Know Your Margin
Before the First Bucket of Dirt Moves.
Built by and for excavation, grading, and underground utility contractors — bid jobs by the cubic yard and linear foot, track real costs against budget in real time, and stop finding out you lost money after the dirt is already moved.
How It Works
From first number to 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 — 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.
Stop 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
Bid Items & Headers
Materials
Group your pipe, aggregate & 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 — saving time and reducing the chance of missing a material item.
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 — and 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
Any member can be promoted — not tied to employee classification.
| Identifier | Quantity | Unit | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B Underground | $20,646.34 | ||||
| LI Standard Silt Fence | 1200 | [LF] | $4,839.08 | ||
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
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 — with profit, overhead, tax, and bond 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
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 |
Log time and expenses from any device — 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. Cost data updates in real time the moment it's submitted.
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."
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