Home Builder
Estimating Software
MarkSystems enables home builders
to make quick, accurate cost estimates.
Every successful home builder today relies on proven builder estimating software.
How much does it cost to build a house? The ability to answer this question accurately and immediately is vital to every function of a home builders’ business. Residential construction estimating software is a standard feature in MarkSystems® software and allows home builders to develop accurate job estimates quickly and easily. Developed specifically for semi-custom and production home builders, MarkSystems uses a product-based orientation to pre-define costs at both base house and option levels.
Watch as Austin Johnson with Fischer and Fritchel discusses how MarkSystems helps improve communication between estimators and their sales team.
Estimating Ease
Develop accurate job estimates quickly and easily
Need more bidding automation?
Automatically generate bid worksheets for every trade involved in construction.
Sales team doesn't have up-to-date selections pricing?
Sales and design consultants always have up-to-the-minute information for selections and pricing.
Inaccurate job estimates?
Get a complete and accurate final estimate for construction.
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Generate estimates in multiple ways
With MarkSystems, estimates can be generated to suit each individual home builder's need and the type of home being built. Data for estimates can be imported and historical data can be used to generate an estimate in seconds.
Automate supplier bidding and pricing
Formalize estimates by automatically generating bid worksheets and sending supplier price requests. These can also be posted automatically to the vendor portal via the Internet ToolKit™, reducing effort and ensuring consistency across all trades.
Import bid worksheets
Bid worksheets and supplier price lists can be imported into MarkSystems through a simple copy/paste feature. By leveraging a single system, your product level master budgets are automatically updated so the system always knows the exact cost and the cost of the next new construction project.
Empower accurate estimates
Since every user shares information in the same system, sales and design consultants use up-to-the-minute information for selections and pricing. This enables them to configure a home in real-time, building incremental profits into every home sale.
Automatically create job estimates
Once the sale is accepted, job estimates are created automatically based on the configuration agreed on by the customer and defined by the sales team. Coupled with product estimates defined within MarkSystems, you get a complete and accurate final estimate for construction.
COMPLETELY INTEGRATED FUNCTIONALITY
Track profitability on each project, at every stage with the construction management software that home builders trust
Purchasing
- Combine base house and option selections
- Detailed work orders
- Maintain cost and profitability for every option
- Control pricing, even from multiple suppliers
- Maintain unlimited pricing history
Feature Overview
- Improve options sales with Design Center
- Engage customers with LotVue® interactive site maps
- Project Management made easy with the Internet ToolKit
- 300 built-in Reports and Executive Dashboards
- Scheduling that works the way you do
MarkSystems BIM Pipeline Takeoff Import
Bridging the gap between design and estimation, using BIM Pipeline Takeoff Import, you can quickly and easily produce a job-specific takeoff file that can be imported into MarkSystems. Information is tailor-made so no need for manual Excel work or data entry—saving you time, effort, and frustration. Learn how BIM Pipeline and MarkSystems work together.
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What our customers are saying
With the custom option estimator we get requests that go from our sales office to our back office, so it doesn't require follow-up or a phone call...the estimators get to see it ahead of time
Fischer and Frichel Custom Homes
