Pricing defaults
These values seed every new estimate this shop creates. Each
estimate snapshots them at create time, so changing them here only
affects future estimates — existing estimates keep the rates they
were written with.
Labor rates
What you charge per hour. The first row is your standard rate and is used whenever a labor line doesn't name another; techs pick any of the others per line on the RO.
Rate name
$ / hour
$
No extra rates — every labor line bills at the standard rate.
Fees, tax & supplies
Labor billing basis
Labor bills the hours you quoted. On any RO line
you can switch to the tech’s actual clocked time — billing
less than the quote takes effect straight away, and
billing more asks you to record who authorized it first.
This used to be a shop-wide default you could set to “actual
clocked time”. That made every labor line bill off the clock,
so any job that ran long charged the customer above their written
estimate without anyone having asked them — which most state repair
statutes prohibit. It is a per-job call now, and it lives on the
line where the call actually gets made.
Tire disposal fee
$
per tire
Per tire — the Fee line's quantity is the number of tires.
Parts / sales-tax rate
%
Applied to taxable parts / other lines. Tax-exempt customers are
never charged regardless of this rate.
Labor tax rate
%
Blank = same as parts. Enter 0 if your state doesn't tax labor.
Shop supplies
$
flat
+
% of labor
Flat fee and/or a percent of labor — they add together (e.g.
"$5 + 2%"). Covers rags, gloves, consumables. All 0 = disabled.
Supplies cap & EPA fee
cap$
· EPA$
Cap = max the supplies fee can reach (0 = no cap). EPA = flat
environmental / disposal fee added per RO (0 = none).
Parts markup
Default markup
%
Used for every part unless a tier below matches its cost. Pre-fills
the Markup field on a new parts line; per-line overrides on the RO
are always allowed.
Cost-based tiers
Optional — cheaper parts can carry a higher markup than expensive ones. A part's cost picks the first band it falls under; if no tiers are set, the default markup above applies to every part.
Cost up to
Markup
No tiers — every part uses the flat default markup above.
What a customer pays
Everything above, applied to one ordinary job. Updates as you type.
Mobile mileage billing
Only applies to mobile-mechanic shops. The per-mile rate that bills
on MILEAGE line items.
Mileage rate
$
/ mile
Default unit price for MILEAGE line items. Per-RO overrides
on the line are always allowed.
Included distance
mi (round-trip)
Distance you eat before mileage starts billing. When
adding a MILEAGE line, the qty starts at (round-trip −
this number), floored at 0.
Owner-only. Audit-logged. Changes apply to new estimates only — existing estimates keep the snapshot they were written with.