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BZ-05: Bidding and Estimating
Bid-Biz
Smith, I. J.
$40
#7126/1866
is a bidding program that lets you tie multiple component and phase costs to
the bid or primary items. The program uses multiple record windows for
viewing, editing and various look up purposes. It can be useful for the quote
option as well as for establishing different defaulting burdens to be used for
different type estimates, various workers' comp insurance, out of town
expenses, etc. You can create estimates with only a few master file records.
It should prove useful for many other businesses besides contractors. Requires
512k RAM and a hard disk.
Cost-Biz
Smith, I. J.
$35
#7126/1902
is a job-costing program. It allows for four types of costs: equipment,
labor, materials, and subcontractor costs. It allows percentage allocations
or units to be used in the cost items. Requires 512k and a 132-column
printer. A hard disk is recommended. Files are limited only by disk space.
Smith has written several accounting related programs, and all of them are
fast, professional looking, and easy and efficient to use. For example, when
entering a new part number or account number, you do not keep getting beeped
and told to go to another part of the program to set up new accounts. Instead,
you are allowed to set up new entries on the fly.
Complete Sales Automation System 5.6 [SAS56T] (11-93 CD)
Software Innovations ASP
$69
#7126/1802
helps business owners, sales people, and other professionals maintain a client
database, a simple inventory database, and merge the two to prepare estimates,
quotations, and point of sale invoices. You can re-direct output to the
screen, printer, or disk file, set a default price class for each client, mass
update inventory pricing, enter credit card authorization numbers, enter tax
rates with three decimal numbers, print client mailing labels, print an
inventory price list, and organize sales prospecting. Other features include
vendor, quote and invoice tracking, order summary reports, and automated
follow up.
Inventory quantities can be tracked, and the sales tax report shows taxable
and non-taxable sales totals. The salesman's name will print on each
quotation/invoice, and order summary reports can be generated for individual
clients or salespeople. Packing slips can be printed for invoices, vendor
mailing labels can be printed, and extended product descriptions can be viewed
for each item on an order direct from the order entry screen.
Items in inventory may be flagged as taxable or nontaxable, and there are
three price/class categories. The program is easy to use and very well
designed. Documentation is limited, but there is plentiful context-sensitive
help and a tutorial which will walk you through the features of the program.
Network support is provided. Requires 640k and a hard disk.
Easy Quote
Smith, I. J.
$35
#7126/2128
is a customer price quote program. Two overhead factors are provided for
projected cost purposes. Program design allows for the printed quote to be
used as a billing invoice also. It uses auto look up tables and scrolling
record windows. Quoted products are displayed with extensions in the multiple
record windows. Requires 512k. Hard disk is recommended.
PC-Bid Plus
Smith, I. J.
$35
#7126/1154
maintains databases of bid items together with Labor, Equipment, Material and
Sub-Contractor costs. Labor costs can be maintained by both time and monetary
values, allowing for various costing methods to be used. The program prepares
cost estimates and proposals. A hard disk is recommended.
If you get the error message that Btrieve is not loaded, it means that you ran
the PC-BID.EXE program instead of running PCBID.BAT which loads Btrieve before
running PC-BID. Any program which has the BTRIEVE.EXE record manager on the
disk must be run from a batch file in this manner.
Power Quote 3.0 [PWRQT30]
Gee, Gary
$103
#20201 [March 1994 CD]
produces customer price quotations and invoices and adds them to a
database file. You enter the prices, quantities, and customer's discount
rate and the program does the rest. Reports can be printed or viewed
on-screen. The system can handle credit amounts. The unit price fields
on the item screen can handle a variable decimal position. The Quotes
can be saved, retrieved, and modified at a later date. The system also
supports multiple templates, and the user can specify the one that they
wish to use. Requires a hard disk, 384k of DOS RAM. Available on 3.5"
1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only.
PRODEV*EPrice 5.0 [PDEPRIC5]
PRODEV Software ASP
$35
#7127/2129 (02-94 CD)
is an electrical contractors pricing system. This is a companion package to
the PDS*Quote system for electrical contractors. It allows the electrical
contractor to subscribe to one of the weekly price update services and
selectively and easily import the price updates into the PDS*Quote data base
files.
PRODEV*Quote 5.0 [PDQUOT5A, PDQUOT5B]
PRODEV Software ASP
$70
#7127/0731 [2 disks] (02-94 CD)
aids you in preparing quotations from a large inventory for stock items,
sub-assemblies, processes, special one-of-a-kind items, etc. Different groups
of items can have different mark-ups. Different hourly labor rates can be
assigned to each group and multiple labor groups are allowed for a quote.
Supplier information can be stored and accessed. You can build a quote by
simply entering part numbers and quantities.
Features include virtually unlimited data file size, optional multi-group
labor units per material item; state and/or federal tax combinations; print to
disk, screen, or printer; optional multiple profit rates and more. Handles
non-USA dates. Lets you enter Bulk Quantity and Prices for automatic Unit
Price calculations.
Other features include a pop-up calculator and calendar and context-
sensitive help. A merge feature allows importing price data from
PC-File, dBase III+, Q&A, and Lotus 1-2-3. You can customize field
names, do bulk pricing, multi-state tax/labor, allow for rental items,
do mass price changes, create purchase order lists and much more. Output
can be exported into database and spreadsheet importable formats.
Requires 520k. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only.
PRODEV*Quote Utility Programs
PRODEV Software ASP
$10-$15
#7127/2864
is a set of two utilities for use with PRODEV*Quote. The Tracking program is
used to track actual costs for a quotation and print exception reports that
allow you to see all variances between the quote estimate and the actual
costs. The Browse program allows you to rapidly Browse/Edit the ProDev*QUOTE
material, labor, supplier and quotation data files via overlaid Pop-Up
windows.
Quotes Master Database
Josef's Software
$100
#7127/845
is designed to keep track of a number of different quotes and print them out
any time. A "quote" is a collection of part numbers, their descriptions, and
their actuals. A bill of material can be printed for any entered quote.
PriceBook
RJL Systems
$100
#1679
lets you keep itemized listings of items with price extensions and totals
automatically calculated. Shipping charges and sales tax can also be included
automatically. This is a generalized system that could be used for recording
and printing price books, invoices, catalogs, etc. We have a tough time
evaluating this program. The price seems outrageous to us and the program
seems to be hardcoded to use drive A:, although the author assures us it is
not. We suspect that this program that will appeal to some people, primarily
novices who prefer a dedicated application to doing the same job with a
spreadsheet or with a general database program like PC-File.
Dyna-Quote 3.0 [DYNAQUOT] 09-93 CD
Dynamacs, Inc
$25
#4470
(formerly Quotation Faster) is a complete sales quotation program. It is
easy to set up and use, with help available at any time, yet it is
powerful enough to be in use by the leading manufacturer of