Price each repair so the bench actually pays. Free, no signup.
Presets are editable starting points, not market rates. The new-machine price is only used for the repair-vs-replace warning.
Flat repair quotes die when the dead diagnostics, the parts research, the house call, and the warranty redos stay invisible. Start with Your bar: your target hourly rate, margin percent, minimum bench fee, and weekly take-home goal. In The repair card, pick a preset: Tune-up, Pump job, Boiler job, or Super-auto. Each fills parts cost, markup, diagnosis, repair, and test minutes, plus the new-machine price, all editable. In The leaks card, set your diagnostic fee, toggle waived when declined with a decline rate to price the dead diagnosis minutes across paying repairs, add parts-research minutes, set the warranty redo rate, and toggle house calls with drive and miles. The breakdown shows bench labor, parts at cost, research, dead diagnostics, drive, redo reserve, true cost, and markup earned back. The big number is the recommended quote: true cost plus margin, rounded to ten dollars, never below your minimum. A repair-nears-replace warning fires at sixty percent of the new machine price. Verdicts are PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE BUT LEAKING, WORKING TOO CHEAP, or LOSING MONEY. Free, no signup, runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. A tune-up preset at the defaults: $75 bar, 20 percent margin, $100 minimum, $25 parts at 50 percent markup, 15 diagnosis, 45 repair, and 15 test minutes, $800 replacement price, $65 diagnostic fee kept on the quote, 10 parts-research minutes, 5 percent redo rate. Bench labor is $93.75, parts are $25.00, research is $12.50, and the redo reserve is $3.44, giving a true cost of $134.69 with $12.50 of parts markup earned back. The recommended quote is $170, earning $116.00 per hour against a $75 bar, so the verdict is PRICED RIGHT and the diagnostic fee is included in the quote. In the week planner, a $1,200 goal takes 34 repairs and 42.5 bench hours, which fires the over-40-hour flag.
Why price the declined diagnostics?
A $65 diagnostic fee waived on every declined repair is free bench time for zero revenue. The waived toggle with a decline rate spreads those dead minutes across the paying repairs so they are priced instead of given away.
What is the repair-nears-replace warning?
It fires at sixty percent of the new-machine price. Past that line customers bail on the repair, so the tool tells you before you quote a $500 repair on a $800 machine.
Why do house calls need their own toggle?
On-site repair adds drive labor and vehicle miles at your rates. Without the toggle, the bench-only math makes every house call look profitable while the windshield eats the margin.
How does parts markup factor in?
The markup earned back shows as its own line. Sub-25 percent markup gets a leak note because parts priced at cost turn inventory risk into free money for the customer.
Is this business or financial advice?
No. Planning-only arithmetic on your own numbers. Repair pricing decisions are up to you.