Line-item calculators and surcharges | FieldCamp

Turn on FieldCamp line-item calculators for pitch factor, area and spray-foam depth, set company surcharges and mark up, and configure product coverages.

Calculators let a technician or estimator enter a measurement on a line item and have FieldCamp work out the quantity — roof area from a footprint and pitch, square feet from length by width, or sets of foam from area and depth. Company Surcharges & Mark Up then apply the same pricing rules to every line.

Before you begin

You need an administrator role to change either setting.
Calculators and surcharges are configured once, in Settings > Pipeline Config > Products/Services > Line Items, and apply to every line-item surface.
The spray-foam calculator reads coverage values from the product record, so set those up before your estimators rely on it.

Turn calculators on

Open Settings > Pipeline Config.
Select Products/Services, then the Line Items tab.
Under Line-item calculators, enable the calculators you want:

Calculator	What it does
Pitch Factor Calculator	Converts a flat footprint into sloped area using the roof pitch, entered as X/12
Quantity Calculator (Length × Width)	Multiplies length by width to give square feet
Spray Foam Depth Calculator	Converts area and depth into board feet, then into sets of material, using the product's coverage

Select Save columns.

Each calculator shows a live preview of its own arithmetic before it is applied — for example 400 sq ft × 1.15 pitch factor (6/12) → 460 sq ft sloped — and Apply writes the result into the line's quantity and unit.

Enabling the Spray Foam Depth Calculator also reveals the Spray Foam attributes — coverages and conversions — on the product record.

Set surcharges and mark up

Still on the Line Items tab, the Surcharges & Mark Up card holds company-wide pricing applied to every line item:

Field	What it applies to
Mark Up / Margin	The margin used in coverage pricing
Fuel Surcharge	Material and labor
Supply Surcharge	Material
Labor Surcharge	Labor

Leave a field blank to treat it as zero.

Configure a product's coverages

Coverage values live on the product, because they differ per material.

Open Products & Services and select the product.
Open the Coverages section.
Add a row per depth with:
- Depth
- Difficulty — for example Crawlspace
- R-Value
- BF / set — board feet per set
- Labor $/ft²
Mark one row as the Default.
Save the product.

The calculator then works out board feet from area and depth, divides by board feet per set, and shows the achieved R-value alongside the material estimate. If the product has no coverage configured, the calculator says so instead of guessing.

Configure conversion rates

Conversion Rates on the same product handles the unit conversion — for example 100 Gallons = 1 Set. It is a single rate field reading <rate> <selling unit> = 1 <stock unit>; the two units come from the product itself, so there is nothing to pick and no second row to add.

Conversions are what let a job line's quantity convert into the unit your stock is counted in. The Stock unit field on the product names that unit; you choose it in the Add Product/Service form and it is locked once the product is saved, so existing on-hand quantities are never re-labelled.