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4a. Estimates & Generating a Proposal

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Written by Gio Rietti

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--- CLIP 1: Estimates & Generating a Proposal ---

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All right, so now we have officially written the first estimate and we are ready to convert this into a proposal

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All right. This is the most exciting step

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This is where you see it all come together and you really get to customize it to your photos and company and branding

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All right, so we have our some line items here. We have demo and prep. We have install pavers

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This total proposals at fifteen thousand dollars right now if I click on this arrow right here

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I can see the total profit and different settings how many days all of those different numbers

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You also have an option for sales tax if you need

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Commission that type of stuff and once you're happy with the estimate you just click right here on view and send proposal

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And this is going to generate the payment terms

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All right, so this is gonna be the default template that's set up you can edit this template

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However, you need change any of these percentages delete any of these and then once you're done just click on this save as default button

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Right here. All right

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you can also create multiple templates if you add another template and you could have like a

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50-50 template and this template or however, you want to set it up

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All right, when you're ready, you just click Save and this will generate your proposal

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So you're gonna land right here. You can

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zoom in and out on this with your zoom if you want to and

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You'll be able to go through the proposal document

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So as you can see, it's a very professional cover page. This is gonna have your logo this default image

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It's gonna have the customer name and address and your company information

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If you guys would like to edit this photo

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Go ahead and click on this pencil icon right here on the left side next to cover page

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So just click right on that can upload a photo here

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Additionally, the next page is about us. So it'll have some text about your company and

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You'll have a placeholder here where you can add a photo. So same thing here

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You're just going to click this pencil icon. You can edit the text and you can upload a photo here

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Right, so feel free to make any adjustments as you'd like

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you can also turn off this page if you don't want to show it and

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Same thing here goes with past projects

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As we scroll down further you're gonna see the scope of work as you can see demo and prep the price what they're getting

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The pavers the price and the whole description

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This was automatically written from the template if you guys need to make any edits to these descriptions here

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you're gonna click back on this back button and

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Then you're going to open up the other options here

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So you're gonna click on the edit button and then you're going to click on the edit button

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On this back button and

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Then you're going to open up the item and go to the client description to make any changes

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You can click this edit button right here. It'll give you two options

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Typically, you'll use this top top option here

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It'll turn these into tags and that's because this is automatically pulling in this number here

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So once you're done making any edits, then you just click that preview button again

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And it'll go back to what it's gonna look like for the client

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If you choose the other option of editing it's going to remove those tags

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So now if I change this square footage, it's not going to update automatically here

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All right, so that's the description when you're one other thing

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We'll note while we're here is that

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