Door and hardware estimating software for door suppliers, installers and general contractors. Openings taken from the door schedule and reconciled against the plans, doors and frames priced by type and rating, and hardware priced by set — with schedule-versus-plan conflicts flagged before they become site problems.
Doors and hardware is the one package where the quantity is written down for you. The door schedule lists every opening with its number, size, material, type, rating, frame and hardware set. It should be the easiest takeoff in the building. In practice it is one of the most error-prone, because the schedule and the floor plans disagree on almost every project — an opening exists on the plan but not the schedule, a schedule row references a hardware set that was deleted two addenda ago, or a rated corridor has doors listed with no rating at all.
BidcoreAI reads the door schedule as structured data and reconciles it against the openings counted on the plans. Every mismatch is reported: openings on the plan with no schedule row, schedule rows with no opening, size and swing conflicts, and rated wall types with unrated doors in them. Each of those is either a takeoff correction or an RFI, and both are worth having before the bid rather than after award.
Pricing follows the schedule structure. Doors are priced by material, type, size, core, finish and rating — hollow metal, wood veneer, aluminium, glass, coiling, lead-lined. Frames are priced by material, profile, throat depth, anchor type and the wall condition they sit in. Hardware is priced by set, with the hardware schedule read set by set, rather than by an average hardware allowance per opening that is inevitably too high on the storerooms and too low on the exits.
The scope that surrounds an opening is carried too: access control interfaces and electrified hardware coordination, the framing and backing an opening requires, fire and smoke rating implications, and the installation labor, which varies substantially between a hollow metal frame set in masonry and a knock-down frame in an existing stud wall.
Door schedule, hardware schedule, floor plans, wall types and the Division 08 specification.
Counted from the schedule and from the plans, then reconciled against each other.
Priced by material, type and rating rather than as a single average per leaf.
By material, profile and the wall condition they are installed in.
Priced set by set from the hardware schedule, not as an allowance per opening.
The access control interface, and the coordination scope that comes with it.
Labor by frame type and wall condition, which vary more than the material does.
Schedule reading, plan reconciliation and set-level hardware pricing.
The schedule is read as structured data — number, size, material, rating, frame and hardware set on every row.
Openings counted on the plans are matched against schedule rows and every mismatch is reported as a correction or an RFI.
Door ratings checked against the rated wall types they sit in, which is the most common and most expensive schedule error.
Hardware priced set by set from the hardware schedule rather than as an average allowance per opening.
Material, core, finish, vision lites and specialty types priced individually rather than averaged into one leaf price.
Frame anchors and installation labor driven by the wall type each frame sits in — masonry, stud, existing.
Electrified hardware flagged with its power, pathway and access-control interfaces, along with who is carrying them.
A re-issued schedule is compared against the previous one, so changed sets and added openings are flagged automatically.
Setting and hanging productivity by frame type and wall condition, from your own history.
A schedule-format export listing every opening with its door, frame, hardware set and price.
Keying scope, cylinders and core type carried as their own line rather than assumed inside the hardware set.
The complete openings schedule exported to Excel or CSV for the supplier, the submittal and the estimate.
Division 08, with the access control interface kept visible rather than assumed.
Healthcare, education, hospitality and commercial fit-outs — where the door schedule runs to hundreds of rows.
Read the schedule, count the plans, then argue with the difference.
The disagreement between the schedule and the plans becomes a document instead of a surprise.
Every project has openings the schedule missed. Finding them at bid time makes them an RFI; finding them later makes them a change order in someone else's favour.
Cross-checking door ratings against rated wall types catches the error that is cheapest to fix on paper and most expensive to fix after installation.
An average allowance per opening is too high on storerooms and too low on exits. Set-level pricing removes both errors at once.
A welded frame in masonry and a knock-down in an existing stud wall are different jobs. Frame condition drives the labor rather than a single per-opening rate.
Flagging electrified hardware with its power and pathway interfaces settles who is carrying what before the coordination meeting does it for you.
An opening-by-opening schedule serves the estimate, the supplier quote and the submittal without being rebuilt each time.
Because the schedule is data, and it should be treated as data.
Every row parsed into its fields rather than eyeballed, so nothing is skipped in a 300-row schedule at midnight.
Two independent counts compared, with the differences reported instead of quietly resolved by whichever one you looked at last.
Priced from the hardware schedule set by set, with keying and cylinders carried separately.
Door ratings verified against the rated wall types they sit in, catching the error nobody wants to find on site.
Measure, reconcile and price from anywhere, with no workstation licence.
Openings packages can be measured for you through professional takeoff services.
Send the plans and the door and hardware schedules and have the package reconciled and priced for you — every opening matched between schedule and plan, conflicts listed, doors and frames priced by type, and hardware priced set by set.
One platform, one cost database, one set of drawings — whichever scope you are pricing today.
Bring a schedule and a floor plan. The interesting part is how many openings do not appear on both.
