How does the free trial work?
Enter your email and card at checkout and you get a licence key and the download straight away. Every feature works for 3 days, but exported documents carry a “TRIAL COPY” watermark. Nothing is charged during the trial; if you cancel before it ends (on your account page under Manage billing, or by emailing us) you pay nothing. Otherwise the subscription starts at A$29 per month + GST and the watermark disappears once the first payment goes through. There’s one free trial per customer: if you’ve subscribed before, you’re charged when you subscribe.
Can I skip the trial or end it early?
Yes. Choose Pay now — skip the trial above to be charged for the first month today with no watermark. If you’re already on a trial, use End trial & pay now on your account page or in the plugin’s Licence… window: your card is charged A$29 + GST (A$31.90 in Australia). Done in the plugin, the watermark goes at once; done on the account page, it goes when the plugin next checks your licence (open Licence… or restart SketchUp; otherwise within 6 hours).
Can I use it without a subscription?
No. The download is only available to subscribers, and when your trial or subscription ends the extension locks and shows only its activation screen. Your models and settings stay on your computer untouched; resubscribe from your account page to keep the same key and everything comes back. Being offline is different: after 30 days without a licence check (or if your computer’s clock is set backwards) it keeps working but watermarks exports “UNLICENSED COPY” until it reconnects.
What's the difference between DIY and Pro?
DIY (A$29 per month + GST) has every tool you need to cost a project, request supplier prices, order materials and quote a client. Pro (A$299 per month + GST, coming soon) adds the tools for running client jobs as a business: a live Price Book (one price list you keep, and every estimate is priced from it), Customer Jobs (one file per client, with its own templates), Job Types, your own document types, your own Fail Safe rules, the Component Library bulk editor and steel punching for C and Z sections. The comparison table above lists everything.
Can I start on DIY and move to Pro later?
Yes, that’s the idea: DIY today, Pro when your business needs it. Pro isn’t available yet. Use Tell me when it’s ready on the Pro card and we’ll let you know when it launches, including how moving across works.
What will DIY cost?
A$29 per month plus GST (A$31.90 inc. GST) with every costing tool included — no add-ons. It starts with a 3-day free trial (or pay now to skip it), each licence covers 2 computers, and you can cancel any time from your account page. GST is added at checkout, and your tax invoice shows it separately.
What do I need to run it?
SketchUp Pro 2026 on Windows. Support for other SketchUp versions and for macOS is planned but not yet tested, and we won’t claim a version we haven’t verified.
Do my models need to be set up a particular way?
Yes, for the estimating side. Automatic take-off reads attributes — item code, supplier, price, quantity — off your dynamic components. If your components already carry that data you’ll be productive quickly. If they don’t, Attribute Suites add the Standard set (Name, Type, Length, Qty and Unit) to the components you select, or your own suite with Itemcode, Supplier and Price (SkuEstimator Pro’s Component Library does whole libraries in bulk), but that’s a real setup project and we’d rather say so up front.
Does my model data leave my computer?
No. Estimates, prices, customers and models are all stored and calculated on your machine — there’s no cloud pipeline and no telemetry. The single exception is the optional AI assistant: if you choose to use it, the relevant component context is sent to the AI provider you chose (OpenAI or Anthropic), using your own key, for that request (and optional voice dictation sends your recording to OpenAI, using your own OpenAI key). Nothing is sent unless you initiate it. Separately, the licence check sends your licence key and a pseudonymous device code to our licence server, and activation also sends your computer’s name (so you can tell your computers apart).
Do I need an AI key?
Only if you want the AI assistant, which is optional. It uses your own OpenAI (ChatGPT) or Anthropic (Claude) API key, and you pay that provider directly. Every core feature — estimating, documents, pricing, rules — works without AI, and SkuEstimator works offline for up to 30 days between licence checks.
What about macOS?
Windows only at launch. macOS is planned as a follow-up release. We’d rather ship one platform properly than claim two and disappoint half of you.