Know Your Margin
Before the Dirt Moves.
Bidding and job costing software built for excavation, grading, and underground utility contractors.
Stop finding out you lost money after the job is done. ProfitDig lets you bid by the cubic yard and linear foot, track real costs against budget in real time, and know your numbers before the first bucket moves.
30-day money-back guarantee. Credit card required.
How It Works
From your first number to the final invoice, ProfitDig keeps you in control the whole way.
Build your bid
Add line items by the cubic yard, linear foot, or unit. Your saved cost library fills in the numbers automatically.
Price it to win
Overhead, profit margin, tax, and bond are all calculated automatically. Know your number before the bid goes out.
Track every dollar in real time
As costs come in from the field, see exactly where you stand against budget. Job by job, line item by line item.
Ready to know your margin before the dirt moves?
Start building bids in ProfitDig today. 30-day money-back guarantee. Cancel anytime.
Start Risk-FreeStop rebuilding your grading & utility bid items every time.
Create, organize, and reuse your bid items and headers. Build a master database of your erosion control, grading, and underground utility items that speeds up every future proposal you create.
- Standardize your bidding language
- Quickly search and insert items
- Eliminate repetitive manual entry
- Bulk import your existing library from a spreadsheet
Bid Items & Headers
Files
Measure your quantities straight from the plan. No manual scaling.
Upload the plan PDF, draw shapes over the areas and pipe runs you need to bid, and let ProfitDig do the math. Your measured quantities drop straight into the bid.
- Upload any plan PDF directly in the app
- Draw polygons for area, lines for pipe and conduit runs
- Export measured quantities straight to your bid
Materials
Group your pipe, aggregate, and erosion control materials once. Drop them into any bid.
Stop adding materials one by one. Group related materials together once, then drop the entire bundle into any line item. You save time and reduce the chance of missing something.
Any member can be promoted. Not tied to employee classification.
Build your crews once. Swap people and equipment on the fly.
Name your crews, assign employees and machines, and promote any member to acting foreman. When your roster changes mid-job, update it in seconds. Every cost change flows straight to your job report.
- Named crews with full equipment rosters
- Promote any employee to acting foreman
- Crew changes flow to job cost reports automatically
Quote excavation and underground utility work in minutes, not all weekend.
Stop reinventing the wheel for every proposal. Clone previous successful bids, use your saved item database, and generate professional PDFs instantly.
- Instant markup calculations
- One-click PDF generation
Line Item Breakdown: 2001 | Grading & Excavation
Cost breakdown by material, labor, equipment, and other types
Profit Margin
12.00%
Overhead Rate
10.00%
Tax Rate
8.25%
Bond Rate
1.50%
| Equipment | Employees | Materials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | $8,240 | $5,690 | $1,050 |
| Profit | $989 | $683 | $126 |
| Overhead | $824 | $569 | $105 |
See where every dollar goes before the bid goes out.
Drill into any line item and see the exact split between equipment, labor, materials, and subs. Profit, overhead, tax, and bond are each broken out separately. No surprises after the job starts.
- Profit & overhead broken out per line item
- Equipment, labor, materials & subs at a glance
- Know your cost mix before you commit to a number
Keep a daily record of every job, every day.
Field and office teams log what happened on site each day. Record work performed, weather conditions, safety notes, visitors, and photos. Lock the entry when the day wraps, collect crew sign-offs, and export a signed Site Record PDF.
- Work, weather, safety, and visitor notes per day
- Each team member keeps their own dated entry
- Lock the day and collect crew sign-offs
- Export a printable Site Record PDF
Log time and expenses from a laptop, phone, or tablet.
You or your foreman can log hours, equipment time, and daily expenses from whatever's handy. A laptop at the office trailer or a phone from the cab both work fine. Cost data updates in real time the moment it's submitted.
Also available on mobile
See if that grading job is actually making money before it is too late to fix it.
Since ProfitDig is an online solution, your data is stored on a server, updated in real time. The minute one of your foremen records a timesheet or expense, that information is automatically available to you. Take the mystery out of dirt work project management and find out how you're really doing!
| Bid Item | Total | Materials | Employees | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Budget | Diff | Cost | Budget | Diff | Cost | Budget | Diff | |
| 4060 - 3" PVC Water Line | $12,313 | $24,061 | $11,748 | $0.00 | $15,996 | $15,996 | $6,553 | $4,980 | -$1,572 |
| 2001 - Grading & Excavation | $8,940 | $9,500 | $560 | $2,100 | $2,400 | $300 | $4,200 | $3,900 | -$300 |
| 3001 - Storm Drainage | $5,210 | $4,800 | -$410 | $1,800 | $1,750 | -$50 | $2,100 | $2,400 | $300 |
Don't take our word for it.
"Since I've been using ProfitDig, my margins have increased and I have been making more money. It just works for me. It's simplistic. I have used other estimating platforms in the past and ProfitDig is just better."
Simple, transparent pricing
Same full product on every plan. You only pay for the users you need.
Team
3 usersFor small crews
30-day money-back guarantee. Cancel anytime.
Business
10 usersFor growing companies
Onboarding assistance included
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Every plan includes the full ProfitDig platform
- Unlimited projects
- Bidding, takeoff & job costing
- Profit & loss reporting
- Project notes & file storage
Frequently Asked Questions
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