Setting up your rate book

Your rate book is the price list MeloAI quotes from. Add rates by hand, import a spreadsheet, or answer a few questions about your trade and let MeloAI draft one for you to correct.

Every rate has a unit — hour, square foot, fixture, visit — and MeloAI multiplies against real quantities from your description. Update a rate once and every future document uses the new number.

When a line has no rate to stand on, it prices at zero and says so on the draft — a missing number is shown, never guessed. That is deliberate: your prices are the one thing MeloAI should never invent, so an empty rate book produces visible zeros, not plausible fiction.