Project pricing options

Order levels

You can enable print ordering at three levels: full job, section folder, or individual sheet. This gives you a lot of control over how your customers can order your job.

In many cases your General Contractor may want to prevent individual sheet ordering, forcing sub-contractors to purchase an entire discipline folder to ensure they don't miss anything. All you have to do is leave the file orders disabled when creating your sections.

There may be times you want to only allow full set ordering (one example would be for deposit jobs), in these cases simply don't enable any of the order options when setting up your sections, and just enable ordering in your main job details.

Price calculations

When you enable ordering at any of the three levels, you have two choices for how the order should be priced: Calculate SQFT or Flat Price.

Calculate SQFT

ReproConnect can automatically calculate a price based on the SQFT of an item. There are two requirements to get this to work:

Set up your global SQFT tiers
1. In your Control Center go to the Planroom Settings, and then the Orders tab, and then on the right click the edit pencil next to "Square Foot Pricing".
2. You'll now see any current square foot prices, where you edit, add or remove tiers.
3. Starting at 0, enter the minimum order size for a given tier on the left, and the price per SQFT for that range on the right. You can add as many tiers as you want.
4. You can also set your Spec prices the same way, however keep in mind that we'll treat one SQFT as a page for specs. So when you set a range of 0 - 99 with a price, you are setting the price per page for that range.
Set the SQFT in your job
1. When editing a job, you now just need to tell ReproConnect the size of your plans in the "Options" section. The default for plans is 6 (for a 24x36) and you can change this on jobs that use a different size.

Flat Price

A flat price is very simple: it's a precalculated price that you want to apply to the job, section, or sheet without any consideration for its size or page count.

When should I use SQFT versus Flat?

If you have a simple pricing model for print orders, say where customers will always pay a set per-sheet price, you are certainly welcome to just use flat pricing all the time. It may not even be necessary to setup SQFT prices.

SQFT prices work well when:

You want the price to automatically handle different page sizes for different jobs
You want volume discounts built in automatically
You are ok with using the default/global pricing you have setup, and don't need custom pricing for a particular job

Note that last item carefully. SQFT prices are global, and cannot be changed per job. This means that one big reason why you may want to switch to flat pricing is when you post a job for a customer with separate agreed-upon pricing. SQFT pricing is global, flat pricing can be anything you want at any level (job/section/sheet).

There is one last place that you will probably want to use flat pricing, and that is full job ordering.

SQFT pricing can work really well when customers are ordering individual sheets, or section folders. Once you get to the full job level, you probably want to calculate what your full set should cost, and just type it in as a flat price.

There are a few reasons why this is a good idea:

SQFT price calculations will go around and look at every file in your job to figure out price. Once you start posting updates and addenda for your job, it's possible that you'll have the same file posted twice (once in a current set discipline folder, and separately in an addendum folder). You clearly wouldn't want the planroom to count the file twice, flat pricing avoids this issue.
Calculating SQFT of a large job can take some time (several seconds), meaning a delay when the customer adds the job to the shopping cart. A flat price is much faster (instant).

Need help?

We know that getting the pricing all setup when you first get started can be a bit confusing. Don't hesitate to reach out to us and we'll be happy to walk through the process with you.