Estimate Cost Summary-- Value Too High

Problem

The user has an Estimate that includes some assemblies that have a "fixed cost" component. When they click the Cost Summary button, some costs are too high.

NOTE-- In the stock Assemblies that are included with Goldenseal construction estimating software, there is only one assembly (Pressure Washing) that is set up that way. However, this problem also occurs for users who have created custom assemblies with a fixed price component.

Caught By

User bug report.

DETAILS

When calculating the cost of labor, materials and other components of an assembly, we were fetching the partial unit cost and then multiplying it by the quantity. For Assemblies with a fixed cost component, that meant we took the unit cost for one item-- which will be much higher than the cost for multiple items. The result is a reported cost that is too high.

This problem only affects the Cost Summary values-- the numbers in the Estimate itself are calculated correctly.

Solution

This problem is fixed in Goldenseal estimating software, version 3.6 and later.