Moving Material Costs

NOTE-- We retired MacNail estimating in 2000, and replaced it with Goldenseal construction estimating software. There are still some die-hard MacNail users, so we keep the manuals online for them! Goldenseal also includes accounting, project management and contract writing features. It requires no manual updating of unit costs, since pricing is automatically posted as soon as you enter or import new prices.

Moving New Material prices to a Price Master

After you've used the Update Material Prices command to calculate the latest material unit prices, you'll want to move the new material unit prices into the MacNail Price Master (or into some other file, if you are using estimators or another Price Master to store your 'price book' in the MacNail construction management software).

To update construction material prices:

1. Choose Move Prices from the Data menu.
2. In the dialog box move prices from MacNail Material Costs (the choice will be A Material Costs file if you are using more than one set of Material price files). Under Move Items To, click on the desired destination (see illustration, next page). The remaining buttons in the dialog don't apply to the moving of new material prices.
3. The rest of the price-moving process is fully automatic. The time it takes depends on the number of items moved and the speed of your computer. See pages 221-223 for more about this command.