“An elegant solution to our in-house estimating needs and revolutionized our project planning procedures. This product is user-friendly and reliable, which is essential when dealing with project planning and profitability,”
“Creating and tracking estimates is a key activity to the revenue of my web development business. Simple Estimate allows me to concentrate on writing an accurate estimate without the clutter of other unneeded fields and tools. It is simply a better way to estimate my work. Bravo!”
“In Simple Estimate we found a great solution for the estimation of software products and projects, which we perform on a daily basis. Its simplicity, together with its flexibility and rich feature set, forms an excellent tool to perform estimations.”
“Simple Estimate revolutionized our proposal process, reducing our error margin from 5% to 1% and saving us around €60,000 to €70,000 annually. It’s more than a tool; it’s a game-changer for estimation efficiency and clarity for our clients.”
– Pier, Marketing Agency Owner
Simple Estimate is an online software estimation tool for agencies, development shops, and companies with large teams working in a project and each of those people have different roles and billable rates. Rates are stored globally and pre-filled for you as you select them.
Don’t recreate the wheel for every project! Create your custom templates so you don’t have to start from scratch every time. You can have multiple templates for the various projects you see from week to week or partial templates that you can insert specific templates into each project.
Anyone who has used their trusty spreadsheet over and over can attest that it will break down over time. Calculations get missed, items don’t get totalled correctly, and styling gets mixed up with all of the copying and pasting going on. Furthermore sharing the document and getting feedback across a whole team can be a challenge. This software estimate tool simplifies the estimation process, it is a full configure, price, and quote (CPQ) solution. It enables simple quote sharing.
With Simple Estimate, clients can clearly see your thinking and pricing in a simple quote. It builds trust and confidence in your buyer. This leads to more wins. Once you experience the difference, Simple Estimate will become a integral cog in your sales process.
It’s really up to you and how you like to think through a project. A single hourly estimate per task is easiest, but sometimes it’s nice to think in ranges. Two point estimation lets you put in a high and a low hourly estimate and we find the average for you. Three point estimation lets you put in low (optimistic), most likely (realistic) and high (pessimistic) hourly estimates and then uses the standard PERT project management formula to give more weight the most likely estimate number and balance them out. This process helps to take uncertainty into account when compiling realistic estimates for projects.
Not yet, but soon, we see many benefit of enabling integrations with popular CRMs, time tracking, and project management tools in the future. We will also offer an API so that you can gain programmatic access to your estimates and an experienced developer may be able to integrate with your tool of choice. Suggest and vote for features and integrations here.
Nope, this tool is for the configure, price, and quote (CPQ) steps of the sales process. In our opinion an estimate is not the same thing as an invoice. (Even though many simplistic web tools believe they are!) This estimate tool helps project managers deal with the uncertainty of planning projects with multiple people and moving parts involved. Project planning and estimating is a difficult and amorphous task that tries to predict hours and costs in order to help a project move forward. This tool does not collect funds or signatures for projects yet. Simple Estimate streamlines the configure, price, and quote (CPQ) steps of the sales process.
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