OpenConstructionERP v18.4.0

A trade package now travels from the drawing to the subcontractor and back without retyping. Measure a wall on the plan as a length, give it a height and its openings, and turn the net area into a bill position that stays linked to the drawing. Send the package out as an Excel sheet or a GAEB X83 file without prices, or give each invited firm a personal link where it types its unit prices without an account. Bids land in the price comparison by themselves, a price a firm left empty reads "not priced" instead of 0, and the comparison exports to an Excel workbook with the lowest price marked.

Cost control gets a quantity check. The post-calculation screen sets each position's contract quantity next to what was measured on site, from a measurement sheet or a GAEB X31 file, and shows the difference and its cost at the contract rate. Over and under are totalled apart, and the contract quantities are frozen in a snapshot so a site measurement can no longer overwrite them unseen. The measurement sheet's apply button, which had no colour from 16.9.0 on and read as empty space, can now be seen.

Records now lead to each other. An RFI or a non-conformance that flags a variation drafts a change order for a person to submit, an approved change order names the bill section and budget line it landed on, an awarded RFQ drafts its purchase order, and contracts start from their country's usual payment terms in ten markets.

Germany gets the GAEB X31 and X89 site exchange, the United Kingdom an NRM 1 elemental cost plan, and Russia the resource-index method with indices and overhead norms stored as data. Switzerland, Ireland and Hungary get their missing VAT rates and the Irish and Hungarian construction reverse charge.

Every new screen reads in all 42 languages. Importing the largest national cost bases now takes about a third of the memory it did. The full list is in the changelog.