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Can we please come up with a way to invest money in ZZTakeoff while it's early in its life, so we can all become millionaires and retire?
134d 19h
Seriously! This is a grandslam software with grandslam people at the helm. Those that know, want in early, before you guys take this to the leve...
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Flip Page Arrow's Location
135d 6h
Could you make the arrows used to flip through plan pages moveable on the screen. We use that feature often and would prefer it on the top right c...
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Under Review
Decimals Adjustment
135d 10h
Hi All, I would like to apologise if the options discussed below are already available and I have simply overlooked them. My intention is not to ...
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Under Review
Align Overlay Message
135d 23h
Hello Team, When performing comparative overlays, by default we get the message "Would you like to align the overlay?" if you click "Yes" then we...
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Under Review
AI Feature Request - Smart Auto-Coding
136d 5h
When I do a takeoff, the software should auto-categorize items to the right WBS codes — both company and project-specific. If I draw a drywa...
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Under Review
Chat Feature for Project Users
136d 20h
Thinking about team collaboration at the project level. What are the thoughts about having a chat feature within each project so while multiple u...
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Planned
Cost Type dropdown list - Add Equipment Accessories
137d 3h
The request is to enhance the  Cost Type dropdown list  in the estimating system by: Adding a new entry  specifically for  Equipment Accessorie...
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Planned
The ability to import Folder names for a project
137d 7h
Most government contractors have to bid according to bid forms with hundreds of line items. We generally organize the bids with folders to match t...
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Color Randomizer for Wall Type coloring
137d 8h
I wish the color randomizer was better at not duplicating a color
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Planned
Sharing at Folder Level and/or Sharing Address Book
140d 2h
I think this might be a too-niche request but with the way my business functions, I have several clients that I'm estimating for. I don't want to ...
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Under Review
Perimeter length
141d 1h
When the takeoff is linear with depth or height and width to get a volume quantity, a perimeter length as a drop-down would be helpful. To calcu...
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The ability to manage your list of items in a spreadsheet view instead of one-by-one
141d 9h
Currently if I need to edit my items, I have to select each one individually and edit/save. If I could view them in a view similar to the batch i...
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Planned
Report Titles that carry over to Excel
142d 2h
Been using the export to Excel feature in the Reports tab, (love it!) and I would like to ask for the title of the report to be carried over with ...
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Add SmartSelect to mobile
142d 16h
Trying to extract text or copy text on a mobile phone to paste into excel. SmartSelect options would be way nice on a mobile device.
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Extract text, measurements, or details from drawings directly into a “Note Sheet.”
147d 3h
I’d like to request a feature that allows users to extract text, measurements, or details from drawings directly into a “Note Sheet.” While re...
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Count with specified distances
147d 20h
I'm doing a takeoff on a conceptual site plan where I began to put in column pads. Measuring the dimensions of typical column spacing manually was...
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SKU Organization on Items:
147d 21h
Hello I imported these all in a nice order, then zzTO decided to jumble them in the list. Ideas? IMPORT FILE, nice and numaric on the l...
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Collapsed folders by default and locked folders
147d 23h
Hi, * Could we have an option to automatically close all folders each time a page is opened or loaded? Of course, there is the option to c...
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(QoL) Copy Plan Page to another Project
149d 22h
Sounds a little weird, and you might wonder why I would need to copy a plan from one project to another. Well, sometimes I like to have a Detail ...
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Template Search Feature
150d 5h
Hello, When searching for takeoff items in the template it would be great if I could type in "09" for example and all the "09" folders show up...
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Planned