A bridge from the org's Service Catalog (names and rates in org_service_catalog) to geometry and a measured quantity. Twelve geometry kinds are recognised: gutter, gutter guard, gravel floor, concrete slab, concrete footer, concrete approach, concrete porch pad, garage door, Versetta stone, board and batten, wall insulation and roof insulation.
Also called: service catalog · add gutters · add concrete · options and upgrades · service pricing
Your own service list, attached to the building
Pick a row from the services you already price — gutters, a concrete pad, insulation, stone, a garage door — and it appears in 3D on the building with a quantity the building measures for itself. Twelve kinds are recognised, including gutter guard, gravel floor, frost footer, concrete approach, porch pad, board and batten, and wall and roof insulation.
Quantities follow the building; the quoted rate does not move
Change the building and the gutter footage follows the eaves, the slab square footage follows width times length, the approach follows the garage doors on the front, the porch pad follows the porches — unless somebody typed an override. The rate is frozen at the moment you added it, so editing your catalogue next month cannot quietly reprice a quote you already sent.
See what an option adds before you switch it on
Every toggle in the right-click menu carries its measured quantity and its price: On, 188 lin ft, $1,316 for gutters; a dollar figure on Insulate this wall. That turns an option list into a conversation you can have with the customer standing beside you, rather than a change you make now and price later at the desk.
Insulate the shop side and leave the equipment bay
Insulation is chosen per wall, per product and per thickness — batt, open-cell, closed-cell or rigid board, on a real thickness ladder — and drawn to scale inside the girt cavity. Square feet are measured net of the openings, and the note reports board-feet for the foam contractor. One building-wide toggle cannot describe the job that actually gets sold.
The upgrades that sell the building are drawn and measured
Stone veneer as a band at the wainscot height, measured net of whatever openings punch through it — a front wall that is mostly overhead door carries far less stone than its perimeter suggests. Vertical battens on the wall steel at 16 inch centres. A wainscot band splits the wall skin at its real height, so the two colours are drawn correctly and bought correctly, each at its own area.
- 1Catalog ids are tenant-private, so matching is by NAME (with category as a tie-break), never by id.
- 2Each placement freezes the catalogue rate at add time, so a later Settings edit cannot silently reprice a saved design.
- 3Quantity is RE-MEASURED from the building whenever the shell changes — gutter linear feet follow the eaves, slab square feet follow width times length, approach follows the garage doors, porch pad follows the porches — unless a rep typed an override.
- 4Some kinds only make sense once per building and are marked unique; garage doors stack.
- 5Built-in fallback rows let the right-click menu toggle the 3D even before a tenant has priced the matching catalogue line, at a zero rate that shows quantity only.
- 6Placements merge into the estimate's service list with quantities re-measured, while unlinked manual lines stay untouched.
Services attached to a building — concrete, site work, install labour — have to follow the geometry when the building changes, but not the price. If the building grows the quantity is re-measured and the quoted rate is left alone, because re-measuring a quantity is arithmetic and re-pricing a quote is a conversation with a customer. Services match to each company's own catalogue by name, so one shared definition works across shops that each keep their own private rates.
- Add-on services quoted outside the model and going stale after a change.
- Saved quotes silently repricing when a catalogue rate changes.
See it on your own jobs
Twenty minutes, your numbers, no slide deck. We’ll build one of your real buildings in front of you and send you the estimate link at the end — yours to keep either way.
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