Plumber flat rate 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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Plumber flat rate pricing for a one-truck or small-crew shop: the loaded hourly cost found once, the standard time set per task, the parts at markup, and one price per task shown to the customer with the better option beside it. The plumbing flat rate pricing software on this site does the arithmetic from your figures, free and without an account; RoughInDesk Pro keeps the book on the truck and turns the priced task into the invoice.
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The loaded cost for a one-truck shop
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. For a one-truck shop the unbillable hours are the ones spent driving, quoting and at the supply house, and they are a large share of the week, which is why the loaded rate surprises most owners.
The standard times from your own jobs
Set the time per task from your own last year of invoices, not from a book written for a different market. The time is the ordinary average; the book pays you for being efficient and shows you where you are not.
The customer sees one price and options
The repair, the better repair and the replacement, each a flat price. No hours discussed. The customer picks, the pick is the invoice, and Pro records the choice against the property.
Keeping it current when you are the office
The part costs change and the book has to follow, which is the chore a one-truck shop skips. Pro reads the part cost from the invoices and flags the book when it drifts. 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
- No RoughInDesk watermark
- 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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Plumber flat rate pricing: common questions
Is flat rate worth it for a one-truck plumber? Yes, because it is the one-truck shop that most often underprices by the truck and the unbillable hours. The book makes the loaded cost visible once.
Is the flat rate tool free? Yes. It builds the book from your loaded cost, times and parts with no account and no card. Pro keeps it on the truck.
What about jobs that are not in the book? Price them from the loaded rate and the estimated time, then add them to the book so the next one is a flat rate.
Will it do what you need for Plumber flat rate pricing?
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