A rule set rather than a single field. One rule can target everything; others target a material category, labour, services, colour upgrades, an individual labour line or an individual service line. Each rule is a percent or a flat dollar figure and reports its own contribution on the estimate.
Also called: margin · add my percentage · profit on the job · mark it up
Markup applies to the whole job — labour and services included
A percentage marks up materials plus labour plus services plus colour upgrades together. Before that, services sat outside the base, so adding $11,000 of concrete to a job added nothing at all to your margin. That is the most common way a quote looks profitable and isn't.
Put more margin on framing than on sheeting, on this job
One rule can target everything; others target a material category, labour, services, colour upgrades, or a single labour or service line. A flat percentage across the job cannot say that framing carries more risk than steel on this one, which is how a builder actually prices.
Percent or flat dollars, and every rule shows what it added
Each rule is a percentage or a dollar figure, and each renders as its own labelled line with the dollars it put on the job. You can see what your margin is worth on this quote without doing the arithmetic a second time to check.
Mark up individual material sections on top of the overall number
Framing, Openings and Trim can each carry their own percent or flat amount, keyed to the section name so it survives re-pulling the job. The live math prints under the input — “$12,400 + 8% = $13,392” — and a builder who only uses the overall markup never sees the extra column.
Your margin stays visually separate from the supplier's price
Line markup is printed below the supplier total and labelled as not on the supplier order. Everything above that line is the supplier's arithmetic; everything below it is yours. Rendered the other way round, margin reads as though the yard were charging it.
- 1Rules are stored per estimate with a target, a kind (percent or flat) and a value.
- 2The 'Everything' rule applies to materials + labour + services + colours combined.
- 3Targeted rules apply to their own bucket only.
- 4Every rule renders as a labelled line — 'Markup · Framing · 12%' — and its dollar amount is added to the customer total.
- 5Clearing a rule's value removes it entirely rather than leaving a zero.
Markup was applied to materials and labour but not to services, so adding $11K of concrete to a job added exactly nothing to the margin on it. A percentage now applies to the whole project cost — materials, labour and services together — and the breakdown shows what each rule contributes in dollars. Per-part rules exist because one overall percentage cannot say that framing carries more risk than sheeting on this particular job, which is the judgement a builder is actually paid for.
- Markup applied to materials only, so services and labour carried no margin
- One blanket percentage that can't reflect where the risk actually is
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