Estimating Cost Summary

Problem

The subtotals for equipment, labor, materials, subcontractors and other costs don't always add up to the grand total for the estimate.

Caught By

User bug report.

Workaround

None. The estimate totals are accurate, but in a few types of estimating breakdown line items, Goldenseal doesn't calculate correctly when it breaks the costs down into the components.

Solution

This problem is fixed in Goldenseal estimating software version 3.9.

NOTE-- Goldenseal stores the labor/materials/equipment cost breakdown in each breakdown item, so it won't update the incorrect values until you hit the Update Prices button, and then close and reopen the record. Future estimates will start out with the correct values for all line items, and won't have this problem.

Technical Details

In the past couple years we have added several new options in estimating breakdowns, and the cost summary calculation was not making adjustments for those new types of line items.