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Big Box stores like Home Depot/Lowes and specialty flooring stores currently sell flooring to home owners using old school methods: advertise to attract home owners to their stores, sell them the products, and then send a field rep to measure the floors, communicate the estimate to homeowners, sell the job, order the product(s), and schedule...

In our inaugural Spotlight on MeasureSquare series, we spoke to Robert Tipping, veteran MeasureSquare user and founder of Checkmeasures. As our series continues, we’re pleased to welcome Cody Ripley of Performance Surfaces. Cody’s a relatively new user of MeasureSquare, but has already distinguished himself through the caliber of his work and his thoughtful and educational engagement on our community...

MeasureSquare wouldn’t be what it is without our users. All the little enhancements we make and all the ways we push ourselves to stay ahead of the industry curve would be moot if we were directing it at a vacuum. From a family business passed down through the generations to a new venture started by...

When making a decision as critical to your business as selecting a commercial estimating software, it is essential to have a strategy and expectations in place before you invest in a new software: requirements (past and future), training, support, rollout time, and price. Work at a commercial level has less margin for error, higher complexity,...

The Measure Square Cloud hosts your diagram data and product database(s). In order for your data to back up to the cloud, users should Sync regularly in Measure Square’s iPad app (Internet connection required). Logging into the Cloud also gives you the opportunity to manage your account, license, and subscription details. How does the team collaboration feature...

Team building, synergy, innovation–buzzwords are in the air. In an industry that is in the midst of going digital, we want to be your guide to the future of takeoff estimating. Let’s talk about building a consolidated team of commercial estimators where everyone is on the same page. Some of the benefits of consolidating your...

Stop, collaborate, and listen. Out of context, it’s an excellent mantra for the latest addition to our community-building initiative. For most of our company history we’ve dedicated our time to honing the technology behind the software you know today. Our focus moving forward is to bolster something we have plenty of, but haven’t tapped into in...

Our goal here at Measure Square is efficiency. We’ve staked our entire mission on keeping our products accessible and easy to use–removing the need for tape measures, pencils, scale rulers, highlighters, and graph paper. As far as our suite of solutions go, it doesn’t get easier than our iPad/iPhone app for retail measure estimating; half...

Looking to take your residential flooring skills and make the transition into commercial flooring? The first step on that path is learning to read a blueprint. Parts of a Blueprint Title Block: contains architect’s name, project name, diagram name, date, revision, and scale information Diagram area: the part of the blueprint where the building is drawn Legend: additional...

The ever changing world of technology is advancing the way estimators calculate flooring products–products ranging from mobile application technologies to laser meters help boost efficiency while increasing accuracy. Onsite measuring software allows estimators to create diagrams and quotes on the spot at a prospect’s property. Users of mobile technology have the ability to sketch a...