About Pricing Tiers and Pre-Builds

Overview

Material and labour costs are itemised in a standard price pre-buildClosed A pre-build that calculates the price based on materials and labour. The price of individual components can be changed to affect the total price.. If you have different pricing tiers on items in a standard price pre-build, the sell price calculates differently depending on whether you select Cost Based On Build, Sell Based on Defaults or Sell Based On Build.

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Pre-Builds

Pricing Tiers

Flat rate pre-builds (previously referred to as set price pre-builds) are not affected by pricing tiers.

A screenshot of the pricing options for standard price pre-builds.

The available options are:

Cost Based on Build The material cost of the pre-build is the sum of the individual items. Any time the item prices are updated in the catalogue, this also changes in the pre-build.
Sell Based on Defaults The markup for the pre-build is determined by system defaults. If the pre-build is assigned to a job or quote where the customer has a specific material markup, this applies to the pre-build.
Sell Based on Build Individual items on the pre-build determine the markup and sell values. Pricing tiers from the catalogue are applied to the pre-build components to calculate the total sell price.

For example, you have two items which both cost $200 each. Item A has a markup of 50% and Item B has a mark up of 25%.

  • With Sell Based on Defaults (25%) selected, Item A has a sell of $250 and Item B has a sell of $250. The Cost is $400 and the Sell is $500, which is a dollar markup of $100, and a percentage markup of 25%
  • With Sell Based on Build selected, Item A has a sell of $300 and Item B has a sell of $250. The Cost is $400 and the Sell is $550, which is a dollar markup of $150, and a percentage markup of 37.5%

The table below demonstrates how the percentage markup is calculated for a pre-build consisting of labour and parts, each with different pricing tiers, when Sell Based on Build is selected:

A table of percentage markup calculation.

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