This feature will allow the Auto Pricing Engine to determine how many crew members or trucks it will take for your company to complete a job and charge the applicable hourly rate, based on the estimated crew size or estimated number of trucks needed for the job.
You can enable this setting per tariff and pricing type. You are able to enable this feature for your hourly moving rates, flat rate plus hourly moving rates, packing rates, and your flat rate plus hourly packing rates. When a new tariff is created, this feature will be enabled by default. SmartMoving will populate values for you in this section, based on your current hourly rates.
If this feature is not enabled, SmartMoving will estimate the number of crew members and trucks necessary for the job, based on the hourly rates that you have configured in your tariff. Meaning, if you have hourly rates configured for up to a 6-man crew, SmartMoving will not estimate that more than 6 crew members are necessary for a job.
How to Enable Per Additional Truck and Crew
Step 1: Locate the Item labeled, Automatically Add Resources Based on Auto-Pricing Settings and turn the toggle switch to on.
Note: The toggle switch will be green once enabled.
Step 2: Enter the additional rate you will charge per hour for any crew members or trucks that are estimated for the job. Repeat this process for each day of the week.
How Does this Work?
If this feature is enabled and you create an opportunity, the Auto-Pricing Engine will estimate how many crew members and trucks you should dispatch to the job, beyond the hourly rates that you have configured based on crew size.
For example, you create an opportunity and based on your Auto Pricing Engine, SmartMoving estimates that a job will need 10 crew members to complete the job. You have hourly rates configured for up to a 5-man crew and the feature to automatically add resources based on Auto-Pricing settings enabled.
SmartMoving will use the per additional crew member amount to calculate your hourly rate for a 10-man crew. The same would go for a job that needs additional trucks to be dispatched.
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