Independent standby-generator techs: price the annual maintenance plan so the drive, the parts, and the callbacks do not eat it. Free, no signup. All defaults are editable starting points, not market rates.
Parts per full-service visit: oil, oil filter, air filter, spark plugs. Inspection-only visits usually carry no parts.
Annual generator plans die when the drive, the battery, the monitoring subscription, and the storm calls stay invisible. Start with Your numbers: your target rate, margin percent, minimum plan price, and monthly take-home goal. In The unit, pick a preset: Air-cooled 10-24 kW, Liquid-cooled 25-48 kW, or Portable and RV. Each fills visits per year, on-site minutes, and parts per full-service visit, all editable. Set full-service visits per year, since inspection-only visits usually carry no parts. Set the battery replacement interval and battery cost so the tool spreads that cost across every year. In The leaks, set round-trip drive minutes and miles per visit, vehicle cost per mile, and the callback and no-start reserve as a percent of labor. Tick Wi-Fi monitoring to add its yearly subscription cost, and tick priority response to budget expected storm-call hours per unit. The breakdown shows on-site labor, drive labor, vehicle, parts, battery share, reserve, and true cost per unit per year. The big number is the recommended plan price, rounded to twenty-five dollars and never below your minimum. The gut check prices your current plan, and plan book math counts plans to your goal. Free, no signup, runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. The air-cooled defaults: $95 target rate, 20 percent margin, $250 minimum plan price, 2 visits a year at 60 on-site minutes, $65 of parts on 1 full-service visit, a $150 battery every 3 years, 40 round-trip drive minutes and 26 miles per visit at $0.67 per mile, and an 8 percent callback reserve. On-site labor is $190.00, drive labor is $126.67, the vehicle is $34.84, parts are $65.00, the battery share is $50.00, and the reserve is $25.33, giving a true cost of $491.84 per unit per year. The recommended plan price is $600, paying $127.45 per hour after parts, vehicle, and reserves, so the verdict is PRICED RIGHT. A $450 gut price pays $82.45 per hour, sits $41.84 below true cost, and leaves $150 per unit on the table. Tick Wi-Fi monitoring at $60 a year and the true cost climbs to $551.84 and the price to $675. The plan book math says 444 plans and 123.3 monthly field hours to a $4,000 monthly goal, at $108.16 profit per plan per year.
Why does the battery get its own line?
A $150 battery every 3 years is $50.00 a year per unit here. Spread it into every plan and the replacement year stops wiping out a month of margin.
Why is drive labor priced separately from the vehicle?
The drive costs twice: your minutes and the truck. Here 2 trips at 40 minutes is $126.67 of labor plus $34.84 of vehicle. The leak note fires when you drive longer than you wrench.
What does the callback reserve cover?
Eight percent of labor here is $25.33 per unit per year, so the occasional no-start call after a service visit is paid for by every plan instead of out of one bad week.
Should monitoring be inside the plan price?
Only if the subscription is inside the math. Ticking it here adds $60.00 a year to true cost and lifts the recommended price from $600 to $675.
Is this business or financial advice?
No. Planning-only arithmetic on your own numbers. Defaults are editable starting points, not market rates.