Production Tab For Items
The Production Tab lets you manage production details for individual items and access an estimate's project management tools like scheduling, tasks, budget, and payments.
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Pricing & markup
- How To Price An Item (Labor, Material, or Subcontractor)
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- Add Labour Minimum or Base Costs
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Materials & production
- How to Configure Material Options and Pricing
- Material Tab Overview and Process
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- How to Split Labor and Material Items
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AI estimating
Overview
At the estimate level, the Production section of the left-hand sidebar houses your project management tools, including scheduling, tasks, budget, vendor orders, bills and expenses, and payments.
Before You Begin
- Have the estimate you want to work in open and ready.
- Within a project, look at the left-hand sidebar, below the Pre-production section.
- Under the Production section header, you'll see direct links for Change orders, Schedule, Tasks, Budget, Vendor orders, Bills and expenses, and Payments.
- Click any of these directly to open that tool -- there is no separate Production page to click into first.
Each of these individual tools is covered in depth in its own article.
Why This Matters
- Centralizes your project management tools -- scheduling, tasks, budget, vendor orders, bills and expenses, and payments -- in one place within the estimate.
Summary
The Production section of the left-hand sidebar is home to an estimate's broader project management tools, including scheduling, tasks, budget, vendor orders, bills and expenses, and payments -- click any of them directly to open that tool
Related guides
- Using Tasks for Project ManagementVideoProject Management · Scheduling & tasks
- How to Track Bills & Expenses for a Booked ProjectVideoProject Management · Budget & costs
- How to Create Purchase Orders or Work Orders from the Vendor Orders TabVideoVendors & Purchasing · Purchase orders
- Introduction to the new Budget TabVideoProject Management · Budget & costs
- Review and pay a vendor billVendors & Purchasing · Vendor management
