The price list plays a central role in material cost calculations. It allows rapid material entry in the source data table and ensures consistent prices within, as well as across multiple projects. Different price lists can be maintained (e.g. for small scale and bulk prices), and existing projects can be synchronized with updated price lists.

You will notice the presence of a price list when entering materials into the source data table. While typing a material name, a type-ahead menu appears containing a filtered list of your current price list materials:


Important: ChemProject comes with a demo price list containing fictional prices, so in practice you will have to set up your own new list, with material prices applying to your organization. Don't simply modify the demo price list for this, but create a new price list from scratch, since the demo file may be overwritten on each application update, and best save it to a shared drive.

ChemProject price lists are stored in encrypted form to protect sensitive corporate information, and can additionally be password protected to limit write-access to administrators, or to restrict general read-only access to specific user groups. By default, no user password is required to access an admin-controlled, read-only price list.

Read more about working with price lists in the Price List Panel topic.