Hello JT,
Unfortunately there is no way around. For this PSW would need feedback from PSM regarding the number of pages/layouts that are 'outputted' for each record. In order to determine this PSM needs to process the complete database and template before adding the job to the checkout. This could be a time consuming process for large database files and/or complex templates. We will add this to our feature request list (I was thinking of making this a pricing/ordering setting at template level so it could be enable/disbled per template).
Best,
Erik