CM-Cabinets Library User Guide
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    Pricing Materials using Area Rates
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    Using Area Rates board materials, such as Carcass, is often priced by area.

    Pricing/Markups page

    Ensure you have the Carcass ticked and any other required Categories.

    • To designate the Sell price you need to set the Level Markup percentages associated with the Clients' Pricing Schedule.
    • The Sell price is determined using the Pricing Schedule nominated for the selected customer when you start a new project/drawing.
    Click to view Job Setup > Client page of the Drawing Properties

    Click to view Job Setup > Client page of the Drawing Properties

     

    Tutorial: Material Area Pricing

    In this tutorial we will illustrate the functionality by pricing the Carcass area on a single Shelf Standard, with a width of 1000mm and a depth of 500mm. The material used is '_16mm Carcase White Panel'.

    Image: Shelf Standard used in this tutorial

    Shelf Width is 1000mm and default Materials are used  -  Click to view

    Shelf Width is 1000mm and default Materials are used  -  Click to view

     

    Materials Manager

    First access Manager from either the Pricing > Material/Hardware page shown, or the Materials-Advanced > Manager page.

    Pricing > Material/Hardware page -  Click to Expand

    Pricing > Material/Hardware page -  Click to Expand

    Click on the Manage button and select the relevant material and price accordingly. In this example:-

    Details page, select Material to be priced  -  Click to Expand

    Details page, select Material to be priced  -  Click to Expand

     
    Pricing page, enter applicable price  -  Click to Expand

    Pricing page, enter applicable price  -  Click to Expand

     

    A confirmation message will be presented as per the following example.

     

    Report

    To test the effect of this process, run a Quantities report.

    Result: The area of the Shelf totals 0.5sqm at $10/sqm. Therefore the Cost price is $5.00.

     

    The above report shows only pricing details pertaining to this tutorial.

    Rounding during the calculation process can cause amounts to increase by a few cents.

    To calculate Sell price set Markup Percentages per category on the Pricing > Pricing/Markups page.

    For explanation of how Edging is priced above, see Pricing Materials using Linear Rate

     

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