Jobs and estimates
Typing the days in plain words
Prep, shoot, hire, returns, half days, and how the days charged are worked out.
Instead of picking dates from a calendar, type the days the way you would say them. BidWrap reads them as you type and shows what it understood under the box. The first and last day fill themselves in.
Examples that work
- 26 Oct prep, 27 to 28 Oct shoot
- 12 Nov prep, 13 to 14 Nov shoot, 15 Nov wrap
- 3 Dec recce, 8 Dec travel, 9 and 10 Dec shoot, 11 Dec travel home
- 11 Nov PM pickup, 12 to 13 Nov shoot, 14 Nov returns
- 1 to 3 Dec shoot, 4 to 5 Dec post
- 20 Nov, which is read as one shoot day
The kinds of day
Recce, prep, build, shoot, hire, wrap, strike, travel, post and returns. A day with no word is a shoot day. Some other words are understood too: pre light and rehearsal count as prep, rig and load in as build, pickup and collect as hire, and load out as strike.
Half days
Add AM or PM, or morning or afternoon, to a day for half a day. A morning and an afternoon on the same day make a whole day.
Which days are charged
- Post and returns days are listed on the job but not charged.
- Kit that is picked up in the afternoon is not charged for that first day.
- Kit that comes back in the morning is not charged for that last day.
- A job is always charged at least one day.
For example, 11 Nov PM pickup with 13 Nov AM returns is charged as one day: the 12th.
When the days charged differ from the days listed, the summary under the box says so, for example 4 days, charged as 2 days. Kit lines on the estimate use the days charged.
If BidWrap cannot read it
The summary under the box says which part it could not read. Write the date with a month, such as 27 Oct, or a range such as 27 to 28 Oct. A day without a month, such as Mon 9th, or a phrase such as next Tuesday, cannot be read.