Cost Subcategory Codes

NOTE-- We retired the MacNail estimating program in 2000, and replaced it with Goldenseal construction estimating software. There are still 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 features. Goldenseal does not use code names or numbers for its job cost categories and subcategories-- you can just type the first letter or two, and they'll fill into a clairvoyant field.

Cost Subcategory Numbers

If you have inserted a new subcategory into the middle of existing subcategories, then the MacNail construction management software will automatically renumber all the subcategories so they remain in sequential order.

To add a new final subcategory after all the other subcategories under a main category, click just after the final subcategory line in the desired category. If you're in Specifications, click the mouse anywhere within the first subcategory of the following main category. If you're in the Clearinghouse, click anywhere in the category heading row immediately following the last subcategory line.

To add a new first subcategory before all other subcategories, you must be in the Clearinghouse. Click on the current first subcategory-- The MacNail construction estimating software will move it down, and the new subcategory will be inserted just before it.