Costs, Prices & Products
Save reusable product details in your Product Catalog and maintain your rates in Price List. Connect both to the gardenโs measured quantities in Project Costs, where relevant costs recalculate automatically as the design changes. Review the calculation and prepare clear cost summaries for your project.
From design choices to cost decisions
Your Product Catalog and Price List are shared across projects. Project Costs brings their information together with the quantities in the garden you are designing. Prepare reports from the calculation in Document Center.
Costs connected to your design
Use your product details and prices across projects, and see how design changes affect the cost.
Project Costs
Change a priced area, length, volume or number of plants, and Project Costs recalculates the relevant amounts. Extend a count-priced stepping-stone path and its cost follows the new number of stones. Compare options without measuring and entering the quantities again.
In practice
Product Catalog and Price List
Keep product specifications, variants and supplier details in Product Catalog. Maintain unit prices and labor rates in Price List. Link these records to drawing objects so you can reuse your information in each garden project.
In practice
Unit-price locking
Lock an objectโs unit prices to retain its chosen material rates and labor assumptions. Quantities still follow the design: adding more plants increases the total at the same locked price per plant. Unlock to apply current linked prices.
In practice
Document Center
Generate a cost summary from your project calculation, with a total, category summary or line-by-line detail. Prepare plant and material order lists from the same project information. Check the quantities, rates and included work before sharing; regenerate reports when you need updated figures.
In practice
Capability detail
Record the actual products you intend to use, then connect them to drawing objects and the relevant price-list entries.
Search and organise reusable product records by category. Record manufacturer, model, product code, supplier and available variants, including nursery size details.
Keep relevant product specifications and your own named specification fields together. Add installation notes and links to external product documents.
Keep reusable product records current and exchange their details when needed.
See when a linked catalog product has changed. Apply the revised product information deliberately, or keep the saved selection as designed.
Exchange supported identity, notes and nursery-size fields through CSV to reduce repeated entry. Maintain richer specifications and document links in the product editor.
Capability detail
Keep the rates used by your practice together, with controls for different customer prices and project-specific decisions.
Maintain named customer price bands with their own material rates, discounts and optional labor-rate choices in one account price list.
Reuse named hourly labor rates and size grades across your price-list entries rather than maintaining separate copies in each project.
Import or export reusable price-list entries rather than entering each rate by hand.
Map columns, review validation and preview a CSV import before applying it. Export selected pricing fields and customer price bands, with explicit metric or imperial rate units.
Capability detail
Reduce repeated measurement and entry by using the design as the starting point for your cost calculation.
Use count, length, area or volume from supported objects. Choose the pricing basis that fits the work, including an entered count or a lump sum.
Include individual plants, hedge plant counts and generated planting-area species. Use the supported count, length or area pricing basis for the item.
Use supported ground-following lengths and areas. Review cut and fill volumes alongside costs, and enter excavation pricing as an additional item.
Review member counts, profiles, lengths and end-cut information in supported reports. These are quantity details; the structure is priced as one object.
Combine measured work with the prices and allowances you choose, keeping the basis of the cost calculation visible.
Link an object to a reusable price-list entry, or enter a project-specific price. Keep a one-off choice separate from your standard rates.
Combine material rates with hours per unit and an hourly labor rate. Review both contributions before deciding what detail to show a client.
Add equipment hire, permit fees, contingency or other costs outside the drawing. Enter a quantity and unit price, or a lump sum, as appropriate.
Apply your configured customer-price discounts, project adjustments and rounding rules. Review their effect on the project total.
Keep your material unit prices and labor assumptions while quantities and totals follow design changes. Unlock to review and apply current linked prices.
Review unresolved prices, quantities and assumptions before using the cost summary in a customer proposal or supplier discussion.
See automatic warnings for missing prices and deleted price-list links in Cost View. Select an affected drawing object to review its pricing in the Inspector and correct unresolved items before relying on the total.
See currency mismatches instead of silently converting amounts. State whether entered prices include or exclude VAT; VAT itself is not calculated.
Work with familiar measurement units and corresponding rate displays without maintaining a separate set of prices for each unit system.
Turn reviewed quantities and selections into useful paperwork without rebuilding the product information in a separate document.
Choose a client total, category summary or line breakdown. Keep internal material and labor details in the designer working report.
Prepare nursery and material lists with recorded supplier and product information. Review saved product selections and quantities before placing orders.
Prepare product specifications and measured work for supplier discussion. A bill of quantities leaves supplier rates and amounts for completion.
Calculated costs depend on project quantities and the prices, labor assumptions and allowances you enter. Review quantities, rates, unresolved items and included work before using a summary in a customer proposal. A cost summary is not a complete quotation. Gardenly3D does not calculate VAT, convert currencies or place supplier orders.
