About Countfire
Countfire is electrical estimating software that uses automation to help estimators work faster, cut busy work and increase accuracy.
Features include:
True automated takeoff across all drawings
Estimates that learn how you work
Intelligent pricing
Automated specification comparison
Smart views & reports
Flexibly slice your estimate
Automated Excel estimate outputs
Multiplayer mode
Cloud-based - no download required
Work anywhere - Mac or PC
Continually improved
World class support
14-day free trial
Trial Countfire for free today to begin smarter estimating.
Pricing starting from:
Not provided by vendor
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Key benefits of Countfire
Countfire allows you to auto-count symbols across multiple PDF drawings, drastically reducing takeoff time while increasing accuracy.
Tools such as linear measurement, coverage areas and the ability to add items to drawings allow you to design your estimate as you go.
Countfire includes four separate stages of checking built into the process of completing a project to help ensure accuracy.
Move your takeoff into estimate in one-click, and start with an auto-populated estimate based on previous behaviour and products.
Automatically see and compare changes between specifications. Helping you to revise your drawings and pricing schedules, without having to start from scratch.
At the end of each project, Countfire automatically generates an Excel spreadsheet which shows project breakdowns, takeoff counts and pricing estimates.
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
Not provided by vendor
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Countfire: 35
Alternatives
BuildingConnected
Autodesk Construction Cloud
SketchUp
AutoCAD
Reviews
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- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support Software
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Countfire - Pros and cond
Reviewed on 2018-11-19
Excellent, the online support is fantastic, as is the software. There have been some containment...
Excellent, the online support is fantastic, as is the software. There have been some containment drawings that I simply could not have lifted off with Pen and paper, but Countfire has made it possible and easy to review.
If in doubt do the trial on a big job and see how you get on!
Pros
Whats not to like? Not much. Its a fantastic tool for estimators, the more you use it the faster you get and the more confidence you gain.
Automatic counts - Brilliant
Manual Counts - When you cant use automatic counts this is still super fast compared to pen and paper
Measurements - Brilliant
Splits and multiples - essential and very helpfull
I have been using it for a year now and would recommend it to anyone involved in estimating or any other form of take offs.
Cons
Every now and again you get a bad drawing where all the symbols are slightly different and its a pain. Just use manual count and safe yourself a lot of frustration!
The cost is pretty high (but worth it in time saved) If I was self employed it could be out of price range.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support Software
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
An estimators dream
Reviewed on 2023-06-23
A company that provides a fully supported free trial of their software has confidence in its...
A company that provides a fully supported free trial of their software has confidence in its product. Safe to say that its not miss-placed confidence.
Pros
Intuitive, accurate, superb customer support, simple to use, fully formatted downloadable reports.
Cons
Hard to say what I like the least.............. That it wasn't available 30 years ago. :-)
Response from Countfire
Thanks for your great review Andrew!
It's great to hear that you find Countfire intuitive and simple to use.
It would have been great to be around 30 years ago so we could have been helping estimators increase their speed and accuracy for longer – if only we had a time machine 😄
You're right – we are confident that Countfire will help estimators speed up their takeoff and estimating process.
We also want our users to get the most out of the software, so we offer free full online training and live support to all of our users – from free trial through to our legacy customers, as we are consistently releasing new features.
- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Overall rating
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support Software
- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Neutral
Reviewed on 2017-11-01
When everything is peachy it works great and is fast.
When everything is peachy it works great and is fast.
Pros
When a pdf is is drawn properly it works great. Automatic counting etc. No I'm just trying to reach 100 characters
Cons
When a pdf is not drawn properly, i may as well count manually. Which is mostly the case.
Simple things could be added to improve experience, such as a plan multiplier for drawings that cover multiple levels.
- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support Software
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Integral Part of Our Business
Reviewed on 2023-02-08
Pros
Without the software we wouldn't be able to deliver the speed of work that we are able to do now
Cons
Sometimes the symbols don't import quite correctly, also doesn't like complex symbols exported from Autocad
Response from Countfire
Thanks so much Craig. Thrilled to hear Countfire has sped up what you're able to deliver!
With symbols not importing correctly, that's related to the information contained within PDFs and how it's made ready to work on within Countfire.
This is always a little tricky as PDFs can (and do!) contain virtually anything, however, we recently completed a major overhaul of this system and the results are significantly improved.
With complex symbols, that's related to how many parts each symbol is drawn with.
Again, it's a little tricky, because we don't have control over how these symbols are drawn originally, but there are a couple of tricks available to help!
The first is to use the in-app editor to simplify these complex symbols down to just the parts that matter – improving automatic counting in the process.
The second is to fire us a quick message in-app, we can take a look at your specific project and often make tweaks to improve things.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Overall rating
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support Software
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Kevin McCormack, FES
Reviewed on 2023-02-08
Pros
Countfire is easy to use and the customer service team ensure this is always the way. I like how the information is collated and keep things organised.
Cons
I dont like how you cannot quickly check quantities without processing the take off then downloading. If there was a quick check function then that would be a lot easier for things like sending my luminaire enquiries before i complete my take offs. I understand the risk with not having the checking function doing this but i would be happy to take the risk. Matching overlaid drawings with the zone function is a tedious task and i got excited when i saw the overlay function appear but this function isnt great so zoning remains my least favourite task.
Response from Countfire
Really appreciate the review Kevin.
It's great you find Countfire easy to use and our support team are always happy to help 😊
I see what you mean, it would be helpful to quickly check quantities in-app. There is a feature request for this, I have added your vote towards it and you will receive progress updates - so it's definitely on our radar!
The overlay function allows you to see different drawings on top of each other, which is helpful when you need to see how different services / disciplines interact - for example overlaying a containment drawing onto your power drawing to help you visualise containment routes.
To help you create zones across different drawings I'd recommend using our floorplan feature - this allows you to 'stitch' multiple drawings together to view the floor as a whole rather than as individual drawings.
I'll reach out directly to arrange a quick training session to run through our overlay, compare and floorplan features.
Countfire FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Countfire.Q. What type of pricing plans does Countfire offer?
Countfire offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from:
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Contact Countfire for detailed pricing information.
Q. Who are the typical users of Countfire?
Countfire has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Countfire support?
Countfire supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Countfire support mobile devices?
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Q. What other apps does Countfire integrate with?
Countfire integrates with the following applications:
Microsoft Excel
Q. What level of support does Countfire offer?
Countfire offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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