Price sewing machine service so the bench hours pay. Free, no signup. All defaults are editable starting points.
Sewing machine repair techs lose money on the flat service fee. One number sounds fine until test-sewing, research on vintage machines, waived diagnostic fees, and warranty redos are all priced at zero. Start with your bar (75), profit margin percent (20), minimum bench fee ($99), and weekly take-home goal ($1,500). Pick a service preset: Mechanical COA, Computerized COA, Serger COA, or Repair diag, each filling the fee, bench minutes, test-sew minutes, diagnostic fee, and parts. The service card prices parts at your markup, a waived-diagnostic checkbox counting the fee as eaten, and the COA-turned-repair trap: a checkbox plus extra minutes for the clean-and-adjust turned into real repair. The leaks card prices vintage research and parts-hunt minutes, house-call drive plus miles, and warranty redos at a rate times minutes. Results show bench time, drive, waived diagnostic, parts at cost, true cost, and the recommended quote rounded up to $10 and never below your minimum bench fee, with your effective rate against your bar. Verdicts are PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE, BUT LEAKING, WORKING TOO CHEAP, or LOSING MONEY. The gut check grades your instinct quote; the week planner turns your goal into services with an over-50-hour flag. No signup; runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. Mechanical COA defaults at a $75 bar with 20 percent margin: own minutes are 60 bench plus 15 test-sew plus 5 percent warranty redos at 30 minutes, or 76.5 minutes, which is 1.27 hours at $75, or $95.63 of labor. No parts, no drive. True cost is $95.63. Recommended quote is max($99, ceil(95.63 times 1.20 divided by 10) times 10), which equals $120. The $99 quoted fee pays 99 divided by 1.27, or $77.65 per hour, against the $75 bar but below true cost plus margin, so the verdict is WORKING TOO CHEAP, with $21 left on the table. The week planner shows the fee must rise first: at $3.38 profit per service, the $1,500 goal needs 444.4 services and 566.7 bench hours, so the fix is the price, not the hours.
What is the COA-turned-repair trap?
The machine came in for a clean-oil-adjust and needs real repair. The checkbox adds extra minutes at your bar, so the quote covers the repair it actually is instead of the service it was booked as.
Why is waiving the diagnostic fee a leak?
The diagnostic work already happened. The waived checkbox adds the fee to true cost as eaten, so the quote shows what the waiver actually costs you.
What does the vintage toggle price?
Research and parts-hunt minutes on old or oddball machines, with a note that the hunt eats more hours than the bench. Price the search, not just the fix.
What does CLOSE, BUT LEAKING mean?
The quote beats true cost but pays below your bar. Waived diagnostics, research minutes, test-sew, drive, or redos are usually the leak.
Why does the planner flag over 50 hours?
Past 50 bench hours a week, the note says raise the fee, not the headcount.