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# Configure resource rates
Configure your resource rates, which are automatically applied in daily reports
## Prerequisites
[Create an employee](https://civalgo.gitbook.io/civalgo-docs/~/revisions/XsOIuPpHyLxQT0TCYOQF/documentation/resources/create-an-employee)
[Create equipment](/documentation/resources/create-equipment.md)
[Create a material](https://civalgo.gitbook.io/civalgo-docs/~/revisions/25fy2PjUolAGlHPG3jlT/documentation/resources/create-a-material)
#### **Navigating to the feature**
* Click on “Resources” in the menu bar on the left side of the screen
* In the “Employees”, “Heavy Equipment”, or “Materials” tabs, click on the “Rate” subtab.
#### **Add rates to your resources**
**Employees**
* Click on “New Rate” at the top right of the page
* Select the organization, profession, and employee for whom you want to add a rate. You can add a rate to all employees in an organization, or to all trades or to a specific employee, or a combination of all three. See the table below to see the different combinations and the implications of these
* Click on “Create”
* Click on the “+” to the right of the line of the combinations you created
* Add the effective date for when you want the hourly rate to start applying
* Add another line to add another effective date to the same combination
#### **Equipments**
* Click on “Equipment” at the top of the page then go to the “Rate” sub-tab.
* Click on “+ New Rate” at the top right of the page
* Select the organization, the type of equipment, the equipment as well as the unit. You can add a rate to all equipment in an organization, or to all types of equipment or to specific equipment, or a combination of all three. See the table below to see the different combinations and the implications of these
* Click on “Create”
* Click on the “+” to the right of the line of the combinations you created
* Add the effective date for when you want the hourly rate to start applying
* Add regular hourly rate
* Add another line to add another effective date to the same combination
#### **Materials**
* Click on “Materials” at the top of the page then go to the “Rates” sub-tab.
* Click on “+ New Rate” at the top right of the page
* Select the organization or equipment for which you want to add a rate. You can add a rate to all materials in an organization or to specific hardware, or a combination of both. See the table below to see the different combinations and the implications of these
* Click on “Create”
* Click on the “+” to the right of the line of the combinations you created
* Add the effective date for when you want the unit rate to start applying
* Add unit rate
* Add another line to add another effective date to the same combination
#### **Project control**
You can also enter project-level rate presets. These presets will then take priority over the global presets. They work exactly the same way.
To visualize this feature, follow these steps:
1. From the list of projects, click on the name of the desired project
2. Click on the tab **“Rate”**.
You will then see three sub-tabs: **Employees, Equipment and Materials**. Their use is the same as the global rates (see documentation above).
#### **Importing a file**
To make it easier to add your rates in Civalgo, we also added the possibility of adding rates using an easy import!
To do this, all you need to do is:
* Click on the employee tab at the top of the page
* Click on the “Import” button at the top right of the page
* Click on “Download a document”
* Choose the document you want to download
* Click on “Open”
* Correct if there are error messages
* Click on “Import”
* Repeat with the equipment and materials tab
And that's it, that's it!
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