Products

A Product is a single thing you buy or supply — a bag of cement, a metre of pipe, an hour of labour. Each one has a base unit of measure (UOM) and lives in your Rate Library so it can be reused across every project.

Manual entry is right when you have a single price — a verbal quote, a one-off rate, a labour charge-out figure — and an import would be overkill.

Adding a brand-new product

1. Go to Rate Library → Products.
2. Click + New Product.
3. Fill in:
   • Name — be specific. “Concrete C30/37 ready-mix” beats “concrete”. You’ll thank yourself later when searching.
   • Category — picks the kind of product (Material, Labour, Equipment, Subcontract, Plant). The category also restricts which UOMs are allowed (you can’t price labour per m³).
   • Base UOM — the unit you’ll ultimately price per. For materials this is usually m, m², m³, kg, or each. For labour it’s almost always hour.
   • Subcategory (optional) — used to group related products in lists and exports.
4. Save. You’ll land on the empty product detail page, ready for its first price.

When to add a new product vs. a new price

• Same item, different supplier or newer date → add a price to the existing product. This keeps comparison and history clean.
• Genuinely different item (different spec, grade, size) → new product. Don’t try to fit a 20 mm pipe and a 25 mm pipe into one product — they’ll have different quantities and different rates.

Related

• Adding prices manually
• Importing price sheets