How is the cost price of my hours on a work order determined?

As soon as you add an hour line to a work order, Robaws fills in the cost price automatically. That amount ends up in your recalculation, so it is important that you know where it comes from. A time operation is an item with the item type 'Hour code - employee'.

Robaws always goes through the same order and stops at the first price it finds:

1. The purchase price of the employer on the item record of the time operation
2. The wage cost of the employee
3. The cost price of the time operation

1. Purchase price of the employer

Robaws uses this step when you work with external people. There are three conditions:

• The employee has engagement type subcontractor (OA) or independent.
• An employer is filled in on the employee record.
• That employer is listed as a supplier on the item record of the time operation on the line, with a purchase price.

If that is the case, Robaws copies the purchase price of that supplier as the cost price of the line.

The time operation on the line is copied automatically from the default time operation on the employee record. So fill that in, otherwise there is no time operation yet when the line is added and Robaws cannot look up the supplier price.

2. Wage cost of the employee

If an employee is attached to the hour line and step 1 does not apply, Robaws copies the wage cost (per hour) field from the employee record.

3. Cost price of the time operation

If no employee is attached to the hour line, Robaws copies the cost price from the item record of the time operation.

Updated on: 08/09/2026