📘 Screen: Budget - Component
A component is the budget's "product": seed, herbicide, fertilizer, fuel, machine hours, third-party services. Everything that goes into a matrix and becomes cost is a component registered here.
📍 Location in the system
Menu: Budget > Component
🧩 Main function
Keep the list of items the budget consumes, with unit and default rate. It's a deliberately lean register — technical sheets, active ingredients and labels live in Product & Service; here what matters is what makes up cost.
How to avoid typing everything
- Import from general register — brings in the items already registered in Product & Service. This is the recommended path: the component is linked to the real product from the start.
- Import from Excel — if you have the list in a spreadsheet.
📝 Record fields
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Active | A component no longer in use drops out of the lists without deleting its history. |
| Fuel | Flags the item as fuel. |
| Seed | Flags the item as seed. |
| Code | Sequence number of the component (0001). |
| Description | The name the farm uses — usually the brand name. |
| Unit | Liter, kilogram, unit, hour. It's the unit of the rate and the price. |
| Group | The item's classification — it's what groups the cost in the summary. |
| Default Rate | Suggested rate, used as a starting point when building the matrix. |
| Notes | Free field. |
🔗 Integration tab
Ties the component to the real item in the system: Type, Product & Service, Description and Integration ID.
That tie is what lets the Planning Quote show the quantity already in inventory and, later on, compare planned with what was actually consumed.
- The matrices have something to receive.
- Planned consumption comes out per item, in the right unit.
- What's already in inventory is counted in what's left to buy.
❓ Frequently asked questions
Do I have to re-register the products already in inventory?
No. Use Import from general register: it brings in the items from Product & Service, already linked to the source product through the Integration tab.
Where does the component's price go?
In the Planning Quote, which gathers everything the budget will consume and where you enter the unit price. This register holds the rate, not the price.
Do labor and third-party services count as components?
Yes, in the service/labor group, with whatever unit makes sense (hour, hectare, unit). For the budget, everything that makes up cost is a component.