Price snake removal so the venomous calls and crawlspace searches pay. Free, no signup. All defaults are editable starting points.
Fencing runs $7 to $9 per foot in most markets. It is the add-on that turns a one-snake day into a real payday.
The call ended at inspection, no capture. The time is still spent.
Snake removal operators lose money on the flat call quote. One price sounds fine until venomous risk time, the crawlspace or attic search, the relocation drive, extra snakes on site, and the emergency premium are all priced at zero. Start with your bar (75), margin percent (20), minimum call fee ($150), and daily goal ($600). Pick a preset: Non-venomous, Venomous, Hidden in attic, or Crawlspace search. Each fills capture, search, and inspection minutes, species, and relocation minutes. The species select prices venomous calls at 1.5 times capture time; extra snakes add minutes each. The leaks card prices under-house danger time, an emergency premium, relocation minutes, drive minutes, and miles. The fencing upsell card prices feet times your price with material and install cost, showing its real profit. An inspection-only toggle handles the calls that went nowhere. Results show your time, vehicle, true cost, the recommended quote (never below the minimum, rounded up to $25), and your effective rate against your bar. The tool grades the call PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE, BUT LEAKING, or WORKING TOO CHEAP, plus an inspection-only state. The gut check grades your instinct fee; the day planner turns the goal into calls. No signup; runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. The non-venomous preset at a $75 bar: capture is 20 minutes times 1.0 plus 15 search plus 15 inspection equals 50 on-site minutes; relocation adds 30 and drive 25, for 105 minutes or 1.75 hours. Your time at the bar is $131.25; vehicle is 30 miles at $0.67 equals $20.10. True cost is $151.35. Recommended quote is max($150, ceil(151.35 times 1.20 divided by 25) times 25) equals $200, for an effective (200 minus 20.10) divided by 1.75 equals $102.80 per hour against the $75 bar, so the verdict is PRICED RIGHT. A $125 gut fee pays (125 minus 20.10) divided by 1.75 equals $59.94 per hour, below the bar, so the verdict is WORKING TOO CHEAP with $75 left on the table. The day planner turns the $600 goal into 13 calls and 22.8 hours, which fires the over-10-hour flag.
Why does the species select multiply capture time?
Venomous calls take longer and carry more risk. The tool prices them at 1.5 times capture minutes so the dangerous calls pay for the danger.
What does the inspection-only toggle do?
It prices the call on the inspection fee collected instead of the recommended quote, for the trips where you searched and found nothing.
How does the fencing upsell work?
Linear feet times your price, minus material and install cost valued at your bar, shown as a separate profit line in the breakdown.
What does WORKING TOO CHEAP mean here?
Your effective rate fell below your bar. The gut check names the shortfall so you can see what the call should have quoted.
Why does the planner flag 10 hours?
Calls plus driving and crawling past 10 hours is a brutal day. The note calls out the reality of the goal at this quote.