Trade Estimating is a powerful tool to have at your disposal, identifying waste and providing accurate estimates. To compete in today’s world you need to know your costs & if you don’t, you will lose jobs to your competitors, or worse, win jobs and lose money.

We provide an online estimating software solution so that subcontractors can easily estimate their building costs, giving them confidence when bidding and quoting for work. The system has been developed by a subcontractor for subcontractors.

Our founder has worked in the building industry for many years and could not find any estimating program that was written specifically for subcontractors. While some claimed to cater for subcontractors, they didn't go into enough detail, or produce sufficient information.

After searching for an estimating system for his company, one was purchased for $3,000. While it was the best available it still could not do the job, so he sat down and wrote his own using Excel. While it worked perfectly for him, he realised that others would have a great deal of difficulty using it, and Microsoft Excel was required to run it. This led to the birth of Trade Estimating.com, the worlds’ first online estimating system, and the first estimating system written and developed for subcontractors. It took over two years to develop and test the estimating software for release.