Easily manage all your material, labor, and supplier cost databases in one centralized platform. Import supplier price lists with a few clicks, update labor rates and material costs effortlessly, and maintain accurate, real-time pricing for all your projects!
With Buildern, you can effortlessly centralize and maintain up-to-date pricing for labor, materials, and equipment, streamlining your estimating process and reducing manual workload:
Import and Centralize Price Lists
Upload supplier pricing data effortlessly and keep it structured within Buildern, all in one place.
Always Up-to-Date Estimates
When supplier prices change, your estimates stay accurate. Get changes reflected automatically.
Track and Adjust Labor Costs
Store labor rates, adjust them as needed, and apply directly to your estimates for precision.
Effortless Cost Organization
Categorize materials, labor, and subcontractor costs to keep your pricing structured and accessible.
Time-Saving Efficiency
Reduce repetitive tasks with organized cost catalogs ready to use at any stage.
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Your estimates should always ensure accuracy and efficiency. Buildern’s Cost Catalog keeps your estimates precise without the hassle of manual updates:
Use up-to-date pricing: When subcontractors or vendors adjust material costs, your estimates automatically reflect the changes.
Save time with predefined costs: Quickly access pre-stored materials, labor rates, and assemblies, allowing you to build estimates faster.
Eliminate manual data entry: Pull pricing directly from your organized cost catalog to ensure accuracy, and keep estimates consistent across all projects.
Standardized estimating: Use a structured approach to estimating with assemblies, giving you greater confidence in project profitability.
Buildern streamlines collaboration with subcontractors and vendors, ensuring your cost database stays accurate and up to date without the hassle of manual entry:
Bulk import pricing data: Easily upload price lists directly from vendors and subcontractors, eliminating manual data entry and risks of errors.
Automated updates: Your cost database stays synchronized with the latest supplier pricing, ensuring that your estimates reflect market changes.
Organize subcontractor costs: Maintain a well-structured catalog of subcontractor and vendor-specific pricing for better cost control across projects.
Adjust estimates instantly: Modify material and labor costs as needed, with every estimate remaining accurate and aligned with actual expenses.
Instead of starting from scratch every time, Buildern helps you create assemblies as predefined groups of materials and labor components for commonly estimated tasks:
Combine materials and labor into assemblies: Combine materials, labor, and equipment into structured assemblies, eliminating manual entry.
Use consistent pricing: Assemblies pull real-time data from your up-to-date cost catalog, keeping your estimates precise.
Easily modify components: Modify individual components within an assembly without starting over, allowing seamless customization and flexibility.
Scale with project needs: Once created, assemblies can be reused across projects, maintaining uniformity in pricing and efficiency.
Buildern’s Cost Catalog goes beyond simple data storage as it equips you with the insights needed to manage project costs with confidence:
Track cost changes: Monitor price fluctuations over time to anticipate market trends and adjust your estimates accordingly.
Stay within budget: Keep material and labor costs aligned with project estimates to prevent unexpected financial strain.
Enhance profitability: Automated cost tracking ensures that your financial plans stay on target, allowing you to maximize profit margins without sacrificing quality.
Improve vendor negotiations: With clear visibility into market prices, you can confidently optimize your procurement strategy.
John Miller
Home Builder and Remodeler
We had our remodeling agency, we had the vision, but we had no idea how to bring and manage clients until Buildern came into the picture. Thanks a lot guys! You really helped put us on the right construction sales process and client management!
Tina Davis
Wonder Homes & Buildings
Everything was handled in a very professional way by Buildern. This software covers every side of my construction business and things are going good! Thanks guys.
Sam Swift
Sam Custom Homes
Team at Buildern are true professionals. The whole team is enthusiastic and set a really high quality bar with their construction software and support. Jessica even followed up with an email with more helpful advice. Kudos!
Andre A.
Owner
It is very intuitive and easy to use. The dashboards are so clean and user friendly. The capability and features far exceed builder trend as does the rate of new development.
Michelle C.
Finance and Business Consultant
Buildern has been the right solution for our needs. It's easy to use and easy to navigate especially for me as a non-construction professional. Some other construction management softwares were a little too robust for our liking.
Brent Brady
Owner/CEO
I appreciate the simplicity of Buildern's setup process, which required minimal implementation time compared to other software we've used, which took weeks or even months. This efficiency has allowed us to become operational swiftly, saving time.
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Buildern empowers you to create precise estimates with ease, leveraging a structured cost database and seamless bid request management. From initial pricing to final estimates, streamline your estimating workflow without manual data entry:
Comprehensive cost database: Access and manage an extensive, structured cost database to build precise estimates efficiently. Eliminate manual data entry by pulling in preloaded cost assemblies and item details.
Integrated bid requests: Send bid requests directly to subcontractors and vendors, then seamlessly incorporate received data into your cost catalog for accurate estimating.
Smart estimating tools: Use advanced estimating features to generate itemized estimates, apply markups, and ensure pricing consistency across all projects.
Customizable access control: Set permissions to define who can create, edit, or apply cost assemblies, ensuring secure and structured estimating processes.
Buildern streamlines the bidding process by allowing you to send bid requests directly to subcontractors and vendors, ensuring accurate pricing for your estimates. Effortlessly compare responses and integrate selected bids into your cost database for future use:
Send and manage bid requests: Quickly generate bid requests and send them to multiple vendors and subcontractors in just a few clicks.
Compare and select bids: Receive and review bid responses in a structured format, making it easy to compare pricing, terms, and availability.
Seamless estimate integration: Once you select a bid, instantly transfer the pricing and item details into your estimate for accurate and efficient cost management.
Track and maintain bid history: Keep a record of all bid requests and responses for future reference, ensuring transparency and better decision-making.
Maximize accuracy, efficiency, and profitability with our cost catalog tools.
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Accurate, real-time cost tracking helps users cut cost overruns by 20%, keeping budgets under control and eliminating financial surprises.
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Seamlessly import and update pricing in minutes, reducing manual entry time by 15% and ensuring estimates stay current.
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Buildern’s centralized cost catalog delivers 10% greater estimate accuracy, giving users confidence in their pricing and reducing the risk of miscalculations.
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The commitment to understand what we needed and also look at adding some requirements that we wanted to have was a key factor in choosing Buildern. They met the needs for some of the big-ticket items we were struggling with.
Steve Glover
Paragon Homes
Once I was fully using Buildern for all of my projects, the workflow from estimating new projects to completing a job and informing clients and subcontractors along the way became easier. I’ve been more organized, which has actually cleared my head of any extra stress.
Angus Cowan
Angus Cowan Constructions
The usability of the software quite simply blows everything else out of the water. Every feature is well thought out, usable, and functional without being difficult to learn.
Michael Murphy
Aligned Building
Buildern came as the perfect solution - combining all the necessary project management features in one platform and allowing easy integration with other software.
Steve Kingston
Arc & Co Projects
Since adopting Buildern, we've seen remarkable improvements in our operations. Our project completion time has been reduced by 20%, and we've achieved a 15% decrease in overall costs due to more efficient resource management.
Dustin M. Hart
Kingston Homes
I save hours by just having everything stored in one place. It is user-friendly and comes with some really robust features that have truly transformed the way we manage our projects from start to finish.
Jed Smith
Lighthouse Projects
Send bid requests, collect subcontractor offers, and compare pricing, all without tracking emails. Standardized forms and dashboards keep the process organized. Award contracts quickly and track bid history in one place. Build stronger partnerships while maintaining control of project budgets and vendor options.
Keep every estimate accurate, consistent, and easy to update.
A construction cost catalog is a centralized database that stores pricing for materials, labor, equipment, fees, and assemblies. It helps builders and contractors standardize estimating, ensuring accuracy and efficiency across all projects. With a well-organized cost catalog, you can reduce errors, streamline estimating, and improve profitability by always working with the most up-to-date pricing data.
Buildern’s Cost Catalog eliminates manual data entry and ensures that your estimates always reflect current market rates. Prices update when subcontractors or vendors adjust costs, reducing the risk of miscalculations. Additionally, pre-defined assemblies allow for consistent pricing across projects, making your estimates more reliable.
Yes. Buildern allows you to bulk import pricing data directly from vendors and subcontractors. This means you can instantly upload supplier price lists, ensuring that your cost database remains up to date without the need for manual entry.
Absolutely. Buildern lets you create custom assemblies by grouping materials, labor, and equipment into predefined sets. Instead of adding individual items for each estimate, you can apply these assemblies across multiple projects, saving time and maintaining consistency. Plus, you can modify components within an assembly without having to redo your entire estimate.
Yes. Buildern streamlines collaboration with subcontractors and vendors by allowing you to store and organize subcontractor-specific pricing. Automated updates ensure that any changes to vendor costs are reflected in your estimates, keeping your budgeting precise and hassle-free.
Buildern provides full cost visibility by tracking price changes, organizing labor and material rates, and offering real-time budgeting tools. With better cost management, you can minimize overruns, stay within budget, and negotiate more effectively with vendors.
Buildern offers custom permissions, allowing you to define who can create, edit, or apply cost database and assemblies. You can set role-based access levels, ensuring that only authorized team members can make changes while others can view or use predefined cost structures. This ensures that sensitive pricing information remains secure while giving your team the access they need to generate accurate estimates without the risk of unauthorized modifications.
Yes. By providing clear visibility into material and labor costs, Buildern allows you to compare subcontractors' pricing. Having a structured cost database at your fingertips ensures that you always make informed purchasing decisions.
Buildern eliminates repetitive data entry by pulling pricing directly from your cost catalog and updating estimates automatically when costs change. With pre-built assemblies, a structured cost database, and bulk import options, you can complete estimates much faster than with traditional spreadsheets or manual processes.
Yes. Buildern allows you to apply a pre-built cost database, including labor rates, material prices, and assemblies, across all your projects. This ensures consistency in estimating and prevents discrepancies that could lead to budget overruns.
Yes. Buildern’s Cost Catalog is designed to support builders across all project types, from small residential developments to large-scale commercial construction. The software is flexible enough to handle different cost structures and pricing models, making it a valuable tool for any construction business.
Getting started is simple; just sign up for a free trial and begin importing your cost database. Buildern’s intuitive interface and guided setup make it easy to organize your pricing, create estimates, and start managing project costs more efficiently.
