1. What is in your favorites?
Favorites contains your frequently used items including:
Services: you can save your production rates for maintenance services
Materials: you can save your units, prices, margins and pricing sheets
Proposals: you can save your default text, contracts, images in here
2. Navigate to Favorites --> Materials
3. How to add materials to your favorites
Click on the plus sign in the top right next to the word “Materials”
4. Choose type of material you will be adding
Material type | Pricing unit options | Measurement Inputs | Notes |
Plant | per plant | Quantity | Use for shrubs, flowers, trees |
Block | per block | Length, Width, Height (inches, feet, yards) | Use for pavers, retaining wall blocks |
Length | Per foot, per yard, per 1,000 feet | Linear measurement | Use for edging, fencing, irrigation lines |
Area | Per sq. inch, per sq. foot, per 1,000 sq. feet, per sq. yard, per acre | Square measurement | Use for sod, weed barrier fabric |
Volume | Per cu. foot, per cu. yard | Cubic measurement | Use for mulch, soil, compost, gravel |
Weight | Per gram, per kilogram, per ounce, per pound, per US ton | Weight measurement | Use for bulk stone, fertilizer |
Flat price ($) | Fixed amount | None | Use for one-time material cost |
5. Enter the material name, price and units for pricing
5. Choose a price margin:
If you want the price at which you buy and install the material to be the same, leave the price margin field empty
If you want to sell your material for a higher price than you buy them, enter a value in the price margin
Tap on the drop down menu to see different ways of adding price margin
💡Pro tip: some more information about price margins: https://getduranta.com/blog/how-not-to-mis-price-jobs
6. (Optional) Add extra material
If you want to leave a buffer for waste, set how much extra material you want to add.
💡Note: you can change the buffer later when you use the material in a proposal or estimate
💡Pro-tip: you can also add a negative amount of “extra” material. For example, if you want to compost the interior of an area, or you want to avoid planted areas in a bed, you could set - 10%