Price office plant accounts so the dead-plant guarantee does not eat the fee. Free, no signup. All defaults are editable starting points.
Plant accounts die on one flat per-plant number. The rate sheet slides from 15 dollars to 4 dollars per plant while the free dead-plant guarantee, the drive between accounts, and the vehicle cost eat the fee. Start with your bar (45), profit margin percent (25), minimum account fee (150), and monthly take-home goal (3,000). Pick an account preset: Small office, Medium office, Lobby, or Corporate, each filling plant count, rate per plant, visits per month, minutes per plant, drive, miles, replacement counts and costs. The free-replacement guarantee toggle is the signature leak: dead plants times replacement cost rides in every month. Results show the monthly fee, service time, drive time, vehicle, replacements, consumables, true monthly cost, monthly profit, and the fee your bar and margin demand, plus your effective rate after leak costs. Verdicts are PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE, BUT LEAKING, WORKING TOO CHEAP, or LOSING MONEY. The gut check grades your instinct rate; the route planner turns your goal into accounts with an over-160-hour flag. No signup; runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. Small office defaults at a $45 bar with 25 percent margin: revenue is 8 plants at $15 equals $120. Service time is 8 plants times 8 minutes times 2 visits equals 128 minutes; drive is 40 minutes times 2 visits equals 80 minutes, for 208 minutes or 3.47 hours at $45, which is $156 of labor. Vehicle is 30 miles at $0.67 times 2 visits equals $40.20. Replacements are 0.5 plants at $25 equals $12.50; consumables are $10. True cost is $218.70, so the account loses $98.70 a month. The fee your bar and margin demand is ceil(218.70 times 1.25 divided by 25) times 25 equals $275, or $34.38 per plant. Effective rate is $16.53 per hour against a $45 bar, so the verdict is LOSING MONEY. A $12 per-plant instinct rate would pay $9.61 per hour, lose $122.70 a month, and leave $179 on the table.
Why is the free-replacement guarantee the signature leak?
Dead plants at your cost ride in every month. Above 25 percent of the bill, the tool says the guarantee, not the fee, is eating the margin.
What does the drive-beats-service note mean?
When drive minutes pass service minutes, the account is too far away for its plant count. Tighter route or a higher fee.
What does 15 percent plant death mean?
At that death rate the install is wrong, not the price. Fix the plants before the fee.
Why does the needed fee jump to $34.38 per plant?
The tool reverse-prices true cost times margin across the plant count. Small accounts need higher rates than the rate sheet slide suggests.
Why does the route planner flag over 160 hours?
That is a full-time route on small accounts. Past 160 hours the tool says get bigger accounts, not more stops.