Add machines & their running rates
Price printer, laminator, router and laser time automatically.
What this is for
A machine rate is what it costs to run a machine — the printer, laminator, router, laser. Once your machines and rates are set, machine time prices itself into every recipe that uses them.
Before you start
- You are signed in as an admin.
- Helpful: you have your departments set up so you can link machines to them.
Step by step
- 1
Open Catalogue → Machine rates.
- 2
Press + New rate profile, then pick the rate category the machine belongs to (for example Wide format print).
- 3
Fill in Provider, Model and an optional Type, then enter the rate figures grouped under Throughput, Cost and Setup — such as Hourly rate, Square metres per hour or Ink cost per square metre.
- 4
Press Save changes, and repeat for each machine. Recipes that use a machine now add its cost automatically.
Tips & gotchas
- Set the rate to recover the machine's real running cost — power, consumables, wear, and the cost of owning it. Profit is added by your margin later.
- Charge machines in the unit you think in. A printer might be per square metre; a router per hour.