Materials

Some jobs are priced on labour alone; many also bill the materials. The Materials section of the quote editor is where you list those materials — paint, panels, fixings, anything you buy in to complete the work — each with a quantity, a unit and a price.

Materials are totalled separately from your work. The quote summary headlines the services total — what you earn for the labour — and lists the materials as their own total beneath it, because materials are really the client's cost passed through rather than part of your fee. The quote detail view and the PDF the client receives keep the same split: a services summary and a separate materials summary.

Adding a material to a quote

Open a quote and scroll to the Materials card. The search field works like the rest of the editor:

• Start typing and pick a material you've used before. Its unit and price are filled in for you.
• Or type a name you haven't used yet and choose Add material “…”. The material is added to the quote with the name you typed; set its quantity and price inline.

Each material row shows quantity × unit price = value. Tap the quantity or the price to edit them in place. Use the bin icon to remove a row. If you are a VAT payer using mixed rates, each material row also carries its own VAT rate — tap it to change it, exactly like services and additional items.

Bulido remembers the materials you use

There's no separate list to keep — Bulido builds one for you as you work. When you type a brand-new material straight into a quote and save it, the material is remembered. Next time you start typing in the Materials section, it comes up as a suggestion with its unit and price already filled in, so you pick it instead of typing it out again. Some common materials are suggested from the start.

There's nothing extra to tick and nothing to tidy up: your suggestions grow automatically from the quotes you write, and picking one never changes a quote you've already saved.

What's next

Once materials and services are in place, decide whether prices show net or gross — see Net or gross prices.