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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
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Takeoff and Quantities

Getting quantities into your estimate and keeping them tied to your items.

Understanding Takeoff in Stimaro→

How takeoff works in Stimaro, from importing a plan PDF and calibrating the scale to measuring quantities and sending them into your estimate.

Entering and Managing Quantities→

Every place you enter or change a quantity in Stimaro and how those changes flow through to unit cost and the bid.

Takeoff Quantity vs. Bid Quantity→

What takeoff quantity and bid quantity each mean, why they are sometimes deliberately different, and why Stimaro keeps both.

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