Dirt Face Warehouse

Overview

Dirt Face Warehouse lets you browse component collections maintained in the Dirt Face master catalog and copy them into My Components. Each collection is a grouped set of parts for a fence type and category (posts, fabric, gates, hardware, and similar roles).

The result is a populated catalog scaffold: part names, structure, and default fields come from Dirt Face. Costs and part numbers are placeholders until you replace them with your vendor data.

Where in the app: Sidebar → Fence → My Components → Catalog tools → Dirt Face Warehouse
Open: Dirt Face Warehouse

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When to use this tool

Use Dirt Face Warehouse when you want sample parts quickly and do not yet have vendor price sheets or a spreadsheet to import. It works well for exploring fence types, filling gaps in a new catalog, or importing standard collection bundles.

Skip it when you already have real vendor pricing and want parts organized your way from the start. See Related for other catalog tools.

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Step 1: Open Dirt Face Warehouse

1. Go to Fence → My Components. Open My Components
2. Click Catalog tools on the toolbar.
3. Choose Dirt Face Warehouse. Open Dirt Face Warehouse

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Step 2: Browse the master catalog

The warehouse is organized in three levels:

1. Expand a fence type to load its categories.
2. Expand a category to see available collections.
3. Click a collection name to preview the component list (name and system number) before you import.

Collections you have already imported are skipped automatically on future runs.

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Step 3: Select collections

1. Check the collections you want in My Components.
2. Use select-all shortcuts at the category level when you want every collection in that group.
3. Watch the header badges for how many collections and components you selected.

Tip: Import fence types you install today first. You can return to the warehouse later for additional types or categories.

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Step 4: Run the import

1. Click Import selected collections in the footer.
2. If prompted, choose your preferred vendors (or skip). Vendor preferences help assign your suppliers to imported catalog products when that data is available.
3. Wait for the progress screen to finish. Imported parts appear in My Components under the matching fence type and category.

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Step 5: Customize imported components

Imported components are a scaffold, not your live pricing. Update costs and part numbers before you send customer-facing quotes.

Recommended: customize on a fence quote

One of the fastest ways to adopt imported parts is to run a fence quote and edit components on the Materials step (proposal materials page). You see only the parts for that job, in the context of a real estimate.

1. Create or open a fence estimate that uses parts from your imported collections. Open Estimates
2. Walk through the quote steps until you reach Materials (proposal materials).
3. On the material list, update unit cost and part number for the components you need to change. Edited rows are marked so you can see what changed.
4. Click Save for Future in the footer.
5. Review the list of changes (cost, part number, and vendor when applicable). Confirm to save.

Confirmed changes are written to My Components in your catalog. Future quotes that use those parts pick up the updated costs and SKUs.

Tip: Run a draft quote for each fence type you plan to quote. Update the parts that job actually pulls, then save for future. You do not need to fix every imported part in My Components first.

Warning: Save for Future updates your catalog permanently. Continue saves changes for this quote only. Use Save for Future when the cost or part number should apply to later jobs.

Alternative: edit in My Components

You can also edit parts directly in the catalog:

Where in the app: Sidebar → Fence → My Components
Open: My Components

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Related

• My Components overview
• Smart Import Tool
• Import Fence Templates
• Build a fence template
• Catalog to first quote