Rates, stock and the machine bridge

Why

A shipped design module prices from example rates, not yours.

How

Open /app/design/<design module>/settings; engineers, admins and owners can change it.

Set your rates

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   Step 1.

   Open the Rates tab. While the example rates apply, Set your rates in the workbench toolbar goes straight there.

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   Step 2.

   Change the rates under What each price line charges and Materials and multipliers. Each shows its unit, and a value outside its range is refused where you type it.

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   Step 3.

   Check What will be written, then choose the save button, which counts your changes (Save 2 changes). Every quote from then on uses them.

Any save here gives the workspace its own copy of the design module. Saving a rate also takes the example label off the price.

Counted stock and preparation

Rates and rules is the default and needs nothing more. In the Stock mode panel below the tabs, a line can instead be Counted stock with a Warn below threshold, and Prepped, ready to use or Requires preparation. A counted line at or under its threshold shows Low stock. The controls unlock once the workspace has its own copy.

A counted line is written to the one stock ledger for every workspace. With the Stock product on it appears in /app/stock as a line from Design, and every change to its count is a movement.

Connecting a machine module

A line that Requires preparation can connect to the machine module that makes it (Arcline cuts it, Wire EDM erodes it, CNC Milling machines it), when that machine module is on and the design module's take-off declares the job.

An Arcline connection asks for the material, the sheet thickness and the Machine rate £/h, reads your cut chart and writes the body cutting rate, with the working shown. Wire EDM and CNC Milling connections raise the work and do not change the price.

When the order lands

1. An order is created: from an accepted quote, from a customer's purchase order read in the AI interface or from a Commerce website.
2. For each designed line, the take-off declares its production jobs and each goes to its connected machine module.
3. The machine order arrives queued in that machine module's Orders view (Arcline, Wire EDM or CNC Milling), with a note naming the order it came from. A retried order never queues the same work twice.