# Adding Design Fees

**URL:** <https://forum.houzz.com/t/adding-design-fees/1196>\
**Category:** Estimates & Proposals\
**Created:** [February 11, 2026, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.houzz.com/t/adding-design-fees/1196 "2026-02-11T19:43:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.houzz.com/t/adding-design-fees/1196/1 "2026-02-11T19:43:23Z")

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I have a question for procurement people/accounting:

We have many vendors that we have discounts with, and we discount retail pricing for our clients. We also do a 30% design fee on our proposals because we give the clients trade pricing. However, trade pricing is not the same as our cost. I am running into this issue because we have a 30% markup (design fee) but when I use the calculator tool it will automatically put something like a 55% markup if we are not passing along cost. In our software that we use currently, we are able to separate the vendor discount and the design fee, but I am not seeing a way to do this in houzz pro on proposals. Does anybody have a solution?