Settings
Settings overview
Your company and crux. How Settings is laid out, and what each section is for.
Open Settings with the gear at the top right of the window, or press Ctrl+,. A menu on the left lists the sections; click one to show it. In a narrow window the menu becomes a Section list above the page. crux remembers the last section you opened.
A small dot on the gear means something is waiting: an update ready, a reply from crux support, or a license that needs attention. Clicking the gear takes you straight to it.
Anything you type in one section is kept while you look at another, so nothing is lost by switching.
The sections
| Section | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Company | Your company's details and logo, your own contact details, and pack company files. |
| Labor rates | Your wage rate sets: open shop, union, prevailing wage, Davis-Bacon, or one job. |
| Materials | Prices you have confirmed for paint, sundries and equipment. |
| Production rates | How fast your crews work. |
| Templates | The estimate and proposal crux fills in. |
| Packs | The trade packs on this computer and which one crux uses for new jobs. |
| Shared drives | Other names for your shared drives, and importing an older tool's memories. |
| Knowledge | What crux knows about how your company works. |
| Backup | Back up, restore, and share your company profile. |
| Chat | What crux does on its own when a job finishes onboarding. |
| Connections & setup | Claude Code sign-in, email and calendar, chats, indexing, and the setup checklist. |
| Updates | Updates, disk space, and the versions you have. |
| License | Your subscription and the one computer it runs on. |
| Support | Your conversations with crux support. |
The pack in use can add sections of its own below these, under the pack's name. See Pack sections in Settings.
Each section has a ? beside its title that opens its help page.