Setting Up Your Cost Data

Labor, equipment, and material rates, crews and factors, cost codes, and your customer and vendor libraries.

Understanding Cost Libraries in Stimaro

How cost data is organized in Stimaro, from rates and resources up through items and the final bid.

Setting Up Labor Rates

Where labor rates live in Stimaro, how to enter wages and burden, and how the loaded cost flows into your items.

Labor Rates and Prevailing Wage

What prevailing wage is, when it applies to your work, how it changes your labor rates, and how Stimaro helps you stay compliant.

Setting Up Equipment Rates

How owned and rented equipment are costed separately in Stimaro, what goes into a daily equipment cost, and how rates flow into items.

Setting Up Rental Rates

How to add and manage rental rates in Stimaro for equipment you hire rather than own, and how those rates flow into your items and bid.

Setting Up Material Costs

How to add and manage material rates in Stimaro, and how those rates feed the cost of materials on your item sheets.

Setting Up Subcontractor Costs

How to add and manage subcontract rates in Stimaro, how to carry a sub's scope as a lump sum, and how those rates feed your items and bid.

Setting Up Other Costs

How to add and manage other costs in Stimaro for line items like permits, bonds, and fees, and how those rates feed your items and bid.

Building Crews

How to group labor and equipment that always work together into a reusable crew, and how to drop a whole crew onto an item in one step.

Overtime and Shift Factors

How to set up overtime and shift multipliers in Stimaro, what each multiplier reprices, and how to build one from a work schedule.

Setting Up a Cost Library

How to set up cost codes in Stimaro so your estimates, reports, and review PDFs are organized the way your company tracks work.

Customers and Vendors Libraries

What the Customers and Vendors libraries store, how to add and edit entries, and where that information shows up across the app.

Importing Rates from a Spreadsheet

How to bring rates into Stimaro from a CSV or Excel file with the import wizard, map the columns, and handle codes that already exist.

Copying from Another Job

How to pull rates and items from an existing job into the one you are working on, and how to resolve codes and rates that conflict.