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How to set profitability on your proposals

Learn how to set profitability minimums and defaults to ensure your team doesn't send a proposal that isn't profitable.

Team managers and owners can set profitability minimums and defaults for proposal templates to ensure that every proposal sent using a template is profitable.

In this article:


How to select Margin or Markup as your default profitability

  • Navigate to settings in your Roofr dashboard

  • Click preferences

  • Use the dropdown to choose between margin and markup

  • Click save changes

šŸ’” Only team team owners and managers will have access to make this change. This change will update for all team members and on all new proposals and proposal templates.


How to set your Default and Minimum profit margin or markup

šŸ’” Default and minimum profit margin/markup can be set at the individual template level

  • Navigate to the Proposals section of your Roofr dashboard

  • Click the Templates tab

  • Select the template you wish to set

  • Click Edit option

  • Toggle on the default and/or minimum sliders to set for this template

  • Enter the desired percentage in the corresponding boxes

  • Click Save

šŸ’” Only team team owners and managers will be able to set default and minimum profit on proposal templates.


How to apply recommended waste factor to your proposal

  • Click Edit Option in your proposal

  • In the Waste (%) column, click the link icon next to the item you want to add recommended waste to

  • Click the link icon again to confirm your selection

šŸ’” The recommended waste from the associated Roofr Report will be added to that line item

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How to manually adjust your proposal subtotal

  • Click Edit option in the proposal you would like to adjust

  • Click the pen next to the proposal subtotal to edit

  • Enter your new subtotal and (optional) tax percentage

  • Click done, then save.

šŸ’” If your subtotal falls below the minimum profitability threshold, team managers will receive a warning before changes are saved.

Team members will receive an error message, and won’t be able to save a subtotal that falls below the minimum profitability threshold.

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