Most service work is priced from a number somebody remembers.
A trip charge set years ago. A part marked up by whatever felt right. A labor estimate based on how long the job took the last time it went well. Every one of those is a guess, and a company can run a full year of guesses without noticing that a whole category of work loses money on every call.
The pricing calculator replaces the guessing. Parts come from your own price book at what you actually paid, with a retail figure derived from your own multipliers. Labor is costed at the rate payroll will genuinely pay for that job type — not a rounded-off average — and bills in half-hour increments. The service call fee covers the first hour, and the calculator knows the break-even point where a job stops paying for itself.
Visibility is split on purpose. The people who build quotes can add work items, pick parts and set the price. What a technician earns and what the job makes are gated to the owner. A quoter never needs to see a tech's pay rate to do their job, so they do not.
What it does, point by point
- Parts priced from your own price book, at what you actually paid
- Retail derived from your own multipliers — with an off switch when you want to set a price by hand
- Labor costed from the real payroll rate for that job type, billed in half hours
- Service call fee covers the first hour, and the break-even point is explicit
- Cost and margin visible to the owner only, never to the person building the quote
- Type-ahead part search straight from the price book
- Prices flow into the quote or invoice without being retyped