How we'd use this
An FF&E schedule earns its keep when it's organised by area rather than by category. Nobody installs “all the seating” — they install the dining room, then the bar, then the patio. So the builder groups by area first, subtotals each one, and shows you the split as a set of bars. That view is the point: it's where you notice that the lobby is taking 40% of a budget it was never meant to take, while there's still time to change the chair.
The fields are the ones a supplier needs in order to give you a real number. Quantity and dimensions, obviously. Finish or fabric, because a frame in walnut and the same frame in COM are two different quotes. Vendor, so you can tell what's already committed. And a product link, which is the fastest way to end the “which chair did you mean” conversation — the link comes through live in the Excel export and clickable in the PDF. The lead-time column is yours to fill in from your own vendors; we deliberately don't auto-fill it or rank your lines by it, because a lead time we invented would be worse than no lead time at all.
Costs are the honest weak point of any schedule built before quoting. Ours start blank on purpose, templates included. Put in your planning numbers, watch the bars, then send the schedule to us and we'll come back with pricing that includes freight — which is where furniture budgets usually break. If you want a ballpark before you spec a single line, what we supply lists every category with the spec ranges and price bands the quick-add panel pulls from.
One last thing worth saying plainly: this runs on your machine. The schedule autosaves into your own browser, the exports are generated locally, and we don't have a copy until you press get pricing and hand us one.