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$$Cloud takeoff and estimating for commercial and residential trades
Best for: Contractors bidding plan-based work who need defensible quantities
Maintained flat-rate price book for the mechanical trades
Profit Rhino supplies a professionally maintained flat-rate price book of repair tasks with labour and material built in, delivered into your field software so a technician presents a consistent price instead of improvising. The maintenance is the product — someone else keeps thousands of task prices current as material costs move.
HVAC, plumbing, and electrical shops moving from time-and-materials to flat rate
You must still set your own labour rate and margin targets — a borrowed price book with your old hourly rate inside it produces borrowed losses.
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Integration lists change often and "integrates" can mean anything from a real two-way sync to a one-way push through Zapier. Ask the vendor which fields move, in which direction, and how often.
Run one real job through it end to end — not the demo data. Quote it, schedule it, do it, invoice it, take the payment. Then ask the only question that matters on day 400: did the people who have to use this every day find it faster than what they do now? Friction you notice in week one compounds forever, and tool-hopping costs more than any feature gap.
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