Guides
Guides on pricing and quoting
Written to be useful on their own, whether or not you ever open CostBase.
How to stop quoting from old material prices
Steel's up 13.1% this year. Aggregates, 12.2%. Three ways to protect a quote without buying any software.
Read guideHow to read a supplier invoice without missing a price rise
A price rise rarely announces itself. A short checklist for catching one before it costs you a job's margin.
Read guideWhy faster quotes win more jobs than cheaper quotes
Most clients go with whoever replies first, not whoever's cheapest. Three ways to get a quote out the same day.
Read guidePDF vs CSV: why most pricing software still makes you do the data entry
"Just export a CSV" assumes your supplier sends one. Most don't. What reading the PDF looks like instead.
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