If potential customers are going to seriously consider buying an Attic style building from you, they’re also going to seriously consider putting a couple dormers on it to ‘open it up’ and make that room feel bigger.  Dormers are an excellent way to increase margins on jobs simply because there’s not a big need for a lot of materials to build one.  Yes, they are labor intensive, but with Protractor you can easily compensate your assembly crew for the work and compensate yourself as well.  Remember, the number one focus of Post Frame Protractor is to enable you and your sales staff to price just about anything a customer might ask you for – quickly. That’s the key, get the price back to them quickly.  That automatically puts your company in the front running for the job.  All others are measured against you from that point going forward.

Once you’ve landed the job with the dormers, you can proceed with ‘how’ you want to build them and incorporate them into your roof truss design.  There is absolutely no need to put any effort into how you’re going to build a portion of a job until it’s under agreement with your company. Protractor will not only allow you to quote the dormers, it will transfer the numbers and descriptions right into the Agreement or Contract that is supplied through the program.  The contract portion of the Protractor program is one of its strongest features.  There is no need to design and buy additional contract forms because it’s included with PFP.  How many times have you ordered a 1,000 forms only to find they are inconveniently unusable after 6 months due to changes within your company?  A large portion of the Contract that Protractor produces for you is customizable in verbiage, font and font size.

Back to pricing out of the ordinary items.  One thing I’ve heard over and over throughout the years is the complexity of pricing horse barn jobs.  It’s not that it is difficulty as it is time consuming.  Protractor has numerous areas and lines within the program to address horse related items.  The program will differentiate price between that first stall that needs four walls of tongue and groove boards from the subsequent stalls that only need 3.  If you want to be competitive and produce quotes quickly, making that distinction could very mean the difference between you getting the job and not getting the job.  Every option that you could possibly want, if not already found in the program, can be installed in it for you.  Simply supply us with the cost of the material involved, the labor amount needed to install it and tell us what you want to make for profit.  That’s it.  You can be quoting out crossbuck style bale doors up in the gable ends of those attic trusses or offering them as an ‘option’ in seconds.

It doesn’t stop at just horse stalls either. Tack room, wash bays, viewing rooms, whatever it is that you need, Protractor can price, list on a quote and convert to your contract all the while keeping track of the pie (who gets what dollar amounts).  Stall barn and arena projects are super nice sales!  Wouldn’t you love to be able to quote a customer the same day?  Most of your competitors will take all week to work out those numbers.  And if you sub-contract that type of work out to another company or crew, Protractor will produce separate sub contract work orders with descriptions of the work to be performed along with what each portion of that job pays.  These agreements are customizable as well.