Flat rate plumbing pricing
- Flat rate price for this task
- $386.06
- Loaded labor cost per hour
- $44.88
- Overhead per billable hour
- $65.09
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Flat rate plumbing pricing gives the customer one price for the task before the work starts and gives the company a known margin on every job, provided the book is built on the loaded hourly cost rather than the wage and the standard times are the company's real averages. The plumbing flat rate pricing software on this site builds the book from your figures, free and without an account; RoughInDesk Pro keeps it current on every truck and turns the priced task into the invoice.
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Why the customer prefers it
The price is known before the work starts and does not change if the job runs long. The customer is buying an outcome, not hours, and the tech at the door is not negotiating time. The better repair and the replacement are shown beside the basic one as prices, and the customer chooses.
Why the company needs the loaded cost
The rate is the wage plus the taxes, the insurance, the truck, the tools, the phone and the office, divided by the billable hours rather than the paid hours; the flat rate tool on this site produces it from your figures. A book built on the wage looks profitable per job and is not, because every job is carrying the truck and the office that the wage does not.
The standard time and the efficient tech
The task's time is the company's ordinary average. The tech who does it faster earns the company more on the same price; the tech who is slow is visible in the job records rather than in the customer's bill. Pro shows the actual against the standard per task.
The book on the truck
Flat rate only works if every tech quotes from the same current book. Pro pushes it to every truck and records the version on each invoice; the free tool builds the book to start from. From the vendors' own pricing pages: Tradify lists Lite at $47, Pro at $51 and Plus at $61 per user per month; Jobber lists Core at $49 per month for one user with additional users at $29 each; Housecall Pro lists Basic at $59 per month billed annually or $79 monthly. RoughInDesk Pro is $47 per month for the whole crew.
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Keeping what you make
The answers are free forever. Pro turns them into your paperwork: your logo and license number on it, no watermark, every estimate and invoice saved against the customer and the job, and clean exports.
- Download as PDF
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- Save and reopen later
- Your logo and license on it
- Bulk export documents
- Appointment reminders emailed to your customers
- Connect your own Stripe account and get paid online
- Connect your QuickBooks Online or Xero
$47per month, whole crew
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Flat rate plumbing pricing: common questions
What if the job takes longer than the standard time? The price does not change; that is the point. If a task regularly runs over, the standard time is wrong and the book is corrected, not the customer's bill.
Is the flat rate tool free? Yes. It builds the book from your loaded cost, standard times and parts with no account and no card.
Should diagnostics be a flat rate too? Yes, as its own task: a diagnostic fee that is credited against the repair when the customer proceeds is the usual shape.
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