Cost components and summary

The cost summary is the heart of the Service module. It rolls up every cost line into one Total Estimated Cost you can trust and quote against, no manual addition, no stale numbers.

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Add a screenshot here: the cost summary panel showing each cost-class subtotal, the resource subtotal, the Total Estimated Cost, and the margin / selling-price fields.

Read the cost summary

Open a saved service and look at the cost summary. It shows:

• A subtotal for each cost class: consumables, replacement parts, licences, infrastructure, travel, accommodation, misc, plus the resource-allocation subtotal.
• The Total Estimated Cost, which is the exact sum of all seven cost-component subtotals plus the resource subtotal. Empty or disabled sections contribute zero.
• The pre-tax subtotal, total tax and tax-inclusive total, shown consistently.
• An optional margin and resulting selling price, both editable, in your organisation’s currency. Any change you make to the margin or an override is recorded in the audit log.

For example, a service with consumables 200, parts 1700, licences 10,000, infrastructure 3000, travel 1500, accommodation 4000, misc 800 and resources 2000 has a Total Estimated Cost of exactly 23,200. A brand-new service with no lines has a total of 0.

It recalculates whenever you change anything

Add, edit or remove any row in any section and the affected subtotal and the total recompute on save, there is never a stale total. If you remove a 10,000 licence line from the example above, the licence subtotal drops to 0 and the total becomes 13,200. Add a consumable and the total moves again.

Included sub-services roll their costs up into the parent’s total, and vendor pricing is included where enabled.

The total is always trustworthy

• The server calculates the authoritative total from the raw quantities, costs and tax rates. The figure shown on screen is advisory, the saved total always reflects a correct recalculation.
• Rounding is deterministic: each line is rounded, then summed, so money never drifts even after many edits.

Configure which cost components you use

Not every business needs every section. A software shop can switch off travel and accommodation; a field-service shop keeps everything.

1. Open Settings → Cost components (Tenant Admin only).
2. For each component, labour, material, travel, accommodation, infrastructure, licences, misc, switch it on or off for your organisation.
3. Rename a component’s display label to match your terminology.
4. Save. Changes are recorded in the audit log.

Disabling a component never erases cost data already captured on existing services, historical figures are preserved.