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1.13. Each price too low on quantities of signs?
My each price is too low on multiple quantities of signs. One example I will use is digitally printed item with one spot color, height of 10?, width of 14?, contour cut with complexity set to 0, artwork set to 0, general difficulty set to 0, shop workload set to 50, market level set to 50, and margin set to 100. At a quantity of 1 the price is 17.32, if the quantity is increased to 30 the price is 4.27. This is much more than the 25% maximum set for quantity discounts in deep configuration; at 30 the price should be about 12.99. These numbers will probably be different than yours because I have entered my material & foil costs in the ingredients list, but still why is my each price so low?
The issue here is that your production time is being amortized over the entire quantity of the signs. EstiMate is working correctly. For one sign you have your overhead going into that one sign hence the higher price. One of the stregnths of EstiMate is that it calculates your each price over multiple quantities rather than arbitrarily multiplying the quantity of signs by the each price for one sign.
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