Costs In , the term 'costs' is used to refer to expenses that you will incur when working on jobs. These costs do not include staff labour costs, which are based on the time worked on tasks. Costs may relate to physical items (such as plant, machinery, consumables) or to other expenses such as subcontractors or mileage. can be imported into the Cost Admin database In , the costs of the products, materials or recurring expenses that you typically use while working on a job can be stored in the Cost Admin database (at > Settings > General Settings > Costs). When you are working on an estimate, quote or job you can quickly access a cost from the database, simply by typing its name in the description field (on the cost information screen). or added from scratch.
This setup step is required only if you need to frequently add costs for disbursements, materials, mileage or sub-contractors to your jobs to on-charge to your clients.
What to do
As it's useful to work through the steps required to add a cost to the database, we'll cover that here and leave importing costs until the full setup stage.