#Price Sheets
Your own rate card — the rates you have collected or negotiated, saved once and used on every project.
Out of the box the Budget prices a design from EVT defaults, EVT3D's own planning rates. A Price Sheet is a named set of your rates that takes their place wherever you have a better number: what your LED vendor charges, what your drape house charges, what a stagehand costs in your market. Saving a Price Sheet of your own is a Pro feature. Every plan prices from EVT defaults and can type a project override on any line (see Budget panel and meter).
#What it does
#EVT defaults and your own sheets
In the Budget Meter, click Manage beside Price Sheet to open Price Sheets inside the Budget panel. The list starts with EVT defaults, which is read-only, followed by the sheets you have made and, on a team, the ones your teammates have made, each with its number of rates and the date it was last updated. The sheet the project is using is marked Active; Use on any other row switches to it. The Price Sheet dropdown in the meter does the same without leaving the budget. The choice is saved with the project and applies to every Design Option in it.
#How a rate is picked
For every line, the Budget looks for a number in this order and takes the first one it finds:
- Your project override on that line.
- The active Price Sheet.
- EVT defaults.
If none of them has a number, the line is unpriced and waits in the Unpriced section. A sheet does not have to be complete: any rate it has no number for falls through to EVT defaults. The chip beside each rate names the one that was used — Override, My sheet or EVT — and reads No rate when there is none.
#A new sheet starts from a copy, or blank
New sheet takes a name and a starting point: Copy of EVT defaults, a copy of any sheet in your list, or Blank. A copy holds its own numbers from that day on, so later changes to EVT defaults do not reach the rates your sheet already carries. A blank sheet holds only what you save into it and leaves everything else to EVT defaults. The sheet you create becomes the active sheet of the project you are in.
#Rates are saved from budget lines
You fill and correct a sheet from the budget itself. Click the rate on any line, type your number in Project override, and click Save to my price sheet. The rate is written to the active sheet, the override on that line is cleared, and the line now reads from the sheet. Every project using that sheet gets the number — on a team, your teammates' projects too — and EVT defaults are never changed. Saving the same rate again replaces it. A line that had no default rate can be given one this way, so it arrives priced on your next project.
The panel has no table of a sheet's rates; you add and change them one line at a time. Lines you made with + Add line belong to the project and cannot be saved to a sheet. A rate is saved in the project's currency, and a project in another currency converts it at that project's saved exchange rate. A project that has no exchange rate saved yet leaves that line unpriced and shows Refresh rates beside Currency; click it once to get one.
#Rename and delete
Rename edits a sheet's name in place. Delete asks first (Delete this Price Sheet?) and then removes the sheet for good — on a team, for everyone on it; any project that was using it falls back to EVT defaults.
#When rates change after a budget was saved
The panel always prices with the rates as they are now. The project also keeps the totals of its last saved budget, and the panel's footer shows when that was (Estimate saved and the date). If the active sheet or EVT defaults change after that date, the footer shows Rates changed since this estimate and a Reprice button, which stamps today's totals on the project.
#Plans and who sees a sheet
Creating a sheet, renaming it and Save to my price sheet need Pro. On other plans those controls are greyed out with a note naming the plan, and the Budget still works in full from EVT defaults and project overrides. If your plan changes, the sheets you already made stay in the list, can still be used on a project and can be deleted.
A Price Sheet belongs to your team. Everyone on the team sees the same list and can use any sheet in it, so a project prices the same for each of you. A teammate on Pro can also rename a sheet, save rates to it and delete it; on another plan, a teammate can delete only the sheets they made. Sheets you made before joining a team are shared with it once you join. If you are not on a team, your sheets are yours alone. Someone outside your team who opens the same project does not have your sheet, so their panel prices it from EVT defaults.
#How you use it
- Open Price Sheets. Open the Budget panel and click Manage beside Price Sheet.
- Create a sheet. Under New sheet, type a name, pick Copy of EVT defaults or Blank, and click Create. It becomes the active sheet.
- Go back to the lines. Click Back to the budget.
- Save a rate you know. On a line where you have a real number, click the rate, type Typical (and a low and a high figure if you have a spread), and click Save to my price sheet.
- Repeat for the rates you have. Leave the rest alone; they keep their default numbers.
- Use it on the next project. Pick the sheet from the Price Sheet dropdown in the Budget Meter.
- Keep one-off numbers in the project. For a number that belongs to this job only, click Apply instead of saving it; it stays a project override.
- Remove a sheet you no longer need. Click Manage, then Delete on its row, and confirm.
#Why it matters
EVT defaults are a starting point for a show that could be anywhere. Your rates are not: they come from your market, your vendors and the terms you negotiated. A project override fixes one line in one project, which is right for a one-off, but the number has to be typed again on the next job.
A Price Sheet keeps it. Each rate you save turns one more line from a default into your own figure, on every project that uses the sheet, so the budget you bring to a client on day one of a new design already starts from what the work costs you.