Price override

More money & pricing terms

• Per-line pricing

  Charging for an estimate based on the number of line items it contains, so bigger scopes cost more.

• Price list region

  The geographic area whose labor and material costs Xactimate uses to price a line item. If the estimate was written for the wrong region, the fix is to correct the region or ask for a reprice, not to hand-edit unit prices line by line.

• Pricing dispute

  A disagreement over what a line item, trade, or scope should cost between the contractor, the adjuster, or the carrier's reviewer. Resolve it with documentation - photos, measurements, invoices - rather than by resubmitting the same numbers, and escalate through the carrier's review process if it stalls.

• Pricing list

  The database of unit prices, labor rates, and material costs an estimating platform applies to line items. The list carries its own effective date and region, so two estimates of the same scope can differ simply because they were priced from different lists.

• Profit

  The contractor's margin on a job, after labor, materials, and overhead are covered.

• Progress billing

  Invoicing for work completed to date on a job rather than billing the whole job at the end. Each invoice should tie to the approved scope and the work actually in place, with photos or a signed draw schedule, because carriers and lenders release money in stages.

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