What's new in Corbel

Create, refresh and export your bill at any time: doubts are flagged on it, not in your way. Door and window types go to the bill as they are read, and large sets are read 12 pages per AI run.

• Your bill is never held up

  If your rooms add up to more than the building, the bill is still made. A note on the bill shows the figures, with one click to use the printed area or the outline instead, and the export says which figure was used.

• Door and window types reach your bill as they are read

  Types Corbel reads from your schedules and plans are added to your openings for you. When two sheets read one mark at different sizes, both are kept and marked for you to check.

• What Corbel sets aside is shown, not left out

  Area totals, phase figures such as "Existing Building", thin wall runs and openings with no door drawn are kept and shown with a plain reason. You decide whether each one counts.

• See which printed figures were read

  Roof pitch, eaves and verge overhang, footing, founding depth and wall height each show whether they were read from your drawing, set aside with a reason, or not read so you can enter them.

• Double doors are priced by their leaves

  A pair of doors gets a pair rate and ironmongery for each leaf, and you can change the number of leaves on the line. A door's material is taken from its leaf, not its frame.

• Every door and window mark on a schedule is accounted for

  Left and right handed columns of one type become one row, sizes printed as "1 000" or inside a description are read, and any mark Corbel could not read is named on the readings screen for you to check.

Pay again straight after a failed payment, window and door types printed one per sheet counted per block, footing sizes read from your drawing, and roof lines that follow the roof's shape.

• Subscribe again straight after a failed payment

  If a renewal doesn't go through, the subscription is cancelled and your work is kept. Owners and admins see why on Billing and in a bar across the app, with Subscribe again to choose a plan and carry on.

• Window and door types printed one per sheet are counted per block

  Corbel matches each block to its plan by the sheet names. For a block it can't match, it asks you to count it or not before anything reaches your bill.

• Footing sizes and founding depth are read from the drawing

  Corbel bills the footing sizes and founding depth your drawing prints, outer and inner walls separately. An odd size is held with a reason, and you choose whether to use it.

• Corbel asks for your roof's pitch, overhang and shape once

  Roof lines now take in the eaves overhang and follow your roof's shape. Corbel asks once for the pitch, overhang and shape, then checks the roof against the plan. Older roof lines are offered an update, with the reason.

• Wall height is asked once per project in a session

  When you make a wall Condition, Corbel asks for the wall height once, starting from the height the drawing prints, and builds later wall Conditions at the height you confirm.

Download an invoice for each payment on Billing, move to a cheaper plan when your billing period ends, and let the Assistant walk you through everything flagged on your bill.

• Download an invoice for every payment

  Each payment on Billing now has an invoice you can download as a PDF, and one is emailed to you after every payment. Show all lists every payment you have made.

• Moving to a cheaper plan waits for your next billing date

  You keep your current plan until then, and you can change your mind until a few days before. Upgrades still start straight away.

• Ask the Assistant about anything flagged on your bill

  From the bill card, the Assistant goes through the flagged notes one at a time and fixes what you agree to.

• Checking your readings is quicker

  One message for a bulk accept, a review bar on phones, and the drawing now opens on the plan sheet with the work instead of page 1.

After a drawing is read, Corbel checks each area figure, holds the ones that don't add up with a reason, and asks you to confirm when the floor area doesn't match the building.

• Corbel now checks your readings before they reach your bill

  After a drawing is read, Corbel asks of each area figure: is it this building, a room or a total, a note, another building on the site, or a covered area? Figures that don't add up are held with a reason.

• Held figures stay out of Accept all, and the floor area is checked

  Accept all leaves held figures out, and you can still accept one yourself if it is right. Build my bill stops if the floor area doesn't match the building, and asks you to confirm.

Corbel now reads structural steel drawings and bills steelwork by mass, researched rates show their source, and you can export your drawings marked up with every measurement.

• Steel drawings are read as steel, not walls

  Structural steel sheets are recognised and their red lines are held back instead of being measured as brickwork. You can change a sheet's type, and nothing held reaches your bill until you say so.

• Steelwork as its own trade, billed by mass

  Make a steel member Condition for each section. Corbel takes the mass per metre from its section table and puts the steel on your bill in tonnes.

• Export your drawings marked up

  A PDF of every measured sheet, coloured by Condition with quantity labels, held readings in their own style, and a cover page with the totals.

• Researched rates show their source

  When the Assistant researches a rate it says where the figure came from and what it covers, such as supply only. A rate with no source is marked as an estimate for you to check.

Openings come off walls as whole deductions, the Excel bill carries live formulas, and finishes, roofs and foundations are measured the way a QS expects.

• Doors and windows come off walls as whole openings

  Each wall is measured net of the openings the drawing shows, as whole deductions with a note of where each came from. Aluminium and solid internal doors price on their own rates.

• Excel that works the way a QS expects

  The Excel bill now carries live formulas, a Source column and the deductions, with lines described in bill language.

An early figure for your bill on the readings screen, a clear way forward when nothing is read, and a Rates page that starts where the money is.

• See an early figure for your bill once the drawing is read

  The readings screen shows a first figure for the measured work and one clear Build my bill button. It is a guide: the built bill adds everything else.

Many more of your bill's details can now be changed just by asking.

PC sums, provisional quantities and Preliminaries done properly, plus one place to set up, download and share your quote.

• A bill a QS can issue

  PC sums, provisional quantities, section notes and Preliminaries split by how they are paid.

• One page to send your quote

  Set your logo, VAT status, payment schedule and finishes, then download a clear quote or share it as a link.

Every project now follows one road: Drawings, Read, Check, Bill and Share.

• One road from drawing to quote

  Every project shows five steps: Drawings, Read, Check, Bill and Share, with the next action always in front of you.

• Build my bill is now a page

  Build, price and send the bill on one screen, and add your own lines as you go.

Pick your plan on the website, let the Assistant finish bigger requests, and search your full activity trail.

Short videos of the real flow, from drawing to priced bill.

Walls take the right rate for their thickness, and the Assistant works through your requests in order.

Chat with your project, get a more complete bill from the same drawing, and decide on every unsure wall yourself.

• Meet the Corbel Assistant

  Chat with your project. It reads your drawings and bill, answers questions and proposes changes as cards you confirm. Included in every plan, with a monthly allowance.

• A more complete bill from the same drawing

  Plaster and paint, cornices, footings, roofs, wet rooms, site works and Preliminaries, with trades the drawing does not show listed as marked allowances.

Tell Corbel when a project is an alteration, and review your readings on a phone.

Schedules, room areas, printed thicknesses and scale are read and cross-checked, and the first read is friendlier.

• Schedules, rooms, thickness and scale read for you

  Door and window schedules, room areas, printed wall thicknesses and a scale for each view are read and cross-checked.

• A friendlier first read

  Live progress, readings that appear as they land, walls accepted by group and a clear next action.

Built for practices that cost for many clients, with sourced rate research and a clearer Billing page for everyone.

• The Consultancy plan

  For practices costing for many clients: a rate book per client, staff you limit to the projects they are added to, and a WinQS bill export (Excel).

Follow Corbel as it reads, and review walls one by one.

• A calmer, live Readings screen

  One live feed while Corbel reads, red walls are painted and measured, walls reviewed one by one and rooms in m².

Send your quote as a link, get Preliminaries from your contract period, and see what changed between revisions.

• Share your quote as a link

  Your client opens the quote without signing in.

Upload a CAD PDF and Corbel finds the walls, rooms, schedules and notes for you to confirm.

• Corbel reads your CAD drawings

  Upload a PDF exported from CAD and Corbel finds the red walls, rooms, door and window schedules and notes, and gives you quantities to confirm. Nothing reaches your bill until you accept it.