Generate reports, tender documents, and bill of quantities from your estimates.
10 articles
Introduction to Reports & Bills
An overview of the reporting and bill production features in Ensign.
Updated 26 March 2026
Generating Reports
How to use the Select Reports menu to generate internal reports including summary tables, material summaries, estimate summaries, and labour reports.
Tender Summary
What bills are, how to navigate the bills page, and how to generate a tender summary showing your sectional breakdown, subtotals, and grand total.
Quantified Schedule of Rates
How to generate a quantified schedule of rates from the bills page, with or without a section breakdown, and what the schedule displays.
Preliminaries on Bills
How preliminaries appear on your client-facing bill documents, including the three input methods (lump sum, weekly rate, percentage uplift) and the choice between showing and spreading prelims.
Bill Document Settings
How to configure letterheads, grid lines, and page numbers on the bills page to control the appearance of your client-facing documents.
Pre-set Client Documentation
How to set up and use document templates such as cover letters, terms and conditions, and scope of works on the bills page, and how to make per-job amendments.
Generating a Merged PDF
How to generate a merged PDF containing your complete tender package, export individual bill documents, and transfer files from cloud storage to your local machine.
Exporting and File Formats
How to export reports and bills from Ensign in PDF, Word, CSV, and Excel formats, and how to transfer exported files from cloud storage to your local machine.
Combining Quotations for Bills
How to merge two quotations together to produce combined bill documents.
