The Pricing Module

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The Pricing Module is available for PRO and SE customers.

Price: $125.00 (only available for PRO and SE customers).

How can the module help you?: There are 3 ways to quote a job; 1) Just right, you get the job and are able to make the profit you desire. 2) Too high, you are too high priced to obtain the job. 3) Too low, I consider this to be the worst case. You get the job, however, loose money on it.


Function: Allows a user to assign cost to material, time to setup and run time to functions such as; cutting, bending, notching and welding. In addition other functions can be added such as; paint, cleanup, sand blast, etc.... A price is than given per hour of labor. In addition, a percentage increase can be given against material and/or time.

NOTE: This module is designed to allow you to obtain an accurate price. It is not designed to provide the quoted presentation material to your customer.

Design Features: Besides material there are run time and setup time for each work station. The setup time is a one time charge to the over all job. As an example; if it takes 20 minutes to setup the bending job for the die, then that time is divided up between the parts in an assembly and the quantities of the job to run. The run time is the amount of time to run that function. In the case of bending, the time it takes to move and rotate the material into the proper position, needs to be accounted for in the run time of the job.

Screen Shots:

We are going to start with the 3 shots of the Pricing Window. This is where you will find the price and time settings:





In all of the design interfaces you can obtain the pricing results.



Bend-Tech allows for multiple quantities. Find the Quantity fields in the lower left hand corner. Notice how the price per part goes down.



You can change any of fields on the fly; quantities, time per, price per hour, etc...



Bend-Tech allows you to add additional work centers on the fly. In our case we added a Paint work-center: