What happens when a rate is missing?

On a service step or a machine job the gap is stated, never costed at zero. Set the rate and the cost appears.

Engineers and above. On the Machinist costs screen anyone else sees a sentence saying so, never blank figures.

Platform part

Costing

Costs held against products, stock, machines, operators, service steps and delivery runs, each from a real figure.

These are the example rates the preset ships with, not your prices.

Load your own rates for the lines below and every quote from here on uses them. Nothing you configure now is lost.

Steel, sections and plate£169.15
71.98 kg, works out at £2.35 per kg
Posts, rails, bars and plate. The steel rate is your mild steel rate per kg, and every other material multiplies it by its own factor, so mild steel sits at 1.
Fixings and hardware£46.40
Clamps, spigots, standoffs, channel, bends, end caps, brackets, anchors and any cored pockets.
Workshop fabrication£143.64
3.42 hours, works out at £42.00 per hour
Cut, drill, weld and dress, estimated from the part count.
Galvanising£34.55
0.07 t, works out at £479.99 per t
Charged by weight, which is how a galvaniser charges.
Delivery£85.80
3.20 m, works out at £26.81 per m
Drawings and setting out£40.00
Setting out and the fabrication drawing. A raked run adds the panel geometry drawing on top, so a stair costs more on this line than a level run.

Total£519.54

Excludes VAT. 6 lines priced at zero for this configuration.

Lines this configuration does not use

From the live engine

Why: A margin is only real when the cost behind it is measured, not assumed.
How: Work is timed where it happens and costed at your rates; a job missing a rate shows the gap.

OrdersLanded unit cost on goods in against a purchase order
CatalogueA cost on every product, accepted from supplier prices
StockA moving average unit cost on every stock line
ServicingStandard against actual minutes per step, with labour and machine rates
DesignA cutting cost from the shop's own cut chart
MachinistJob cost per machine and operator on the Costs screen
RouteA run's cost shared across the deliveries it carried

Standard against measured minutes
A machine job's minutes are written when it finishes or pauses, then rolled up per machine, operator and month against the standard.
Stock at moving average
Each receipt recomputes a line's moving average cost; each movement carries its cost, seen only by roles that see cost.
Priced from the model
A design is priced line by line from your own rates and stock, flagged while example rates remain.

: On a service step or a machine job the gap is stated, never costed at zero. Set the rate and the cost appears.
: Engineers and above. On the Machinist costs screen anyone else sees a sentence saying so, never blank figures.