Active Takeoff

Save Time, Reduce Costs & Improve Accuracy
Never forget a key element on your plan again. If it’s colored, it’s counted!

Whether you’re using imperial or metric system, Active Takeoff will provide accurate results you can trust.
Easily assign costs and markups to your takeoff. As you go, you will get an instant, clean and precise estimating report.
All this, at the fraction of the time it used to take. Oh, and did we mention our unbeatable pricing?

From Takeoff to Estimating: A Complete Package

Sometimes, measuring your plans is only half of the job. Need estimating? Don’t worry!
With Active Takeoff, it’s fast and easy to assign costs, markups and estimating items to your project.
As you go, you will get an instant, clean and precise estimating report.
Once it’s done, print or export those results to a PDF file or Microsoft Excel with just one click!

From Takeoff to Quote Within 5 Minutes

Overall, the need for adding pricing manually (one time only and quickly done) is far outweighed by how quickly I can return a quote, the ease of .pdf reports I can pass to our purchaser, and the intuitiveness of entering basic information. For a smaller electrical contractor without a dedicated staff of estimators, Active Takeoff had dramatically increased my productivity.

Pros

The ease of importing plans from .pdf into the software is extremely intuitive. Active Takeoff allows a user to QUICKLY begin the process of plan takeoff. I am literally able to take a bid set from a prime contractor and return a price quote in half the time some of the more robust and expensive “industry standard” software takes.

Cons

The pricing for materials needs to be manually input . There is an import function but none of my material suppliers support the format Active Takeoff uses. It can take a few extra minutes to update prices or add a new device.