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Blue Bexar Construction

Read how home builder Dustin Ballew used a digital takeoff software to save time creating accurate construction estimates.

A photo of Buildxact customer Sabado Homes using a laptop on a remodeling site

Buildxact solved Matthew’s need for speed and accuracy from takeoffs to the bidding process. He’s fielding few phone calls and clarifying fewer details because Buildxact lays everything that needs to be bid.

Waterloo City Construction

Read about Buildxact customer Waterloo CIty Construction and how they use construction management software to produce faster takeoffs.

RYMAC Construction

This page features Buildxact customer Ryan McDonald, owner of RYMAC Construction who saves time completing accurate construction estimates.

Customer spotlight – Northwoods Construction

Learn how Buildxact customer John Beiler uses construction management software to reduce the amount time needed to create estimates.

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General Contractor Pricing: Models, Markup, and Examples

You have the labor, material, and subcontractor costs in the estimate. Now you need to turn that cost into the final price the client will see.

The obvious move is to apply your usual markup, or add a few percentage points if the job feels riskier than normal.

But markup can only solve a markup problem. It can help you recover overhead and reach your target margin, but it can

Construction Cost Codes: A Simple Setup to Track Estimate Against Actual Spend

A detailed estimate can still leave you blind once the job begins. You may separate foundation, framing, roofing, finishes, and subs carefully when pricing the work, only to have those categories disappear when labor, purchases, and invoices are recorded.

By closeout, you can see that the job ran over, but not which part of the estimate failed or what needs to change on the next

How to Bid Construction Jobs and Protect Your Margin

Winning the bid isn’t the finish line. It’s the starting point for a job that either keeps its margin or doesn’t, and that depends on what happens between the day you sign the job and the day you leave the site.

Winning on price alone is a different game from winning on a number that actually holds up. A builder running three or four jobs at once can’t personally recheck every a

Roofing Project Management: How to Keep Jobs on Track and Profitable

You’ve bid the job, ordered the materials, and put a crew on the roof. Three weeks later, you’re looking at the numbers, and the margin you planned for isn’t there.

Nothing went wrong on the job itself, at least not in an obvious way.

What happened is your profit margin leaked out at the seams: an estimate that missed a line item, a schedule that got knocked sideways by rain,

Best Contractor Invoicing Software for Builders (2026 Compared)

You spent time building an accurate estimate, priced the job carefully and built in a healthy margin. As work gets underway, every cost, change order, and progress invoice needs to stay tied to those original numbers.

When they don’t, it gets harder to see whether the job is still delivering the profit you planned.

Missed change orders, billing errors and rising actua

Construction Schedule Template: Free Download and How to Build Your Own

We’ve all been there.

Every single schedule your team produces looks different.

Different assumptions, different dependencies, and planning approaches. Getting an understanding of what’s happening across the entire firm turns into a two-hour deep dive into dozens of spreadsheets.

Meanwhile, you’ve got clients calling asking why the move-in date just moved, and you’

Margin vs Markup: What’s the Difference and Why It Matters for Builders

Every time you price a job, you’re adding markup to your costs. But the number you really care about is your margin (how much profit you’re making on the job).

Markup and margin aren’t the same thing, but they are connected. Set up your markup correctly, and you’ll hit your margin goals.

The real trick isn’t so much about getting margin right on one job; it’

Construction Change Orders: What They Are, How They Work, and How to Manage Them

Even if, like a lot of builders, you don’t have a formal change order process in place, changes are still happening.

They pop up when the homeowner asks if it’s possible to move a window location or add an outlet “while you’re at it.” Formalizing such small changes might feel excessive, but it can actually damage the relationship when the bill (and the dispute) come up l

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