Need Help Quoting Software???

there are MANY MANY threads about this, suggest searching.

the one that seems to get the most positive (currently) is CoreBridge Software, this is teh company that bought Cyrious

 

Do you already have this available in something such as a spread sheet which is organized and accurate (somewhat straightforward)? You will also need the costs of your machine times and labor (not-so-much straightforward.) Do you know your direct competitor's price for like products of yours?

 

Specifically about Flexi-Quote, it's lacking in a lot of features. Hoping with the 19 release that Sidekick and Quick Quote is better.

 

I believe Flexi quote is based on SignTracker. Maybe look here as a next step...
https://www.sign-tracker.com

 

Signs tracker seems nice.

We still use paper work orders for everything... It sucks. $60 a month for 10 users is a no brainer. It'd be nice for the sorting alone... But it's really be nice to see a list of upcoming jobs, what material they use...so I can prepare.

It doesn't happen often, but there's been a few times an order hits my desk and I don't have the material for it in stock. If I knew the order was approved / artwork being worked on... I could have bought the material a week ago!

And every single day I'd print on one material... Load another, then a work order comes up for the material I just removed. My biggest pet peeve... It's be awesome to know who's working on what.

 

check out Vsign. We have been using it for about 2 years now. It was made by a sign guy so it has materials, rolls sizes and what not built in. just set your prices, overhead and whatnot and it will give you your cost, material usage and a list of percentage markups. Has a job calendar, invoicing synced to Quick Books and alot more.

 

We use EFIs PrintSmith for all of our digital and offset work. Since we recently invested in our wide format dept. we're only starting to plug in all the info so we can really utilize everything it's capable of.

It's the only MIS software I've used so far. It definitely plenty of quirks and annoyances but it's a crazy powerful system if you have a need for everything it offers.

For instance we're redoing our website right now with plans to link it to the e-commerce and storefront modules for PrintSmith so clients can order online and it will automatically create the estimate, invoice, and queue the artwork to prepress.

 

We use a subscription software we have used for years: Estimatesoftware.com