Glass quoting software is bought by a glazing contractor who quotes shower enclosures, storefronts, mirrors and replacement units and knows that the price is in the specification: thickness, tempered or laminated, low-e or clear, edgework, holes and notches, and the hardware. Glass quote software takes the opening's dimensions into square feet by type at the fabricator's sheet, counts the edgework and the holes as fabrication charges, the hardware and the channel by the piece, the install hours at a loaded rate, then the overhead and the markup. The estimate template on this site works the price from those quantities and prints the lines the quote carries.
Specify before you price
The same opening quotes at very different prices depending on the glass: thickness, tempered or laminated, tinted, low-e, patterned, and the fabrication the design asks for, polished edges, holes for hinges, notches for hardware. Glass quoting software that starts from the specification and prices the square feet by type at the fabricator's current sheet, with the fabrication charges as lines, produces a quote the fabricator will honor; a price per square foot from memory does not.
Hardware, channel and the install hours
Hinges, clamps, handles, header and channel are pieces at the supplier's price; sealant and shims are consumables; the install hours come from the company's own record for that kind of unit, a frameless shower or a storefront lite, with the hours for the template visit and the delivery. Price the hours at a loaded rate that carries insurance and the truck, and put the crane or the lift for a large lite in as equipment by the day.
Lead times and the quote's validity
Fabricated glass has a lead time and a price that follows the fabricator's sheet, so the quote carries a delivery estimate and a date the price holds until. Pro on this site keeps every estimate against the customer and the job with the specification it was priced from, so a change to the thickness or the hardware is a change to a line rather than a fresh quote, and the hours estimated can be read against the hours the install took.
Questions people ask about glass quoting software
How is glass priced?
By the square foot at the fabricator's sheet for that thickness and type, plus fabrication charges for edgework, holes and notches, plus hardware and channel by the piece, plus install hours at a loaded rate, overhead and markup.
Can glass quote software quote a shower enclosure on site?
If it carries the company's fabricator prices and install hours; the template visit still decides the final dimensions, and the quote should say the price is subject to it.
Why does the quote need a validity date?
Because fabricated glass is priced from a sheet that changes and carries a lead time; the date protects the company from a customer signing after the sheet has moved.