Using addons effectively

Sage Estimating (SQL) addons are extremely flexible. To take advantage of this powerful feature, you should review the following information:

• You can base addons on a variety of costs such as categories, estimate totals, or even other addons.

• You can create several addons with different rates for the same expense.

• You choose the specific addons that you need for each estimate in the Totals window.

• You can position an addon to include some estimate costs and exclude others. Example

  Example: If you want the insurance addon to include the cost of office overhead, position the insurance addon after the office overhead addon.

  

• You can customize the way an addon is calculated for a particular estimate by changing the addon details in the Totals window.

• When printing estimate reports, you can prorate (allocate) addons across items instead of showing each one separately.

• When generating transactions for job cost, you can prorate (allocate) addons across items instead of including a separate transaction for each one.