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- BZ-05: Bidding and Estimating
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Complete Sales Automation System
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- EstiBid
- $299
- #7018/651 [5 disks]
- is a major estimating program for manufacturers. ESTIBID is both the most
- extensive and most expensive shareware program we've seen, covering five 360k
- disks.
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- Power Quote
- Gee, Gary
- $50
- #7127/2127
- (formerly PC Quote) 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.
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- PRODEV*EPrice
- PRODEV Software ASP
- $35
- #7127/2129
- 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.
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- PRODEV*Quote 4.5 [PDQUOTE] 09-93 CD
- PRODEV Software ASP
- $70
- #7127/0731
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 laser
- printers.
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