Costings

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Costings

The costings screen allows you see exactly how much profit, in money and margin terms, you are making. It also allows you to use it as a margin calculator by adjusting one figure to make changes to the whole order.

 

costings To open costings:

 

Click the Costings button on the main quote toolbar (once you have saved the quote)

Right-click a saved quote/order reference and select Costings

 

The costings screen is split into 2 separate tabs: Summary and Detailed Costing

 

LOCKING

Note that when a sales invoice has been exported or production has begin on the order, then the columns of the costings screen will be disabled, so no changes can be made. When an invoice has been created the costs are still visible but cannot be changed.

 

Summary Tab

 

The summary tab shows a line for each product group. The upper half of the screen shows product groups, row by row and the lower half shows order discounts.

 

hmtoggle_plus1Product Group

 

hmtoggle_plus1Order Discount

 

 

Detailed Costing Tab

 

In addition to the summary tab where you can view product groups, on the detailed costing tab you can see each product.

 

Left to right the columns are:

 

Supplier - Shows the supplier you have chosen for the product.

P/O No. - Shows the purchase order number if you have already placed some orders.

Disc % - Product discount in place from the quote (note you cannot edit this column)

Sales - Your sales value

 

Cost - Current cost price (cannot be edited)

Profit - Current profit value

Margin/Markup % - Current margin being made.

 

hmtoggle_plus1Actual columns:

 

IMPORTANT
If you make any changes and you do not want to save them, just use X to close the window. Your changes will be discarded.

 

When you are finished editing click update_small Update to save and close the screen.

 

 

Profit and Margin

 

If you need a quick view of the profit and margin you can view this outside of costings by looking at the top title bar. You can see the profit (shown after P in pounds) and margin (shown after M, as percent) in the top title bar:

 

profit margin

 

E.g. profit is £926, and margin of 42%

 

(To enable this display of profit and margin you need to select it in Tools > Customise > Quotations & Pricing > Pricing and tick the box "Show the margin at the top of the quotation).