Settings

Templates

The estimate and proposal crux fills in for you, and how to use your own estimate spreadsheet.

Settings > Templates shows the estimate and the proposal crux fills in for you.

  • Estimate: The crux default estimate template, or your own (it then says Your own template (…), or the crux default).
  • Proposal and letters: the crux default letterhead, filled with your company details and logo from Company.

Use your own estimate spreadsheet

  1. Click Upload your own estimate template… and pick the spreadsheet your company already uses.
  2. The file is listed as Uploaded, not set up yet. In any chat, ask crux: "set up my estimate template".
  3. crux reads the spreadsheet with you: which cells are inputs, where the lines go, where the totals are. You confirm before it is used.
  4. When it is ready, it is listed as Set up: <name> with the date you confirmed it, and new estimates use it.

crux only fills in your template's input cells. It never rewrites your formulas.

Go back to the default

  • Stop using (then Yes, stop using it) on a set-up template: new estimates use the crux default again.
  • Remove (then Yes, remove) deletes an uploaded file.

Estimates you already made keep the template they were made with.