— SCAFFOLDING ESTIMATING SOFTWARE —
Estimate in minutes. Priced your way.
Multi-elevation meterage, your own rate schedules, a branded quote PDF in minutes — and when the client says yes, the estimate becomes the live job. Built by a UK scaffolding firm that still prices real work with it every day.
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Price per elevation, the way scaffolders price
Generic estimating tools want a bill of quantities. Scaffolding wants elevations: length times height, boarded lifts and unboarded lifts, returns and gables, with a rate per metre that is yours — not a national average. The quote builder works exactly that way, calculating meterage and money live as you enter each elevation.
The result is a branded PDF in the customer's inbox in minutes. Inside the firm this software was built in, moving from spreadsheets took a typical quote from 45 minutes to about five — which means more quotes sent, faster, and a win rate you can actually measure because every quote is tracked from sent to won or lost.
See the quote builder in the feature tour →02
Your rates, kept like a trade secret
Estimating is only as good as the rates behind it. Rate schedules hold your per-metre pricing, minimum charges, extra-over items, weekly hire and inspection rates and day-work rates — versioned and reusable, so whoever prices the job prices it the same. The pricing bible keeps the history, so "what did we charge them last time?" takes seconds, not a dig through old emails.
Your rates are locked to your company in the database itself — no other firm on the platform can ever see your pricing.
How your pricing is kept yours →03
Draw it, and it prices itself — the 3D option
For firms where quoting is the bottleneck, the 3D Project Package goes a step further: draw the building line and the scaffold builds itself to TG20-style rules — bays, lifts, boards, braces — priced live on screen as you draw, with a counted gear list down to the last coupler and the true hire value of the kit standing on the job.
Every quote can carry a 3D model of the proposed scaffold, which wins work on its own: the client sees exactly what they are paying for.
See the 3D Project Package →04
The estimate becomes the job — no re-typing
Standalone estimating software stops at the PDF. Here, marking a quote as won turns it into a live project: the contract value arrives broken into stages, ready for scheduling, RAMS and weekly inspections, stage payment claims with QS valuation sheets, variation orders and invoicing straight into Xero.
That is the real cost comparison to run: not estimating software versus estimating software, but one system that carries the number from first site visit to final account — against a stack of tools that each hold a different version of the truth.
See plans and pricing →Estimating questions, answered
How does estimating work in The Scaffold Software?
You price the way scaffolders actually price: per elevation, with length × height and boarded or unboarded lifts, against your own rate schedule. The builder calculates meterage and price as you go and produces a branded PDF quote — most firms send their first quote inside five minutes. There is also a 3D option (the 3D Project Package) where you draw the building line and the scaffold prices itself as you draw, with a counted gear list.
Can I use my own rates?
Yes — rate schedules are yours: per-metre rates, minimums, extra-over items, hire and inspection rates, day-work rates. The pricing bible keeps every rate you have ever used in one place so quoting is consistent across whoever prices the job.
What happens to the estimate after the client says yes?
That is the difference from standalone estimating tools: mark the quote as won and it becomes a live project with the contract value broken into stages — ready for scheduling, RAMS, payment claims and invoicing with nothing re-typed. The estimate is the start of the job record, not a dead-end PDF.
Does it handle variations and extra works?
Yes. Confirmed extra hours raise a variation order automatically, priced at your day-work rates with minimum charges applied, ready to sign and add to the next payment claim — so extras actually get invoiced instead of forgotten.
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