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Settings → Price book: plants, removals, landscape lighting
Every price-book number for plant types, removals and landscape lighting, including the three-number boxes.
This is the third part of Settings → Prices and quotes → Price book. It covers Plants, Removals and Landscape lighting. Plants and Removals boxes hold three numbers each, separated by commas. The Plants section also has a size note for each type that cannot be edited here (for example “#3 container” for shrubs).
Warning: Every figure here is a placeholder, not approved. Replace each with your own costs and times.
Before you start
- Your nursery price list: cost per tree, evergreen, shrub, perennial, grass, annual and vine in the sizes you normally sell.
- Hours you spend to plant each type, and the cost of planting mix and stakes per plant.
- Your disposal fees, and how long removals take.
- Your cost for lighting fixtures, transformers and wire.
How to enter the three-number boxes
A box such as Trees shows three numbers separated by commas. Keep the order exactly: for Plants the order is cost, hours, planting mix. For Removals the order is first value (unused), hours, disposal cost. If you type a different number of values the estimate may read the wrong one, so always type all three and keep the commas.
Fields
Plants
| Field (exact label) | What it does for VisionScaper | What to enter and example | Default / notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Trees book.plants.trees |
Trees: three numbers separated by commas. First your cost per plant, second install hours per plant, third your cost of planting mix, starter fertilizer and stakes per plant. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 260, 2, 15 |
Evergreens book.plants.evergreens |
Evergreens: cost per plant, install hours per plant, planting mix and stakes per plant. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 215, 1.75, 12 |
Shrubs book.plants.shrubs |
Shrubs: cost per plant, install hours per plant, planting mix per plant. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 46, 0.5, 4 |
Perennials book.plants.perennials |
Perennials: cost per plant, install hours per plant, planting mix per plant. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 14, 0.15, 1 |
Grasses book.plants.grasses |
Ornamental grasses: cost per plant, install hours per plant, planting mix per plant. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 22, 0.25, 1.5 |
Annuals book.plants.annuals |
Annuals: cost per plant, install hours per plant, planting mix per plant. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 5, 0.06, 0.25 |
Vines book.plants.vines |
Vines: cost per plant, install hours per plant, planting mix per plant. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 26, 0.3, 2 |
Features book.plants.features |
Plant features: cost per item (0 means none), install hours, planting mix amount. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 0, 0.5, 0 |
Removals
| Field (exact label) | What it does for VisionScaper | What to enter and example | Default / notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Tree book.removal.tree |
Tree removal: three numbers. The first is not used by the removal calculation in the code. The second is labor hours per tree. The third is disposal cost per tree. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 0, 4, 150 |
Shrub book.removal.shrub |
Shrub removal: first number not used; hours per shrub; disposal cost per shrub. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 0, 0.75, 15 |
Plant book.removal.plant |
Other plant removal: first number not used; hours per plant; disposal cost per plant. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 0, 0.2, 2 |
Lawn book.removal.lawn |
Lawn removal: first number not used; labor hours per 100 sq ft; disposal cost per cubic yard. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 0, 1.5, 45 |
Stump book.removal.stump |
Stump removal: first number not used; hours per stump; disposal cost (0 = none). | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 0, 1.5, 0 |
Patio book.removal.patio |
Patio, walkway or driveway removal: first number not used; hours per 100 sq ft; disposal cost per cubic yard. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 0, 0.08, 45 |
Fence book.removal.fence |
Fence removal: first number not used; hours per linear foot; disposal cost per linear foot. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 0, 0.15, 6 |
Structure book.removal.structure |
Structure removal: first number not used; hours per 100 sq ft; disposal cost per cubic yard. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 0, 6, 250 |
Other book.removal.other |
Anything else (boulders, features): first number not used; hours per item; disposal cost per item. | Three numbers separated by commas. | Default 0, 1, 25 |
Landscape lighting
| Field (exact label) | What it does for VisionScaper | What to enter and example | Default / notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Fixture cost ($) book.lighting.fixture |
Your cost for one LED light fixture. | A decimal number. | Default 115 (placeholder, not approved) |
Fixture Hrs book.lighting.fixtureHrs |
Labor hours to install one fixture. | A decimal number. | Default 0.6 (placeholder, not approved) |
Transformer cost ($) book.lighting.transformer |
Your cost for one low-voltage transformer with photocell timer. | A decimal number. | Default 285 (placeholder, not approved) |
Transformer Hrs book.lighting.transformerHrs |
Labor hours to mount a transformer and connect wire. | A decimal number. | Default 1.5 (placeholder, not approved) |
Per Transformer book.lighting.perTransformer |
How many fixtures one transformer runs; sets the number of transformers. | A decimal number. | Default 18 (placeholder, not approved) |
Wire Lf book.lighting.wireLf |
Your cost per linear foot of direct-burial wire. | A decimal number. | Default 0.95 (placeholder, not approved) |
Wire Per Fixture book.lighting.wirePerFixture |
Feet of wire assumed per fixture when the plan has no wire drawn. | A decimal number. | Default 25 (placeholder, not approved) |
Wire Hrs Per Lf book.lighting.wireHrsPerLf |
Labor hours per linear foot to trench and connect wire. | A decimal number. | Default 0.02 (placeholder, not approved) |
Buttons
| Field (exact label) | What it does for VisionScaper | What to enter and example | Default / notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Save price book (button) | Stores your edited numbers. | Press once after editing. | Message “Saved.” |
| Reset to defaults (button) | Clears all your overrides everywhere in the price book. | Press, then OK to confirm. | Cannot be undone. |
Steps
- Open Settings → Prices and quotes → Price book and click Plants.
- For each plant type, replace the three numbers: cost per plant, hours per plant, planting mix per plant. Keep the commas.
- Click Removals and set hours and disposal for each thing you remove. Leave the first number as it is.
- Click Landscape lighting and enter fixture, transformer, wire and hours.
- Press Save price book.
- Price a plan with plants and a removal to check the numbers.
Tips
- The plant cost in the price book is the default; a plant you pick from the library can carry its own cost, and that wins.
- A plant with a price of 0 in the book is flagged as needing a price.
- Removals add a stump grinder day for trees at a fixed amount that is not on this screen.
If something goes wrong
- Only one number is used. You left out commas or numbers. Retype all three.
- A removal has no disposal line. The third value is 0, so no disposal line is added.
- My lighting total is zero. The plan needs at least one light drawn; lighting is priced only when lights exist.