Adding New Materials

NOTE-- We retired the MacNail estimating program in 2000, and replaced it with Goldenseal construction estimating software. There are still a significant number of die-hard MacNail users, so we keep the manuals online for them! Goldenseal is an integrated program that also includes accounting, scheduling and contract writing. To add materials in Goldenseal, choose Cost Items from the Costs menu, and click the New button.

Adding Materials to Estimators

To add new material items to a Price Sheet in the MacNail construction management software, follow these steps:

1. Open the Price Sheet.
2. To add new items in the middle of the Price Sheet, click anywhere in the row where you'd like to insert new items, drag the mouse down through the number of new rows you'd like to add, then choose Add Rows Here from the Edit menu. To add new items to the bottom of the sheet instead, choose Add Rows at Bottom.
3. For each new material item, type in a material code, a brief description of the item, the size of one 'purchase unit', the price, where the price came from, today's date, and a markup percentage (if you use one).