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How to hit the ground running on commercial flooring
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...
Evaluating a Commercial Flooring Estimating Software
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,...
A Trainer’s Perspective From The Field: Key Factors to Successful Software Deployment
In an era where technology and software are becoming more and more prevalent, deploying software solution is a challenging process. Onsite training is still the most effective approach to deployment, especially for large multi-location operations with a large number of users with different software background. Deployment planning and preparation is the key Building a strong...
Upgrade to Measure Square 8: FAQ
The following are some answers to questions you might have about the upgrade to Measure Square 8. If you want to upgrade a group of users from Measure Square 2015 or earlier to Measure Square 8, skip to Measure Square 8 for Groups. To learn more about the benefits of upgrading to Measure Square 8 and...
Product Highlights: Project List Updates in Measure Square 8
In the newest version of MeasureSquare 8, we have rolled out several major feature improvements that will streamline your measure estimating processes. In this first post–which is part of a series–we will discuss the Project Item creation function. We have brought a new approach to the Project List that will allow you to quickly use...
Product Updates: Five Reasons to Upgrade to Measure Square 8
For the past year, we have been pushing our customers to move to our latest and greatest version of the MeasureSquare desktop software. We know that the process hasn’t been seamless, and change is always difficult, so we thought we’d share some of the best reasons to move forward with new things. #5. Cloud Based...
Product Highlights: New Roll Goods Features in Measure Square 8
As many of you know from firsthand experience, laying out roll goods in large areas can cause issues with seam layout or positioning. To help get the layout your large space needs, the newest version of MeasureSquare now incorporates the Stagger Cut option. In order to make use of this feature, simply right click on the...
Learning Measure Square From the Ground Up: A New Hire’s Perspective
One of the biggest challenges a new customer can face is learning how to navigate MeasureSquare. While some of our customers have worked with floor estimating software, others are completely new to the technology world. Keep in mind that our trainers work tirelessly to make sure that every customer gets their needs met and are...
Hands-on Deployment Made Easy for Estimators and Sales Reps Alike
It’s summertime, meaning busy season is upon us in the flooring industry. There are a great deal of bids to win, and making time for training new estimators and sales reps on our program may seem like a daunting task. The MeasureSquare video tutorials, while extremely helpful, don’t seem like enough for someone starting from...
