eTakeoff

eTakeoff Review

Easy to learn, easy to use on-screen takeoff software

Overall Etakeoff has allowed us to streamline our estimating process and provide more standardization across the estimating department

Not Worth the Price at this Time

Can't recommend this product, especially considering the cost per license seat.

eTakeOff Makes Doing Estimates a Breeze

eTakeoff is an incredibly powerful and versatile piece of software. I am an estimator for The Mercury Group a full service electrical, security and tele data contractor Connecticut. eTakeoff has made us more efficient with my time, more effective with my efforts, and more competitive with my bids.We starting using the software in January 2016 and have since noticed a dramatic increase in both productivity and my profitability / conversion rate. In only four months we doubled our previous bid-output and decreased our margins of error below 2%. We didn’t add a new estimator. We didn’t start working sixteen hour days. We started using eTakeoff and embraced an era of change.

eTakeoff helped us hone in on pin-point precision for my bottom line so we can win jobs. Period. We have all been faced with the choice of “quality” or “quantity.” This software doesn’t force you to choose — it enables you to take a set of plans and turn it into your trade-specific dollars and cents in a fraction of the time it would normally take. eTakeoff puts the tools you need right at your fingertips — accessible with just a click of a mouse button. eTakeoff is vastly superior to other programs.

The key to winning bids in this economy is competitive pricing that is both accurate and aggressive. eTakeoff affords you all the customization of your own personal “in-house” software without the trappings of a clunky interface and poorly implemented back-of-house functionality.

Setting up the Quantity Worksheet, the Excel Spreadsheet integration, and your “bread ‘n butter” traces can take a little time but it is worth it; the more you learn about the program the easier it will be to put together your estimates. If you’re a novice-user I recommend watching the online videos and taking the web tutorials right on the eTakeoff website or opting for the Customer Support subscription.

The most phenomenal aspect of my experience with the eTakeoff has been my interaction with the team. Their website, forums, and phone-support are friendly, helpful, and very accommodating. They know that we rely on their software to bring home the bacon and I always feel like a valued customer. I have participated in many a discussion both via phone call and the forums regarding changes to the software, new features, and implementation. The eTakeoff team keeps an open dialogue and encourages feedback so they can keep the software updated to the ever-changing needs of their clients.

eTakeoff Advantage

The key to winning bids in this economy is competitive pricing that is both accurate and aggressive. eTakeoff affords you all the customization of your own personal "in-house" software without the trappings of a clunky interface and poorly implemented back-of-house functionality.

The most phenomenal aspect of my experience with the eTakeoff has been my interaction with the team. Their website, forums, and phone-support are friendly, helpful, and very accommodating. They know that we rely on their software to bring home the bacon and I always feel like a valued customer. I have participated in many a discussion both via phone call and the forums regarding changes to the software, new features, and implementation. The eTakeoff team keeps an open dialogue and encourages feedback so they can keep the software updated to the ever-changing needs of their clients.

I am the estimator for Excellence in Stone, Inc. Our company fabricates and
installs Tile, Stone, Terracotta, and Solid Surfaces in South Florida. We
specialize in high end residential and commercial projects up to $ 7
million dollars. With this much money at stake we needed an estimating
software that would allow me to service our diverse and very demanding
customers. Before purchasing eTakeoff 4 years ago, I researched most of the
estimating software suppliers and decided on eTakeoff because of their
accuracy, support system, and flexibility in customizing the program to our
unique use.

Because our jobs are so intricate, often including up to 50 different
materials on a single job. We cover so many different types of installation
ranging from mosaics to cladding large Stone Slabs on walls and ceilings; so
I needed a software that would allow me to tailor each unique project to
calculate an ever-changing type of data.

As soon as I tried eTakeoff I realized that this was the software for us.
It was easy to use (I have never needed formal training, since their menus
are self explanatory) and their built in features that allow you to write
custom subroutines are so flexible that I fell in love with the product
after a week into the trial.

The implementation was a snap, i was up and running immediately, but it is
their support team that I am the most impressed with; it is like having your
own personal estimating team to back you up.

Over the years, I have asked for special features to be added to eTakeoff and
I have yet to be disappointed. I can now estimate 3 times as many projects
as I did before, and in today's competitive market it has translated into a
constant stream of work for our company in a construction industry that has
been suffering for the past 5 years.

Flexible, powerful, accurate and great integration to Excell and Sage Estimating

Accurate takeoff quantities with a visual audit trail.

I am a Senior estimator for a general contractor in south western PA. I first learned about eTakeoff from McGraw Hill and signed up for the free 30 day trial. Having used other on screen takeoff programs, I found eTakeoff to be very user friendly and after about a week of using the program and some initial support from eTakeoff's support team, we decided to buy the software package.

Since we do a large amount of design build projects we often only recieve a basic footprint of the building with no scale attached. eTakeoff makes it very easy to set custom scales, all I need is a dimension and I can quickly and accurately takeoff the concrete, asphalt paving, sitework, and building area using the custom scale setting. I found that once I had built my customized traces that I most commonly use, I am able to quickly do my takeoffs and copy the quantities from the measurement list to my excel pricing sheet. This saves a lot of time by not having to type things twice.

I also have found their support staff to be very user friendly with timely response. I have recomended this product to some of my sub contractors as well. Since most of our drawings are now in PDF format it saves them time and money in printing cost when I email them drawings for a project to bid. So if you are looking for ways to cut your estimating time and save money also, then I would highly recommend this product.

Our epoxy flooring company purchased eTakeoff due to an increased need to work with digital drawings. While some of the other products reviewed had similar features, we liked eTakeoff's simplicity. We have only had the system for about a month, but have found it easy to use, even just by fumbling around to figure it out.
eTakeoff also has a great deal of training tools and short, easy-to-view videos of how features work.
The customer service people were great. They checked back to see if we liked using it during the free trial, but I never felt any pressure to buy it.
The benefits of this system include being able to take off a project in a much shorter time than the old-fashioned hard copy drawings with scaled ruler, pen & paper. If you can click and drag a mouse, you can use eTakeoff!
The system allows you to highlight the areas already measured, so you can be sure you haven't missed anything. The system also allows you to save drawings and specifications to each project's folder, so you know exactly what information was used to create each bid. You can also print the drawings after you complete the measurements to send with the bid so your customers can also see what was measured. This takes a lot of the guesswork out of projects when we have superintendents telling us we have other areas to do that were not included with the original price.

Review of eTakeoff Premier

I contacted three major companies that advertised as electronic takeoff software companies, did trial versions, spoke with their technical people to see what they were capable of, asked about assemblies and other things and chose eTakeoff because it was the most comprehensive, powerful and the programmers were not telling me how to estimate. It is what I call a blank sheet program like Excel or AutoCAD lots of great tools with no one to say how to use it. I developed a lumber takeoff system and then a concrete & rebar system both of which use very complicated assemblies.
Support for the software has been phenomenal. Many of my suggestions have become a part of the software. The ease and accuracy with which I am able to do takeoffs has made it one of the best investments in my career.

Etakeoff Digital measure table

This is a good program for what it does , it has a set of template traces , wich you can use to get measures from existing PDF drawing sets , maybe to fit your company standard you will need to go thru a hard self taught about to to do custom formulas ,

Etakeoff A lot of Bang for the buck

We are general contractors and take off several catagories of work with this program. Its flexability allows us to adapt the program to what ever type of work we are bidding, but if you are a contractor that does one type of work, like building Applebees, or Aldi stores, or Mcdonalds you will absolutly love this product beacuse you can set the program up with the units/items specific to those places and fly thru the take offs. I would strongly recommend this program

There are Better Takeoff Softwares

Overall I don't think this software is better than other solutions out there.

Doesn't go everything but does enough

In general etakeoff is a great product and they have worked with the end users to refine the program.

as a flooring company it has been great as most of our measurements are one dimensional, as a tile wall is a tile wall and not a multi-component feature. as a measurement doesn't represent a wall with framing, wall board insulation and stabilizers. The advanced program doesn't break out measurements in this fashion but may be available in the premier.

It has given me some glitches in the past but customer service will try to resolve.

Doesn't go everything but does enough

In general etakeoff is a great product and they have worked with the end users to refine the program.

as a flooring company it has been great as most of our measurements are one dimensional, as a tile wall is a tile wall and not a multi-component feature. as a measurement doesn't represent a wall with framing, wall board insulation and stabilizers. The advanced program doesn't break out measurements in this fashion but may be available in the premier.

It has given me some glitches in the past but customer service will try to resolve.

Fairly Complicated

I switched to LandOne as soon as it came out and haven't looked back.

Great for takeoff, but not intuitive

Great option for the budget minded.

Very good time saver.

A great product that will make you better at takeoff.

eTakeoff Review for Painting Contractors

The support staff was very friendly and helpful. The product is priced for new contractors and is affordable but lacks the features and depth of other takeoff software systems. Creating new takeoff conditions, changing takeoff conditions was challenging. While the takeoff tool would group information, finding a way to relate that information to specific conditions, ie: walls, base, chair rail was not easy to perform.

Easy to Use

Easy to use, great for reviewing plans and specs.

eTakeoff is a valuable tool.

I've been using "eTakeoff" for four years , and I recommend it.

eTakeoff was our First experience