Updating Construction Material Unit Costs

NOTE-- We retired MacNail estimating in 2000, and replaced it with Goldenseal construction estimating software. There are still some die-hard MacNail users, so we keep the manuals online for them! Goldenseal also includes accounting, project management and contract writing features. In Goldenseal, new pricing automatically updates other items affected by the change, so you don't need to do any manual posting.

Updating Material Unit Prices

The MacNail construction management software includes a complete system of material price updating, so your construction material unit prices will be based on the latest supplier prices.

Updating material prices is a four step process:

1. Get the prices from your supplier(s).
2. Type them into a Material Price Sheet.
3. Update material prices.
4. Move them to the Price Master and/or estimating worksheets.

This section will cover each of these four steps.