Your operating overhead may look something like this, and it may not. No business has the same expenses, budgets and wages. BreakEven PRO® understands the difference.
Don’t forget you still have to enter in all labor wages, and all off the clock time for customer service and administrative time paid.
Then enter your profit mark up.
BreakEven PRO® construction estimating software populates unit rates that are unique to your specific company, not national averages. Using national averages solely for pricing is like having one foot on hot coal and the other on a block of ice. The best way to use national averages is to see where your company compares. With the use of BreakEven PRO® you can learn how to properly recover your overhead, which will only help to increase profits. Knowing your company BreakEven RATE™ lets you control your profit markup to the core. Making changes to your overhead as they occur in real time allows you to see the road ahead with ease. Any adjustments you make to your overhead with the use of BreakEven PRO® will automatically update all of your unit rates and man-hour sell rates.
The BreakEven PRO® Cost Setup™ allows you to apply your overhead anytime. Once you have saved the Cost Setup™ feature, your man hour sell rates and unit rates will update automatically. This ensures you that when it is time to estimate your jobs you are not only recovering your current overhead, but making a profit as well. You now have the ability to update your labor burden, managerial burden, operational expenses, and overall total overhead with a simple 4 step process. You will be able to populate hourly sell rates, unit rates, and control profit mark up.
BreakEven PRO® provides smart invoicing that allows you to invoice jobs as they progress. Submit invoices to your residential or commercial customers. Simply check off each item of service completed, adjust the due date, and send.
Having the ability to populate change orders, whether at the office or on the fly, helps to ensure any additional items stays associated with the same job number. The creation of change orders allows all additional estimated items and materials to stay in one place. This will ensure your invoices are accurate and up to date, keeping you organized and professional even when pressed for time.
Populate professional and detailed work orders with just a click of a button. Once you have won a project, you can simply click on the estimate necessary, and then click the work order button. You can set a default in settings depending on what you prefer to populate on the work order. When your workers understand what is expected of them, each of your jobs can run smoother, and potentially with a healthier bottom line.
Keep track of Attendance Reporting all in one place. Employees can populate time cards on the go as they wish. Employers can keep track of employee time cards and reporting in real time.
Store and update all of your material costs. Add desired profit markup per product. Store and adjust production rates per item of service you offer. By storing historical production rates, BreakEven PRO will automatically update all unit rates with their appropriate material(s).
BreakEven PRO® provides a separate database for your employees, customers, and vendors. Each database is equipped with a drop box (or file upload), and CSV import/export feature.
Access Control provides the super user with the ability to grant or limit access per employee. You can update any one of your employees access at anytime.
The BreakEven PRO® File Storage system grants you access to your stored files in an organized fashion. You can drag and drop, upload, and store created documents. Our system allows you to search, preview, download, or quickly delete stored files with ease. Our Access Control feature allows the super user the ability to grant File Storage access to employees when necessary.
BreakEven PRO allows you to learn your BreakEven RATE with ease. The following example may work for you, and it may not. Why take the risk of using someone else’s pricing? Increase/decrease profit markup at-will. Being able to forecast YOUR company data in realtime gives you total control over pricing your jobs.
BreakEven PRO can help you stay in tune with YOUR Profit Mark Up.
Estimate small residential jobs or 80 story buildings. This is whether you perform field take-offs, or digital take-offs from a blueprint/drawing. BreakEven PRO can help you to estimate accurately with your costs, not someone elses.