Overview | Features | What's New in Version 9?

• Price The Big Picture

  

  Go beyond direct costs and the defined scope of work to assess the indirect costs of changes.

  With Accubid's family of change order software—ChangeOrder and the more advanced ChangeOrder Pro—you can effectively and efficiently price and manage contract variations, and produce professional-looking change notices.

• Pocket ChangeOrder
  Price changes while you're still at the job site with your Pocket PC.

• ChangeOrder
  ChangeOrder allows you to manage contract variations, and to produce consistent and professional-looking change notices.

• ChangeOrder Pro
  ChangeOrder Pro is the perfect companion to our Accubid Pro estimating software solution or the ideal stand-alone change order solution.

Overview | Features | What's New in Version 9?

Features

Please note: not all features are available on all products; see the
 Product Comparison Chart for details.

Proven Material Database
Each estimating program comes with a comprehensive material database priced and ready to use, with labor units, labor factoring, labor tracking codes and cost codes built right in.

Flexible Pricing
Create change notices that reflect the way the contract reads. Include all the miscellaneous, direct, and indirect costs. Incorporate base contract unit pricing into ChangeOrder and save for use throughout the project. Discount or markup material or labor costs by whatever percentage or amount you choose. Choose whether to display or hide your calculations in office or client reports.

Consistent and Customizable Reports
Reusable report styles allow you to produce consistent and professional-looking reports. You can customize your reports for each project and save your customizations for future use. You can determine the appearance and contents of both client and office reports, specify the report title, and even include your company logo. You can preview your reports before printing, and e-mail them right from within your ChangeOrder program.

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Project Management Tools
Track changes and subcontractors at a glance. Enter the base bid contract then use the Schedule screen to view the budget-to-date amount and calculate the cost-to-complete as change notices are approved. Export change notice information into project management software or other applications for purchasing or scheduling, or job costing.

Multi-User Support
Accubid solutions work as part of your team. ChangeOrder and ChangeOrder Pro both support multiple estimators and enable both job and database sharing. Allow your estimators to work on separate change notices then merge them into a master change notice.

Proven Material Database
Each estimating program comes with a comprehensive material database priced and ready to use. The database includes over 22,000 material items and up to 14,000 pre-built assemblies laid out just as you would take them off. Items are available for many different electrical applications including industrial, commercial, institutional, manufacturing, and multi-residential installations. Our proven databases have labor units, labor factoring, labor tracking codes and cost codes built right in. Both competitive and NECA labor units are provided.

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Dynamic Takeoffs
Create custom project-specific assemblies on-the-fly for fixtures, gears, controls, etc. Dynamic takeoffs automatically calculate required quantities for each component in an assembly based on the length or count you specify.

Intelligent Breakdowns
Break down takeoffs by logical and physical aspects, such as phase, system, area, drawing, and bid item. Adjust labor during takeoff to account for various installation conditions. Filter the audit trail to display only those takeoffs that match the current selected takeoff breakdown. Present the change notices in a format easily understood by both the engineer and the owner.

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Live Extension
Our Live Extension instantly calculates every takeoff as it occurs. Quickly and easily sort the extended bill of material by system, area, drawing, phase, bid item, labor factor, sort codes, unit price, or item by single or multiple levels to perform reasonable checks. Sort by system and view total material costs for each system.

Improved integration with Accubid's estimating programs
launch ChangeOrder from your estimating software, and bring an estimate into a ChangeOrder project as a baseline job, populating all the base contract amounts

Streamlined price updating
export material database items as an Excel file that suppliers can use to enter or update prices which can then be used to update prices in your database

Enhanced reporting features
create or e-mail a PDF as an alternative to printing

Overview | Features | What's New in Version 9?

What's New in Version 9

Accubid continues to lead the way with Version 9 of our family of change order management solutions—ChangeOrder and ChangeOrder Pro. Version 9 includes a number of exciting new features and enhancements to increase your accuracy and productivity.

• Updated look and feel
• Customize look and feel using themes
• Quote Pad screen added for producing formal quotations
• View total number of jobs for each status within a project
• Equipment screen added to track equipment costs (ChangeOrder Pro only)
• Add notes to a takeoff or designation
• Apply adjustments separately to General Materials and Quoted Materials on the Totals screen
• Control the formatting and alignment of breakdown headers on reports
• Control which columns get exported by selecting a screen or report style
• Extended Cost columns added on Quoted Materials and Subcontractors screens
• Enter price adjustments as dollars (as well as percentage) on Subcontractors and Quoted Material screens
• Reverse takeoffs from positive to negative and vice versa
• and much more!