The Item Manager allows users to manage all the items that make up a project.

The main features are:

• Estimation of direct and indirect item costs;
• Item costing can be done by up to six methods: Fixed, Detailed, Budget Bid, Bid, Partial bid and Imposed;
• Copy items and their details within the project or from other projects;
• Import and export an item list to and from a spreadsheet program;
• Insert sub-totals and totals to view costs by section, phase or other;
• Creation of summary items allowing the estimator to personalize the item cost structure;
• Enter Bid and/or Estimated Quantities;
• Definition of unit or lump sum costs;
• Dynamic switching between metric and imperial systems of measurement;
• Definition of multiple currencies by the user;
• Manually enter quantities for each of the resources;
• Possibility of using mathematical formulas to calculate resource quantities;
• Possibility of using a digitizer table to calculate resource quantities;
• Definition of the production rate according to a personalized schedule (ex.: hours and days) and a chosen measurement system (ex.: metric and imperial);
• Registration of comments explaining or justifying estimation details;
• Integrated digital pictures;
• Distribution of item costs according to Equipment, Labour, Material, Miscellaneous, Bulk and Sub-contractor resource categories.