How to Price a Product in the Mozaik Product Editor

To price a product in the Mozaik Product Editor, double-click the cabinet to open the editor, go to the Price tab, and enter your values: a flat price, a price per foot, a price per square foot, a price per pound (weight), a per-cabinet count, plus an optional up-charge percentage and any add-on options. Those numbers only flow into your job total when they're matched to the right items in a pricing template, so you set the values on the product and then read them back through a template on the Pricing tab.

This guide follows Mozaik's official walkthrough. Watch the original on Mozaik's channel:

The big picture: product values plus a pricing template

The Price tab is only half the system. You enter pricing values on each product, but you see those values turned into dollars through a pricing template. The product holds the numbers; the template decides which of those numbers (flat, per-foot, per-square-foot, weight, cabinet count) actually get counted. Get them out of sync and you'll either undercount or double-charge.

Where to set pricing: one product vs. the whole library

You can price products two ways:

• One at a time in the job — double-click a placed cabinet to open the Product Editor and edit its Price tab. Good for understanding the system or adjusting a single item.
• Across your whole library — go to Libraries > Products, bring in the library you want to price, select each product, enter its pricing and options, save, and move to the next. You can also price in bulk using the cabinet spreadsheet in your libraries, filling in the price, price-per-foot, and price-per-square-foot columns for every product at once.

Pricing in the library first is the cleaner approach: when you later pull those products into a job, they arrive already priced.

Step 1 — Build a pricing template to read your numbers

1. On the right, open Template Editor. Mozaik ships with many preloaded templates.
2. Click the three-bars menu next to the template-name drop-down to open the pricing templates editor.
3. Click the plus (+) to create a new template, name it, and close that dialog with the X.
4. Make sure your new template is selected in the upper-left.
5. On the left is the list of pricing items. Click the plus to expand it — there are many items, plus add-ons, subtotals, and totals at the bottom.
6. Drag the items you want into the template area (left-click, hold, drag, release). For example, the Cabinets item, then per-foot items (base / wall / tall by the foot) and per-square-foot items (base / wall / tall square foot). Dragging in blank rows just acts as visual separators.
7. Leave the values at zero for now, optionally check Show My Cost, then Save the template.

You'll use this template to watch how each Price-tab field behaves.

Step 2 — Set a flat product price

By default everything on the Price tab is zero, the weight is zero, and the Include in cab count, Include in linear calculations, and Include in square foot calculations boxes are unchecked.

Enter a flat amount in the Price field (for example, a round $100), click OK, then on the Pricing tab choose your template. The cabinet shows a quantity of 1 and your flat price. A flat price needs no checkboxes — it just applies once per cabinet.

Step 3 — Price by the linear foot

1. Set the flat Price to 0 and enter a per-foot amount instead (e.g., $100/ft). A 2-ft-wide cabinet at $100/ft should total $200.
2. Back on the Pricing tab, click Refresh — the line updates to the foot-based total.
3. To make the per-foot quantity rows in your template populate, double-click on the product and check Include in linear calculations.
4. Here's the catch: the per-foot quantity will show but may price at 0 until you double-click the amount field in the template for that foot item and give it a value. The template's per-foot amount is a static number you set in the Template Editor.

Important: don't run a flat product price and per-foot pricing at the same time, or you'll double-charge the customer. If you price by the foot, leave the flat price out (and vice versa).

Step 4 — Price by the square foot

Square footage is figured from the top view of the cabinet — depth × width. For example, a cabinet 12 in deep × 24 in wide = 2 sq ft. At $100/sq ft, that cabinet totals $200.

Two ways to charge for square footage:

• On the product: enter a per-square-foot price on the Price tab. At $100/sq ft, a 2-sq-ft cabinet totals $200.
• From the template: set the product's square-foot price to 0 but check Include in square foot calculations, then enter the per-square-foot rate in the template's amount field (double-click it). The square footage flows into the template and gets multiplied by that static rate.

As with the foot pricing, choose one path so you don't stack charges.

Step 5 — Price by cabinet count

To count by the cabinet, drag the Number Base, Number Wall, and Number Tall pricing items into your template. Then, on the product, check Include in cab count and enter the per-cabinet amount. The matching count row in the template then shows the cabinet quantity × your price (for example, one wall cabinet at $100 = $100). It behaves like the foot and square-foot pricing — the number has to be entered on the product itself.

Step 6 — Add an up-charge (markup percentage)

Enter a percentage in the up-charge field — e.g., a $100 cabinet with a 10% up-charge should price at $110. But if your template has Show My Cost checked, the up-charge won't appear: that setting tells the template to display cost only and ignore markups, up-charges, and add-on costs. Uncheck Show My Cost and reselect the template, and the $110 shows.

Step 7 — Price by weight

Enter a weight on the product (for example, 35 lb). Drag the Weight pricing item into your template and set a per-pound amount (double-click the amount field). The template then prices weight × rate. A $100/lb example would produce an obviously excessive $3,500 — a reminder to set a realistic per-pound rate, since weight pricing is rarely the right tool for a whole cabinet.

Step 8 — Add options (add-ons) to a product

Options must be added to the product in your library before it's placed in a job — they won't appear on a Price tab if added after placement.

1. Open the product from Libraries > Products and go to its Price tab.
2. At the bottom you'll see Add / Delete / Copy / Paste for options. Adding an option adds to the product's total price (and also affects per-foot, per-square-foot, etc., including the up-charge).
3. Click Add an option, name it, and set the amount and method — a flat dollar amount, a dollar per linear foot, a dollar per square foot, or a percentage of the total.
4. The Ask checkbox controls behavior on placement: checked = Mozaik asks whether to add the option when you place the product; unchecked = it's added automatically.
5. To add several of the same option (for example, 4 at $1 each), build one and Copy/Paste it the remaining times. A $100 product + 4 × $1 = $104.

When you place that product with Ask checked, Mozaik prompts you to keep or uncheck the options. On the Pricing tab, the chosen options roll into the product total; unchecking them on the placed product's Price tab removes them on refresh.

Quick rule of thumb

Pick one primary pricing method per product — flat, per-foot, per-square-foot, per-cabinet, or weight — and make sure the matching item exists (with a rate) in your template. Layer up-charges and options on top. To set up a whole catalog, do it in Libraries > Products or via the cabinet spreadsheet so products arrive in jobs already priced.

Get it done-for-you

You can set this up yourself using the steps above. If you'd rather skip the setup, PAC's Mozaik training and done-for-you services can help — phillanton.com.

Full disclosure: this guide is published by Phill Anton Consulting.

FAQ

Why does my per-foot or per-square-foot line show a quantity but $0?

The template's amount field is a separate static rate. Double-click the amount cell for that foot/square-foot/weight item in the Template Editor and enter your rate, then reselect or refresh the template.

Why isn't my up-charge percentage showing in the price?

Your template likely has Show My Cost checked, which displays cost only and ignores markups, up-charges, and add-on costs. Uncheck it and reselect the template.

How is square footage calculated for a cabinet?

From the cabinet's top view — depth multiplied by width. A 12 in × 24 in footprint is 2 sq ft.

Why don't my options appear on the Price tab?

Options have to be added to the product in your library (Libraries > Products) before the product is placed in the job. Options added after placement won't show.