PR-07Pricing
Start from a list of common tasks for your trade, put in your own hours and parts, and every price is built the same way from your rate. Print a price list for customers and a sheet for your techs, or download a file for Jobber or Housecall Pro.
Example shop’s rate from the labor rate calculator. Use your own. Work out your rate.
Yours to set: there is no default, and we found no reliable source for a typical one.
For return trips under warranty. Default 0.
How each price is built
(hours × rate + parts × (1 + markup)) × (1 + callback) → rounded up
The same math as the flat-rate task price calculator. The rate already carries overhead, the truck and profit, so nothing else is added.
Starter names are common plumbing tasks, not standard times or market prices. Rename, reorder or delete them; a task with no hours stays out of the PDFs and files.
No prices yet
Your price list builds here as you put in hours: one line per task, grouped by category, as it prints.
Enter hours for at least one task to make the price list and files.
Printed at the top of both PDFs. Never ours.
Print or save as PDF
Opens your browser’s print dialog: choose “Save as PDF” to get a file.
Import into your software
One row per price, in the columns each company’s help article lists — what goes in each column.
Each option of each task is priced with the flat-rate method: your billable rate already carries wages, overhead, the truck and profit, so the price is labor at that rate plus parts with your markup, plus any callback allowance, rounded up. The starter lists are task names only — the site publishes no task times and no task prices.
40 task names across the three trades (14 plumbing, 13 HVAC, 13 electrical), grouped by category — a starting point to rename, delete or add to. They carry no hours, parts or prices: your own tickets are the only honest source for how long a task takes in your shop. Work out your hourly rate first with the labor rate calculator; its “Price your tasks” link brings the rate here.
One row per price: a task, or each of its options, named “Task — Option”. Read on each company’s help pages on October 28, 2026. Check a small file first, and keep the export your software gives you as a backup.
| File | Columns we write | What the help article says |
|---|---|---|
| Jobber | Name, Description, Unit Price, Taxable, Category, Active; optional Unit Cost (parts at cost; check the spelling against Jobber’s sample file) | Upload under Settings → Products & Services → Import Products & Services, keeping the headings of Jobber’s sample file. Prices without a $ sign; Taxable and Active are TRUE or FALSE; Category is “Service” or “Product” (case-sensitive). Up to 2.5 MB per file. Unit cost and the online-booking columns appear on some plans only. |
| Housecall Pro | Industry, Category, Name, Description, Price, Cost, Taxable, unit_of_measure | Upload under Settings → Price Book → Services → Upload file; the import wizard matches your columns to its fields and flags rows to fix. Industry, Category and Name are required, and the industry must match one of Housecall Pro’s; Price and Cost in the $0.00 format. We write Plumbing, HVAC or Electrical in Industry — if your Housecall Pro industry has a different name, change it before you upload — and parts at cost in Cost; your labor cost is not in it. |
Opened and checked October 28, 2026. The worked example is our own arithmetic.
1.08Guide
Build a flat-rate price book from your own numbers: task list, standard hours, billable rate, parts markup, callback allowance, price tiers and upkeep.
(1.5 × $112.68 + $85) × 1.02 = $259.10
1.01In-depth guide
How flat-rate and time-and-materials prices are built, one job priced both ways, where a flat price stops paying, and how to switch one task over.
(322 − 85) ÷ 112.68 = 2.1033 h
1.07Guide
A flat parts multiplier and a sliding markup scale compared: the margin each really leaves, the tier-boundary trap, and how sales tax changes the base.
$10.01 × 1.75 = $17.52