Pricing and output
Price your takeoff
How measurements reach the worksheet, and where the money comes from.
How measurements get here
You do not send anything to the worksheet. Open the Worksheet tab and what you measured on the drawings is already in it, with the quantities carried straight across and the rates you gave each measurement when you created it.
Change a measurement on the drawing and the worksheet follows. The drawing stays the source of truth for quantities.
If nothing has been taken off yet, the page says so: no measurements yet, take off measurements to build the worksheet.
Work down the job
- Open the Worksheet tab in your project. If the job uses areas, each area is a card, and there is a jump list above them for long jobs.
- Read down the measurements. Each row is a description and a total, in the units of what you measured, such as 10.20 m or 6 EA.
- Expand a row to see what it is made of: the parts and the labour behind that total, with their rates. Edit anything that is wrong here rather than going back to the drawing.
- Add what was never on a drawing. + Additional item pulls a part straight from your price book, and + Additional labour adds a labour line. This is where hire, allowances and the things you always forget belong.
- Choose + Measurement if something is genuinely missing. It takes you back to the drawing to measure it.
Where the money comes from
Every price in Tally is built the same way. You give a part a Unit cost, which is what you pay, and a Markup %, which starts at 10.00. Tally works out the Unit price from the two, and the field says as much: worked out for you.
Switch that part’s pricing from Calculated to Manual when you want to type a price directly, for instance a rate a supplier has already quoted you. The cost stays visible either way, so your margin never hides.
Areas multiply here
An area with a multiplier shows it on its card, and its measurement quantities are scaled by it on the worksheet. One apartment measured once, times twelve, is twelve apartments priced. See organise a project.
Showing more, or less
The Options menu at the top decides what the worksheet shows. You can hide the measurements or the additional items to concentrate on the other, Show build totals to see what each line is assembled from, and Show totals by plan to see which drawing contributed what.
The same menu holds Print / export worksheet to PDF, which is the worksheet as a document rather than the priced summary.
Saving the work for the next job
The Actions menu on an area card does the housekeeping: Edit area, Copy area to duplicate its measurements into a new one, and Link plans to say which drawings the area covers.
It also holds Save area as template. If you have just built a set of measurements you will need on every job of this type, save it once and apply it next time. See reuse work with templates.
Next
The worksheet is the build-up. Check your quantities is the number you send.