Guide

Turn a take-off into a quote.

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The same model that drew the dock prices it. Snapshot the design, group the lines by material, layer on your labor, margin, and tax, and send a number that reflects the real job — one you can update fast when the scope changes.

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From take-off to quote

A quote starts from the material take-off, so the quantities are already right. Your job is the business layer on top — pricing, labor, margin, and the line items unique to this customer. Here’s the flow.

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Creating a quote, adjusting it, and moving it to Accepted.

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Create a draft

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    Open the quote

    From Project menu → Quote, create a new draft. Lines arrive grouped by material, straight from the take-off.
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    Add what the drawing can’t know

    Add custom lines for delivery, removal of an old dock, permits, or anything site-specific that isn’t part of the geometry.
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    Review the grouping

    Each material category rolls up so the quote reads cleanly — lumber, decking, floats, hardware, pilings, and your custom items.
    A draft quote with line items grouped by material category, each showing quantity, unit price, and line total.
    Lines grouped by materialSHOT QT-01
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Adjust the numbers

In draft you’re in full control. Apply adjustments for labor, waste, margin, and tax across the quote, and override any individual quantity or unit price where your real cost differs from the catalog.

A quote's totals: materials subtotal, adjustments, and grand total, with shortcut chips for waste, labor, overhead, margin, and tax and active tax, labor, and removal rows.
Labor, waste, margin & tax — adjust the totalsSHOT QT-02

Because the line items came from the drawing, you’re tuning a number that’s already accounting for the whole dock — not rebuilding it by hand in a spreadsheet.

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Why prices stay put

When you create a quote it snapshots the current design and the product prices at that moment. Keep editing the dock, or let catalog prices change next month — the quote you already sent doesn’t move. Old quotes never silently change out from under you.

Need a fresh number?
Just create a new quote. The previous versions stay listed in the sidebar, so you keep a clean history of what each customer was actually shown.
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Draft → Sent → Accepted

Move the quote through Draft → Sent → Accepted as the deal progresses. Past quotes stay listed per project, so you always know what was quoted, when, and where it landed.

A project's quote history sidebar with status badges — Accepted, Sent, and Void — for quotes Q-001 through Q-007.
Every quote, with its statusSHOT QT-03

Ready to put it in front of a customer or a permit office? Export a PDF or share a link.

Key takeaways
  • Quotes start from the take-off, so the quantities are already correct.
  • Add custom lines for delivery, removal, and permits the drawing can’t know.
  • Apply labor, waste, margin, and tax; override any quantity or unit price.
  • Creating a quote snapshots the design and prices — sent quotes never drift.
  • Move quotes Draft → Sent → Accepted and keep every version per project.

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