Flat rate pricing electric contractor

[ExcelGlen]

Well we have waited for months on the big boy flat rate pricing guys to produces something to share with us electricial contractors. No one showed us a working model of anything designed solely electrician. I'm not dropping $3 grand on an unknow program. So we went web sufing and found a nice small Flat Rate price speadsheet. Check http://www.electrician-electricalcon...lflatrate.html and then click the link near the bottom of the page.

If your in the dark about flat rating electric prices it is a good starter program and at $200 it was worth money IMO. It covers many (a few hundred) basic residental service call items (Fixture ,devices, breaker, fan, service gear to name a few). Now, When people are price shopping for the lowest hourlys rates I just ask them the description of work and give a good up front price for that job right over the phone.

ElectricianPDQ.com electrical cost estimate page http://www.electricianpdq.com/electr...te-pricing.php is now showing some basic flat rate price or upfront price ideas. Please share your thought on the page.

Glen Copeland
Excel Electrical Services LLC
Reynoldsburg, Ohio
614 863-0588
www.ExcelElectricalServices.com

For those interested, I have just published the 2nd Edition of our Flat Rate Pricing System.

It's called Custom Estimation Systems for Electrical Contractors - 2nd Edition and you can find the details at:

http://www.electrician-electricalcon.../flatrate.html


The changes from the 1st edition are pretty substantial.

There is now a setup page that allows you to enter information once & then these values are entered automatically into the corresponding pages.

You can also raise or lower your prices across entire categories with a single input instead of doing this individually for each task.

There are more examples, and active (scroll-over) comments to assist the user in configuring it.

The layout is much improved for appearance, and there is also a Q & A section on the site (http://www.electrician-electricalcon...pricingQA.html, solely for Flat Rate purchasers.

The price has increased to $200, even though I was going to price it considerably higher based on the competition out there, but decided to keep with my original premise and make it an affordable alternative to those other high price systems. There's a $25 January rebate (http://www.electrician-electricalcon...formation.html) which would bring it down to $175.

Overall, if I may say so myself (and I am biased), it's one heck of a good deal, especially now that it's more user friendly.

As usual, I'm interested in feedback.

Thanks,

John

http://www.electrician-electricalcontractor.com/

[ElectricianPDQ]

We have reviewed the new Custom Estimation Systems for Electrical Contractors - 2nd edition Flat rate pricing system and it's well worth the cost. The page layout and printout options are greatly improved. You can adjust the pricing schelude to meet your local job market requirments. They offer a Q & A section http://www.electrician-electricalcon...pricingQA.html that can help explain that basics of their system.
This 2nd edition Flat Pricing System for electrical contractors is very affordable at $200.

Their basic upfront price include the service call, labor charges and basic material(s) roll into one average price. With a price book there isn't a reason to separate the labor and material charges for the customer. The BOOK QUOTES the total price without a separate breakdown of labor or material. Don't break down charges on your invoice ($100 service call and $150 for parts), the price book set the price! Think about eating out, the menu say the meal is $14.95 (not $5 for the meat, $2 for veggis, $2 for fries, $2 labor and $3.95 for overhead and profit).

Flat rate assembley pricing reduces mistakes in not listing all material, wrong labor amounts and math addition errors for the techs in the field. The electrician doing service work can save time and money, plus increase thier overall profit.

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[eesofnc]

Here is an inexpensive, excel based guide that can be used for either flat rate or T&M. You can hide the fields you don't want your employees or the customer to see if you wish and the best feature is the price. Only $19.95!
A great starter or do it yourself guide that can be customized and added to with ease.

http://www.electriciansmart.com/pricing-guide.htm