Price every fingerprinting appointment so it actually pays you.
DOJ and FBI fees pass through to the state. Customers think you keep them. Separate them here so you see what you really earn.
What would you have charged for this appointment (your fees only, not pass-throughs)?
Fingerprinting appointments die when one flat price covers everything. The customer sees a $169 total, but much of it passes through to the state, and the drive plus the free recapture for rejected prints is donated. Start with your bar (75) and a daily take-home goal. Pick an appointment preset: Mobile livescan, Office livescan, or FD-258 ink cards, each filling your rolling fee per person, people, appointment and admin minutes, DOJ and FBI pass-throughs, travel fee, drive time, and miles, all editable. The pass-through card keeps DOJ and FBI fees separate and labeled not yours, so the customer-sees-total line never fools you. The getting-there card takes your travel fee charged, drive minutes, miles at vehicle cost, and the FD-258 card cost. The leaks card prices the recapture rate with free recapture minutes, plus a toggle for extra free prints. Results show the rolling fee line, travel fee, drive cost, card cost, time on the appointment, the pass-throughs, the customer total, what you keep, and your true dollars per hour. Verdicts are PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE, BUT LEAKING, WORKING TOO CHEAP, or LOSING MONEY. The gut check grades your old price, and the day planner turns your goal into appointments.
Example only, not typical pricing. Mobile livescan with filled values: $45 rolling fee, 1 person, 12 appointment plus 15 admin minutes, DOJ $32 and FBI $17 pass-throughs, $75 travel fee, 40-minute drive, 25 miles at $0.67, $2.50 cards, 8 percent recapture at 50 free minutes, 1 extra free card, at a $75 bar with a $400 goal. Your revenue = 45 + 75 = $120. Drive cost = 25 x 0.67 = $16.75; cards = 2 x $2.50 = $5; total costs = $21.75. You keep $98.25. Committed time = 67 + 4 = 71 minutes = 1.18 hours. True rate = 98.25 / 1.18 = $83.03 per hour, which clears the $75 bar, so the verdict is PRICED RIGHT. The customer sees $169 total but $49 of it is not yours. A $100 old price would pay $66.13 per hour and leave $20 on the table. The day planner says 5 appointments and 5.9 hours to hit $400.
Why separate the pass-throughs?
DOJ and FBI fees belong to the state. Customers quote your total back at you, so the tool splits them out and shows what you keep versus what the customer sees.
How do free recaptures get priced?
Your recapture rate times your recapture minutes becomes expected free time added to every appointment. Rejected prints are real work, even when you cannot bill them.
What are the extra free cards?
When clients need more cards than paid for. The toggle adds your average free extra cards to card cost so the supplies never get donated.
What does CLOSE, BUT LEAKING mean here?
Your true rate clears 80 percent of your bar but not the bar itself. Travel, free cards, or recaptures are dragging it under; the sub line names the fix.
What does the day planner flag?
Appointments to hit your goal and the total committed time. Cross 10 hours and it says raise fees or add people per stop, not add more stops.