The experience has been great !! [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] is a life saver to start learning this software We set up a few morning meetings for about a month and after that, I was able to get a bid done by myself.. We have really tightened up our numbers and are starting to see ourselves be more competitive in this crazy plumbing bidding world. So a big thank you and a high recommendation to Wendes Software and [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] for all your efforts and continued help! Thank you!

Once everything is set up it’s pretty easy to use Just click and drag and everything is priced within that line

Set up has to be done and then you have to learn it.. as with any software program.

I have used Wendes duct estimating a long time ago. I am so impressed that they have a piping estimating program now.

The products are very user friendly, the take-off process flows very nicely. The help desk is always ready to help with any questions/problems.

I wish if you were transitioning from one size to another, that it would recognize and keep the size you are transitioning to instead of having to tell it to go to the new size.

the review above is based on Wenduct only, I purchased WenPipe a few years ago but honestly I don't use it. My piping estimator does not like the product at all and has the same dislike of their screen takeoff. I am considering switching to another software.

The support is outstanding but the program is very outdated and I have bee waiting for the new 64 bit program for years. I have been using the product for 15 years and have become very familiar with it.

Takeoffs tend to take too long due to a number of issues starting with the dislike of the screen takeoff and constantly needed to restart from freeze ups.

My experience with wenpipe has been terrific thus far. I am able to pump out bids so much faster than before. And I'm just getting started with it I have been using it for 2-3 months now and i can honestly say it was an excellent decision to switch from McCormicks to wendes or at least it was for me.

Ease of use. Im not a tech kind of guy but this thing is so user friendly . Its exactly what i was looking for in a bid program.

Have found absolutely nothing i can complain about.

Since I've been using it, so far it has been a good overall experience. There are always bugs in everything that need worked out but it seems to always work and it gets us job.

It's accurate, it's quick. Seems to be straight forward on how you use it.

Getting into the program to change pricing is a little tough, finding out what your changes do to the program is sometimes time consuming. Seems to be a lot of windows to get into the system and maybe a few too many duplications. When you make a change it is sometimes hard to tell if it actually worked, especially on the labor / hours.

We love the product it is fast and efficient. Just a would like a bit more training as we are old school operators

This is a very easy to use product. We like ho it separates the labour and material costing from shop lab. to field. The additional material and lab is fantastic and we can compare poundage to actual cost

The updates could be more frequent and a confirmation of what was updated would help. We are a Canadian firm, so our costs are different from the world market. We deal in sheet stock so we are selling our metal as a 3rd person cost. Adjustments are frequently made with in the system. The system usually glitches and our estimates sometimes do not have the labour costs.

We've been using Wenduct for over 2 decades and have had great success with it. We actually realized about a year ago that we hadn't updated in years, but the product still worked very well. Now that we've upgraded, we have even more functionality. It definitely requires some training, but we've been able to on-board 4-5 employees on it relatively quickly (3-6 months with close training by a seasoned estimator).

The hardware fails from time to time, but the software has been pretty reliable. That said, setting it up initially takes a lot of legwork.

WenDuct and WenPipe material lists are very useful for sending out to vendors when we win a job.

It is easy to use and customer support is excellent. You talk to 2 different people and they respond right away.

would like to see an electrical program in the same format

We would be a 5 man shop without it.

Excellent Customer Support, and the speed of my takeoff.

There are features i have not really used or explained to us.

Both programs are easy to navigate through and we can bid jobs twice as fast.

This software makes estimating so much faster and very accurate, When I have question or need an answer to anything on the program Gene and the whole crew at Wendes are there to help every time.

I haven't found anything I dislike about the software, I was hesitant at first estimating the old fashion way because I don’t like change but I’m very happy we purchased the soft ware.

Easy to use. I like the screen takeoff. It saves from having to waste Paper and Ink.

Sometimes it freezes up and will try to have you put in all the job info again. There was supposed to be an improved version of WENDUCT 2 yrs ago. I have yet to see it.

I wanted to give it another try considering the money we have invested, set up a time to have another employee trained. Training went well, we were supposed to receive on line licensing and never received and have not been able to access the program we are paying for. Desire to put this program to use.

it seemed like it would be a good tool for quoting projects accurately, also saving time during the quoting process.

The lack of support, setting up the pressure files

Flexibility of input, material types for the takeoff, and data output for the takeoff in PDF, Excel, etc.

load multiple drawings into the estimating software at once. Currently one at a time, and not a big deal unless I have dozens of drawing to do takeoff

great time saving accurate

easy to use you don't have to be a computer wiz to operate system

i like everything about the system from easy to use to its recap sheets