With Ewing’s proprietary commercial services site, contractors can submit their projects via a portal. The customer is able to input whatever job name they prefer, and an internal Ewing project number is simultaneously created for tracking the project.
The project then goes to Evan’s production team, who reviews it and hits a “Send to STACK” button, after which the PDF plans are sent directly to STACK, using the Ewing project number as well as the customer’s preferred job name.
Evan’s team then goes deeper, looking at what needs to be counted in the plans, and enters the items into their interactive materials database. Once that is complete, they hit another “STACK It” button, which then sends all the data directly to STACK via the integration.
When the estimating team, which is spread across Ewing’s national regions as well as abroad, is ready to perform the takeoff on a project, all of the information is already within the STACK platform, organized and prepared for them.
STACK built custom categories for Ewing, making the takeoff process even simpler. It’s easy to see directly in the sidebar of STACK exactly which materials need to be counted, so the estimators can get right to work. Once they’re finished, they hit “STACK It” again, the two systems communicate with each other, and all the quantities they’ve counted are then brought back into the interactive materials list, where Evan’s team exports the materials and counts into their quoting software. They then put the final touches on the estimate and send it off to the customer.
Evan says the process is instantaneous and smooth and removes all of the rework from Ewing’s workflow.