# Price items

> Add the products and services you are quoting for: headings, descriptions, quantities, units, prices and tax, plus the options in each item's menu.

A price item is one line of what you are selling: a heading, an optional description, a quantity and a price.

## Add a price item

- Click **+ Price item** below the last item, or
- hover between two items and choose **+ Price item** to insert one there.

## The fields

- **Heading**: what the customer is buying. As you type, matching items from your library appear; pick one to fill in the whole item. See [Arrange items and reuse them from the library](https://quoterium.com/help/writing-quotes/arrange-and-reuse-items).
- **Description**: rich text with formatting, lists, tables, images and files; pictures and documents for an item go here, with **Insert image** and **Attach file** in the toolbar. See [Formatting, images and attachments](https://quoterium.com/help/writing-quotes/rich-text-images-and-attachments).
- **Qty** and **Unit**: for example 3 and "day". On the customer page the unit follows the quantity, as in "3 days".
- **Unit price**: in the quote's currency. You can type a sum such as *120*3+10*; it is worked out when you leave the field.
- **Tax**: the tax rate for this line, or **No tax**. See [Tax and how customers see prices](https://quoterium.com/help/writing-quotes/tax-and-price-display).
- **Total**: quantity × unit price, less any item discount. It is calculated for you.
- **Code**: appears when **Show item codes** is ticked on the Settings tab.

When the quote is in a currency other than your base currency, the base-currency price is shown under the unit price. Typing a new price in the quote currency updates the base price to match.

## The item menu

The **⋯** button beside each item opens its menu. Options that are switched on show a tick and appear as a short line under the numbers.

- **Optional item**, **Multiple choice** and **Editable quantity**: let the customer choose. See [Optional, multiple-choice and editable-quantity items](https://quoterium.com/help/writing-quotes/optional-and-multiple-choice-items).
- **% of items above**: see [Percentage-priced items](https://quoterium.com/help/writing-quotes/percentage-priced-items).
- **Subscription**: see [Subscriptions and recurring items](https://quoterium.com/help/writing-quotes/subscription-items).
- **Discount** and **Cost & markup**: see [Discounts, cost and margin](https://quoterium.com/help/writing-quotes/discounts-cost-and-margin).
- **Sales category**: a category for reporting and accounting, hidden from the customer. Only shown when your organisation has sales categories.
- **Save to library**, or for an item from the library, **Push changes to library** and **Unlink from library**. See [Arrange items and reuse them from the library](https://quoterium.com/help/writing-quotes/arrange-and-reuse-items).
- **Duplicate**, **Move up**, **Move down** and **Delete**.

## See also

- [Text items and subtotals](https://quoterium.com/help/writing-quotes/text-items-and-subtotals)
- [Library items](https://quoterium.com/help/library-and-templates/library-items)

Source: https://quoterium.com/help/writing-quotes/price-items