Profit Rhino

Maintained flat-rate price book for the mechanical trades

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Price band $ — under ~$100/mo
Rough cost Subscription commonly $100–$300/mo depending on technician count
Company size 2–100 technicians
Category Estimating

What Profit Rhino is

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.

Best for

HVAC, plumbing, and electrical shops moving from time-and-materials to flat rate

Watch out

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.

What it does well

  • Thousands of maintained flat-rate tasks
  • Good-better-best option presentation
  • Integrates into major field service platforms
  • Consistency across technicians

Integrates with

ServiceTitan · FieldEdge · Housecall Pro

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.

Before you commit

  • Decide whether you need speed (same-day quotes from the truck) or depth (line-item takeoff from plans). Tools that do both well are rare.
  • Make sure the sell price is driven by your overhead number, not a vendor default markup.
  • If it includes a cost database, ask how often it is updated and whether it covers your region.
  • Check that options and change orders survive a customer saying "what about the other finish?"
  • Confirm the quote pushes into your job management system rather than needing re-entry.

How to judge it in a trial

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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