Home repair & handyman

Repair work is won or lost on the service call. Trip fees that ignore drive time, diagnostics given away free, and callbacks that never made it into the original quote turn busy weeks into thin paychecks. These tools price the call, the diagnosis, and the likely second trip before you roll the van, so a full schedule actually means full pay.

• Your trip fee should cover the drive both ways plus the first chunk of diagnosis. Free estimates are marketing, and they are not free to you.
• Price callbacks into the original job. A small reserve per job beats eating a return trip once a week.
• After-hours and emergency premiums are normal in every trade. If you are not charging one, you are subsidizing someone's midnight emergency.
• Track abandonment. Quotes you write for jobs that never happen are a real cost; a small booking or diagnostic fee filters them out.