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# Calculating in Robaws

# Quotation

In Robaws we work with cost types. You will find these types in the quotation/post build-up.

| You can also choose to work with [activities](/en/article/working-with-activities-nhyj6m/), the same principle, but we deal with that in a separate article.

There are 5 types you can work with:

**Material**: Items that you **consume** on the site, for example paint, beams, boards, bolts, screws, roof tiles, etc.
**Equipment**: Machines that you **use** on the site for tasks or transport, such as a tower crane, diamond drill, bobcat digger, compressor, scaffolding, etc.
**Labor**: All achievements on a site; this covers all kinds of rates such as a day rate, a night rate, normal working hours, overtime, etc.
**Subcontractor**: Costs linked to a subcontractor; this can range from an hourly rate to the consumption and rental of items.
**Indirect costs**: Costs that are charged to the customer, such as a travel rate, kilometercompensation, warehouse rental, etc.

| Tip: You determine these types in advance on an [item](/en/article/items-general-rkvihx/) file.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/eadf6dec760ec000/image_2jahn4.png)

Above you will see various aspects appear on the item itself, such as the cost price, the unit, the margins taken and the price to the customer.

# Post

When you use posts, the option below can be interesting, either to be set in advance in the post, or to be activated once in the quotation:

| Creating [posts](/en/article/creating-a-post-ry11o1/).

**Totality**: when you use this function, it is indicated that the quantity entered for the item stays unchanged, regardless of the quantity that is entered in the quotation.  In other words, the quantity is fixed and is not multiplied by the quantity of the post in the quotation.

# (Pre)calculation in the quotation

In a quotation you can always consult an analysis of the whole quotation or specifically per line.
A distinction is made between a cost analysis based on the various cost types and one based on activities.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/eadf6dec760ec000/schermafbeelding-2024-01-25-om_ps9lcs.png)

||| Indirect costs that were registered via the **'costs'** tab are included and shown in the cost analysis of the cost types. Indirect costs are not included and shown in the cost analysis of the activities. This is to avoid potential conflicts with indirect costs that have already been assigned to an activity.

# Recalculation in the project

The result is that when you systematically apply a correct cost type to the items in the quotation, we generate an automatic recalculation in the project file linked to that quotation.

| How do you create [projects](/en/article/creating-a-project-file-153ouej/)?

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/eadf6dec760ec000/image_19an4o2.png)

# Work order
 
The last step is that you link a planning with various assignments to the project above, and we make the comparison between what is predicted in the quotation and the works actually realised, registered in wappy and converted into a work order.