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Jim

Construction, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2022

Fastest Electrical Estimating Software Out there.

Cert-In's support is fantastic! I never have to wait and always get my problem solved quickly and on the first call.

PROS

Ease of use and the speed of the take-off. Thousands of ready built assemblies all ready to go. The integration between you eTakeoff is the really neat part of this system. The special assemblies are so fast and easy to build, you can customize any estimate easily and fast. The ability to break out portions of the bid is very flexible and almost unlimited in how you want the breakout done. Also very fast in making the breakouts. There are very good videos of how to do different things and are easy to follow.

CONS

The ease of building permanent assemblies is slow and cumbersome. This is the least liked portion of the system that could use some re-work. You do have the ability to import from one job to another the special assemblies, which are easy & fast to build, projects of similar type can reuse the same assembly.

Reason for choosing Cert-In

I liked the assembly method of take-off that Cert-In uses because of the speed.

Reasons for switching to Cert-In

I was working with a different company that used these systems or I just wanted to try something different to see how I might like it.

Steven

Construction, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2022

Long Time User

I purchased my first system back in March of 1995 a SD150 estimating system, I now have The Estimating System V10.6, T & M Billing V9.1 and Invoice Manager V.10. There was never an issue which they could not resolve for me. They always take care of the problem when I call or get back to me the same day. Back when Windows Vista came out many business were having problems running their software on the Vista Platform and return to their previous Windows Program. I couldn't get the estmating program working correctly after buying a new computer with Vista. Cert-In had me send the computer to them (proir to on screen help) and within a week I had the computer back working 100% correctly.

PROS

This system is extremely easy to learn. You can use Specific menues to find parts or assemblies or Templates menues which are or you can designed for specific type of work for rapid input.

CONS

Additional Features: 1. Menues Identfication allowed to be two letters or two letters than a number. This way you could have related menues grouped together. 2. On the Bid Takeoff Detail pages the items which does not have a value are highlighted.

Reason for choosing Cert-In

I prevoisly worked for a company which used TRF/Cert-In estimating and liked it.

Brandon

Construction, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed March 2023

Good

PROS

Its good for getting estimates out quickly and easy to keep prices updated. Also easy to install.

CONS

It has some glitches. Sometimes the price doesnt match the screen. Printing will sometimes take a while.

Wesley

Construction, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed June 2023

WinTRF - The Answer to Electrical Estimating

I have used the Certin WinTRF system since the early days of Windows 3.1 and can't imagine using anything else.

PROS

Very intuitive and simple for take-offs. Options available for different styles of Take-off

CONS

I can't really think of anything that I don't like about the Software. It is a work horse

Reason for choosing Cert-In

Very intuitive and simple for take-offs. Options available for different styles of Take-off

Roger

Construction, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2023

VP Director PreConstruction

The [sensitive content hidden] is heavily involved with users and developers which is a high plus to making this software a great product. Their customer service is top notch.

PROS

Assemblies enabled estimators to be more efficient. The different ways to print takeoffs helps the ever demand GC bid forms.

CONS

Wish software was true Windows based for editing estimates. While there is a work around, if product was licensed with Microsoft the ease of use would be tremendous.

Doris

Construction, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Review 7-27-22

Support is great. Issues are taken care of in a timely manner. Reports are easy to compile.

PROS

It is easy to use and reports are easy to generate. Costs and multipliers are easy to set. Importing parts is useful.

CONS

Vendor pricing is very cumbersome and importing parts is a struggle if you don't do it very often.

Darrell

Construction, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2022

Electrical Estimating

Thirty plus years of use and they are an essential part of our success

PROS

Ease of use and customer support. Always ready to help with experienced staff.

CONS

I have no complaints. We have nothing but positive experience and good things to say about the software.

Mac

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2022

Owner, Estimator, all phases of electrical construction

Excellent!

PROS

Very easy to use. I've used Accubid and Estimation. Cert-in is by far the best for estimating and quality of reports.

CONS

Compared to all other Electrical Estimating Systems...Cert-In is the best.

Reason for choosing Cert-In

It's the best!

Mark

Construction, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2022

Sr Electrical Estimator

PROS

very user friendly,very easy to use,very easy to update

CONS

nothing that i do not really like,if one thing would like is updated user manual (i am not very computer smart,and hard for me to make changes to program)

Fred

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2022

Electrical estimating

Not only is this a great program but there customer service and support is amazing. I would highly recommend there estimating program.

PROS

Program is very easy and straight forward to use

CONS

I have nothing bad to say about this product.

Patrick

Construction, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2022

Cert-In Electrical Estimting software

Excellent, the work horse of our estimating.

PROS

User friendly, great data base, extensive print out option, great tech support.

CONS

Occasional error messages during input,

Brad

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2022

Cert-In Review

Always positive

PROS

Was the most like the Estimatic that we used in the '70's that was out of Colorado

CONS

Has to work on a PC, [SENSITIVE CONTENT] doesn't want Apple to have access to an emulation program anymore as Apples' chip that they are making themselves will run much faster than anything else that's out there and he sells more to them than Apple users. Same thing that's been going on for decades.

Reason for choosing Cert-In

It's what [SENSITIVE CONTENT] recommended

Reasons for switching to Cert-In

They stopped with Estimating

John

Construction, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2022

Great Customer service

great

PROS

[SENSITIVE CONTENT] has been very prompt in returning calls and emails

CONS

it is glitchy some times, but it might be the user

Becky

Construction, 2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2022

Excellent Customer Service

PROS

Customer service is the best. [SENSITIVE CONTENT] worked with us when my husbands computer was on its last leg. Got us back up and running.

CONS

Not web based, for some that’s a con but just fine for us.

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