TurboBid FAQs

Yes. Weekly updates are included. TurboCloud updates your Trade Price (Manufacturer's list price) and your TurboBid Price (National average at a supply house). https://www.turbobid.com/pages/turbocloud-price-update-1 (more)

Yes. TurboBid includes an Overhead Cost Wizard that walks you through all of the steps required to accurately calculate each of your employee's burden costs. As costs change, simply change the values in the wizard and your estimates will automatically reflect the new values. At its elemental level, overhead is the money you would have to pay to keep your business operating when you had no one working in the field. It includes everything except material, labor and job expenses. Office expenses, salaries, sales expenses, office equipment, vehicles and similar expenses are considered to be overhead. https://www.turbobid.com/pages/company-overhead-cost-wizard (more)

Yes. But per Trade Service's request, we renamed it to TurboPricer. TurboPricer is the same as Trade Service’s Supplier xChange. It dramatically speeds the price request process by connecting your supply house vendors to your TurboBid items in real time. There is a small fee required for this subscription.
https://www.turbobid.com/pages/turbopricer-vendor-price-update (more)

Yes. NetPricer will update your vendor pricing, while Trade Service's Tra-Ser and EPIC update your Trade Price (Manufacturers list price) and TurboBid Price (National average price paid at a supply house). https://www.electricsmarts.com/netpak-featuring-netpricer-service/home, https://www.tradeservice.com/products/tra-ser (more)

Yes. The bid package that you submit to your customer is the only opportunity that you'll have to show them what type of professionalism and detail they can expect from you on the job. If you can do this, you won't have to be the lowest bid price to be awarded the job. All of TurboBid's documents are automatically generated from the information entered during the estimating process. This means that you can generate highly professional bid packages and reports with a click of a button. https://www.turbobid.com/pages/documents (more)

Yes. Many supply houses have formatted Vendor Price Update Files that are used to update your vendor prices. These price files are sent to you via email attachment every month and are supplied to you from your vendor free of charge.

TurboBid's items include an unlimited number of vendors. When you update material prices by using a vendor price update file, it automatically adds the vendor and the vendor price to the item. https://www.turbobid.com/pages/vendor-price-update-files-1 (more)

Yes. TurboBid includes a Labor Burden Cost Wizard that walks you through all of the steps required to accurately calculate each of your employee's burden costs. As costs change, simply change the values in the wizard and your estimates will automatically reflect the new values. https://www.turbobid.com/pages/labor-burden-wizard (more)