Builders Merchants

Improve your customer relationships & increase your revenue by partnering with ProQuant Estimating

Builders Merchants

A team & service you’ll want to work with again

100% regionally accurate costs

Same day express service available

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We quantify over £1.5 million worth of materials per annum for each of our top 10 merchant branches. We can help you access these sales opportunities and help you incentivise builders to use your services.

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Since launching in 2012 we’ve delivered over £1.3B in material sales oppertunities to our merchant partners.
In total, our estimates (from our merchants or directly from our builders and architects) have specified over £3.4B in material value alone.
Annually we manage over 2000 jobs on behalf of merchants for our highly loyal customer base of builders and architects.

Price

Our average small build estimates are £100+VAT

*The most competitively priced in the UK

Service

Our UK based team are always here to help, available to speak with directly via phone or email

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Time

Your plans take minutes to share with us. Then we do all the work for you. Providing a fully timed, staged and costed estimate back to you within 4-5 days – all ready for you to share with your builder and press go on ordering the materials

What makes working with ProQuant Estimating special for merchants?

We Pride ourselves on establishing long term relationships

  • Unlike many other residential construction estimation services, our estimators continually speak with your builders on the phone. Running through the job together, helping your builder manage any tweaks, even after receiving their initial quote.
  • This level of care and attention (and genuine point of difference versus other services), is one of the reasons we proudly maintain over 90% repeat custom.

We are here to help your residential building merchant business grow

Unlike other estimating services we have our own software, this provides huge advantages for you the merchant

  • We can implement your preferred material prices and product codes.
  • We can also adjust or change your preferred material suppliers for core material lines, such as lintels and insulation etc.
  • We can link with your IT systems, allowing us to generate material quotes directly onto your systems, reducing the need to copy estimates over onto your system.
  • Whilst you will always have a direct telephone contact at ProQuant you also have your own website and smartphone app access. This Allows you to view all the branch supplied jobs, both current and historic anytime, anywhere.

Why not offer our residential building estimates as an in-house service of your own, or as a free incentive to drive more material sales?

You can offer our estimates as an in-house service or as a free incentive; for example, after a certain spend the cost of the estimate will be refunded. We will help promote which ever approach you choose.

We can provide all the tools required to promote this offer to your customers – including leaflets, posters, and e-flyer to share online. See below example;

In partnership with ProQuant Estimating the UK’s leading residential estimators receive a free estimate worth £100 when you buy your materials with us.

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Frequently Asked Questions

By partnering with ProQuant, your merchant branch gains direct access to material sales opportunities generated through our estimating process. We quantify over £1.5 million worth of materials per annum for each of our top 10 merchant branches, and we can implement your preferred product codes, material prices, and preferred suppliers directly into our estimates — making it easier to convert those specifications into orders with you.

ProQuant manages over 2,000 jobs annually on behalf of merchant partners, serving a highly loyal customer base of builders and architects. Since launching in 2012, we have delivered over £1.3 billion in material sales opportunities to our merchant partners, with more than £3.4 billion in total material value specified across all estimates.

Yes. Many merchant partners offer ProQuant’s estimating service either as an in-house service of their own or as a free incentive to drive material sales — for example, refunding the cost of an estimate after a qualifying spend. ProQuant will support whichever approach you choose, providing promotional materials including leaflets, posters, and e-flyers ready to share with your customers.

Yes. ProQuant’s proprietary software can link directly with your IT systems, allowing material quotes to be generated directly onto your platform — removing the need to manually copy estimates across. This saves your team time and reduces the risk of errors when processing orders.

Absolutely. Because ProQuant uses its own in-house software rather than off-the-shelf tools, we can implement your preferred material prices, product codes, and preferred suppliers for core material lines such as lintels and insulation. This means your products are specified from the outset, rather than being an afterthought.

ProQuant maintains over 90% repeat custom from its builder and architect client base. This loyalty is driven by the level of personal service our estimators provide — including direct phone contact with builders to work through jobs together, manage tweaks, and support them even after the initial estimate is delivered.

Merchant partners have access to their own dedicated website and smartphone app, giving branch managers visibility of all jobs — both current and historic — at any time and from any location. This makes it straightforward to monitor activity, track material opportunities, and manage the relationship with your ProQuant account.

Estimates are typically delivered within 4–5 working days of plans being submitted. A same-day express service is also available for urgent projects. The completed estimate is fully timed, staged, and costed — ready for your builder customer to review and for materials to be ordered straight away.