Guide 42

Calculators built for trades, not math homework

Twenty-seven trade calculators that work with no signal

The problem

A client asks for ten percent off a forty-five-hundred-dollar quote. It sounds like four hundred and fifty. It is a third of your profit.

What Zeus does

Twenty-seven calculators built for trades: pricing and profit, materials, HVAC, plumbing and roofing, all working offline. Type the numbers, see the tradeoff.

Do this

Start on Professional Calculators

  1. More

    Ten percent off, what do you charge?

    Look at Home

  2. Professional Calculators

    Twenty-seven calculators, offline

  3. Discount Impact

    Back to that client, then: Discount Impact

  4. Type intoPrice you normally quote

    Normal price: forty-five hundred

  5. Fill inMy margin · Margin on this job

    Your margin: thirty percent

  6. Type intoDiscount you are thinking of giving

    Discount: ten percent

You now have

The number before you commit. Nothing is added to a job.

On screen, not tapped: Profit you give away, Margin after the discount, Extra work you must sell to make the same profit

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