Estimating Software for Electricians in Australia
Electrical quoting is counting. Points, circuits, cable runs, switchboard work. Rignite reads the legend on a services drawing, counts every symbol on the sheet, and prices it against your wholesaler rates.
Why is electrical quoting so slow to do properly?
Volume is the problem. Electricians send far more quotes than builders, each one smaller, so the admin load lands across many jobs rather than a few big ones.
A builder might send six quotes a month at high value. An electrician sends closer to fifteen. Each one is quicker on its own, but the total desk time is comparable and it is spread across evenings and weekends.
On service work the estimate is largely experience. On new build and commercial it is counting: how many GPOs, how many light points, how many data outlets, how many circuits, how much cable between them. Counting by hand off a drawing is slow, and it is the step where a miscount quietly costs you margin.
How does Rignite count points off a services drawing?
Rignite reads the legend on the drawing, then counts each symbol across every sheet and returns the totals per room with the locations marked.
This is a different mechanism to measuring a floor area. Services drawings carry a legend, and the legend is the key to the sheet.
Rignite parses that legend, takes each symbol as a reference, then counts instances of it across the sheets and records where each one sits. GPOs, light points, switches, data outlets, exit and emergency fittings all come back as counted quantities per room, with the instances marked on the drawing so you can check them rather than trust them.
Counts can be re-run at higher resolution where a symbol is small or the drawing is dense, and you can add or remove instances by hand where the drawing is ambiguous.
Does it measure cable and conduit runs?
Yes. Linear measurement runs off the vector geometry in the PDF, returning cable and conduit runs in lineal metres per style of run.
Counting points is only half of it. The cable between them is the other half, and it is the part most often estimated rather than measured.
Rignite measures those runs from the drawing geometry rather than an image, which means it works without a vision pass on vector PDFs and holds its accuracy on dense sheets. Different run types are kept separate rather than totalled into one number.
Which wholesalers can it price against?
Rignite prices against your own accounts and your negotiated rates. Middy's, Rexel, L&H, MM Electrical or whoever you actually buy from.
Trade pricing in electrical is account specific. The rate you get from Middy's is not the rate on a public price list, and it is not the rate the next sparky down the road gets.
So the system is configured against your suppliers and your pricing rather than a generic national catalogue. Where a price is missing, the RFQ is drafted, sent and chased automatically, and the reply is captured back against the line it belongs to.
Do you need to quote from plans for this to work?
No, but plan-based work benefits most. If you mostly do service calls with no drawings, the take-off step does not apply and the model caps your saving at 65%.
We would rather say this plainly than sell you the top tier. Complete's 80% figure leans on automated take-off from drawings. If you do mostly service and maintenance work with no plan set, there is nothing to take off.
For that kind of business the value sits in the scope, the supplier pricing and the quote compiling, which is why the calculator caps you at the Automate share and tells you so on screen rather than quietly overstating it.
If you do new build, commercial fit-out or anything with a services drawing, the counting is where the hours disappear and Complete earns its place.
What does it cost, and does it suit a small electrical business?
Calculate is $2,000 setup plus $97 a month including GST. At fifteen quotes a month, the maths works on desk time alone before any extra work won.
Run it on your own numbers rather than ours. Fifteen quotes a month at four and a half desk hours each is a large amount of unbilled time, and even at the Calculate tier the model removes 40% of it.
Compare that against per user job management software, where cost rises every time you put on an apprentice. Rignite is a flat monthly plus a one off build fee, and the monthly does not move when the team grows.
Also for other trades
Sources and last checked
Estimating Software for Electricians in Australia
Electrical quoting is counting. Points, circuits, cable runs, switchboard work. Rignite reads the legend on a services drawing, counts every symbol on the sheet, and prices it against your wholesaler rates.
Why is electrical quoting so slow to do properly?
Volume is the problem. Electricians send far more quotes than builders, each one smaller, so the admin load lands across many jobs rather than a few big ones.
A builder might send six quotes a month at high value. An electrician sends closer to fifteen. Each one is quicker on its own, but the total desk time is comparable and it is spread across evenings and weekends.
On service work the estimate is largely experience. On new build and commercial it is counting: how many GPOs, how many light points, how many data outlets, how many circuits, how much cable between them. Counting by hand off a drawing is slow, and it is the step where a miscount quietly costs you margin.
How does Rignite count points off a services drawing?
Rignite reads the legend on the drawing, then counts each symbol across every sheet and returns the totals per room with the locations marked.
This is a different mechanism to measuring a floor area. Services drawings carry a legend, and the legend is the key to the sheet.
Rignite parses that legend, takes each symbol as a reference, then counts instances of it across the sheets and records where each one sits. GPOs, light points, switches, data outlets, exit and emergency fittings all come back as counted quantities per room, with the instances marked on the drawing so you can check them rather than trust them.
Counts can be re-run at higher resolution where a symbol is small or the drawing is dense, and you can add or remove instances by hand where the drawing is ambiguous.
Does it measure cable and conduit runs?
Yes. Linear measurement runs off the vector geometry in the PDF, returning cable and conduit runs in lineal metres per style of run.
Counting points is only half of it. The cable between them is the other half, and it is the part most often estimated rather than measured.
Rignite measures those runs from the drawing geometry rather than an image, which means it works without a vision pass on vector PDFs and holds its accuracy on dense sheets. Different run types are kept separate rather than totalled into one number.
Which wholesalers can it price against?
Rignite prices against your own accounts and your negotiated rates. Middy's, Rexel, L&H, MM Electrical or whoever you actually buy from.
Trade pricing in electrical is account specific. The rate you get from Middy's is not the rate on a public price list, and it is not the rate the next sparky down the road gets.
So the system is configured against your suppliers and your pricing rather than a generic national catalogue. Where a price is missing, the RFQ is drafted, sent and chased automatically, and the reply is captured back against the line it belongs to.
Do you need to quote from plans for this to work?
No, but plan-based work benefits most. If you mostly do service calls with no drawings, the take-off step does not apply and the model caps your saving at 65%.
We would rather say this plainly than sell you the top tier. Complete's 80% figure leans on automated take-off from drawings. If you do mostly service and maintenance work with no plan set, there is nothing to take off.
For that kind of business the value sits in the scope, the supplier pricing and the quote compiling, which is why the calculator caps you at the Automate share and tells you so on screen rather than quietly overstating it.
If you do new build, commercial fit-out or anything with a services drawing, the counting is where the hours disappear and Complete earns its place.
What does it cost, and does it suit a small electrical business?
Calculate is $2,000 setup plus $97 a month including GST. At fifteen quotes a month, the maths works on desk time alone before any extra work won.
Run it on your own numbers rather than ours. Fifteen quotes a month at four and a half desk hours each is a large amount of unbilled time, and even at the Calculate tier the model removes 40% of it.
Compare that against per user job management software, where cost rises every time you put on an apprentice. Rignite is a flat monthly plus a one off build fee, and the monthly does not move when the team grows.
Also for other trades
Sources and last checked
Estimating Software for Electricians in Australia
Electrical quoting is counting. Points, circuits, cable runs, switchboard work. Rignite reads the legend on a services drawing, counts every symbol on the sheet, and prices it against your wholesaler rates.
Why is electrical quoting so slow to do properly?
Volume is the problem. Electricians send far more quotes than builders, each one smaller, so the admin load lands across many jobs rather than a few big ones.
A builder might send six quotes a month at high value. An electrician sends closer to fifteen. Each one is quicker on its own, but the total desk time is comparable and it is spread across evenings and weekends.
On service work the estimate is largely experience. On new build and commercial it is counting: how many GPOs, how many light points, how many data outlets, how many circuits, how much cable between them. Counting by hand off a drawing is slow, and it is the step where a miscount quietly costs you margin.
How does Rignite count points off a services drawing?
Rignite reads the legend on the drawing, then counts each symbol across every sheet and returns the totals per room with the locations marked.
This is a different mechanism to measuring a floor area. Services drawings carry a legend, and the legend is the key to the sheet.
Rignite parses that legend, takes each symbol as a reference, then counts instances of it across the sheets and records where each one sits. GPOs, light points, switches, data outlets, exit and emergency fittings all come back as counted quantities per room, with the instances marked on the drawing so you can check them rather than trust them.
Counts can be re-run at higher resolution where a symbol is small or the drawing is dense, and you can add or remove instances by hand where the drawing is ambiguous.
Does it measure cable and conduit runs?
Yes. Linear measurement runs off the vector geometry in the PDF, returning cable and conduit runs in lineal metres per style of run.
Counting points is only half of it. The cable between them is the other half, and it is the part most often estimated rather than measured.
Rignite measures those runs from the drawing geometry rather than an image, which means it works without a vision pass on vector PDFs and holds its accuracy on dense sheets. Different run types are kept separate rather than totalled into one number.
Which wholesalers can it price against?
Rignite prices against your own accounts and your negotiated rates. Middy's, Rexel, L&H, MM Electrical or whoever you actually buy from.
Trade pricing in electrical is account specific. The rate you get from Middy's is not the rate on a public price list, and it is not the rate the next sparky down the road gets.
So the system is configured against your suppliers and your pricing rather than a generic national catalogue. Where a price is missing, the RFQ is drafted, sent and chased automatically, and the reply is captured back against the line it belongs to.
Do you need to quote from plans for this to work?
No, but plan-based work benefits most. If you mostly do service calls with no drawings, the take-off step does not apply and the model caps your saving at 65%.
We would rather say this plainly than sell you the top tier. Complete's 80% figure leans on automated take-off from drawings. If you do mostly service and maintenance work with no plan set, there is nothing to take off.
For that kind of business the value sits in the scope, the supplier pricing and the quote compiling, which is why the calculator caps you at the Automate share and tells you so on screen rather than quietly overstating it.
If you do new build, commercial fit-out or anything with a services drawing, the counting is where the hours disappear and Complete earns its place.
What does it cost, and does it suit a small electrical business?
Calculate is $2,000 setup plus $97 a month including GST. At fifteen quotes a month, the maths works on desk time alone before any extra work won.
Run it on your own numbers rather than ours. Fifteen quotes a month at four and a half desk hours each is a large amount of unbilled time, and even at the Calculate tier the model removes 40% of it.
Compare that against per user job management software, where cost rises every time you put on an apprentice. Rignite is a flat monthly plus a one off build fee, and the monthly does not move when the team grows.