Adding Rates

Add and edit production rates to estimate surfaces including custom rates, dimensions, products, and advanced pricing options.

Production rates in PaintScout define how long specific surfaces take to paint and automatically calculate pricing based on dimensions. After adding an area, you apply rates to each surface within it.

How do you add rates to an estimate?

1. After setting up an area, pick a rate from the surface categories list. Select a category defined in your settings or create a custom rate.

2. Choose an individual surface/rate. Again you can choose from the pre-made rates from your settings, or create a custom rate.

3. Once you've made your surface selection, it gets added to the area. From there, you can either edit that surface or continue adding more.

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How to edit a surface

1. Click directly on the surface or select the three dots to the right:

2. Modify labels, edit rates, adjust dimensions, switch products, and access advanced options as needed.

• You can also fine-tune prep hours, painting hours, coats, and pricing.

Editing a rate within an estimate only alters that particular rate and won't impact the preset rates stored in the Account Settings.

For instance, if you modify the rate for baseboards from 25lnft/hr to 15lnft/hr while creating an estimate, this change will solely apply to that specific rate within that particular area.

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Creating Custom Rates

1. When adding a surface to the area, select +Custom Rate.

2. You will then be able to create a rate from scratch and customize it.

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Saving a custom rate to your settings

When creating a custom rate, you can choose the option to save it to your settings. The rate then becomes available for future estimates.

Saving a custom rate makes it reusable. Changes to the rate on the current estimate remain specific to that estimate.

1. Click the three dots next to the rate.

2. Select Save to settings.

1. You will be prompted to select the Rate Category the rate will belong to. Learn about Rate Categories.

1. This rate can be found in your Account Settings > Production Rates > Rate Categories. This rate can now be applied to future estimates.

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