Price pantry and kitchen organizing so the shopping hours pay too. Free, no signup. All defaults are editable starting points.
Pantry and kitchen organizers lose money on the flat project price. One makeover fee sounds fine until the free consult, the shopping hours, thin product markup, and the drive are priced at zero. Start with your bar (50), margin percent (20), minimum project fee ($250), and daily goal ($400). Pick a preset: Small pantry, Walk-in pantry, or Kitchen cabinets. Each fills consult minutes, install minutes, product cost to you, shopping minutes, drive minutes, and miles. The products card sets your markup and shopping minutes, with a return-trip checkbox. Results show your time with shopping included, drive time, vehicle, products at cost and billed, true cost, profit, and the recommended quote. The headline number is profit divided by committed hours, graded against your bar. Verdicts are PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE, BUT LEAKING, WORKING TOO CHEAP, or LOSING MONEY. Leak notes flag shopping, products, and the free consult. The gut check grades your instinct price; the day planner turns the goal into projects. No signup; runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. The Small pantry preset at a $50 bar: your time is 45 consult plus 240 install plus 150 shopping equals 435 minutes, or $362.50 of labor. Drive is 40 minutes at $50 equals $33.33; vehicle is 30 miles at $0.67 equals $20.10; products cost $180. True cost is $595.93. Recommended quote is max($250, ceil(595.93 times 1.20 divided by 25) times 25) equals $725. Profit is $129.07; the effective rate is 129.07 divided by 7.92 committed hours equals $16.30 per hour, far under the $50 bar, so the verdict is WORKING TOO CHEAP. The shopping leak fires: 150 shopping minutes are 34.5 percent of your time. A $500 gut quote pays negative $12.12 per hour, lands below true cost, and leaves $225 on the table.
Why does shopping get its own minutes?
Research, store trips, and returns are paid hours whether the client sees them or not. On the small preset they are a third of the project.
What markup should I put on products?
The default is a 15 percent editable starting point. The leak note fires when products pass 40 percent of the quote, which means thin markup is carrying the sale.
Why does the free consult show as a cost?
Unbilled measure visits still burn minutes and fuel. The note fires when the consult passes 15 percent of project hours.
What does the return-trip checkbox add?
60 minutes plus $15 of gas, so a bad order shows up in the quote instead of in your weekend.
What does CLOSE, BUT LEAKING mean here?
Your profit per committed hour lands between 75 percent and 100 percent of your bar. Shopping hours or products are usually the leak.