Glossary

Short definitions of the QuoteCore+ terms and electrical measurement types you will see in the app.

Electrical measurement types

Lineal. Measures a single cable run or conduit route as a straight or jointed line on the plan. The primary measurement type for electrical cabling. Price is per metre.

Multiple Cable Runs. Measures several individual runs on the plan and sums them into one total length. Use this when you want each run recorded separately but priced as a combined total. Equivalent to running the Lineal tool multiple times and adding the results.

Curved Cable Run. Measures a curved arc or conduit path on the plan. Use for cable routes that follow a curved wall, ceiling arc, or conduit bend. The app calculates the true arc length from the curve you draw.

Area. Measures a floor or ceiling zone. Use for components priced by the m2 - lighting layout calculations, underfloor heating, or any item where area is the unit of measure.

Count. A quantity of items: outlets, switches, downlights, circuit breakers, data points, smoke detectors. Each point you place on the plan counts as one unit.

Fixed. A single flat price regardless of quantity. Used for call-out fees, permit costs, or any item with a one-off charge.

Hours / Days. Labor charged by the hour or day. Set a rate and enter hours in the quote builder.

QuoteCore+ terms

Actual measurement. A real-world number entered directly - for example, a measured cable run length taken on site. Pitch is skipped; waste still applies.

Component. A re-usable line you put in quotes. Has a name, measurement type, material price, labor price, waste, and optional pitch settings. See Components overview.

Customer quote. The version of the quote your customer sees. Built from the master quote summary in the customer quote editor.

Digital takeoff. Measuring directly off a digital floor plan or site drawing. See Digital takeoff.

Extra. A line you want priced and recorded but kept separate from the main components. Call-out fees, travel, permit costs. See Components vs Extras.

Manual quote. A quote built line-by-line for jobs where you already have your run lengths and counts. See Manual Quote.

Pitch multiplier. A factor applied to a plan measurement to account for slope - used for cable runs through pitched roof spaces. Only rafter pitch applies to electrical work. See Waste and pitch.

Plan measurement. A measurement taken from a floor plan or drawing, before any pitch multiplier is applied. See Plan vs Actual.

Quote builder. The flow that builds a quote: Areas, Components, Extras, Review. See Quote builder.

Takeoff. The act of measuring a job - either digital (from a plan) or manual (on site or from your own notes).

Billing terms

Cap. A numeric limit on something your plan allows - quotes per month, components total, storage bytes, etc. Hitting a cap blocks new additions but never deletes existing data. See Tier limits.

Dunning. The process Stripe (and we) follow when a renewal payment fails: automatic card retries, status escalation through past_due - grace - suspended, with chances to recover by updating the card. See Billing.

Effective plan. What your account can actually use today. Usually the same as your purchased plan, but collapses to Starter during grace periods or after the trial ends.

Grace period. A 10-day window after a payment failure where you keep read access but can't create new quotes. See Billing.

Trial. A 14-day free taste of every feature, with tiny caps. One per account, ever. See Free trial.