Between 50-70% of skilled trades businesses underprice their jobs, leading to reduced profits and business growth challenges. Understanding all business costs beyond just materials is crucial for sustainable pricing. Our comprehensive dashboard helps you generate profitable estimates, manage workflow, and track business revenue with professional precision.
Build your foundation with customizable supplier lists and comprehensive material lists. Capture business overhead expenses from electricity to equipment replacement, with automated cost distribution across your annual job count for accurate per-job overhead allocation.
Stop guessing your labor costs. Our system calculates your optimal hourly rate based on your headcount, wage rates, and annual hours to ensure every job covers your true business costs.
Manage up to 100 jobs with visual status tracking and detailed cost breakdowns. Each job gets its own professional tab with automatic calculations for materials, labor, overhead, and profit margins.
Built-in job calendar automatically generates monthly schedules with due dates and customer information. Select any month and year for immediate printing and on-the-go planning.
Generate customer-facing documents that automatically populate from your job data. Headers switch from estimate to invoice based on job status, with simplified material lists for customer clarity.
Track revenue vs profit trends, labor costs by month, and material costs by month with customizable date ranges. Visual charts help identify seasonal patterns and growth opportunities.
See both break-even pricing (covers all costs) and recommended pricing (includes profit goals) for every job. Easily adjust profit margins to scale your business strategically.
Stop leaving money on the table with underpriced jobs. Our professional dashboard ensures you capture every business cost and price jobs for sustainable profitability. Say goodbye to guesswork and manual calculations while embracing the efficiency and capability that helps your skilled trades business grow with confidence.
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Accurate cost estimation is crucial for business profitability and competitiveness. When your bids are too high, you lose opportunities; when they're too low, you risk losing money on projects. The key to improving your estimates lies in systematically tracking actual costs against your estimates. Here's how to implement this vital practice in your business.
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