Your flat and per-item prices now hold
If you priced a service at one flat number or a price per item — a shower niche at $650, a bench at $1,200, a haul-away fee at $550 — BidCraft now charges exactly that. Before, some of those prices were quietly re-worked from your day rate when the bid was put together, so the number you set didn't always reach the proposal.
What changes
- Flat prices stay flat. A service with a flat price shows that price on the scope and on the proposal, every time.
- Per-item prices multiply by the count. One niche at $650 is $650. Two niches are $1,300. Open the line on the scope and change the count in its price box, and the proposal bills it the same way.
- Your schedule still uses crew days. The crew-day estimate on those lines still sets how long the work takes on the Schedule. It just doesn't change what the client pays for them.
- A typed rate and count work together. On a per-item line you can type your own price for this bid and a count, and the line charges price × count.
- What you see is what builds. When you lock the scope, BidCraft re-checks every line against the prices on your screen, so the proposal bills exactly what the scope table showed.
- Bids you already built don't move. A locked scope keeps showing the prices it was built with, and regenerating an existing proposal keeps its lines' prices — a catalog price only comes in on a line where your scope showed it. To bring an older bid up to your current prices, choose Re-scope: the table shows today's prices, and Lock & build bills exactly those.
Hourly services
- Priced by the day (the service's unit is "day"): the line charges your day price × the line's crew days. Four days at $1,422 a day is $5,688.
- Priced by the hour: open the line and type the hours in its Price section. The line then charges your hourly rate × those hours. Until you type hours, the line is priced the way it always was — your usual price for that service, or crew days × your day rate. BidCraft never guesses the hours for you.
For how scope lines get their prices, see Reviewing the scope of work. For setting up services, see Building your service catalog.