Features

Ten reasons builders price with RQS

From the first measurement on your plans to a signed proposal, these are the features that do the heavy lifting.

The top 10

Estimating, databases and reporting, connected so nothing is typed twice.

01

Live databases built from your numbers

Items, assemblies and packages carry your own costs, specs, selections and vendors. Change a price once and every unlocked estimate, report and Showroom page follows.

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02

Assemblies with formulas

Build the math once. Assemblies carry the formulas and every little item a job needs, so estimators move fast without remembering each one.

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03

On-screen takeoff

Open your PDF plans, set the scale, and trace lengths, areas and counts. Quantities flow straight into the estimate.

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04

Good, Better, Best upgrades

Upgrade grades live inside your assemblies, so prices are ready to present with no extra work. Once approved, one click swaps the upgrade in and every report follows.

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05

Options

Price a composite deck against a pressure-treated one, or a garage separately from the house, and switch them on and off. Totals follow.

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06

Proposals and specs from the estimate

Proposal, specification, selections, options and upgrade reports come straight from the estimate in your company’s name, with Word export. No retyping, no mismatched numbers.

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07

Price locks

Lock an estimate once pricing goes to the customer. Database changes never move a locked job, and an updated price report shows what would change before you decide.

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08

Change orders and draw schedules

Approved change orders update the contract and the payment schedule. Draw stages by percent or amount always add up to the contract and print on the proposal.

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09

The Showroom

A customer-facing catalog of your work. Customers and salespeople browse items, assemblies and packages with pictures and prices, using a margin you set.

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10

A second set of eyes

Before an estimate goes out, RQS checks it for $0 items and lines with no quantity. Claude also points out work that looks left out and drafts specs in your style. You approve everything.

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Also in RQS

From the first proposal to the signed contract, and on into your books.

Review and sign online

Send the estimate for review: your customers choose their options, upgrades and selections online, then sign the proposal or specification, the contract and the payment schedule. You get one signed PDF, filed with the job.

Compare versions

See exactly what changed between proposal versions, adding up to the change in price. Show the customer a plain-words summary when you want to.

Works with QuickBooks

Bring in your QuickBooks customers, vendors and items, and send each signed job back: an estimate by job cost code for QuickBooks Desktop, or a customer file and line list for QuickBooks Online.

Sales pipeline and website leads

Follow every proposal from sent to won or lost, with reminders before proposals expire, and put a "Request an estimate" form on your own website that sends leads straight into RQS.

Vendor pricing

Ask suppliers and subs to confirm prices from a link, compare bids side by side, and approve every change before it touches your database.

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