What sets PowerQuote apart from other print estimating software?

More Focused on Building Profit
Each feature and report is made with an eye toward making money in your shop. This is because PowerQuote was created by an experienced print shop owner. Some examples include:
* Accurate paper makeready calculation lets you order less paper while eliminating shortages.

* Job ticket shows production times so employees have a goal which boosts productivity.

* Production schedule has just the right info to make it easy to save washups and setups.

* Fast retrieval of jobs for re-orders improves customer service and sales.

* Professionally written quotes make a better presentation to customers and win more work.

* Our productivity discount feature allows you to consider the greater productivity and faster press speeds associated with longer run jobs. You can win more of the big jobs while protecting profit.

* Rates are easily adjusted to match your shop. You get accurate prices based on your costs.

Easy Intuitive User Interface
PowerQuote leads you through the estimating process step by step without your having to hunt through hidden menus to find the next step. You see each price calculation completely and logically so that you get reliable consistent pricing without oversights. It's easy to learn.

PowerQuote's intelligent math models calculate more accurate estimates with less input. You get accurate quotes that consider more specifications of the print job, with 1/3 less input as compared to some other software.

Clear Practical Reports
PowerQuote's written quote is more professional, contains more information and invites more sales! Some systems are so focused on invoicing that quotes look like invoices. Many lack important information like type of proof or turnaround time and are restricted to "built-in" formats. PowerQuote's is customizable!

Another important report is the job ticket. Our Job SAVe™ system incorporates a superior job ticket that adds profit. It stands for Job Specification Accuracy Verification and only PowerQuote has it. While others use a complicated list of numbers, PowerQuote has detailed written instructions in sentence format. You get clear accurate instructions!

Our production schedule report is packed with information and formatted in a logical way to allow managers to save setups and washups. We have ink color, paper grip edge and more so you can easily sequence similar jobs and increase productivity.

PowerQuote also has valuable sales and accounting reports like the "Top 20 Customers" and "Sales By Category" that help you monitor your shops progress with important accounts and important types of work.

Click below for a pdf file of our reports including written quote, and job ticket
PQreports474.pdf (340k)

Performance Speed
Many of our competitors (or their contract programmers) write their software on top of a general purpose database program. PowerQuote does not use or require another company's database application. Because PowerQuote was written from the ground up specifically for printing estimating, it stores data as little as half the disk space! That means those others can take twice as long to store data and twice as long to back it up!!

PowerQuote's superior programming technology not only makes the software faster but allowed us to be the first print estimating system to run natively on Mac OS X and the first US company to offer a system especially for high speed on-demand printing!

We Developed PowerQuote With Our Own Printing Experience
We don't have to contract out for programming talent like some other estimating systems, we do it all in-house. This makes updates faster and easier. It's another part of our superior support. It's no surprise, since we developed PowerQuote for our own printing company, we know what estimators and managers demand.

As you compare products, you will see a common theme: PowerQuote performs critical functions in a superior way that saves time and improves profit.