Preparing your Quantities for export in AroFlo Format
  • 23 Aug 2023
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Preparing your Quantities for export in AroFlo Format

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Article Summary

To be able to to download the quantites in an Aroflo-compatible format, you'll need to configure your AroFlo integration.

Once you have finished counting, measuring, adding additonal parts and adding additonal labour to your project, you will need to click on to the AroFlo Tab.

Understanding the AroFlo Tab

The AroFlo tab previews the information that will show in your AroFlo quote. These include the part name, assembly name, quantity, value, sell, unit rate, and total hours.

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Before generating a final import file for AroFlo, you can adjust the value, sell and unit rate on inventory items, Inventory list elements and one-off items. And once you're ready, you can easily download all in a CSV file, ready to be imported into your AroFlo quote.

Reading the breakdown

Project Pricing and Unit Rates

If you update the pricing and unit rates of your inventory items or Inventory assemblies in AroFlo, you need to manually re-sync your connection in Groundplan in the Aroflo setup page.

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Syncing AroFlo and Groundplan, will not automatically update the pricing or labour values in any of your existing projects. You'll have to go to the Aroflo tab of your projects to refresh newly-synced Aroflo data

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Assemblies & Inventory lists

Assemblies & Inventory lists are displayed as the Assemby name, with the inventory items displayed individually below.
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The Inventory list totals are not calculated on this tab

The totals will be displayed after importing the downloaded CSV file into an AroFlo quote.

Items within assemblies may have a quantity greater than zero when the Assembly total is Zero: AroFlo will not add these items to your totals until you add an assembly quantity.

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For items within assemblies that have a quantity of zero when the Assembly total is greater than Zero: This means the imported Inventory list item had a quantity of 0, so the item formula is 0.

Inventory items and One off items

Inventory items and one-off items are displayed as a single line.
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📝 Inventory items with Detailed pricing "Enabled" will not show the Unit Rate in Groundplan .

When importing your measurement totals into your AroFlo Quote, the Unit rate will be populated.
To see Unit Rates within Groundplan Project, you would need to use an Assembly (Inventory List.)

Additional Labour

The additonal labour you've added in Groundplan will appear as a single non-editable line item with no pricing as pricing is set in AroFlo.
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Labour pricing from items created in Groundplan won't come across to AroFlo

The best practice for this is to use the Unit rate field on each item by adding unit rates to AroFlo inventory items and to one-off items added into the measurements in Groundplan.
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Refreshing data of Aroflo items in your project

After updating pricing and unit rates on your AroFlo Inventory Items or Inventory Assemblies, you will need to manually sync your data in Groundplan by going to the Aroflo setup page.

Resyncing Aroflo

Once you have synced your updated Aroflo data to Groundplan, you can refresh the value and sell of your inventory items. Additionally, you can also refresh the unit rate of the inventory items in the assemblies.

  1. Scroll or use the Jump to stage dropdown to select your stage;
  2. Locate the inventory item line. This can be either a stand alone item or it could within an assembly;
  3. To the right of the Total Hours, click the blue refresh circle button.

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📝 Please note:
  1. If you have adjusted the value, sell or unit rate on an Inventory item within an Assembly the "adjusted value" will be overridden by the new value after refreshing the data.
  2. If you have adjusted the value or sell on a standalone Inventory item the "adjusted value" will be overridden by the new value after refreshing the data, but not the unit rate.
  3. When refreshing an inventory item, this will only update the line reflected.
    It will not affect the inventory item:
    • Within the same Inventory List in another measurement or on another stage;
    • Within other Assemblies or Inventory lists;
    • Within other measurements.

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Adjusting the "Value"

Where required, you can adjust the Value (cost) of an Inventory Item or a one-off item before exporting your quantites.

  1. Scroll or use the Jump to stage dropdown to select your stage;
  2. Locate the item line. This can be either a stand alone item or it could be within an assembly;
  3. Click into the Value box;
  4. Type in the new value;
  5. Click out of the box;

The new value subtotal will now show in the Value Subtotal column.

Adjusting the "Sell"

Where required, you can adjust the sell price of an Inventory Item or One-off item before exporting your quantites. To do this:

  1. Scroll or use the Jump to stage dropdown to select your stage;
  2. Locate the item line. This can be either a stand alone item or it could be within an assembly;
  3. Click into the Sell box;
  4. Type the new value;
  5. Click out of the box;

Adjusting the "Unit Rate"

Where required, you can adjust the Unit Rate of an Inventory Item or One off item before exporting your quantites.

  1. Scroll or use the Jump to stage dropdown to select your stage;
  2. Locate the item line. This can be either a stand alone item or it could be within an assembly;
  3. Click into the Unit Rate (Hrs) box;
  4. Type the new value
  5. Click out of the box

The new total hours will now show in the Total Hrs column.


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