A general purpose estimating tool for any business. Adaptable to different types of businesses by virtue of an open database, customizable estimate fields and customizable cost basis categories. Easily create estimates that fit your business: Partition your estimate items by section and / or locations. Group related part / material and labor items. Change partitioning and grouping with just a mouse click. Define your own nested sort options for your estimate reports. Customize estimate fields, cost basis categories and sort options. Improve your productivity: Create working notes for the job in the estimate and work order documents from the estimate. Create formal bid / proposal documents including tax calculation, markup and shipping info etc. with custom formatting using your company's logo or on your pre-printed template sheets. E-Mail your bid / proposal documents directly to your customers from Estimate Master. Extensive data entry shortcuts are available which increase accuracy and reduce data entry time. New estimates can be created just by cloning and updating estimates. Assemblies of parts, materials and labor items can be created including quantity information. Organize your estimate data: Estimate Master organizes and saves your data automatically. Estimates and bids are related by customer. The parts, materials, tax, markup, shipping and labor items are re-usable and shared between estimates and bids. A built-in backup and intelligent restore utility not only protects you from data loss, but also allows synchronization of databases when Estimate Master is used on multiple computers in your office so that everyone is working from the same database. If you use a local area network, Estimate Master also supports multiple simultaneous access. Database size is unlimited with the ability to duplicate an entire database and manage an unlimited number of databases.