From initial take-off right through to final reporting, Enterprise Estimating 2010, fully integrated with our most advanced version of ContractMaster yet, will drive higher efficiencies in this key area of your business. Exciting new features streamline take-off procedures, give you more control over your tenders and enhance integration with other modules.

Collapse/hide kit items
Improved clarity on the work screen is greatly facilitated by the new collapse/hide kit items feature in the take-off grid, removing clutter and minimising the risk of missing items.

Improved tender management tools
Thanks to feedback from customers, Tender Management tools within Estimating 2010 have been enhanced to save time on routine tasks and make it easier to manage all ofthe information within each tender.

Extended mark up facilities
This new feature enables users to introduce a separate mark-up page, using different criteria for prime cost adjustments and mark-ups to those in the prime-cost adjustment page, providing greater flexibility in Mark up Modelling.

Best buy discount columns
The need to enter best-buy discounts as negative values has been eliminated, as columns in tender mark up pages can now be flagged to act as discounts when a positive value is entered.

Greater visibility of prelims & additional hours cost distribution
The tender module includes a facility to distribute or hide the cost of a Prelim or Additional Hours cost onto other costs in the estimate and now allows you to view the proportion of this distribution on the final mark-up page

Managing discontinued items
For greater clarity, any discontinued items generated by Estimating’s powerful search facility can now be quickly highlighted within the search grid to flag up potential supply issues.

Buying against call-off POs in Procurement
Within Procurement, material requirements can now be amalgamated across different projects to raise single call-off orders, making maximum use of buying power to achieve better discounts.

Enhanced management of enquiries and tenders
Thanks to enhancements to the enquiry header page, users can record the date the enquiry was returned and won, and set the status of each enquiry – with additional filters to sort data based on any of these criteria.

Preset mark-up categories
The ability to preset mark-up and post mark-up categories against Prelims and the Additional Hours library saves time and reduces the chance of errors.

Take-off
– Quickly confirm item costs in the take-off grid
– Update job option, enhanced to provide valuable statistical information, including discontinued items.

Bill
Any bill adjustment made to an estimate can now be printed to ensure a full paper trail is in place

QuoteMaster
The adjudication section of quotes can now be automatically populated from the line detail of the quote to minimise duplication of work.

Variations
Default mark-up percentages for material/labour/ subcontract costs can be automatically retrieved from the client schedule estimate for star rate items in Variations.

LUCKINS data migration tool
Luckins data migration tool supplied as part of 2010 which enables you to use the full power of Luckins data when you subscribe to this service.

As well as incorporating new features for managing electronic transactions more efficiently,in line with changing work practices and preferences, Costing & Accounts 2010 incorporates a host of productivity features designed to save time in everyday tasks. Record keeping functions have also been upgraded to facilitate fast access to key information.

Job Costing™ and Accounts™ 2010
As well as incorporating new features for managing electronic transactions more efficiently, in line with changing work practices and preferences, Costing & Accounts 2010 incorporates a host of productivity features designed to save time in everyday tasks. Record keeping functions have also been upgraded to facilitate fast access to key information.

Meets new VAT requirements
A separate VAT ledger has been introduced in Accounts which enables you to keep track of your submitted VAT returns and payments. It also enables you to submit electronic VAT returns directly to HMRC using the Government gateway. This ensures that you comply with new regulations designed to phase out paper returns coming into force on 1st January 2010. The new regulations apply to new companies registering for VAT and any company with an annual turnover above £100,000.

Improved logging of communications
A Contact Log has been added to the job screen in Costing which allows you to keep a record of all communication made to the client, site, suppliers, subcontractors or additional contacts assigned to the job. The Contact Log has the ability to generate emails and log telephone calls, site visits, reminders etc. It also automatically records the emailing of purchase orders and sales invoices to your suppliers and clients.

Enhanced job forecasting screen
The popular job forecasting feature in Job Costing has now been extended to allow users to also forecast and analyse their project revenue.

Full integration with latest Sage Line 50
Full integration between Job Costing and the Sage Line 50 2010 release ensures ongoing compatibility for transferring Job Costing information to this popular accounts package.

New and enhanced reporting functions
Costing & Accounts are vital in controlling the financial health of your business, job by job and across all projects. New and enhanced reporting functions ensure high visibility and easier sharing of business-critical information.

New profit and loss report
Brand new to Job Costing is the Profit and Loss report, which displays estimated and actual costs, sales and profit – all grouped at job level – and also calculates the variance between the estimated and actual profit. This powerful new feature allows you to keep an even tighter rein on project costs and home in on issues before they become major problems.

Enhanced payroll costing functions

• Show running totals for the pay elements to aid checking
• Automatically flag up any new employees which have been added to Sage Payroll
• Enhanced Payroll Summary and Payroll Analysis report
• Enhanced Payroll Summary report now includes the Cost Type description

Electronic payment definitions
The newly introduced user-defined output option provides greater flexibility in how electronic payments are managed, allowing output files to be defined before passing to the bank for non-BACS electronic payments. The BACS export facility has also been enhanced to collate multiple payments to the same account into a single payment

Faster management of incorrect postings
A new ‘Corrections’ facility in accounts allows you to delete individual transactions or batches of transactions that have been incorrectly posted. This feature is controlled by user permissions and the details of the deleted transactions are stored in the database so that they can be reported on for auditing purposes.

Closer links to ContractMaster
Closer links with ContractMaster now include the ability to prevent ContractMaster from posting new POs when a job is flagged as ‘closed to new POs’ in Costing.

• Display company registration number on reports
• Ability to filter labour detail across jobs and report by period in Costing
• Use VAT code assigned against supplier as default VAT code on direct invoice
• New and enhanced reporting functions, plus the ability to include MCD or retention
• Fail-safe facility to prevent documents being deleted in Costing when they have been posted in Accounts
• Enhanced notification of subcontractor CIS/insurance expiry details.

Service Manager Plus 2010 introduces a range of powerful and innovative new features that enable more efficient and detailed management of service and maintenance activities – contract by contract and across the entire operation. Improved integration with other programs is combined with refined information management functionality to save time on everyday tasks while also enriching the level of information that is quickly and easily accessible about each contract and about each job.

Integration with AMTECH’s FastTest Test & Inspection software
Close integration with FastTest, the market leading electrical Test & Inspection software, means that the electrical test element of a maintenance task can now be added to the Service Manager Plus job. This new feature ensures that electrical test information is included in the overall Service Manager Plus report, while also saving time by eliminating duplication of data entry.

Enhanced printing of the engineer worksheet
Reporting features have been developed in a number of areas, including the ability to print information returned from SMP Mobile for maintaining hard copy files. Crucially, information that can be retained in both hard copy and electronic format includes the customer’s signature on the worksheet – along with a wide selection of other details relating to each job.

Enhanced filtering functions
Filters provide an easy and fast way to sort information and home in on the data you need - and SMP 2010 incorporates a number of refinements to the inherent filtering functionality. As well as broadening the range of default grid filter options, we have enhanced all filter options to make them more flexible and easier to use. Users can also delete any filters they do not want to use.

Simplified data storage
Another great new feature is the simplified storage of data within the database, making it easier to understand table relationships when producing your own reports. As a result, it is now much easier to produce detailed reports that make full use of the information available.

System-wide job cost grid
Higher visibility and improved analysis of costs have been greatly facilitated by the introduction of a system-wide costs grid that allows you to view Service Manager Plus costs for contracts/site.

Enhanced job response history
New features to improve the flow of information through the software include the function to update the Response History of SMP jobs when material requisitions are raised within the Job Costing package.

Enhanced capture of signatures and images
Information about each job can now be enriched by attaching a wide range of additional files while on site, such as photographs of the equipment etc. This new feature within SMP Mobile greatly enhances the information management functionality of the program and facilitates more detailed record keeping. For example, an engineer may choose to photograph plant room conditions if these affect the ability to maintain certain plant items, providing evidence for discussion with the customer. All additional information can also be printed onto worksheets if required.