Each product has a definitive purpose in the market place and demos are available for Billcost and Costabill.
Essentially head over to our PPIS Software Catalogue for further information.
BILLCOST: *Demo Available
Use Billcost to estimate and cost your building projects.
The software is ideal for General Builders, Residential Contractors and Quantity Surveyors.
The software deals primarily with building estimations, making use of built-in formulae for over 35 000 items with up-to-date material and labour prices for all the South African Provinces, as well as Namibia.
Features that will benefit you:
- Estimate your projects with the Estimator. Input your desired quantities for the trade and activity you require from the database.
- View the material selection breakdown to view the required items for the trade you measured, as well as what the estimated price will be.
- Add profit to your project globally, or allocate it to specific trades and/or items.
- Customise your prices while also generating detailed Reports for your project for both your own references as well as your client.
- Reports can be exported to Word or Excel, printed out on paper or as a PDF document.
COSTABILL: *Demo available.
Costabill is the innovative solution to cost bills of quantities online.
The software operates entirely online with a safe and secure login, 24/7!
Live pricing for all South African provinces, as well as Namibia, will ensure your rate build-ups to price a bill is accurate.
Features that will benefit you:
- Input quantities for rate build-ups with commonly used master bill descriptions.
- Print Preview allows you to export your costing to MS Excel to save or further edit your build-ups.
- Select your items from the Costabill database for the available trades with additional information.
- Different levels of functionality are in continual development, as well as the database content.
MERKELS:
Merkel's is the electronic textbook for building standards and methods for the 24 Bills of Quantities.
Up-to-date pricing for Gauteng, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal to ensure market relevance when working out your rate build-ups.
Labour and material costs provided.
Prices contained within Merkel's reflect list prices for both the tender and applicant.
Visit the Merkel's website for more information.
TRAINING:
We offer one on one training for Billcost (separate fee not included in purchase price of the software) and group session training at different time periods within the year for Merkel's (separate fee not included in purchase price of the software), based on demand.
Further information may be obtained by visiting our website.

