I think we should be looking at HVAC, electrical, plumbers who are all a decade ahead of us. Im in a best practices group and they are running trades much more profitable. Here is what I would like to see in Skimmer for pricing a job
Set a Job Install Pump. That is the job. In the job you set time. Two hours. In the system you set your $250/hr for labor. So it knows it needs to charge $500 for labor. Then when you select the job there is an add product feature and you select the product from your catalog. So say you select a pump and the cost is $1500. you set in the settings all products between $1000-2000 get a 75% margin on them. So if the pump is 1500, and then later when we have heritage linked if the price becomes 1600 you don’t need to do anything, it will stall take the margin you want on the pump and the labor. And maybe you add a second item which is a new electrical whip. Price is $20 and your margins on that may be 150% because you set your margins at 150 for anything between 20-50 etc (just examples, use what margins you want)
Then when it is presented to the client is pump installed with all parts and labor included for $3126.89 or whatever the number is based on your labor rate and your margins for products.
This ensures you hit your margins on each job, makes it so you don’t need to update things, if you update anything it will be just your labor rate or your margins you are adding. The number is presented to the client as one number and not broken down which is how I run my business (you may be different) but this makes things so much easier and guarantees margins.
And then it would be even more better if you could build three options for a good better and best, they click the one they want, sign your iPad for approval and you are on your way to install.
