Price each job
Sound familiar?
“I price every job by gut feel and only find out I undercharged when it runs long.”
By Toby Egbuna
Co-founder, Chezie
What you'll need
- Your business profile. Don't have one? Start here →
- Your accounting tool (QuickBooks, Xero, etc.) or a recent profit and loss report
- How long a few recent jobs really took
- The job's details, photos or walkthrough notes
What you'll get
- Your pricing card: your true hourly cost, your own work rates, condition factors, travel and add-on charges
- A price for each job with a walk-away floor and what's driving the number
- A quote for the customer as a text and an email, ready for you to approve
- A monthly check of estimated vs actual hours that sharpens your pricing
How it works
Set it up once with your real costs and how fast you actually work, then run it for every job you quote. It breaks the job into tasks, estimates hours from your own rates, adjusts for conditions like overgrowth, pets or rough ground, charges for travel and haul-away, and prices to your target margin, splitting the first visit from the recurring price. Nothing goes to the customer until you approve it, and once a month it checks estimates against actual hours.
More skills to win the job
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