• Votes

    17

    Bid Grid Notes Column (Ferguson Construction - Ohio)

    When in the "Bid Grid" window we would like for there to be a "Notes" column after the "Amount" column. Currently you have to right-click on the sub's name to add a note. ...
  • Votes

    14

    Spell Check in Sage?? (Hensel Phelps)

    Owners lose Trust when they see spelling errors in an estimate which leads to them searching for other issues due to the Trust factor. I think its 2020 right, can't ...
  • Votes

    14

    Formatting of manually entered overline totals

    I want to be able to turn off manually entered overline totals as being formatted as lump sum amounts, and to just use the formatting of the row. We use the overline ...
  • Votes

    13

    Ability to import Labor Rate Tables from MS Excel

    Whenever I get updated Davis-Bacon rates I need to re-key the benefit values into my local rate table. Though it doesn't happen that often it's tedious. It would be ...
  • Votes

    12

    A qualifications / assumptions module would be nice.

    I use the notes column for any Q/A for the specific item or assembly. But every job has general qualifications and assumptions that needs to be documents prior to ...
  • Votes

    11

    Highlight estimate being worked on

    Although having each estimate open having a different color is nice but its difficult to see which is the active one. Having just the active one open highlighted for ...
  • Votes

    10

    Estimate Rounding

    There should be a button to click when viewing the entire estimate to round each material, other & equipment item # (or combination of the same item #s) to the nearest ...
  • Votes

    10

    Unlocking the estimate that is in use by another user

    Please enable the ability to make an estimate available by an Administrator when an estimate is in use by another user. this feature appears to have been disabled in the ...
  • Votes

    9

    Scheduling Integration

    Integration into Primavera or Microsoft Project was a necessary component of the Pervasive Version that cut down hours of manual entry that SQL will now require.
  • Votes

    9

    Drop Down Functionality

    Would be great to add drop down functionality to smart assemblies rather than only numeric input.
  • Votes

    9

    Allow for automatic backup of Options files to the server for proper ...

    In the Pervasive version of Estimating we were able to keep our personal Options files stored on the server so that we could access them from where ever on the network ...
  • Votes

    8

    Multi user

    Need something more robust than two chairs, two mice, and two keyboards at a computer to call estimating multi-user. Merge estimates either is not the solution. ...
  • Votes

    8

    We would like the ability to change the phase suffixes on existing ...

    To merge existing databases, we would like to change the phase suffixes on one of the databases to produce 1 clean database with all the items we use.
  • Votes

    8

    Need bid grid for vendors (Materials columns)

    We also get quotes for materials - ie vendors - woudl liek the same grid as you have for assemblies
  • Planned

    8

    Alternates - Base Bid should not change

    There needs to be a way to have “Base Bid” items in an estimate when using alternates. When including or excluding alternates, the “Base Bid” value should not change. All ...
  • Planned

    8

    Adjust font size by column for Notes column

    The option to adjust the column font size was removed in version 18.12. It would be extremely helpful to restore this ability for the Notes column since you are able to ...
  • Votes

    7

    Vendor bid grid

    Create a vendor bid grid system. Replaces multiple material totals items with one supplier total quote.
  • Votes

    7

    Include a Dark Mode for the program

    We (estimators especially) spend 8-12 hours a day in front of our screens with programs that boast eye-blistering light because of the white default themes. in the age of ...
  • Votes

    7

    Please enable the ability to make an estimate available by an ...

    In version 19 of Sage Estimating, the ability to access an estimate that was left open by another user was disabled. It is imperative this feature be reactivated. If an ...
  • Planned

    6

    "Enhanced" Notes

    Ability to add additional sections to the estimate notes were added, along with rich text formatting. Unfortunately, none of this functionality is usable when printing ...