OVERVIEW

Building an accurate construction estimate can be a long process. Methvin | Estimate can help you gain a competitive advantage by facilitating your preparation of detailed, profitable bids while managing job costs and subcontractor bids.

COST CODES & NOTES

Define your Project with cost codes Develop an estimation implementation strategy thus improve your risk assessment.

IMBALANCED RATES

You have the ability to break down tasks into sub-bills to allow for more detail and the ability to lock tasks independently to allow for imbalanced rates.

TIME SAVING

Methvin | Estimate is a user-friendly project management, construction pricing system used for estimating large construction projects.

STRUCTURE

Structure your bid into sections which helps present the tender to your client in a clear precise format.

DATABASE APPLICATION

Methvin | Estimate is a true database application, not a spreadsheet.

OVERVIEW

The Overview shows a summary of management information. It displays relevant information like: schedule of coming and current activities, running tasks, overdue and pending tasks, recently added or modified documents, latest messages, comments and conversations, e-mails, and more.

WORKSPACES

Workspaces allow individuals and teams to organize their data and tasks, and share them with other people. They can be linked to Clients, Projects, Products, Services, Departments, etc. You can define many levels and sub-levels of Workspaces. Visually identify your most relevant Workspaces, quickly, by assigning different color labels.

NOTES

Notes are an easy way to register and share comments over any piece of information. They are very useful for: tracking the conversations maintained with third parties, assessing the client satisfaction about quality, tracking a physical document, etc. A note could be entered by any user, and can notify others about it by e-mail.

E-MAILS

The e-mail follows the traditional scheme with one or more addressees who exchange messages. Additionally, users have the possibility of sharing the message with others by sending the message to a shared workspace. E-mail attachments are automatically stored as Documents.

CONTACTS

The contacts module manages the information of all organizations and people linked to your company. The contact list can be filtered by a specific workspace, by tags, or in a general manner.

CALENDAR

The calendar allows scheduling an agenda of events, milestones, tasks with deadlines, and meetings. It can be displayed daily, weekly or monthly. The schedule could be shared amongst the users who have the correspondent privileges.You can see the schedule of events in general or specifically for each workspace or tag.

DOCUMENTS

Feng Office allows you to store and share all types of documents. The system keeps record of the different versions, comments, and a controlled access to optimize the work of people who collaborate on a document. Text documents and presentations can be created or edited directly in Feng Office without the requirement of any additional software in your computer.

TASKS

You can track every task, sub-task and milestone that is part of a service, project or activity. The system provides quick access to the tasks, grouped by state (pending, behind schedule and completed), priority, assigned person, and more. Tasks can be grouped using milestones, setting common deadlines and improving project management.It is possible to notify a person who is assigned a task by e-mail. All the information linked to a specific task is available at a single click.You can create a template out of a set of tasks and sub-tasks, improving the adoption of standard procedures.

TIME TRACKING

The system allows the tracking of hours for each workspace, sub-space, task and user. Reporting capabilities allow to easily produce a list of hours for any time period, users and workspace.

WEB LINKS

Web-links are hyperlinks to external Websites. They can be classified by tags, linked to other information and assigned to any number of workspaces.

SEARCH & FILTERS

The information can be quickly accessed using the integrated search engine, or it can be found using the filters of type, tags or workspaces.

USER' ADMINISTRATION

You can modify, register or create new users through the user panel. You can create and modify groups of users and group or individual permissions, making available only the relevant and corresponding information to each user.

LINKED INFORMATION

All the information managed by the system can be linked, assuring no element is forgotten or goes unnoticed. One document can have messages linked to it -or a meeting can have documents- and so with every element of the system, thus creating infinite data management possibilities.