UK-built · CDM · CIS · MTD
Every enquiry logged, priced from a structured build-up, and issued once, from one place, with a record of what went out.
Construction quoting software turns an enquiry into a priced, branded document and keeps the record of it: what was sent, to whom, on what date, at what price, and what happened next. The hard part is not the arithmetic. It is the version control.
Unibuild logs every enquiry that arrives, prices it from a structured build-up of materials, labour, testing, strip out, preliminaries and other charges, issues it as a PDF on your letterhead, keeps every revision, and either converts it into a live project carrying the same reference or closes it out with a reason you can report on.
It has hidden columns, a broken link to a rate sheet on somebody's desktop, and a total that only works if you tab out of the right cell.
An enquiry becomes a record the moment it arrives, with its client, its date, its documents attached and its own reference, rather than an email somebody has flagged.
Sections for materials, labour, testing, strip out, preliminaries and other charges, priced from your own catalogues and rate cards rather than from a cell somebody typed over.
Revisions are versions of the same quotation rather than new files. What was issued, when, and at what price stays on the record after it has been superseded.
A branded PDF produced by the platform, from your own logo, address and numbering, rather than a workbook printed to PDF and attached by hand.
A quotation sits in a state rather than in somebody's head. Outstanding, successful or unsuccessful, with a reason recorded when it goes the wrong way.
A won quotation becomes a live project carrying the same reference, so the priced build-up that won the work is the thing the job is later measured against.
Bring last month's enquiries. All of them, including the ones nobody priced.
The gap between what arrived and what went out is usually the most expensive number in the business, and almost nobody can produce it on request.
These are the questions that come up in the second conversation, so they are answered here instead.
Sections for materials, labour, testing, strip out, preliminaries and other charges are not presentation. They are how a quotation is defended when a client asks what a line covers, and how a variation is priced later from the same basis rather than from a fresh guess.
Your cost, your markup and your build-up stay yours. The document that goes out shows what you have decided it should show, which matters most when the person handing it over is standing on site next to the person receiving it.
A lost quotation with a reason recorded against it is worth something. A pile of unsuccessful ones is worth nothing. This is the single field most firms skip and most regret skipping, because it is what turns a win rate into a decision about which work to stop chasing.
Underwriting a client is part of deciding whether to price the work, not an afterthought once you have won it. Credit checks sit on the client record with the date and the document attached, so the exposure is visible while the decision is still open.
Loading a rate library is where the real client effort goes, and any supplier who says otherwise is selling. The quoting side is fast to configure; the price library behind it is the work, and it is worth doing properly once rather than twice.
The reason most quoting spreadsheets are dangerous is not that they are wrong. It is that one person understands them. A structured build-up priced from a shared library is legible to somebody who joined last month, which is the whole argument for moving.
The quote is only as good as the rates behind it.
If your price library is still three workbooks and a folder of supplier emails, that is the conversation worth having before this one.Same platform, same login. These are the modules that price the work, buy for it, measure it, claim it and collect it.
Building a rate, what binds you once it is sent, and the signs you are pricing too low.
