Excel Export
Sparkel's Excel export lets you take your verified quantity table out of the platform and into whatever downstream process you need — a cost model, a bid document, a bill of quantities, or a procurement schedule. The export is clean, structured, and ready to use without reformatting.
What the export contains
The Excel export includes:
Item names
Units of measurement
Quantities (calculated from linked elements or shapes)
Number of linked elements or shapes per item
Labels, if applied
Takeoff name and project name
The export does not include images, shapes drawings, or BIM viewer screenshots — it's a structured data table, not a visual report.
How to export
Navigate to the takeoff you want to export.
Click the Export button in the takeoff toolbar.
Select Excel as the export format.
The file downloads to your device.
You can export individual takeoffs or all takeoffs in a project depending on what you need.
Using the export in a cost model
The most common downstream use is pasting Sparkel quantities into a cost estimation spreadsheet. The item names and units from Sparkel map directly to line items in most cost models. If your cost model uses a specific naming convention, set up your Sparkel items with matching names before exporting — this eliminates the manual mapping step. See The Quantity Table for how to name and organise items.
Using the export in a bid document
For formal bid submissions, the export gives you a quantity schedule that can be formatted into a bill of quantities or inserted into a tender document. Add unit prices and totals in Excel to complete the cost breakdown. If you need to send quantities directly to suppliers instead of exporting, see Supplier Ordering.
Tips
Use labels in Sparkel to group items before exporting — you can then filter the Excel sheet by label to extract specific scopes.
If you're exporting quantities for multiple trades from the same project, export each takeoff separately to keep the sheets clean.
Dynamic quantity formulas in Sparkel are already calculated in the export — you get the final output value, not the formula itself.