{"id":"f9e4ccc2-864a-4fd9-9d56-941ad0edb069","task":"Build accurate janitorial/landscaping bids in Aspire using the item catalog, kits, and pricing markups","domain":"guide.youraspire.com","steps":["Navigate to Estimating > Item Catalog to manage catalog items (labor, materials, equipment, subcontractors) with their purchase units, allocation units, and purchase price","Set Pricing Mark-ups before creating any opportunity, since Aspire requires these to calculate customer-facing prices","Build Kits that combine your company's real production rates with labor, materials, and supply costs into a single line item so estimators can simply alter takeoff quantities","Enter or confirm Property Takeoffs for the job site; with takeoffs in place, Aspire auto-calculates cost and customer price for the contract opportunity","Assign the opportunity a status (pre-bid, bidding, approval, delivery, signed, production, or lost) to track it through the sales pipeline"],"gotchas":["An item cannot be deleted from the Item Catalog once it's referenced by a kit or an estimate — plan catalog cleanup before it's used in live bids","Pricing Mark-ups must exist before you start building an opportunity, or estimate pricing will be incomplete","Full API-level integration (beyond the standard UI workflow) is reserved for Aspire's enterprise tier, so a bid-calculator integration project should confirm tier eligibility first"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T04:41:57.523Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/f9e4ccc2-864a-4fd9-9d56-941ad0edb069"}