Product updates, new features, and improvements. Latest first.
Keegan runs through everything that shipped in July:
Send a quote as a secure link and your client opens it in their browser — no login, no PDF attachment chain. They see the quote and your terms and conditions, then accept or decline with a typed signature, and the decision lands straight back in TakeoffQS with any decline reason attached. Links expire on a schedule, you can resend or revoke at any time, and there’s only ever one live link per quote. Switch it on for your whole team from Account settings.
Not every job starts with a set of plans. Create a quote from scratch, search your pricebook and add priced items straight onto the sheet, and send it — no upload, no measuring. Plan-less quotes are proper jobs with their own status, so the small stuff sits alongside your takeoffs instead of living in a spreadsheet.
Sending a package out is only half the job — Quote Rooms handles what comes back. Invite several suppliers to price the same scope, track who’s responded, compare their numbers side by side against your pricebook, and award the work when you’re ready. Two-way comments keep the conversation on the job instead of buried in email, and after the award you can see how each supplier’s pricing actually stacked up.
Export the annotated plan as a PDF straight from the Measure screen — every wall, area and markup exactly as you measured it. Handy for site copies, supplier packs, and showing the builder exactly what was allowed for.
Scanned and photographed plan sets now read at full resolution, recovering roughly three times the text the old pipeline silently dropped. Partial reads get retried instead of trusted, and if a plan set looks commercial rather than residential, TakeoffQS flags it up front — before you’ve spent time pricing it.
A deep reliability pass across the app. Dozens of the slowest reads on the Measure and Materials screens were reworked, double-clicks and repeated submissions can no longer create duplicates, two people editing the same job can’t overwrite each other, and every table’s access rules were rebuilt and locked down. Nothing new to learn — everything just holds up better.
Build a package from the Materials page and send it to a supplier without leaving TakeoffQS. Suppliers get a secure link and notification, you get a sent-packages list showing exactly what went where. No more exporting, attaching, and hoping the right version landed.
Wall heights now resolve per wall type, wall widths snap to the NZ 90/140/190 catalog with a dropdown and a custom override for the odd ones, and per-width wall lengths are available as template variables. Framing inputs prefill from plan text, midfloor joists get total lineal metres, and a new Framing Logic tab lets you review it all on the same canvas you measured on.
Mass select, group drag, and bulk delete with undo for plan elements — fixing a busy page no longer means one click at a time. External walls moved to their own retrained detection model for better accuracy, and identical pages across plan revisions now skip re-extraction entirely.
A new export template builder lets you control exactly which columns and sections land in your XLSX. Plus an approved-measurements export button right on the Measure rail, and a clean raw-measurements CSV/Excel option when you just want the numbers.
A dedicated Materials step now sits between Measure and Pricing. Plan viewer on the left, products, formulas and quantities on the right. A visual formula editor shows exactly how every quantity is built, each line carries an honest quantity state so you know what’s measured vs assumed, and materials extracted from the plans are automatically grouped and matched against your pricebook — with a guided wizard for adding anything new to the BoQ or pricebook.
TakeoffQS now detects not-to-scale sheets, per-sheet scale drift, and plot-reduced prints — and verifies scale with a three-source dimension cross-check before you measure. One-click auto-calibration with draggable endpoints, a full calibration audit trail per sheet, and calibration that carries across plan revisions. Learned corrections mean the same drawing source gets it right first time, next time.
Stress-test a quote before it goes out. Run scenarios across markup and contingency, see sensitivity by BoQ section, and get a commercial risk view that pulls in unresolved clarifications and supplier quote status. A quote audit snapshot captures the evidence behind every approval.
Metric cards now flag statistical outliers and out-of-bounds values with warning badges, sanity bounds are tuned per building type, and a triaged plan-quality panel scores every plan set up front with inline fixes for the issues it finds. Plus a Wet/Dry toggle on internal walls that flows straight into wet-area metrics and pricing.
Build your own quote template and TakeoffQS renders a professional PDF that matches your brand — server-side, consistent every time. Quote lifecycle got smarter too: full history, one-click open PDF, and mark-as-sent tracking.
Hover over the plan and Smart Select picks up vector shapes straight off the drawing — walls, zones, whole rooms. It detects individual rooms on floor plans (with manual label editing when you want it), and a dedicated elevation mode recovers windows, doors and cladding cleanly. Per-room painting metrics now flow into the BoQ, wall and ceiling areas included.
Approve, unapprove, override a value, or approve a whole section — the UI responds instantly instead of blocking on the server. Long BoQ and Vault lists are virtualized so big jobs scroll smoothly.
Drop several PDFs or a single zip and TakeoffQS uploads them in parallel and merges them into one job. Job creation now captures country and building type up front, and if you’ve done a similar job before, TakeoffQS spots it and suggests reusing that takeoff as your starting point.
Every org now starts with default Balance of House and Prenail templates seeded and ready. Move templates between accounts with CSV import/export, configure your own pricebook categories, and export your whole org pricebook to CSV in one click.
A badge on What’s New tells you when there’s something new to read — like this list. Plus account settings reorganised into tabs so the option you need is easier to find.
Roofing gets its own workflow matrix. Barge and spouting ship as standalone lineal-metre lines, downpipe lengths are measured off elevation drawings, and per-account accessories and fixings uplifts mean the extras are priced your way. Cladding steps are stripped out of the roofing path — roofers see roofing.
Concrete volume is now computed by component summation, automated rib detection is back with editable widths and depths, and internal beams are differentiated 300 vs 400mm. Rebar lines are managed by bar type, and plan sets with both architectural and structural foundation pages now prefer the structural one automatically.
Pop the PDF reference view into its own window and keep measuring in the main one. Split view is now a continuous multi-page viewer, custom drawing scales are supported, and canvas panning always keeps the page edge reachable.
Pin notes to specific plan pages and dictate them — TakeoffQS transcribes as you talk. Everything rolls up into a Clarifications Sheet so your questions for the builder land in one place, and the notes launcher lives right in the measure toolbar.
Approve or skip detections without touching the mouse and walk across pages as you go. Every Measure shortcut is rebindable per user, hovering any metric shows exactly how it was calculated, and clicking a wall segment drops a new vertex right where you need it. Sanity-bounds warnings flag implausible wall heights before they slip through.
Quotes now carry a proper commercial layer — add markup and contingency on top of the priced takeoff. And the hard pricing-readiness gate is now advisory: you decide when a job is ready to price.
Preload a template with your items and linked materials, and your balance of house takeoff fills in as you measure. Wall heights now read straight from cross sections, bracing widths from the bracing plan, foundation perimeters and soffits are measured automatically, and cladding gets smarter — auto-deducting doors and windows, suggesting cladding type and material, and catching hidden insets the elevations miss. Less manual tracing, more ready to review.
TakeoffQS now runs on Google Cloud Platform. The move brings faster extraction across the board, lower latency on bigger plan sets and more headroom to scale when the whole team is hammering through end-of-month quotes. GPU-backed inference sits closer to our models, regional infrastructure in Sydney keeps your data inside Australasia, and improved redundancy means less downtime during busy periods.
Four new annotation types this month — external doors and external sliding doors on floor plans, soffits and strip bracing on roof plans. Plus a new approve-all button that bulk-approves catchments, internal walls and other annotations when the model gets them right first time. Big time savings on balance of house and pre-nail.
Choose which detection models to include in your takeoff. Toggle off models you don’t need — like Catchments or Soffits — and focus only on what matters for the job. Toggled-off models are hidden, not deleted, so you can always bring them back.
TakeoffQS now handles multi-unit residential projects. AI-assisted unit detection identifies individual units automatically, exports and quotes are unit-aware with per-unit line items, and cross-validation runs at the unit level so discrepancies are caught where they matter.
A new “Approve All Metrics” button lets you sign off on an entire page of detections in one click — no more approving each metric individually.
The pricing page has been rebuilt for speed and reliability. A new save status indicator shows you exactly when changes are being saved, and price books are now easier to manage and apply across jobs.
Soffits are now automatically detected and measured as part of the roof workflow — one less thing to measure manually in your takeoff.
Scale detection is now more accurate with positional scoring and confidence levels. You can see exactly where the scale was read from, and a new re-detect button lets you trigger a fresh scan if something looks off. Clickable page numbers in the scale consistency banner take you straight to the page that needs attention.
Cross-validation now shows comparative counts directly in the metrics sidebar, making it easier to spot mismatches between floor plans and elevations at a glance. Facade row navigation in the discrepancy banner takes you straight to the issue.
A new page pairing panel lets you link elevation pages to their corresponding floor plans. This improves cross-validation accuracy and makes multi-page plan sets easier to work with.
PDF processing is now faster with dynamic concurrency that adapts to your plan size. A new progress banner keeps you informed during extraction with per-page reporting, and progress survives page reloads so you never lose track of where things are at.
Improved the accuracy of AI-powered detection by optimising how plan images are prepared before analysis. Wall widths, valleys, and gable ends are now identified more reliably across all plan scales and layouts.
Approval progress is now tracked sequentially across all annotation types, giving you a clear picture of what still needs sign-off before a prenail job is ready to quote.
The prenail workflow now automatically reads wall widths from your floor plans and measures internal wall lengths — eliminating manual entry for two of the most time-consuming inputs in a prenail takeoff.
Send quotes directly to clients from TakeoffQS — a professional PDF is automatically generated and attached, ready for your client to review.
Prenail annotations now automatically identify gable ends and valley segments — including fall direction — giving you accurate lengths and orientations without manual measuring.
Create new revisions of any quote and compare them side-by-side with full version history. A built-in diff view shows exactly what changed between revisions so nothing gets lost across client negotiations.
A new Concept Drawings job type handles early-stage plan sets with automated AI classification. Elevation measurements are now also included in Excel and CSV exports for a more complete takeoff record.
Added Gable Bracing, Ceiling Battens, Soffits, and Capping Plates subtabs to the Prenail workflow, covering more of the materials you need to quantify in a single pass.
Quotes now move through a defined lifecycle: Draft → Submitted → Approved → Archived, with timestamps and a full audit log. The Quote Editor also gains undo/redo (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y) and a one-click PDF export.
Redesigned the dashboard into an action-focused workflow view to help you move work forward faster.
Resolved an issue where wall length metrics would occasionally not display during specific annotation workflows.
Improved accuracy with more precise rib segment extraction for better foundation takeoffs.
Added QS Details fields to the initial job upload form to capture key project info from the very start.
Added horizontal auto-scaling to automatically handle varying plan sizes and layouts.
Updated approval buttons to remain inactive until the scale is confirmed, preventing accidental measurements.
Consolidated pricing export actions into a single dropdown to reduce clutter and speed up your quoting process.
You can now manually adjust labour hours within the Pricing module for highly accurate, custom estimates.
The PDF upload area is now always visible with guided interactions to make starting a new job clearer and faster.
Added scroll debouncing in Split View to make navigating large plans smoother and more responsive.
Enhanced roof plan processing to automatically identify and capture downpipe locations for more detailed takeoffs.
Added a new notification badge on the Jobs tab so you are immediately alerted when new plans arrive via email.
Added quote due date tracking with visual indicators to help you prioritise work and stay on schedule.
Improved rate and quantity input fields to reduce manual entry errors and make editing faster.
Resolved an issue where Split View would occasionally show empty placeholders, ensuring your plan images always load instantly.
Enhanced automated rib detection to support multiple foundation perimeters on a single page.
You can now customise your project exports! Add your own business branding to all exported files for a professional, client-ready look.
We’ve added official GST calculations to ensure all your invoicing and material exports are tax-compliant.
Our improved AI now automatically detects the scale of your PDF drawings, significantly reducing manual setup time.
We’ve decluttered the “Extraction” page. Use collapsible cards to focus on one task at a time and keep your workspace tidy.
Sign up and log in instantly. We now support Single Sign-On (SSO) via Google and Microsoft for a faster, more secure experience.
A new step-by-step process for prenail annotations helps ensure you never miss a detail.
You can now manually adjust wall heights within specific sections for more precise material estimates.
A brand new “Painting” job type is live, featuring high-accuracy DPI calculations tailored for painting contractors.
Enhanced tools for foundation jobs, including automated detection for ribs and improved rendering.
Updated UI colors and smarter color-coding make it easier to distinguish between different measurement types at a glance.
Found a bug or have a suggestion? Use the new integrated feedback tool (Marker.io) to talk to us directly from the app.
New self-service tools for email verification and account management are now available in your settings.
No more daily logins — the new “Remember Me” option keeps you authenticated and ready to work.
Speed: Significant boosts to PDF extraction and page load times. Stability: Moved to high-performance storage to ensure the app remains fast and reliable during peak usage.
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