Price book
The price book works out what a job really costs you, adds your markup, and turns it into a clean quote for the customer — one that never shows your costs or margin. Build your list of cost items once, then price any job in minutes.
Build your cost items
Add the things a job is made of — a length of pipe, an hour of labour, a day's digger hire. Give each one a name and what it costs you. Add a markup % (or use your company default) and the sell price is worked out for you.
Put each item in a category
Every item is Materials, Labour, Plant or Subcontract. Categories are how your costs get grouped on the customer's quote later — so this is the important bit. Tracking something extra (a supplier or part number)? Add your own columns from the toolbar.
Price a job
From a job, choose Create quote, then Add from price bookand set quantities — 12 m of pipe, 6 hours of labour, a day's digger. Each line carries its cost and markup, so your total cost, total sell and margin are worked out live as you type.
The customer sees a clean total
By default the quote is set to Summary — your whole breakdown collapses into one total per category, a tidy “Materials, Labour”. They see a clean number; you keep every line and never reveal your costs or markup. Need to show the detail? Switch Quote display to Itemised.
Get paid & see real profit
Accept → convert to an invoice → send. As receipts come in, log your costs on the job's Costs tab. It then shows your priced build-up next to what you committed and actually spent — and your true margin.
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