Doors & Hardware AI · ERP integrations
The takeoff lands in your ERP the way your ERP expects it.
FastBid24 turns a verified Division 8 takeoff into import-ready files for door and hardware estimating and ERP systems — built to each system's published import conventions, so the data loads without re-keying a single opening.
One term of honesty up front: these are import-ready file exports, not native API synchronization. Your team stays in control of what enters the ERP and when.
How the workflow runs
Bid package to quoting system, four steps.
01
Bid package in
Drawings, specifications, schedules and addenda go in as issued — no pre-formatting, no template to fill out.
02
Extracted openings & hardware
The AI extracts the door schedule, structures every hardware set, and maps each opening to its set, reconciled across all documents.
03
Estimator review
A human estimator verifies quantities, mappings and flags before anything is exported. Nothing reaches your ERP unreviewed.
04
ERP-ready export
One click produces a file formatted to your system's import conventions — load it through the importer you already use.
Supported export formats
Seven formats, each built to the target system's import rules.
Comsense Advantage — Door & Frame Schedule
Tab-delimited .txt, single header row
Built to Comsense's published Takeoff Import Utility conventions: one header row, no symbols in headers, sizes in Comsense digit format (3'-0" × 7'-0" → 3070). Columns map once in the import utility, then every project imports the same way.
Comsense Advantage — Hardware Sets
RecType-structured .xlsx
Hardware sets in Comsense's RecType 1/2/3 row structure — set headers, items with quantities, and notes — ready for the hardware-set import.
eMullion e-PWS — Openings
Template-aligned .txt
Openings formatted to the eMullion e-PWS template layout — mark, quantity, opening size, door type and material — for direct import.
Portal Pro — Door Schedule & Hardware
Column-mapped .xlsx
Openings and hardware sets in Portal Pro's own field vocabulary — Tag, Label, Hardware Set — one header row, one row per opening, so the column mapping is recognisable on the first pass.
TOAD — Openings & Hardware Groups
Column-mapped .xlsx
The same verified takeoff in TOAD's vocabulary — Opening, Fire Rating, Hardware Group — as clean flat sheets for its column-mapping import.
Generic flat ERP workbook
Header-first .xlsx (SFH, AVAware, others)
Four flat sheets — Doors, Hardware Sets, Hardware Items, Set-To-Doors — with clean single-row headers, built for the column-mapping importers of systems whose import specifications aren't published.
Universal openings CSV
Single-file .csv
One row per opening, Excel-safe encoding — the lowest-common-denominator import when a system's own template isn't at hand.
Using a system that isn't listed? Most door and hardware ERPs accept a column-mapped flat import — the generic workbook exists for exactly that case. Tell us which system you run and we'll confirm the fit before you commit to anything.
What transfers
- Door data — mark, room, width, height, thickness, door material and type
- Frame information — frame type and material
- Fire ratings and remarks per opening
- Hardware sets with itemized contents — quantity, unit, description, catalog number, finish, manufacturer
- The opening-to-hardware-set mapping, both directions
What doesn't — on purpose
- Pricing. The export carries quantities, specifications and mappings — your pricing, discounts and margins stay in your ERP where they belong.
- Automatic writes. Nothing is pushed into your system in the background. You run the import, you see what loads.
- Unverified data. Exports are generated from the estimator-reviewed takeoff, not from raw extraction.
See your own schedule land in your ERP.
Send a real Division 8 package. You'll get the verified takeoff back with an export formatted for your system. Book a 20-minute call if you'd rather talk it through first.