What's new in Contractor Essentials

Compatible with versions 9.3 and 9.4 of ProPricer Contractor Edition Enterprise and Government Edition

New features and enhancements

Fast subscription cancellation

If you have to cancel your Contractor Essentials subscription or remove seats from your plan, there's no need to contact us directly. Now you can handle cancellations yourself from within the application.

Compatible with versions 9.3 and 9.4 of ProPricer Contractor Edition Enterprise and Government Edition

Fixes

• A vague error message no longer appears in the Estimate List when an invalid date is entered in a custom resource field. The message now clearly states the error.
• A dollar sign is no longer missing from the Cost, Direct Cost, and Total Price values in the Pivot Grid.

Compatible with versions 9.3 and 9.4 of ProPricer Contractor Edition Enterprise and Government Edition

New features and enhancements

Rate escalation sets

Escalation sets make it easy to set up direct rates and travel rates that regularly change over time. In direct and travel rate tables, you can automatically generate escalating rates within a specific period for resources or travel expenses instead of entering all the rates separately.

Restore more ProPricer proposals

The Restore feature now works with government and contractor proposal archives exported from ProPricer 9.3 and 9.4. This excludes proposal archives that contain data unsupported in Contractor Essentials, such as materials, CERs, and rate bands.

Add new proposals faster

Fewer clicks are needed to add a new proposal on the Proposals page. If you haven't created any proposal templates, clicking the Add Proposal button immediately starts the creation and setup process. If you do have templates and want to use one, you can select it from the menu after clicking the button.

Getting Started video tutorial

A video-based tutorial is available here on the ProPricer Help website. If you're new to Contractor Essentials, watch the videos and follow along with the exercises to learn the basics of getting started.

Fixes

• In travel rates tables with a timescale, weekly and monthly rental car expenses appear separately when their rates are enabled.
• In travel estimates, the Trip Distribution tab displays the correct spread curve name being used.
• The Estimates tab of role permissions no longer leaves the (All) checkbox cleared when all permissions are selected in a column.

Compatible with versions 9.3 and 9.4 of ProPricer Contractor Edition Enterprise and Government Edition

Fixes

• To be compliant with the latest cybersecurity standards, the Contractor website now issues the following HTTP response headers:

  • Strict-Transport-Security

  • Content-Security-Policy

  • X-Frame-Options

  • X-Content-Type-Options

  • Referrer-Policy

  • Permissions-Policy

Compatible with versions 9.3 and 9.4 of ProPricer Contractor Edition Enterprise and Government Edition

New features and enhancements

User interface improvements

Changes have been made to improve the overall visibility of information and use of space in the user interface.

Accounting calendar decimal precision

If you need more precise accounting hours for resources, adjust the new Decimal Precision system setting. You can have up to six decimal places in the hours you enter in accounting calendars.

Location setting for proposals

A new proposal setting is available on the Properties tab to help you organize everything by location. In your list of proposals, you can then group, sort, or filter using the Location column.

Fixes

• Global custom resource fields in the library now have a maximum character length of 40.
• While hovering over a resource or trip header in the estimates grid, the tooltip no longer omits custom resource fields with the Date data type.
• In a proposal's list of custom task fields, the sort order is correctly indicated for fields with the Date data type.
• In travel estimates, the Profit/Fee column of the Trip Costs tab is no longer disabled.
• Year columns for trips no longer appear incorrectly due to grid display settings being stored locally.
• The dollar sign is no longer missing from travel estimates shown in the grid.