Section01 of 06
PageWhat BillMate does
Next02 — Rate library
In the guideChapters 07 – 15

Everything between a site visit and an issued bill.

Not a takeoff plugin. Not a spreadsheet template. A working surveyor's tool that takes you from measurement to a document you can put your name on.

Get BillMate Read the taking-off chapter

Taking-off that stays with the item

Enter dimension sets the way you were taught — Times, length, width, depth, with Ddt rows for openings and voids. The net total casts straight into the bill, and the working stays attached to the item.

  • Linear, area, volume and count measures
  • Deductions handled properly, not as negative numbers you have to remember
  • Labelled rows, so the sheet still makes sense in six months
  • Metric or imperial, per project
Taking-off — trench excavation
2 / External walls, long sides 12.50 × 0.90 × 1.5033.75
2 / External walls, short sides 8.20 × 0.90 × 1.5022.14
1 / Ddt — soakaway already excavated−6.00
Net quantity49.89 m³

Rate build-ups you can defend

Break any rate into material, labour and plant per unit, then carry your own overhead and profit. BillMate calculates the all-in rate and keeps the breakdown — so when a client's QS asks where the figure came from, you have an answer.

  • Reopens with your figures, not a blank form
  • Typing over a rate discards the build-up rather than showing working that no longer adds up
  • Optional AI suggestion, anchored to your own rate library
Rate build-up — 150mm blockwork, per m²
Material4,800.00
Labour1,600.00
Plant100.00
+ Overhead 10%650.00
+ Profit 15%1,072.50
Unit rate8,222.50

A document, not a screenshot

Export a paginated BOQ under your firm's letterhead, with item references, full wrapped descriptions, provisional and prime-cost sums properly labelled, and your basis of estimate printed underneath. Or take the whole bill to a spreadsheet.

  • PDF via your browser's print dialog — nothing to install
  • CSV with a Rate source column, so a checker can audit every figure
  • Provisional & prime cost sums, summarised separately for the client
  • Unpriced items flagged before you send, never after
Bill summary
Measured work (all sections)11,340,000.00
— of which provisional & PC sums2,050,000.00
Preliminaries 3%340,200.00
Contingency 5%584,010.00
Grand total12,264,210.00
Also in the box

The parts nobody puts on a feature list.

They are the reason a bill takes an afternoon rather than a weekend.

Sections that behave

Add, rename, reorder and renumber sections and items. References renumber themselves, so 2.07 is still 2.07 after you move something above it.

Standards that do something

NRM1, NRM2, SMM/ASAQS, CPWD/DSR and MasterFormat give you section templates, instruct the AI on wording, and print on the bill so a checker knows how to read it.

Percentages in the right order

Preliminaries, contingency and tax apply across the whole bill and compound in the order a QS expects, not the order you happened to type them.

Backups that nag you

One file holds every project and your whole rate library. BillMate reminds you when the last one is more than a fortnight old, because it will not be reminding you afterwards.

Six languages, fourteen currencies

English, Arabic with a full right-to-left layout, French, Spanish, Hindi and Tamil. Each currency rounds to its own precision — dinar shows three decimals, not two.

The same tool on the tablet

Not a cut-down companion app. The whole thing, in the browser, in a basement with no signal, with the same projects you would have on the laptop.