Converting effort to price and cost for Professional Services Projects.
Resources allow you to define the various roles that can complete work for your clients. Resources
All resources contain 3 pieces of information:
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Name: This is the name that's used for the resources throughout the user interface, and can be merged into documents.
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External Name: This is an optional field that lets you define an alternative name to be used for the resource in your documents. You can define it as a default in the Resource and then update it per rate table and per project, if permission allows. If a particular resource is called an "Engineer" in one context and an "E1" in another, you can define that here and change it via the rate table on a project.
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Description: This is an optional field that lets you give a description of the resource that can be used in your documents. You can define it as a default in the Resource and then update it per rate table and per project, if permission allows.
In a project, ScopeStack will take the resource price and cost of the selected rate table and multiply it by the effort if an hours-based service is used to calculate revenue and cost per service and for the total project.
You can setup Resources in Settings > Financial > Resources
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To add a new resource, select + Add Resource below the list.
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Here you can give the resource a Name and optionally an External Name and Description. Click submit when you're finished.
The resource will now be available to use in pre-built Professional Services and in Custom PS Services in your projects.
Importing Resources from a CSV or Excel Spreadsheet
You can import a resource into Settings from a CSV or Excel Spreadsheet. Click the Import button and select a file to import into Settings.
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After importing the file, map the columns with their respective attributes: Resource, Description, and External Name.
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Click Process Import to import your resources to Settings.
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