Weights and times

How long a delivery takes, how heavy a truck is and how many people to send all come from this one sheet. The item pages show these numbers; this is the only place they are changed.

Steps

1. Open Settings, Inventory, Weights and times (or press Weights & times beside the Inventory tabs).
2. Find a row by typing in Find an item, or pick a category from Every category.
3. Type a number in a cell. It saves when you leave the cell.
4. Set the time on a category row once. Every item in it follows. Type on an item only where that item is different.
5. Press Missing only to see just the rows the planner is missing something on.
6. Press Kit parts to see the parts your kits are made of. Their weight reads N/A: a kit is weighed whole.
7. Press Size columns to add width, length, height and stacks per pile.

The columns

• Weight (lb each): what one weighs. A kit is weighed whole; left empty, it counts 0 lbs and is missing a weight.
• Per (units): how many units the minutes are for. One tent: 1. Chairs: 100. Tables: 10.
• Install minutes: the time for that many on site, whoever goes.
• Pickup minutes: left empty, a share of install (set under Settings, Operations, Dispatch).
• Clean and prep minutes: the time after it comes back.
• People to send: how many people the item calls for. It never changes the time.
• One unit works out to: what one unit comes to, with what it takes from its category. Never saved.

Good to know

• A number in grey is what the item works to from its category. It is not saved on the item.
• These numbers set the planned time of every delivery and pickup, the truck loads, the labor on a quote's Profit tab and the week's workload. A time typed on a task still wins.
• A task shows the most people any of its items calls for, and warns when the truck has fewer.
• Hide a row you do not use with the eye beside its name. It only leaves this sheet; the item still weighs and times on a truck. Press Hidden to see hidden rows again.
• Where a column means nothing for a row (a service has no weight, a kit part's size is its kit's), it shows a dot that says why when you point at it.
• A new product shows up on the sheet under its category as soon as it is active.

If something goes wrong

• A kit weighs 0 lbs on the truck. It has no weight of its own yet. Type the whole kit's weight on its row.
• A cell will not take a number. Your role cannot change products. Ask your admin.