools in the program to do the job for you.

Starting with the drawings, you can easily import only the most relevant files after quickly previewing each one. Within seconds, you’ve saved a significant amount of time and can make a start on the plans that are relevant to ductwork installation.

Following that, you can take off all the necessary elements of each drawing with a few simple clicks of your cursor. As you go along, you can define each fitting and component so the correct quantities are instantly displayed in your estimate. That significantly speeds up the process of actually calculating a quote, since all you need to do is factor in any additional costs. The end result is a total cost estimate with a detailed breakdown that you can send to your client.

The estimate you’ll ultimately create will be precisely calculated by software rather than a tired, time-pressured human brain. This dramatically reduces the chance of mistakes being made, so in the long run your profits are safer. Moreover, the fact that it takes several hours less on average is a huge benefit for any ductwork contractor, large or small.

Free software demo for ductwork contractors

RapidBid is powerful, but very straightforward and intuitive at its core. After all, the software has been developed by people who fully understand the process of working on estimates, and constantly refined based on real user feedback.

We’re confident you’ll be impressed when you see it in action, so we’d like to offer you that opportunity. By clicking the button below, you can book a free demo at a time that suits you, and we’ll talk you through it.

Something worth nothing: we won’t pressure you to make a decision. It’s a no-strings demo just to show you how it works. However, you’ll get the chance to ask any questions you like and we’ll be able to give you some personalised advice.

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