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Getting Started
  • Welcome to Stimaro
  • Installing Stimaro
  • Your First Sign-In
  • A Tour of the Stimaro Interface
  • Create Your First Estimate
Setting Up Your Cost Data
  • Understanding Cost Libraries in Stimaro
  • Setting Up Labor Rates
  • Labor Rates and Prevailing Wage
  • Setting Up Equipment Rates
  • Setting Up Material Costs
  • Setting Up a Cost Library
  • Customers and Vendors Libraries
Building Items and Assemblies
  • Understanding Items vs. Resources
  • Creating an Item Sheet
  • Adding Resources to an Item
  • Building Your Marine Item Library
  • Building Reusable Assemblies
Takeoff and Quantities
  • Understanding Takeoff in Stimaro
  • Entering and Managing Quantities
  • Takeoff Quantity vs. Bid Quantity
Building a Bid
  • Linking Item Sheets to the Bid
  • Organizing Your Bid with Sections
  • Write-In Line Items
  • Understanding Markup: Category Markup, Overhead, and Profit
  • Applying Markup to Your Bid
  • Bid Balancing and How It Works
Validation and Review
  • Using the Validation Feature
  • Pre-Submission Bid Review Checklist
Reports and Outputs
  • Generating Reports and Bid Sheets
  • Report Types and When to Use Them
  • Customizing Report Output
  • Exporting Your Data
Specialized Features
  • Using the RFQ Feature
  • The Analyze Tab: Market Intelligence and Risk
  • Bond Tables
  • Overhead Checklists
Account Management
  • Managing Your Team in Stimaro
  • Your Stimaro Subscription
  • Importing Existing Templates
Troubleshooting & Reference
  • Contacting Support
  • Common Issues and Fixes
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Glossary of Estimating Terms
Docs

Building a Bid

Linking item sheets, organizing sections, applying markup, and balancing your number.

Linking Item Sheets to the Bid→

How to add priced item sheets to your bid, how linking differs from a write-in row, and what carries over.

Organizing Your Bid with Sections→

How to use section headers and subtotal rows to group, label, and subtotal your bid.

Write-In Line Items→

What write-in rows are, how to add and fill them in, and when to use one instead of building a full item sheet.

Understanding Markup: Category Markup, Overhead, and Profit→

The concepts behind markup, including direct cost, category markup, overhead, and profit, and how they combine to turn your cost into a price.

Applying Markup to Your Bid→

Where to set your markup percentages, what each type of markup does, and how the panel shows direct cost becoming the final bid price.

Bid Balancing and How It Works→

Why your bid total and your marked-up target can drift apart, what Auto-Balance does about it, and what to watch for.

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