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Save Time, Quote More
Become more profitable, close more jobs every year, using the best construction management platform for home construction pros
Introducing Blu — Your Smartest Crew Member Yet.
- Blu is your digital building assistant – powered by AI, trained on thousands of residential projects and fully integrated into your estimating and planning workflow. It’s there when you need it.
- Quote faster, smarter and with complete confidence knowing you have the latest pricing from your favorite material supplier.
- Build accurate estimates trained on real home builder data from construction pros like you.
- Work with Blu using your own words, as you would speak to team members.
- Blu has a full toolbelt of helpful features:
- Blu: Recipe Assistant for accurate estimating on repeatable jobs
- Blu: Estimate Reviewer double-checks your estimate for common mistakes and overlooked items
- Blu: Takeoff Assistant to scale and measure digital plans quickly
- Blu: Estimate Generator for creating a complete, customisable estimate from scratch.
Quote Faster, Win More Work Using Digital Renovating Tools
- Use the on-screen Takeoff Tool to scale and measure your plans with just a few clicks of your computer mouse. Your takeoff data aligns your renovating plans to specific estimate tasks organized by categories.
- Digital plans are easy to upload. No plans? No problem. You can create your own floor plans with a mobile device and Buildxact’s Rendr integration.
- The Blu: Takeoff Assistant is an optional way to work with digital plans more quickly.
- Buildxact construction estimating software serves as a quote management tool that tracks home renovating quotes in a simple dashboard. See what’s worked, what’s been sent to customers, and what they have approved.
Save time. Do it once, use it again
- With Buildxact, you create estimates that benefit your current work and improve ongoing job management.
- Add contractor labour costs, equipment costs and markup to ensure complete project estimates achieve targeted profit margins.
- Build estimates that include regional labour and material pricing from real-time data based on your project’s geographic location.
- Create online templates of your common construction projects and ensure nothing is overlooked for repetitive tasks that require many different types of materials.
- Easily move your entire project portfolio to Buildxact. Upload previous templates saved using common spreadsheet software directly into Buildxact.
- Past estimates benefit future work—it’s that user friendly.
Unify Project Management with Digital Document Management
- Store online project status notes, documents and plans for easy access.
- Show progress with photos at each stage of the job.
- Organise jobs your way, with the ability to tailor folder structure and layout for each job.
- Staying organised means jobs finish on time, building a reputation for professionalism and quality.
- Builders using Buildxact’s scheduling software nearly double their business’ revenue in 18 months.
All the Tools for Total Job Management
Buildxact offers an entire platform of digital tools for comprehensive home construction management. Save time on quote requests with efficient takeoffs, estimates, schedules and invoices. Buildxact makes construction job management easy with templates, real-time pricing and AI-tech via Buildxact’s Blu Building Assistant.
Faster Takeoffs
Automatically generate takeoffs, bills of quantities, and instantly add costing information to your quote letter. Just upload your PDF plans, then measure and price your jobs with a few easy clicks. No plans? No problem with Rendr mobile 3D scanning.
More Accurate
Complete accurate estimates with real-time prices and item information directly from supplier price lists. Do your estimates wherever, whenever you need to get work done.
More Professional
Quickly turn your estimates into sharp-looking quotes and invoices, using templates personalised with your logo, specifications, and PC/PS breakdowns.
More Efficient
Generate schedules automatically from your estimates. Identify critical paths. Adjust automatically when pushbacks occur. Save more time by keeping sub-contractors in the loop via email and text.
Easy to integrate
Your Buildxact information flows straight into your accounting and management software. Integrations with Xero, Quickbooks, Deputy and other software steps you through each project phase, from takeoff through billing.
Support
Get the support you need. Our friendly team of experts are available to answer any question. We also offer interactive workshops, on-demand training webinars, a rich knowledge base of FAQs and tips and 1:1 consultation.
Hear From Our Customers
“Back in the day, I’d have sheets of paper everywhere, especially for ordering and changes. Now, nothing gets changed and missed from job to job.
“We found Buildxact has played a huge role in setting us apart and just helping us win projects. The ability to quote accurately and quickly and present it really well just stands out."
“With Buildxact I am able to spend more time with my loved ones and less time in the office doing the paperwork.”
“We were looking for a tool to simplify everything for us, and that’s exactly the role Buildxact took on. Buildxact swooped in and saved the day.”
FAQs
Our three subscription options come with unlimited users and free training and support. Buildxact has designed all three levels to fit the exact needs of home builders and renovators as they grow their skills using construction management software.
Foundation – this subscription allows small builders to quickly learn how easy estimating and customer communication can be with digital tools. Perform takeoffs and project estimates for greater accuracy, connect with local material supplier for real-time pricing, and use optional AI task-level calculations so estimating accurately takes no time at all.
Pro –this option is perfect for growing builders who are focused on estimating and quoting jobs as well as scheduling work and setting project budgets. Included with Pro:
- GANTT Charts for scheduling
- Buildxact Onsite mobile app
- Online Trades RFQs
- Online Client Portal with Digital Selections
- Accounting software integrations with Xero and Quickbooks
- Paid add-on bundles with AI-powered tools for takeoffs and estimating
Master – experts in all phases of construction job management have a sophisticated subscription level all their own. All features from Foundation and Pro are combined and available at one price, including the full Blu Building Assistant suite of AI digital tools:
- Blu: Recipe Assistant
- Blu: Estimate Reviewer
- Blu: Takeoff Assistant
- Blu: Estimate Generator
All subscribers access Buildxact AI technology using Blu, Buildxact’s digital building assistant.
Trained on thousands of residential projects and fully integrated into Buildxact’s estimating and planning workflow, think of Blu as your estimator, planner and project assistant with a digital toolbelt for fast, sharp and laser-focused help on the details that matter the most.
If you want to hire Blue to help you with a specific step in your preconstruction process, either subscribe to a plan that includes the desired assistant function, or add additional Blu functionality onto your base plan via the Buildxact Marketplace in your account dashboard.
You can find more information on Blu’s monthly add-on costs by assistant function on our pricing page.
There are no additional fees for Buildxact construction estimating software. Upgrades, maintenance, support and unlimited training are all included in your subscription fee.
Any Blu: Building Assistant features not included in your base plan do come with an additional monthly cost, should you choose to add those onto your base plan. You can find more information on Blu’s monthly add-on costs by assistant function on our pricing page.
Each of the three subscription levels (Foundation, Pro and Master) are designed to meet your specific business needs and the needs of your construction team. You can choose either a monthly or an annual plan. Annual plans come with a 15% discount against monthly plans and require a 12-month commitment.
For full details on our plans and pricing structure, visit our pricing page.
No. Buildxact is for construction estimation and construction management. It does not offer computer-aided design or drafting functions.
Yes, you can. It’s possible to make subscriptions changes. If you would like to move from Foundation to Pro or Pro to Master at any point, contact our Customer Support Team by clicking the chat button on the bottom right of your screen in Buildxact.
Annual plans get a 15% discount compared to monthly pricing. All annual plans require a 12-month commitment.
Save 15% when you choose an annual plan.
Save $358
Foundation
$199/mo
Billed annually at $2,030
- Unlimited Users
- Lead Management
- Digital Takeoffs
- Blu: Recipe Assistant
- Customizable Quote Letters
- Digital Signatures
- Supplier Integration
- Purchase Orders
- Training and Support
Addons
Save $718
Pro
$399/mo
Billed annually at $4,070
- Everything in Foundation, plus:
- Blu: Estimate Generator
- Job Management
- Schedules
- Buildxact Onsite Mobile App
Addons
Save $1078
Master
$599/mo
Billed annually at $6,110
- Everything in Pro, plus:
- Blu: Takeoff Assistant
- Blu: Estimate Reviewer
- User Access Controls
- Priority Customer Support
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FAQ’s
For roof tilers, starting with the Entry subscription is the easiest way to use Buildxact.
You’ll have access to all the takeoff and estimating features, and you can send unlimited quotes to customers. Need more? Simply upgrade to Pro at any time. See full pricing.
When doing a takeoff for roof tiling, our roof pitch tool will be your best friend. In the takeoff tool, select the pitch button in either square metres and linear metres and choose your degrees.
You can easily do multiple measurements for different roof heights.
Watch how to do a pitched metre squared takeoff HERE.
Our commercial roofing estimating software is easy to get started with. Begin with the roofing template that’s prebuilt in Buildxact. It covers everything you need including prelims and hire items.
You can easily add or remove items in your estimate that you don’t need, then reuse it again and again for each job.
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- Learn how some simple planning and prep protects your profits
- Start cutting 80% of the time it takes to complete takeoffs and quote customers 5x faster
- Win the jobs you deserve