Engineering Express Calculator Subscription Program

The Details

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A custom calculator for your building product has the power
to revolutionize your quoting & workflow.

We’ve saved & helped our clients earn millions of dollars & counting by:

  • Pre-Engineering To Optimize Design
  • Winning More Quotes
  • Dramaticly Increasing Sales
  • Speeding Up Engineering Design Time
  • Reducing Friction In Permiting
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See our free online calculators
 as examples of our amazing tools

Rebuilt From Scratch For 2025

Our calculator system has been custom-coded by full time, in-house developers to ensure they are:

  • Mobile & Tablet Friendly
  • Faster, smarter, smoother transitions
  • Handle the most complex of calculations
  • Highest Security Protocols
  • Easier to update and grow with you

See For Youreself

Our 'Old Style' Calculator

Engineering Express Old-Style Calculator Format

Click the image or here to operate this calculator

Our 2025 Style Calculator

Click the image or here to see this demo calculator – Also mobile & tablet friendly!

Subscription Details

Part 1: Base Investment

There’s a minimum time for bringing a calculator live for you.

Here’s a walkthrough of the process:

Start - Phase 1

Base Calculations

Every interface is tailor-made to suit your product and audience. Colors, layout, and components are carefully chosen to align with your brand and make the experience intuitive.

Existing clients may have previous calculations with varying degrees of complexity for calculator integration.

New clients may start from our templates from similar projects or may have to be coded from scratch.

Custom items such as has fee estimating tools, take-offs, and bills of material are coded on a per-need basis.

Hourly fees for this phase is a minimum of 4 development hours and could extend many hours higher (40 hours or more) based on custom needs.

Start - Phase 1

Phase 2

Interface Design & Coding

This is the part you see on your computer or tablet.

We code each calculator using modern front-end frameworks to ensure they work smoothly on all screen sizes and devices—user friendly, fast, responsive, and visually consistent.

Each unique calculator goes through a visual architecture design where layout, images, inputs based on previous responses, and answer format is all storyboarded.

This is a minimum of a 2 day design process for a new tool, with time added for client input. (16++ development hours)

Phase 2

Phase 3

Internal Database Setup

Every calculator has a corresponding input and output database.

The input database stores stock and custom materials for that client the calculator uses in drop-downs.

Output information is stored in another database which can be recalled by the client for reuse, or for our engineering review & processing.

this setup time is between 4-8 development hours and 2 setup/admin hours, depending on previous setups.

Phase 3

Final - Phase 4

Project Order & Re-Implementation Of Data

Last, a custom interface is set up to allow the client to place an engineering order using their optimized design.

This order can be attached to sketches drawn with our drawing tool, or an order from our project quoting system.

This integrated system provides all the tools to allow the ideal engineering to be processed in the fastest way available on the planet (2+- development hours).

Final - Phase 4

Base Investment Summary Costs

From the minimum hours above, at our current design rate ($250/hr), a typical calculator would be between 30-40 hours to create ($7,500-$10,000). Fees would increase as customization and unique situations arise.

Similar calculators that are in service would still need a minimum time to customize the database, login, saving, and ordering.  

24 Development hours is our estimated minimum time to bring a calculator to market from an existing template, or one that’s shared between industries ($6,000/tool).

Keep in mind, Engineering Express has month’s of development time invested in creating this system from scratch before we begin with client projects, which is recuperated over the long-term benefit of making client interactions easier and reducing friction in us optimizing the design. This would be taken into account as the site-specific design potential of calculators are assessed and may increase base or monthly fees if site-specific work isn’t a measurable factor.

Part 2: Ongoing Maintenance

Just like your phone, our servers run on programs that need constant upgrading and security patches.

Questions also arise with unique situations, how-to’s, and general needs which staff is available for.

New features will also arise which will be incorporated as they beome available. Our work with AI is a big part of the future of these tools as well, with amazing possibilities for you on the horizon.

Engineering Express allocates a minimum of 2 development hours per month per calculator to support and maintenance of the tool system ($500 base maintenance fee per tool per month minimum).

Part 3: Discounts & Program Incentives

Calculator fees for manufacturers with multiple dealers would be split between dealers, plus their unique calculator needs.

A discount consideration is also given to existing VIP clients over dealers who would use our system without engineering or with their own engineer.

As applicable and discussed on a per-client basis, Tokens are offered for purchase of fully automated or pre-engineered plans along with subscriptions.

Engineering Support Channels are also built and maintained as part of your subscription as applicable.  

Click here to see live channel sites. 

Most importanly, site-specific project fees would be minimized since much of the hourly interaction to design and approve plans is greatly reduced by putting the power of pre-engineering in the client’s hands.  Our quote fees and time to completion will be reduced far beyond the single monthly fee.

The amount of money a typical client saves from optimizing beams or columns on just one project saves multiple times the montly fee alone.

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Get Started!

New Client?

Let’s set up a discovery call
to discuss your needs

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Existing Client?

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to get started

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StruXure Dealer?

We have a special program set up for you.
Complete the interest form here!

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DISCLAIMER

Any results, information, advice, or solutions provided by any calculator developed by Engineering Express is NOT BINDING without the original physical or encrypted digital signature from an engineer from our firm.

At no time is any information for the calculator to be used for permitting or construction without our professional review and certification.

Calulators are design estimates only for use in pre-engineering to begin design discussions with our firm. 

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