Pet waste route pricing that covers every dog, yard, and mile. Free, no signup.
Flat per-yard quotes leak on the extras. Start with Your bar: your target hourly rate and a weekly take-home goal. In Visit type, pick a preset: Weekly 1 dog, Weekly 2 dogs, Biweekly 2 dogs, or One-time cleanup. Each fills the per-visit fee, the extra-dog fee, the dog count, and the yard minutes as editable starting points. Enter the first-visit deep-clean fee, and check the first-visit box only when it is the first visit: it adds 45 minutes and bills the fee. The leaks card takes round-trip drive minutes, round-trip miles, and vehicle cost per mile, plus a gut-quote field for what you would have charged. The breakdown shows service minutes versus drive minutes, vehicle cost, labor cost, and true cost per visit. The big number is the recommended per-visit price: 110 percent of true cost, rounded up, with a $10 floor. Verdicts are PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE BUT LEAKING, WORKING TOO CHEAP, or LOSING MONEY. Leak callouts flag drive time beating yard time, extra-dog fees under $3, long unpriced first cleanups, and biweekly accumulation. The route planner counts clients to your goal with an over-40-hour flag. Free, no signup, runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. A weekly 1-dog visit at a $40 bar: 15 yard minutes plus 20 drive minutes is 35 minutes, or 0.58 hours. Vehicle cost is 12 miles at $0.67, which is $8.04. Labor is $23.33, true cost per visit is $31.37, and the recommended price is $35. Effective rate is $46.22 per hour, above the $40 bar, so the verdict is PRICED RIGHT with $3.63 of profit per visit. A $15 gut quote pays $11.93 per hour, leaves $20 on the table, and sits below true cost. Against a $1,200 weekly goal the planner needs 331 clients at 193.1 total hours, which fires the over-40-hour flag: the price is right, the route is not dense enough.
Why does drive time matter more than yard time?
The defaults put 20 drive minutes against 15 yard minutes. When drive beats yard time, the verdict compares your effective rate to your bar and the recommended price goes up to cover the road.
What should the extra-dog fee be?
Each extra dog is real minutes. The tool flags anything under $3 per extra dog, because it is easy to quote $3 and absorb 5 more minutes every visit.
How do I price biweekly visits?
Biweekly accumulation is real: two weeks of waste takes longer than one. The tool warns when biweekly yards are budgeted under 25 minutes, and the preset defaults to 28.
Should I charge for the first cleanup?
Yes, or the overgrown first visit is a free deep clean. Check the first-visit box to add 45 minutes and bill the deep-clean fee automatically.
Why does the planner ask for so many clients?
Profit per visit is small by design, so volume carries the goal. If 331 clients looks absurd, tighten the route or raise the visit price, not both your standards.