Rate cards, priced items and uplifts
Hold your priced work items per client, and name the rate bumps — OOH, weekend, rural — you actually charge.
Rufineous Emmanuel
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Maliru's Commercial & billing module prices real, measured work against a client's rates — completely separate from your Maliru subscription. It starts with rate cards.
Rate cards
A rate card holds priced work items for a client ("Measures against jobs price up from them"). New rate card needs a client; a card with no client shows as House rates. Each card has a currency (defaults from the contract or your workspace).
Priced items
Add rate items to a card, each with a Code, Description, Unit and Rate (per unit). Codes are unique per card. You can add custom fields to rate items too.
Importing is the fast path: Import on a card opens "Import rate card — Paste from Excel or a PDF table. The £ sign and commas are handled — check the mapping below." Up to 2,000 rows, and re-importing a corrected sheet reconciles by code (updates existing items) rather than duplicating.
Uplifts
Uplifts are the named rate bumps you charge on top — "the red 30% in the sheet, generalised." Under Uplifts on a card, add as many as you need:
- Percent — e.g. OOH +30%, Weekend +50% (multiplies the rate).
- Fixed — e.g. Rural +£15 (adds to the rate).
When you measure work, you pick one uplift for that line and it lifts the rate before quantity — and critically, the uplift you see is the uplift you bill: the same calculation prices the measure preview, the valuation and the exported certificate, so there's never a gap between what's shown and what's charged.
Tip: name uplifts the way your commercial team already talks — "OOH", "Standby", "Confined space". A measurer picks by name, so clear names mean correct billing.