Suppliers, materials, and BuiltClip
Your price book is the backbone of every accurate quote. Here's how to add suppliers, organise materials, and use the BuiltClip browser extension to import products from any supplier website in one click.
- • You're signed in and can see the Suppliers page in the top nav
BuiltUp's price book is where every material you'll ever quote lives. A well-maintained price book makes AI scope generation faster, manual builds accurate, and your margins predictable. This guide walks through the Suppliers page, adding materials, and the BuiltClip extension that makes the whole thing worth using.
Open Suppliers and add a supplier
Click Suppliers in the top nav. This is the parent list — each supplier is a folder that holds materials. Click Add supplier and you'll be asked for:
- Name — "Travis Perkins", "Wickes", "Howdens", etc.
- Website — optional but helpful; BuiltClip uses this for logo lookups and price sync
- Default markup — percentage you add on top of materials from this supplier (most builders do 15-25% on trade suppliers)
- Auto-populate — on by default; pulls a starter catalogue of common items so you're not starting empty
Click Add and the supplier appears as a card on the Suppliers page, ready to hold materials.
Suppliers
5Install the BuiltClip browser extension
BuiltClip is a free browser extension (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari) that adds a small orange button to every supplier website. When you click it on a product page, it captures:
- Product name, SKU, and description
- Price (per unit, including VAT if the site shows it)
- Image (downloaded and saved with the material)
- Source URL so you can re-open the supplier page any time
Install it from the banner at the top of the Suppliers page, or from the Integrations tab in Settings. Takes 30 seconds.
Standard Plasterboard 12.5mm 2400×1200mm
Clip your first product
Open Travis Perkins, Wickes, Screwfix, or any other supplier website. Browse to a product you use regularly — say, 12.5mm plasterboard. Click the orange BuiltClip button in your browser toolbar (or the floating button on the page).
A popover appears showing the captured details. Pick which project or supplier to add it to, and click Clip. The material is now in your BuiltUp price book, with everything pre-filled.
Why this matters more than it sounds:
- You can build your entire price book by browsing for 20 minutes
- You never have to copy SKUs or prices into a spreadsheet
- The source URL stays attached, so when prices change you can re-check the supplier page in one click
- Materials you clip become available in the AI scope generator automatically
Organise materials inside a supplier
Click into any supplier on the Suppliers page and you'll see their full material list. Each material has:
- Name, SKU, unit
- Unit cost (what you pay)
- Unit price (what the client pays — cost × markup)
- Category (flooring, electrical, plumbing, etc.)
- Tier variants (Good / Better / Best versions for the tier switcher)
You can edit any of these in-line. Bulk actions include: delete, move to another supplier, recalculate pricing from a percentage change, and export to CSV.
Live pricing sync (Pro+)
On Pro and Ultimate plans, BuiltUp checks supplier prices every 72 hours for any material you've clipped with a source URL. If a price changes on a material that's part of an active quote, you'll get a notification with the margin impact — so you can update the quote before the client accepts it and locks you into an outdated cost.
This is the difference between a quote going out today and a quote that's still accurate next month. It's not free on lower tiers because the scraping is expensive — but on a Pro account with 30+ active quotes, it pays for the plan on its own the first time a supplier spikes their prices.
A maintained price book is the single biggest accuracy lever in BuiltUp. The AI gets better when it has more of your real materials to choose from, your quotes get faster because everything's already priced, and margins stop slipping when you change quotes at the last minute.
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