Use the shopping list in the shop

The shopping list puts your tasks' materials on one page, laid out for a phone in a shop. It starts with what the tasks in progress need. It's on every plan.

Open the shopping list#

1. Open the project.
2. Open the Project options menu at the top of the project and select Shopping list.

You can also select Shopping list on any task's Materials tab.

Open it once while you have a signal, so it's saved on your phone before you go into a shop with poor reception.

Choose what you see#

• In progress or All tasks: In progress (where it starts each time) shows the materials of tasks that are in progress, and of subtasks whose parent task is. All tasks shows every task's materials. To put a task in progress, select Start on it (see Update progress and complete tasks). If nothing is in progress, the list says so: select Show all tasks.
• Show: Still to buy (where it starts each time), Bought or All.
• Group by: Supplier or Room. Items with no supplier are grouped under their task's room. Your choice is remembered on this device.

Tick items off#

Tick the large box beside an item when it's in your basket. If you only got some of it, select the button beside the item, enter the amount in Bought so far and select Save.

The foot of the page shows Still to buy, estimated for the items you're seeing, and what you've ticked on this visit.

Buy for other tasks at the same time#

When you're looking at In progress, an item that other tasks also need says how many more they need and which tasks, such as +6 sheets for Ceiling, Loft. It counts tasks that aren't done yet and aren't in progress. Buying it all at once is often cheaper.

Select Buy all, such as Buy all 10 sheets, to tick this item and the same item on those tasks. Each is marked bought on its own task, so you know where it's going to be used. It works offline on every plan, like any tick.

• The same item means the same name (capitals and spaces aside) and the same unit. The supplier doesn't matter. Items in different units, such as sheets and m², aren't added together.
• Buy all only ticks items on tasks you can update. If you only work on the tasks assigned to you, it ticks yours, and the note still counts what the other tasks need.

Add something you forgot#

1. Select Add to list.
2. Choose the Task it's for. The last task you used is chosen for you.
3. Enter the material, quantity, unit and supplier.
4. Select Add.

It goes on that task's Materials tab like anything else.

Without a signal#

Ticking items off works offline on every plan. The ticks are kept on your phone and sent when you're back online. Adding items, recording part of a quantity and logging a receipt offline need Premium or Professional. See Phone app.