Procore Estimating - Avis

Esticom is very user friendly and easy to use.

There are not many icons for the fire protection industry I work in. This makes it difficult when creating mocked up drawings for the customer.

The ease of learning it and using the system

Material needs to entered and labeled better

It is highly functional!! If I could spend more time on customizing it, I would use it as my only tool for estimating from beginning to end.

Pricey. $99 per month is a lot considering there are critical things like Office and Adobe that cost so much less.

The software is easy to use. As features are added, it becomes more and more useful. The fact that your customer and existing catalog data base can be uploaded to give it a tremendous value.

There are still some issues with the way it rounds and displays some of the cost information, but customer support has been working with me on that.

It saves me money from not having to print tons of project plans and then storing them. Esticomm saves me time by insuring I get accurate counts and distances the first time! Plus I can work from the office, at the job site or at home, which I prefer not to do, because all my files are on their site.

Esticomm does a good job of constantly upgrading the software and making improvements. There are minor improvements I would make to the functionality of the software but they usually end up doing that automatically.

Ease of use-the software is very user friendly

I would like to be able to add shipping as extra at the bottom similar to sales tax-we order a lot of fixtures that require shipping and customer likes t see it broken out

This software is easy to use. We have the ability to add items and organize them. We are able to integrate the information entered into this software into our project management software which reduces the need for time consuming processes of moving information between softwares.

We would like this software to include the ability to show reports of the information from proposals entered based on date entered etc... We would like to be able to delete default items from the software for trades not related to ours. We are otherwise totally satisfied with this software.

The software is very easy to use and accessible anywhere with internet.

Electrical components prices are off making it difficult to in smaller projects.

Auto Search is amazing. You can select exactly what to search for and it actually works. You can turn off and on your takeoffs. After marking up your blueprints you can save the takeoff and print it for use in the field without having to hunt for everything all over again.

Can't merge pages of a floor yet to see the big picture.
They don't have a takeoff template or a way of reusing what you have created already for new projects.

It saves you a tremendous amount of time by building your estimate as you are doing your takeoff.

Sometimes there are slight quirks that need to be fixed, but this is mainly because they are adding new features and they always get fixed.

Ease of use. Feature friendly. Estimating tool is great.

Wish there were more options in takeoffs to add numbers for drops.

What I liked the most about Esticom is how easy it is to measure blueprints and download them with legends. It works very well with the mouse, and it is web based so I could access it anywhere.

What I liked the least about Esticom is that it is missing important features and they are charging way too much for the platform. Please add templates, stages and Excel options!

I have enjoyed how this software is so versatile. Also, this software has been extremely straightforward, scales floor plans, and has all of the icons that are needed for my job.

The only complaint that I have had so far, is regarding not being able to duplicate (copy and paste) items to another page.

Esticom allows for faster layouts. You can skip most of your blue print printing process for quotes which saves a lot on paper and ink. Nice tracking system

Very hard to use over wifi. You must have a strong internet connection. I would like this better IF I were uploading design CAD drawing instead of PDFs

Some of the options are not easily converted from the US to Canadian.
Measurements. Material costs, tax etc.

We have to be careful before we send an estimate out to insure all the calculations are correct. Measurements are in metric. Pricing etc.

Ease of use is definitely a big plus.
Also some of the automations are very helpful to build up a proposal quickly.

There are still some features that I would like to have, but I am sure their team is already working on them.

Digital take offs are easier than paper, easy to look at.

Prices in USD. Exporting to excel isn’t exactly perfect.

I really like the ease of importing plans, the scaling feature, and layers. The job proposal feature is also very useful.

The catalog of fire alarm devices and components leaves a little to be desired for my purposes, but there are ways around this. Also, when I signed up for the software, one marketing point was that the catalog of devices had pricing. I found out after signing up that this feature had been removed due to the range of prices varying too much regionally.