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What's New in BuzzBID - Bandit Release

Explore the new features and improvements included in the BuzzBID Bandit release. The videos are organized by category so you can quickly find the tools and workflows that matter to you.

Watch the complete Bandit release

Watch the full Bandit release from start to finish, or browse the categorized clips below for convenience and jump directly to the topics that matter to you.

Bandit Release Features by Topic

Release Overview

A quick introduction to the Bandit release and the database-management improvements that frame this update.

Intro

Introduces the Bandit release

Database, Security & Projects

Organize separate bidding databases, archive and restore completed projects, understand automatic logout behavior, and use updated project-list tools.

Multiple Databases

Demonstrates creating, adding, removing, and switching between bidding databases while retaining master tables.

Archiving and Restoring Projects

Shows how to archive completed projects locally or to cloud storage, restore archived projects, and archive several projects together.

Automatic Logout

Explains the new after-hours automatic logout rules and when users must re-enter their password.

Project Updates

Shows the added bid-date status, estimator display, bid-date navigation, and project-number search on the Projects tab.

Plan Sets, Printing & Overlays

Review improvements to plan revisions, page loading and naming, page-number masking, printing, and overlay comparison and alignment.

Plan Sets and Revision Organization

Explains how current and historical plan sets are organized and when to use Add Revisions versus Add Plan Set.

Changes With How Plans Are Loaded

Demonstrates the revised plan-loading workflow, automatic page naming, and ways to correct pages that were not named successfully.

Page Number Masking

Shows how masking isolates the page-number area so automatic renaming ignores unwanted title-block text.

Plan Printing Improvements

Demonstrates printing only selected assemblies and choosing the correct named sheet size for scaled output.

Overlay Comparison Controls

Shows how to hide matching overlay content, reveal drawing differences, and move through an overlay series.

Overlay Resizing

Demonstrates manually resizing an overlay and using computer vision to align two differently scaled drawings.

Takeoff & Annotations

Explore callout annotations, copying takeoff between floors, and computer-vision tools for ceilings, curved walls, and bulkheads.

Callout Box Annotations

Introduces callout boxes and explains that annotated pages are included when printing pages with takeoff.

Copying Takeoff Between Floors

Shows how a copied floor takeoff pastes into the same location on the next floor.

Sheetrock Ceiling Recognition

Demonstrates the expanded computer-vision double-click takeoff for sheetrock ceiling patterns.

Curved Wall Auto Takeoff

Shows how match lines and computer vision help limit and capture curved wall or bulkhead takeoff.

Automatic Ceiling Cutouts

Demonstrates taking off acoustical ceilings first so the surrounding drywall ceiling automatically excludes them.

Circular Bulkhead Takeoff

Shows improved recognition and takeoff of circular ceiling drops and bulkheads.

Plan History & Takeoff Controls

See bid-specific plan history plus controls for segment rounding, curves and circles, door deductions and orientation, and automatic wall-tag counts.

Plan History by Bid Version

Explains how each bid iteration displays the plan set that was current when that bid was created.

Linear Segment Rounding

Demonstrates rounding each linear segment to a specified length and explains when that setting carries forward.

Linear Curve and Circle Controls

Shows how dragging linear control points with Shift changes a line into a curve or complete circle.

Door Frame Quantity Deductions

Explains when a door frame subtracts square footage, linear footage, or both from a wall.

Flip Door Orientation

Shows how to flip a door from one side of a connected linear to the other.

Automatic Wall Tag Counting

Demonstrates counting every wall tag on a page and reviewing the automatically created assemblies.

Assemblies & Labor

Learn about new count shapes, assembly-detail tools, section markups, flexible labor pricing, crew wages, and targeted production adjustments.

New Count Assembly Shapes

Introduces diamond, hexagon, and plus-symbol takeoff shapes for count-type assemblies.

Reset Assembly Detail Columns

Shows how the Reset button restores assembly-detail columns to their default widths.

Section Markup Totals

Shows how to open an assembly's section total and review labor, material, overhead, and marked-up pricing.

Flexible Labor Pricing

Explains how labor can be priced by material size, piece, package, or unit of measure.

Vertical Spacing for Count Items

Demonstrates changing vertical spacing in count-item formulas to calculate quantities such as screws.

Color-Coded Assembly Details

Introduces color-coded assembly-detail columns for editable values, variations, and cost fields.

Assembly Crew Wage Details

Shows regular-time, overtime, double-time, burden percentage, and daily wage totals on the Assembly Crew tab.

Labor Update Dates

Shows how to view the most recent labor-price update date for a bid line item.

Selective Labor Production Adjustments

Demonstrates changing production rates for only selected material sizes or assembly items.

Material Pricing & Suppliers

Update bid and master material prices, request or re-enter supplier quotes, manage inactive suppliers, and correct accepted quote prices.

Refresh Bid Material Prices

Shows how to update an older bid with the latest material prices from the master items.

Update Master Prices from Vendor Quotes

Explains how to request targeted supplier pricing and apply accepted prices to the master database.

Manual Pricing and Resent Quotes

Shows how to enter supplier prices manually and resend an unanswered or outdated quote request.

Inactive Supplier Management

Explains how to hide obsolete suppliers from selection lists while retaining them in historical bids.

Quote Price Overrides

Shows how to replace an incorrect accepted quote price and identify the value as manually edited.

Bid Recap & Costing

Review the reorganized bid recap, section-deletion safeguards, additional costs and per diem options, and imported-calculation warnings.

Reorganized Bid Recap Markups

Explains the new bid-recap markup groups and how labor and cost totals align across related views.

Delete a Bid Section

Shows how to remove an entire specification section and explains the backup precautions and warnings.

Additional Cost and Per Diem Options

Introduces new labor-based additional-cost methods and configurable per diem categories.

Imported Bid Calculation Warnings

Explains the warning triangles that appear when imported bid calculations differ from local defaults.

Reports & Exports

Explore report filters, bid-total views, cost presentation options, labor and productivity reports, typical-unit reports, and CSV exports.

Report Filters

Shows how project-total reports can be filtered by specification section and location.

Bid Totals by Section or Line Item

Demonstrates bid totals grouped by specification section or line item with separate assembly and general-condition totals.

Blend General Conditions

Shows how general-condition costs can be blended into assembly unit prices by specification section.

Break Out Overhead and Profit

Demonstrates displaying change-order cost separately from overhead and profit.

Section Totals and Active Alternates

Explains summary and detail views for section totals across the base bid and active alternates.

Crew Wage and Productivity Reports

Compares wage-adjusted and productivity-adjusted crew reports while preserving the total labor cost.

Multi-Count Unit Reports

Shows typical-unit quantities by floor, single-unit labor and material requirements, and the complete selling price for one unit.

Labor Review Support Hours

Explains how Labor Review now includes additional support hours such as stocking, cleanup, and supervision.

Labor Review Production Averages

Shows average production rates for labor activities when the report is grouped by accounting code.

CSV Export Organization

Shows the new accounting and CSV export groups for bid totals, labor, and material data.

Final Tools & Release Wrap-Up

Create reusable bid-proposal templates and review workplace tracking updates, the upcoming field version, and the planned release schedule.

Bid Proposal Templates

Demonstrates creating and selecting reusable Word templates for customized bid proposals.

Workplace Tracking and Release Wrap-Up

Covers consolidated cost codes, combined change-order progress, the upcoming field version, and the planned release schedule.

Tip: Use the category links at the top of the article to move quickly between related feature groups.