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.