Are you struggling to maintain storage on your local server, and want a safe place to offload your old estimates without losing the ability to analyze your Estimate History? HeavyBid 2020.1, and newer updates, can take your estimates that you no longer need to work on, and archive those estimates to our HCSS Azure database, […]
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Ask The Chief – How can we manage different types of change orders for jobs we have bid?
Question: What are some best practices for handling different types of change orders to the jobs we have bid? Should they be done in HeavyBid? If so, how? The Chief Says: This question is quite common, and yes, HeavyBid will help you organize and create repeatable processes to handle your different change orders. Defining Two […]
HeavyJob Tools to Liberate Your Payroll Department
Perhaps liberate is a bit strong, but the truth is that if you are already using HeavyJob in the field, you should be able to experience the freedom that HeavyJob can provide for your payroll department. Taking a step back, how did you feel when you realized that HeavyJob diaries could provide a clear picture […]
Your Data in Your Control: HCSS APIs
What exactly is an API? Before we talk about how to actually use an API we should probably learn a bit more about what they are. API is an acronym for Application Programming Interface, but you’ll pretty much always hear API instead of the full name. All an API does is make data from software […]
HeavyBid Checklists Can Unify Your Estimating Team
As your Estimating department grows, each new person will need help learning the steps you take to win jobs as a team. HeavyBid Checklists provides a simple solution to solve this problem by creating to-do lists inside each estimate that can be customized for any purpose. This is a guide to help you get started […]
See your Foreman’s Timecard in HeavyBid 2021 Production History
HeavyBid 2021 has a long list of big new features that include Bid Proposal modifications, added currency conversions, and a way to see your foreman’s timecard in the production history. If you are not familiar with the Production History in HeavyBid, it is a feature that compares the activity code from HeavyBid with the true […]
