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Built for small construction businesses, this free Excel template helps you estimate jobs, track budgets, and manage your projects without paying for bloated tools you don’t need.

Free Estimating Tools for Contractors

Estimate Template Overview
Budget Template Overview
Cost Management Solutions

Create custom workbooks to meet your estimating needs. Workbooks can be modified to meet the scope of work you estimate.

Project Estimating

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Once you have won the project, use the estimate that has already been created to break the project down into a budget with costs that you can easily track.

Budget Creation

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Track costs during the construction phase of the project to compare to the budget. Cost tracking can be handled by CX2, or we can provide you with the tools and skills to track costs internally.

Cost Tracking

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Project Estimating

Calculate your costs on a variety of worksheets that meet your company's needs

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Compile all of the individual worksheets and see the project total to be entered into the proposal or bid form. Estimate tabs can be customized to make estimate creation as smooth as possible. Click the button below to get your FREE template!

Budget Creation

Utilize your existing estimate to create a budget to be used for cost tracking.

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Budget information such as cost codes, descriptions, breakout items or breakout codes can be customized as needed. CX2 can help you create a budget strategy to maximize your company's cost tracking ability and ultimately maximize profit. Ready to learn more?

Cost Tracking

Use your budget to track labor costs breaking work items out in a way that makes sense and is easy to track. Getting information early on helps you to make adjustments to ensure your project is completed on time and on budget.

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Material costs are some of the more predictable costs on a project, but make sure costs don't get out of hand. CX2 can help you track costs per system, as well as track costs on individual purchase orders and larger purchase orders.

Fill out the form to get access to CX2's free estimating template and see how we can help streamline your cost estimating, budgeting, and cost tracking processes.

With over 15 years of construction experience spanning several different trades, we can help create a custom made solution for your company.

Not sure what you need? We can help with that as well! CX2 can talk to you about what you do, and what exactly you want to accomplish, to create a cost plan that maximizes your efficiency and your profit.
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