Cost View
Review drawing costs, additional items, price tiers and the warnings that affect a cost summary.
Cost shows Project Cost Breakdown, with a Cost Table and Additional items. It calculates selling-price summaries from supported design quantities and the prices and labor assumptions you enter. It does not manage purchase prices, profit or margins, or check that a customer quotation is complete. Hidden drawing objects still contribute to the full calculation.
Open and inspect Cost
Choose Cost from the section navigation. Review object names, pricing modes, quantities, unit prices, labor and totals. Clicking a selectable object row selects that object; a plant-area species rollup is not itself a separate canvas object.
Check rates and warnings
Choose the Active price tier and check the labor rate. Use Edit price list to maintain account prices. Resolve missing catalog entries, missing tier prices and currency warnings before relying on the total. The app does not convert foreign currencies; affected amounts or labor can be excluded from the project total.
Understand quantity details
The pricing mode determines whether a row uses count, length, area, volume or a fixed amount. Generated wizard parts are not billed again as separate object rows. Expand Members and Cut list where available to inspect quantities; member quantity lines are shown without prices.
Add Additional items
Open Additional and choose Add item for equipment hire, permit fees, contingency or work outside the priced drawing. Set a count and unit price, or a lump sum. During a unit-price lock, existing quantities, descriptions and categories remain editable and items can be removed; changing a rate or pricing mode requires unlocking. New items added during the lock remain unpriced until you unlock, review pricing and lock again.
Protect unit prices from price-list changes
Choose Lock unit prices to retain current material unit prices, labor hours per unit and hourly labor rates. Resolve any pricing refusal first. Quantities and amounts remain live: increasing the number of plants in a priced planting area increases its calculated cost at the same rate per plant. Changing a priced product or rate requires Unlock unit prices. Unlocking returns linked rows to current price-list rates; review the result before locking again. A new priced object or species needs rate review after unlocking. Saved reports and share packages are separate snapshots.
Prepare the client output
Set the project discount and VAT disclosure if needed. VAT disclosure labels prices as inclusive or exclusive; the app does not calculate VAT. Use Report settings to choose client-visible detail. Review unpriced items, exclusions and separate earthworks quantities before generating a deliverable; earthworks cost is not automatically estimated.