Overview
Most contractors price a job off what they charged last time. If you run more than one trade, you are doing that from memory in four different directions at once.
Fill in the calculator once with your real overhead, your vehicles, your wages and your billable hours. It works out what an hour on the job actually costs you. From that one number all 1,026 prices are built, across electrical, plumbing, HVAC and carpentry. Put your insurance up and every price in all four books moves.
Each trade still bills at its own premium over your break even, because that is how the market actually works. An electrician bills higher than a carpenter. Change one premium and only that trade moves.
Why one workbook instead of four
Four separate systems means filling in the same calculator four times and keeping four files in step. This is one file. One rate, four books, and a basement finish quoted off one page instead of three.
What's inside
One Excel workbook, fourteen tabs:
- Start Here, a menu that jumps you to any tab
- Job Entry, pick any service from any trade and the prices fill themselves in
- Presentation, the three-option proposal your customer reads and signs
- Job Log, one line per quote whatever trade it was
- Four Flat Rate Books, 309 electrical, 320 plumbing, 190 HVAC and 207 carpentry
- Four Cost Breakdowns, your hours, material and profit on every service
- Software Export, all 1,026 services ready for Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan and Jobber
- Calculator, your break-even rate and the premium each trade bills at
Also included
- Four Code Quick References. NEC, IPC, IMC and IRC. Sixteen tabs each, in Excel and PDF.
- Contractor Customer Manager. Thirteen tabs, a thousand customer rows, lead pipeline, quote tracker, review tracker and an Action Center for what is overdue.
- Job Profitability Tracker. Twelve tabs, a thousand job rows. Margin per job, per job type and per customer.
- Residential Load Calculation Workbook. Standard, optional, existing dwelling and multifamily, with the NEC tables.
- Seventeen Contractor Forms. Invoice, estimate, service agreement, change order, lien waiver and twelve more, in PDF and Excel, with the five legal ones in Word.
- The Contractor's Guide to Google Business Profile. Thirty-four pages on getting found in local search, sourced back to Google's own pages.
- Pocket Pricing Card. Material markup by trade and trip charge multipliers on one printable page.
Who it's for
General contractors, remodelers, handymen and anyone running more than one trade. If you quote electrical on Monday and a deck on Thursday, this is one file instead of four.
Who it isn't for
If you only run one trade, buy that trade's System and save two hundred dollars. This exists for the people crossing between them.
Why buy this one
- Four Systems bought separately is $796. This is $399.
- One rate drives everything. Fill in the calculator once, not four times.
- One purchase. No subscription, no login, no renewal, no per-seat licensing.
- Nothing between you and the formula. Every price shows its work.
- Direct support. Message through Etsy and the person who built it answers.