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Materials & Services
Your catalog, your library, and how they work together.
- Materials lists explainedEvery proposal generates an internal materials list — sourced from your catalog, your library, then the master catalogs. Here's how it works.
- Your materials libraryYour personal product list — your real costs, your favorite thinsets and grouts, the products Biddy reaches for first when building materials lists. Add them one at a time, bulk-import a whole price list, or open any one of them for the full page.
- Building your service catalogYour service catalog is the work you SELL — demo, install, waterproofing, accessories. See your cost, price, and margin at a glance, and it grows on its own from jobs you ship.
- Tracking inventory and material pricesYour receipts quietly build a price history and a stock list. Here's the Inventory tab, the "update your cost?" nudge, and how to use leftovers on the next job.
- Service materials and favorite-for-rolesEvery service owns its materials directly. Tag your library products as favorite-for-role and Biddy uses your picks every time.
- Build Recipes have been replaced by VariantsBuild Recipes were rolled into the simpler Variants concept on services. This page explains what changed and where to go.
- Finding products in the catalogsBrowse and search the Schluter and Laticrete catalogs, thousands of tiles from Floor & Décor at current retail, and your own dealer's price list, if we've loaded it for you. Filter by type, series, supplier, and price, open any product for its full details, or ask Biddy in plain English.
- Service tasks and execution checklistsEvery service can carry its own list of execution tasks — what the crew physically does, how long it takes, and what skills and SOPs are needed.
- Auto-applying SOPs (org-wide checklists)Turn an SOP into a standing checklist by adding tasks and flipping "Auto-apply on sign." Tasks fire on every signed project automatically.
- How job type templates workSave your preferred shape of a Shower Remodel (or any project type) and every future proposal of that type starts from your template.
- Reviewing uploaded proposalsAfter you upload past proposals, a two-step review lets you pick which work goes in your catalog and confirm how BidCraft should write for you.