Recipes are a group of inventory items that are used to quickly estimate an area, length or item with many components. Also commonly referred to as "compound inventory".
Once you use a recipe you can explode the recipe and all the items within it are added to your estimate.
A simple example would be a recipe for a 2400 high external wall, instead of having to work out each individual item such as the plaster, paint, studs and labour you can create a recipe which has each component per lineal metre (the height is fixed). The recipe would be " 2400h - 70mm stick-built external walls per m" with a unit of measure (UOM) of ‘LM’ (per lineal metre).
Each inventory item within the recipe then has a divisor based on how many of those items are required per metre, below is how this recipe might look in the real-world scenario:
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2400h - 70mm stick-built external walls per m |
Cost |
Unit |
Quantity |
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Chemically treated films - perimeter up to 500mm wide |
$18.00 |
lin m |
1 |
|
Carpenter (Tradesperson) - hourly rate |
$55.00 |
per hour |
13.6 |
|
Structural pine MGP10 - 70 x 35mm |
$2.32 |
lin m |
2 |
|
Structural pine MGP12 - 70 x 35mm |
$3.16 |
lin m |
2 |
|
Structural pine MGP12 - 70 x 35mm |
$3.16 |
lin m |
7.68 |
|
Square washer M12 50 x 50 x 3mm (each) |
$0.29 |
EACH |
0.55 |
|
Hex nut M12 each |
$0.09 |
EACH |
0.55 |
|
Threaded rod M12 x 2700mm |
$5.13 |
EACH |
0.55 |
|
Chemical masonry anchor 400ml |
$34.05 |
EACH |
0.02 |
|
Nails: striated concrete 4.0 x 63mm (box of 100) |
$6.73 |
EACH |
0.01 |
Once you have a recipe built you can simply trace the walls from your floor plan and then enter the length using your recipe as an item within the estimate (or use GTO), when you are happy with the estimate and want to breakdown all the quantities (see BOQ) or for the purpose of ordering all the materials (see Orders) you can simply click on the recipe icon (insert icon) and select “Explode” this will move all the items from within the recipe into their linked Cost Centres and you’ll be able to proceed with ordering or generating BOQ with more detail.
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It is also possible to have negative values within Recipes ie: minus bricks and then plus windows etc. |
Tip: Recipes can be used for anything, for instance you may have a set of standard costs for every estimate, you could simply combine all these costs into a recipe and explode it for each new job to save the time of adding the same items over and over.
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