Price shoe repairs so the bench pays you. Free, no signup. All defaults are editable starting points.
Cobblers lose money on the per-pair price. A competitive repair price sounds fine until intake, free estimates that never book, and pairs never picked up are all priced at zero. Start with your bar (50), profit margin percent (15), minimum pair fee ($15), and daily take-home goal ($250). Pick a repair preset: Heel taps, Reheel, Half sole + heels, Full resole rubber, Full resole leather, or Sole protectors, each filling the price, bench minutes, and materials per pair. The leaks card prices intake and pickup minutes per pair, free estimates per day times minutes times the share that never book (spread across paid pairs), and the percent of pairs never picked up as lost materials. Results show bench labor, intake, estimate drain, materials, unclaimed-pair loss, true cost, the recommended price rounded up to $5 and never below your minimum pair fee, and profit per pair. Verdicts are PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE, BUT LEAKING, or LOSING MONEY. The gut check grades your instinct price; the day planner turns your goal into pairs with an over-10-hour flag. No signup; runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. Reheel defaults at a $50 bar with 15 percent margin: the estimate drain is 3 estimates times 8 minutes times the 60 percent that never book, divided by 20 paid pairs, or 0.72 minutes per pair. Committed minutes are 25 bench plus 8 intake plus 0.72 estimates, or 33.72, which is 0.56 hours at $50, or $28.10 of labor. Materials are $7 plus 5 percent unclaimed at $7, or $7.35. True cost is $35.45. Recommended price is max($15, ceil(35.45 times 1.15 divided by 5) times 5), which equals $45. The default $25 price pays (25 minus 7.35) divided by 0.56, or $31.41 per hour, against a $50 bar and below true cost, so the verdict is LOSING MONEY. Raising to $45 leaves $9.55 of profit per pair. The day planner turns the $250 goal into 27 pairs and 15.2 hours, firing the over-10-hour flag.
Why do free estimates get priced into the repair?
Estimates that never book are real bench time. The tool spreads only the unbooked share across paid pairs, so higher conversion lowers the drain and the quote gets easier to hit.
What is the unclaimed-pair loss?
Materials on shoes customers never pick up. At 5 percent, every 100 pairs quietly buries $35 in leather and soles. A deposit policy is a pricing tool, not just a policy.
Why does the tool round the price to $5?
Repair prices are quoted in whole fives. Rounding up keeps the margin honest without a calculator-feel price on the ticket.
What does CLOSE, BUT LEAKING mean?
Your price covers true cost but not the recommended margin. Intake minutes or the estimate drain are usually the leak.
Why does the planner flag over 10 hours?
Past 10 hours of bench plus counter time, the note says raise the price or cut the leaks before adding pairs.