On the estimate, set the material price allowance between 0 and 10 percent to pad material totals in a volatile market, or switch it off entirely. Full steps below.
Where: Settings > Estimate Labor, and the Target rates step just before an Advanced Estimate is generated
Plans: Agency and Enterprise (Advanced Estimates)
Steps
On the estimate, set the material price allowance between 0 and 10 percent to pad material totals in a volatile market, or switch it off entirely.
Add the optional price escalation clause so a long-running job can be re-priced if supplier costs move.
To lift prices across the board later, adjust items in the Price Book rather than re-doing estimates.
The allowance is shown as its own figure — it never quietly rewrites your supplier costs.
Rules and limits
Only trades that match a saved role are priced from your settings; anything else falls back to the project's location.
Location matching goes postal code, then street and city, then region, then country — the most specific answer wins.
If live local prices cannot be reached, the estimate still builds from market averages and says so calmly — your work is never lost.
The material price allowance is capped at 10 percent.
Local wording, units and currency follow the country saved in the company's settings.
Still stuck?
If a step does not match what you see on screen, stop there and open a ticket from Support > My Tickets with a screenshot of that step. The team will look at the account directly.