Quote the whole job.
Quote and invoice templates give your labor, materials, and terms a clear place. The markup sheet helps you account for more than the sticker price.
Built for independent trades
Know your rate.
Own your quote.
You know the work. Now price it like a business. Calculators, quote templates, and straight-talking scripts for welders, fabricators, and mobile mechanics.
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Your costs. Your pricing decisions.
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The pricing toolkit
Less guesswork.
More accounted for.
Drive time, wire, gas, overhead. The small things aren't small when you leave them out of every bid.
01 / Find your floor
A rate built on your costs.
Not someone else's gut.
Put your overhead and target pay into the shop-rate calculator. Build an hourly rate you can explain, then use it as the starting point for your next job.
The starting equation
Overhead + target pay
÷ billable hours = your rate
Free lite version in Google Sheets. Full calculators in Google Sheets and Excel.
Hold your price.
Copy-ready text scripts help you respond to ‘that's too expensive’ without immediately cutting your rate.
Take it on the road.
The Pro Bundle adds a mobile-trip fee calculator, deposit and contract templates, and cheat sheets for 25 common welds and repairs.
Choose your tools
Start free. Build from there.
Digital files, not another app to manage. Choose a one-time toolkit or keep your template library growing.
Free Calculator
$0free download
Lite shop-rate calculator in Google Sheets. Start with overhead and target pay.
Find the free calculatorTrueRate Kit
$47one-time
Full rate calculator, quote and invoice templates, materials markup sheet, and price-pushback scripts.
Explore the kitPro Bundle
$97one-time
Everything in the kit, plus 25 job-pricing cheat sheets, a trip-fee calculator, and deposit and contract templates.
Explore ProTrueRate Club
$19per month
One new template each month and a monthly recorded pricing breakdown.
Explore the clubBrowse the catalog for current availability and file details. Calculators use Google Sheets or Excel; templates use Canva or PDF.
Before your next bid
Do the math.
Then name your price.
Start with the free calculator. Find out what your hours need to earn before you give another one away.