Enhance Your Bidding Process with CABINET VISION xBidding [WEBINAR]

Accurate and efficient bidding is essential for your woodworking business to maintain profitability and meet your clients’ expectations. With CABINET VISION xBidding, you have a powerful toolset at your fingertips to optimize your bidding process, allowing for more precise and reliable estimates. Let’s explore how you can enhance your bidding workflow using the key features of CABINET VISION xBidding.

Watch the following webinar for step-by-step instructions

Leverage the Cost-Plus Method for Accurate Pricing

The cost-plus method is a trusted approach in woodworking and construction, ensuring that every bid you create covers all costs—materials, labour, and overhead—before you apply a markup. Setting up your material costs accurately within the Material Manager is crucial to implementing this method effectively. Even if you don’t enter all costs at once, having a system that provides a real-time view of job costs allows you to make better decisions throughout the project lifecycle.

Streamline Your Material and Vendor Management

When you’re entering material costs, managing your vendors efficiently is critical. CABINET VISION lets you adjust costs based on the vendor, ensuring your bids reflect the actual cost of materials depending on the source. This flexibility is especially valuable for projects that may involve multiple suppliers.

For bids where you’re unsure where the material will come from, managing vendors in CABINET VISION allows you to see the true cost of the job, depending on the supplier. This level of detail is critical for accuracy. – Christopher Manclière, Senior Software Specialist, Planit

Don’t forget to account for waste when setting up your material costs. By adding waste percentages, you can ensure that your bids are accurate and cover any unexpected material losses during the project. A good starting point for commonly used materials like melamine or maple is 15%, with adjustments based on the material you’re using.

Optimize Your Door Pricing and Bidding

Setting up door costs accurately is another essential step in your bidding process. By specifying costs per square foot for various materials, you can ensure that your door pricing aligns with actual production costs. This setup is handled in the Door Manager and directly impacts the accuracy of your overall bid.

Rate tables within the Bid Centre are where all your configured data comes together. Acting as spreadsheets that calculate project costs, rate tables allow you to incorporate everything from material and labor costs to finishing and installation, ensuring comprehensive and precise bids.

Implement Effective Labour Costing

Labor costs can be complex to calculate, but they play a crucial role in your overall pricing strategy. CABINET VISION xBidding provides you with a system for estimating the time required for different tasks, from design work to milling and assembly. By assigning hourly rates and estimating task durations, you can ensure that labour costs are accurately reflected in your bids.

Your labor costs aren’t just about wages—they include overhead, utilities, and everything needed to keep the lights on. Building these into your hourly rates ensures that your bids reflect the full cost of doing business. – Christopher Manclière, Senior Software Specialist, Planit

For complex projects, it might be beneficial to create separate rate tables for different aspects of the job, such as labour, finishing, and installation. This flexibility allows you to adjust your bids based on the specific needs of each project without compromising on accuracy.

Include Non-Graphic Accessories and Add-Ons

Non-graphic accessories, such as pullouts and corner systems, can be added directly to your bids. These accessories might not appear in the project design, but they are critical for accurate pricing and can be included in the bid through the Bid Centre.

The Add-On feature further enhances your flexibility, enabling you to include specific materials or extras, such as granite countertops, for one-time projects. This ensures that every aspect of the project is accounted for in your final bid.

For one-time projects, add-ons allow you to quickly incorporate extras like granite countertops without creating a new rate table. This keeps your bids agile and adaptable. – Christopher Manclière, Senior Software Specialist, Planit

Maximizing Efficiency with CABINET VISION xBidding

By utilizing CABINET VISION xBidding’s robust features, you can streamline your bidding process and ensure that every job is accurately priced. From setting up material costs to calculating labour and incorporating accessories, CABINET VISION xBidding offers you a comprehensive approach to bidding that supports both your profitability and client satisfaction.

By creating a system where material costs are set up from the beginning, you get a good view of job costs in real time—critical for making sure your bidding is both competitive and profitable. – Christopher Manclière, Senior Software Specialist, Planit

Enhance Your Bidding Process and More with CABINET VISION

Accurate and efficient bidding is essential for any woodworking business to maintain profitability and meet clients’ expectations. CABINET VISION is a powerful CNC cabinet design software tailored for the woodworking and cabinet industry that not only allows you to optimize your bidding process but also streamlines design and manufacturing. The software integrates seamlessly with CNC machinery, optimizing material usage and reducing waste. Feel free to request a CABINET VISION demo trial to experience its capabilities firsthand. With its comprehensive feature set, CABINET VISION is a leading choice among custom cabinet software solutions for enhancing efficiency and profitability.