| Addendum | A change to the bid package that the owner or the general contractor issues before the bid is due. Addenda are numbered from 1. |
| Admin dashboard | The part of the site where you work with CrestApps Estimator. Open it by adding /admin to the site's address. |
| Assembly | A reusable bill of items, such as a receptacle with its box, plate and cable. One count of the assembly gives every item with its quantity. |
| Bid bond | A guarantee that you will sign the contract at your bid price if you win. Some bids need one. |
| Bid calendar | The list of bids that you are still preparing, with the bid that is due next at the top. |
| Bid package | The documents you price a bid from: drawings, specifications, addenda, bid forms and the like. |
| Bid | The price you send for a project to one general contractor or owner. A project can have many bids. |
| Bid/no-bid checklist | The points you rate from 1 to 5 before you decide whether to bid. It gives a score from 0 to 100 and a recommendation. |
| Breakdown | How an estimate is split, such as by building, level, area, system or phase. Each part is a node, and a node can have nodes under it. |
| Burden | A cost added to a wage, such as payroll taxes (a percentage of the wage) or fringe benefits (an amount per hour). |
| Calibrate | To set the scale of a sheet by clicking the two ends of a known length and entering that length. A calibrated scale wins over the scale printed on the sheet. |
| Catalog | The items you estimate with, with their units, prices and labor units. |
| Composite rate | The cost of one labor hour of a crew: the loaded rates of its members, weighted by how many of each. |
| Crew | A mix of labor classifications that works together, such as one foreman, three journeymen and two apprentices. |
| Drop | The vertical part of a run, from the ceiling down to a device or panel, added to the length of the run. |
| E, C, M | Each, per hundred and per thousand: the quantity a price or a labor unit is for. 45.00 per C feet is 0.45 a foot. |
| EA, LF, SF | Each, linear feet and square feet: the units of counts, lengths and areas. |
| Estimate lead | The estimator who leads the bid of a project. |
| Estimate | The price of a project, built from lines. A project can have more than one, such as the base bid and an alternate. |
| Feature | A part of the product that an administrator turns on or off in Tools > Features. Its menus and screens appear only while it is on. |
| Formula | A calculation that gives a quantity, such as [Quantity] * [CableLength]. |
| General contractor | The company that builds the project and hires trade contractors, such as electrical contractors. |
| Job conditions | The answers about a job, such as ceiling height or schedule, that set its labor factors. |
| Labor factor | A multiplier of the labor hours for the conditions of a job, such as 1.10 for 10% more hours. |
| Labor unit | The hours to install a quantity of an item, in three columns: normal, difficult and very difficult. |
| Line factor | A labor factor of one line only, such as 1.25 for work above an open ceiling. It needs a reason. |
| Loaded rate | The cost of one hour of a classification: its wage plus every burden. |
| Location | The part of the building that a sheet shows, such as Level 2. Quantities are given per location. |
| Manual line | An estimate line that is not in the catalog, such as a permit or a lift rental, with its own unit cost and unit hours. |
| Mark | One count, run or area that you draw on a sheet in the takeoff viewer. |
| Parameter | A value the formulas of an assembly read, such as the cable length per device. |
| Prevailing wage | A wage rate that the government sets for a public job. A job with prevailing wages costs more labor. |
| Price file | A file of item prices that a distributor or a price service sends, as a spreadsheet or CSV file. |
| Price update | One import into the catalog, such as a price file. Its report compares its prices with the prices they replaced. |
| Pricing date | The day an estimate takes its prices from. Each item takes the price in effect on that day. |
| Project | A job that you bid on. It keeps the client, the site, the time zone and the team of the job. |
| Rate table | The wages of the labor classifications and the burdens added to them. |
| Recipe | A ready-made set of steps that sets up a site or turns on features. The Estimator recipe sets up a new CrestApps Estimator site. |
| Setup screen | The form a new site shows the first time someone visits it. You fill it in once to create the site. |
| Sheet | One page of a drawing set, with its own number, such as E-201. |
| Takeoff item | One thing you take off, such as Duplex receptacles, counted or measured with marks on the sheets. |
| Takeoff | Counting and measuring the quantities of the work on the drawings. |
| Team | The people who work on the estimate of a project, in addition to the estimate lead. |
| Title block | The box on a drawing sheet with its number, title, scale and revision. |
| Variant | A named set of parameter values of an assembly, such as Long runs. |
| Wizard | A screen that asks for information one step at a time, such as the New Bid wizard. |