Tell BidCraft how long your work takes

Until now you could set a price on a service or template line, but not how many crew-days it usually runs. So every proposal guessed the schedule from scratch. Now you can put your own numbers in, and proposals start from them.

What's new

On any fixed-price service (or a crew-days line in a project template), there's a new Default Crew-Days field — just enter how many days the work normally takes. Quarter-days are fine: 0.5, 1.25, 2.

On a per-sqft or per-linear-ft service (or template line), you'll set a Production Rate instead — how much your crew gets done in a day, like 120 sqft/day or 60 lf/day. BidCraft divides the job's measurement by your rate to estimate the crew-days.

You'll find these in two places:

• Catalog → Services → open a service. The field appears right under the pricing model.
• Catalog → Project Templates → open a template and expand any line.

How it shows up on proposals

When BidCraft drafts the scope of work, it now starts from your number instead of guessing — and only nudges it up or down for things specific to that job. You can still adjust the crew-days during scope review like always. If the AI ever comes back with nothing for a line you've set a default on, BidCraft falls back to your number so it's never quietly dropped.

Production rate is used for scheduling only — it never changes the price the customer sees.

[!tip] When you save a proposal as a template, your crew-days lines bring their day counts along automatically — so the next job of that type starts grounded in what the last one actually took.

Hourly and per-unit services don't have these fields — they're already measured in hours or item count.