Apply overheads, profit, prelims, and other markup to your estimates.
15 articles
Introduction to Markup & Profit
An overview of how to apply overheads, profit, prelims, and other markup using the summary table.
Updated 26 March 2026
Using the Summary Table
An overview of the summary table layout, how to read the cost-to-sell path, and where material categories, site labour, and project totals are displayed.
Material On-Cost Percentages
How to apply different on-cost percentages to individual material categories on the summary table and view detailed component breakdowns.
Labour Selling Rate
How to adjust the labour selling rate on the summary table and apply different markup percentages to multiple labour types.
Presetting Default Markup
How to preset your standard on-cost, overhead, profit, and builders discount percentages in the Miscellaneous File so they are pre-filled on every new project.
Overhead and Profit
How to apply general overhead and profit percentages on the summary table and understand how they interact with on-cost percentages.
Gross Profit Indicator and Targets
How to use the gross profit indicator to check your return, set a target gross profit percentage, and enter a target gross contract cost.
Builders Discount
How to apply builders discount on the summary table as a fraction or percentage, and how to preset a default value.
Inflation Column
How to use the inflation column on the summary table to adjust base costs for volatile prices, rounding up labour days, and general cost uncertainty.
Preliminary Costs
How to add fixed, time-related, and percentage preliminary costs to your estimate, choose whether to show or spread them, and edit your default preliminary descriptions.
Prime Costs and Provisional Sums
How to add prime costs, provisional sums, and contingencies to your estimate using the Prime Costs Etc tab on the summary table.
Subcontract and Specials Markup
How to mark up subcontractor quotations and specialist work on the summary table using the Breakdowns tab.
Section Markup
How to open the section markup screen, apply individual markup percentages to each section of your project, set target sell-out values, and review section-level reports.
Accumulate Sections Mode
How to use accumulate sections mode to link the totals table and section markup together, and how to set it as the default for all new projects.
Cost Code Markup
How to enable cost code markup, set up cost codes, and apply different markup percentages by cost code on the summary table.
