From a few hours to twenty minutes a valuation

CompanyMD & Audrey Properties Based inLondon The workHome extensions and renovations Job sizeUp to £300,000 BeforeExcel, a few hours a valuation NowAbout twenty minutes

The old way

Every month started with a spreadsheet: last month’s valuation, or the cost plan. He opened the file, worked down the items, checked what had been done on site, then rebuilt the next valuation line by line: quantities, variations, retention, the advance. Then the payment application, then the documents out, then the certificate, the payment and the dates, each watched separately.

“The worst part was checking everything by hand and comparing one valuation against the last. With a lot of items it was easy to miss something, and just proving the numbers agreed took most of the time.”

Founder, MD & Audrey Properties

The moment it clicked

It was not a feature list that convinced him, it was the first five minutes. He dropped his own spreadsheet in, unchanged.

“QScope worked out the structure of the sheet by itself. I had not prepared the file to any template. That was when I saw it could actually fit the way I work.”

Founder, MD & Audrey Properties

That is the import doing what it was built for: it reads the workbook as it is, finds the header row and the columns for itself, and anything it sets aside is listed with a reason, never dropped quietly.

Illustration of the screen, not his project data.

What changed

A valuation on a job up to £300,000 now takes him up to twenty minutes, depending on the number of items. The hours did not go into typing, and they did not come back from typing: they came back from the checking.

“It is easier to see what has moved on each item and on the variations between one valuation and the next. Before, I checked that by hand, and on a big file there was always a chance something slipped past.”

Founder, MD & Audrey Properties

Each line carries where it stood last time, so the comparison he used to rebuild by hand is what the screen opens on.

Illustration of the screen, not his project data. The jobExtensions up to £300,000 BeforeA few hours in Excel, every month NowAbout twenty minutes a valuation Trial30 days, no card

One place instead of five files

The part of the old way nobody counts is the watching: the application in one file, the certificate in another, the payment date in a calendar, the retention in someone’s head. In QScope they run from the same figures, so when the valuation is done, the application, the certificate and the dates are already agreeing with each other, because they never had a chance to drift apart.

Illustration of the screen, not his project data.

What was hard

We asked, because a switch that sounds free is a switch nobody believes.

“Getting used to a different way of working. I spent years in Excel and I knew exactly where everything was. At the start you have to understand how QScope organises the same information.”

Founder, MD & Audrey Properties

Run your next valuation the same way

“QScope takes a lot of the manual work out of valuations and gives me better control over what is happening to the money on the project.”

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