For years, NaDonte Jones did estimates the old-fashioned way by poring over blueprints and using different-colored highlighters to categorize various materials needed for jobs, then price them out.
“I’d manually input all of that information,” says Jones, owner of NJ Jones Plumbing in Syracuse, New York. “Doing it the old-school way was very tedious. With everything else I had to do, it might take me a couple of weeks to develop a bid for, say, a large, $1 million project.”But these days, Jones works smarter, not harder, thanks to Design Estimating Pro software from McCormick Systems (a Foundation Software company). The
