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SpexxTool

Questions we get asked

What SpexxTool does, what it costs, and what happens to your work.

Using it

Does it work on any website?

It is designed to work on any e-commerce website's page for a single product.

Does the AI change my specs?

No. It proposes a draft row and waits. Nothing reaches a schedule until you accept it, and every field stays editable afterward — click a cell and type.

What happens when it gets a field wrong?

Fix it in the review panel before you accept, or edit the cell later in the schedule. The source link is stored with the entry, so the original page is always one click away.

Can I add an item by hand?

Yes. Go to the project in your SpexxTool dashboard, and add a blank row to any schedule and fill it in yourself — for the custom fabrication, the salvage piece, or the product whose website is a scanned catalog from 1998.

Can I change which columns a schedule has?

Every schedule owns its columns. Add, rename, reorder, or delete them per schedule, so a plumbing schedule can carry "Rough-in" while lighting carries "Lamping". Extraction follows whatever columns you've defined.

The SPEC button is on every page. How do I hide it?

Click the small × on the button itself, or right-click anywhere on a page and choose Hide SPEC button. It stays hidden on every site until you turn it back on, and hiding it doesn't disable anything — you can still spec a page from the right-click menu. To bring it back, right-click a page and choose Show SPEC button.

What's in the right-click menu?

Right-click anywhere on a page and the extension adds three items: SPEC this page captures the product without touching the button, View SpexxTool schedule opens the project this page would be filed into, and Hide SPEC button / Show SPEC button toggles the floating button. The menu works whether or not the button is showing, which is why hiding the button costs you nothing.

How do I edit a field?

Two places. In the extension's review panel, every field is a text box — click it and type before you accept the draft, and use Edit columns there to add, rename, or delete a field on the schedule. In the dashboard, click any cell in a schedule table and it becomes editable in place; press Enter to save. Same columns, same values, either way.

How do I uninstall the extension?

Right-click the SpexxTool icon in the Chrome toolbar and choose Remove from Chrome, or open chrome://extensions and click Remove on the SpexxTool card. Uninstalling only removes the capture tool from your browser — your projects, schedules, and share links stay exactly as they are, and you can keep working in the dashboard without it.

Sharing and handoff

Do contractors need an account?

No. A share link opens a read-only view of the project — schedules, prices, lead times, stock — with no sign-in and nothing to install. Most contractors will want the printed drawings and the PDF project manual instead, and those work the way they always have.

Can I get the schedule into AutoCAD?

Yes — export the project as DXF, import it, and copy the schedule tables into your drawings. They print with the rest of the set.

What else can I export?

A PDF project manual (8.5 × 11, with a cover sheet and table of contents) to hand to the contractor as a companion to the drawings, and a CSV for the times someone really does want it in a spreadsheet.

Can someone else in my office work on a project?

Yes. Open the project, click Share & Export, then Manage collaborators, and add them by the email address they use for SpexxTool. They can then open the project from their own dashboard and edit it alongside you — add schedules and items, edit cells, and export.

They have to have signed in to SpexxTool at least once first. Adding a collaborator looks up an existing account by email rather than sending an invitation, so if they have never signed in there is nothing to attach the project to and you'll be told no account was found for that address. Ask them to sign in once, then add them.

Only the project's owner can add or remove collaborators, or delete the project. A collaborator needs no subscription of their own to work on a project you own, and can remove themselves at any time.

Billing

What does it cost?

Your first project is free, with no credit card. Creating or duplicating additional projects takes a $10/month subscription.

What happens if I cancel?

You keep your projects — all of them, not just the first one — and they stay open, editable, and exportable for as long as your account exists. Cancelling only stops you creating or duplicating new projects until you subscribe again. Nothing is deleted, locked, or held hostage; your share links keep working; and you can still archive and restore what you already have.

Why per-project instead of per-seat?

Because a schedule is tied to a job, not to a headcount. One project costs nothing, so you can run a whole small job through SpexxTool before deciding whether it's worth paying for.

Your data

Who can see my projects?

You, anyone you invite to the project, and anyone holding a share link you've sent out. Share links are meant to be printed on drawings and read aloud, so treat them as public once you share them — you can deactivate one at any time. See the privacy policy for the details.

What does the extension read?

Only the page you press SPEC on, and only when you press it: the visible text, the images, the page's structured product data, and any spec sheets it links to. It isn't watching your browsing in the background.

Can I delete a project?

Yes. You can archive a project to get it out of the way and restore it later, or delete it outright — which removes its schedules and items too.

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