Integrating Online PlanRooms with PlanSwift

Benefits for Plan Room

PlanSwift Estimating Software is perfectly positioned to work with organizations in the reprographic community on many fronts. Our capability, price point, and customer centric focus have propelled PlanSwift Software to be the fastest growing estimating and takeoff tool on the market. Electronic plan distribution coupled with point and click estimating technology is a powerful, cost effective solution. If you are linked with DFS, you are most likely already integrated with PlanSwift. It is as simple as downloading directly into PlanSwift and starting your project. We want to work with you and offer true solutions for you and your clients. This is an extremely synergistic relationship that is set up for success. PlanSwift also opens up many new opportunities for making money in the digital age. As a business partner, we are offering financial incentives such as commissions for referring leads to PlanSwift.

Benefits for Customers

The contracting community needs a solution to do takeoffs and estimates easily and accurately, without “breaking the bank” to buy an expensive solution. We can fill that need. Having PlanSwift available to download digital blueprints from the online plan room will help streamline the entire process. Not only do they receive the software, but we offer a free training with an experienced estimator to help them get going. Time, accuracy, speed, efficiency, and ease of use are the benefits of PlanSwift. Putting PlanSwift to work in an electronic plan room unleashes a powerful combination that builders and contractors deserve.

How to Get Started

  1. Sign up as a PlanSwift Referral Partner.  You can sign up here.
  2. Put up banners on your site for downloading a Free 14 Day Trial of PlanSwift.
    Once you have signed up, you will be able to log into SwiftCentral, our powerful tracking system (you get access to the same tools we use).  Within this tracking system, you can copy & paste HTML code for banners that you can place on your site.  All downloads that come from these banners will be tracked in your SwiftCentral login.  Just copy & paste the hyperlinks and banners throughout the online plan room in convenient places to remind the users that they can download the plans into PlanSwift to both navigate the drawings, as well as performing a digital takeoff.
  3. Allow your users to "Download Plans Into PlanSwift" with the click of a button.
    Once the user has downloaded PlanSwift, we can make it easy for them to load jobs in, by providing simple links.  If your plan room is already using DFS, it’s likely that your online plan room is already integrated with PlanSwift.  The user can just push the “Create Takeoff” button from the “Takeoff” tab when the user is browsing to the job online.

    An alternative method is to provide the files in a .SwiftImages format (Example file name would be: Walmart1001.SwiftImages).  A .SwiftImages file is basically just a .ZIP file, except with the extension renamed so that PlanSwift knows to pull it in as a new job.  So, to use this format, your website would just need to ZIP up the images into a .SwiftImages file for them to download, and you’re done.
  4. Send Email Notifications to Plan Room Users about PlanSwift
    Now that your online planroom is integrated with PlanSwift, you will want to let your users know about it.  You can easily send out our pre-formatted email template (downloadable from SwiftCentral), or you can create your own, whichever you choose:

PlanSwift's Powerful Customer Tracking System

Here at PlanSwift, we put extensive efforts into tracking our customers, and allowing our partners to use the same tools we do to help serve our customers better.  Once you are given an account, you can log in and see how many customers are downloading, installing, and purchasing PlanSwift, as well as many other powerful tools to make it easy to work with us.

Why PlanSwift vs. [The Competition]?

  1. Commissions & Financial Incentives – We pay a 30% commission to you if we sell PlanSwift to a customer you send our way. Since our software is a platform, there are also other financial incentives by creating plugins or added services on the software.

  2. User Friendly – we put a lot of time and effort into ensuring that our software is the most user friendly and easy way to do takeoffs.

  3. Development Platform – PlanSwift is designed from the ground up as a development platform, so you will be partnering with a company that is braced for solid growth and integration opportunities.

  4. More Features – No other takeoff software on the market has as many features as PlanSwift.  With PlanSwift’s development platform, the sky is the limit for what you can do with it.  PlanSwift is very versatile and customizable, and at the same time, very simple.

  5. Price – PlanSwift is much more affordable than other takeoff packages.  PlanSwift is robust enough for large contractors, yet affordable enough for the subcontractors.

  6. Powerful Tracking System – We are constantly developing more tools to help us be more efficient.  We have opened up to allow our partners to use the same tools we use to track the customers in many powerful ways.

  7. Top Rated Customer Service & Tech Support – We constantly receive compliments from customers that we have exceptional service and support.

  8. Fast Development – One of the things our customers love the most about PlanSwift is the continual improvements to the software.  We are very interactive and move quickly on updates that will make a difference for our users.

  9. Technology Driven – We strive to implement the leading edge of technology into our software and implement it quickly.  For example, we will soon be releasing integration with iPhones and iPods for users to download blueprints and take them on-the-go for reference.

  10. A True Partner – We value partnership.  Although we are firm about not being exclusive to any particular partner (since we are an open platform), we realize that our success is based upon the success of both our customers and our partners.  We are actively seeking ways to help online plan rooms transition into the digital age and make money at it.  We value our relationships and will do our best to have a win/win relationship with everyone we work with.

  11. Plug-n-Play – We have our partnership program all set up so all you have to do is “plug-n-play”.  We put extensive efforts into making it easy to work with us.

Testimonials

We have many strong testimonials for PlanSwift advocating that it is the easiest, fastest, most accurate, and most affordable solution on the market.  You can view the testimonials here.

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The PlanSwift Partner Team
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