Form Up’s built-in cost-of-doing-business calculator turns your real overhead into one number you can price against. See your break-even rate, your true labor cost, and exactly what to charge to hit the profit margin you want — before you ever send the estimate.
Included with Form Up • No extra cost • Owner & admin access
Most contractors pick a number that “feels right” and hope it covers the truck payment. Know Your Numbers does the math so every bid carries its share of your overhead and your profit.
Insurance, trucks and vehicles, office, equipment, software, admin pay — enter every annual cost. Add custom line items for anything unique to your shop and edit them anytime.
Form Up divides your total overhead across your real billable hours, so you know the exact dollars every working hour has to earn just to keep the lights on.
See the hourly rate where you make zero profit — the floor you can never bid below. Charge under it and you’re paying customers to work for them.
Choose the margin you want to make. Form Up recalculates a recommended charge rate on the spot. Change the margin later and everything updates instantly.
Drop in the job’s hours, materials, and costs. Form Up prices it at your margin and shows the gross profit before you commit to a single number.
This is your financial engine, so it’s role-gated. Owners and admins see the numbers. Your crew never does.
Add every annual cost of doing business — insurance, vehicles, office, tools, software, admin pay — plus any custom line items. Set your billable hours.
Pick the profit margin you want to make. Form Up computes your overhead recovery, true labor cost, break-even rate, and recommended charge rate.
Use Price a Job mode or let overhead auto-apply to a project by working days. See estimated cost vs. gross profit before the estimate goes out.
Trucks, mixers, and insurance eat margin fast. Load your real overhead once and every driveway, patio, and foundation bid carries its fair share.
See more →Know your break-even before you commit to a fixed-price contract. Set your target margin and price multi-day jobs so overhead never gets buried.
See more →Seasonal crews and equipment make true labor cost tricky. Know Your Numbers spreads overhead across billable hours so quotes actually pay.
See more →Set the hourly rate that covers your trucks, licensing, and admin — then bid every service call at the margin you want, not the one you guessed.
See more →It takes your total annual overhead and your billable hours and computes your overhead recovery per billable hour, your true labor cost, your break-even rate, and a recommended charge rate at the profit margin you choose.
Yes. Beyond the built-in categories like insurance, vehicles, office, equipment, software, and admin pay, you can add custom expense line items for anything specific to your business and edit them anytime.
Change it whenever you want. The moment you adjust your target margin, your recommended charge rate and every downstream number recalculate.
Price a Job mode lets you enter that job’s hours, materials, and costs. Form Up prices the job at your margin and shows the gross profit. Overhead also auto-applies to a project based on how many working days it takes, so you see estimated cost vs. gross profit before you send the estimate.
Know Your Numbers is role-gated to owners and admins because it’s financial data. Your crew and other team members don’t have access to it.
No. It’s built into Form Up and included at no additional cost.
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