As far as i know, the program wasn’t designed for a estimate.
To do an estimate i would just go ahead and make a invoice for that particular person, print it out and then delete it. I would delete it so that it would not cause problems with the financial portion of the program.
Unless someone else has a better way of doing it, that how i would do it.
When I give estimates I do as Tyler Said, but I put the invoice out about 60 days giving the customer an opurtunity to get a hold of me. On my ?Big Jobs Churches, Hotels, Ext. Ext, I break down the bid by areas and or rooms and put them on a exxcell spreadsheet with price, per area. I also put on that sheet that these prices are good when customer scheudles $X amount because these prices are based on valume discounts, and I keep a master folder in my pc for large jobs and include that breakdown with the estimate. my 2 cents woth, maybee I should keep my 2 cents that just made my net worth -.01.