Firm price book
What your firm pays suppliers, separate from utility tariffs.
Reviewed
What this is for
What a design costs to build. The rows are what a bill of materials is costed against. A tariff is what the utility charges the customer; this book is what this firm pays its supplier. Mixing the two is how a quote gets a plausible total that is somebody else's arithmetic.
Region pack rows are indicative benchmarks read off public retail listings, not quoted prices. They exist so a design produces a number at all rather than a column of dashes. Yours is what this firm actually pays. The resolver prefers yours wherever one exists. Ownership beats specificity: a team's catch-all wins over a platform row naming the exact conductor size.
Every shipped row reads Never reviewed. Hardware prices move faster than tariffs.
Steps
- Open Pricing under Team.
- The book lists kind (modules, inverters, batteries, conductor sizes, and the rest of a bill), how specific the row is (Any or a size), the unit the price is quoted in, effective from, version, reviewed, owner.
- New price writes a team row. That is how you correct a benchmark: enter your own buying price beside it. Never try to edit the shipped row; it is not this team's and applies to everybody. A region pack row's menu offers Enter your own price, which starts from the benchmark's figure; your own row's menu offers Replace this price and Delete.
- The unit is the whole meaning of the number. A per-watt figure typed as an each-price produces a plausible book and a system cost three orders of magnitude too large with correct arithmetic throughout. The unit is printed on the row, the field and the refusal.
- A price is never edited once a proposal has been issued against it. Replacing one closes it the day before its successor starts, so a document a client signed keeps reproducing the total it was signed against.
- An unpriced bill-of-materials line is reported, never treated as free. The total sums the lines that priced; the count that did not travels beside it; every reader renders a dash.
Prices are never converted between currencies. A mismatch against the model's currency contributes nothing and says so.
Delivered rates
Delivered rates on the Pricing screen opens what your own quotes actually came to, one row per computed financial model. It is the evidence for what to type into the book: a price book edited with nothing to check it against is a guess.
It is a separate screen on purpose. A price is what your firm pays a supplier for a part; a delivered rate is what your firm charged a customer for a finished job. Each is the other's evidence, so the two link both ways, but they are different subjects.
- Quoted is the system cost stored on the model's result, not a figure re-added from the steps.
- Array is the nameplate the run behind that quote was computed against, frozen with the result. It is not the design's nameplate as it stands now, which moves whenever somebody edits the layout.
- kWh per kWp is the storage fitted per kilowatt-peak of array, and it is not decoration. Two jobs at the same rate per watt with different banks are not the same commercial position: a large array carrying a small bank looks cheap per watt against a small array carrying the same bank, and the ratio is what tells them apart.
- Blended per W is the whole job, array and bank together, over the array's watts alone. That is what per-watt means everywhere in the trade, and it is why the ratio beside it matters.
- Book hardware appears once you press Compare against the book (the button counts the models still to compare). It prices each design's own bill of materials from this book. It is a separate press because it reads a whole design for every row.
- Over hardware is what the quote adds to the parts. It is not margin: the book prices hardware and nothing else, so labour, delivery, mounting, scaffolding, certification and tax are all still inside that figure.
- Across your quotes, above the table, gives the spread from cheapest to dearest per watt, how many quotes carry storage, and when the newest and oldest were computed. A book checked against quotes nobody has recomputed in two years is checked against two-year-old hardware prices.
- The chart plots Blended per W against kWh per kWp, one point per model that carries a bank, so a job that looks cheap per watt because it carries little storage shows as exactly that. It waits for three models, because two points make a line whatever the data does.
A row whose capital cost already draws from the bill of materials says so, because there the comparison is the book against itself and the margin will read as near nothing. The totals are over the rows that carry both a nameplate and the book's currency, and the card names how many it left out and why.
One installation quoted three ways is three rows here, so the totals are a rate across quotes rather than across sites.
Tips and common mistakes
- Quote from Yours, not from the region pack, once you have buying prices. The bill says which of the two it used.
- Catch-all Any is a fallback. A size-specific row is for that size. Yours still wins.
- Do not treat Never reviewed as a broken table. It is the honest date: nobody checked these figures.