A full route is not the same as a profitable one.
Gross margin compares the revenue recorded on a property with the crew time at loaded labor cost, the drive and shop time shared across the day’s visits, and each service’s materials. See it by property, crew, service and week, worst first. It is not your net profit.
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At a glance
- Inputs
- Recorded revenue, time, loaded labor, travel and materials
- Compared by
- Property, crew, service and week
- A decision
- Price, scope, crew or route, looked at on purpose
- Not this
- Net profit, a benchmark or automatic repricing
One of eleven solutions: Job costing and crew performance
What switching it on adds.
A package is priced by the solutions it names. Switch this one on and you get the list below. Leave it off and the rest of your package keeps working.
- Gross margin by property, crew, service and week, worst first
- Revenue against recorded time, loaded labor, travel and materials
- Revenue per person-hour for each crew
- Price changes backed by what the work cost, with missing records shown
Without it
Time is still recorded for payroll. Margins and crew performance are not shown.
Recorded, not guessed
Revenue, crew time, labor, travel and materials.
The report uses revenue recorded on the work, crew time at loaded wages and labor burden, drive and shop time shared across each day’s visits, and the materials cost on each service. Look at it by property, crew, service and week, with revenue per person-hour beside each.
Every number depends on what was recorded and on the labor settings you entered. A busy route with no time entries does not become a margin.
Worst first
Two properties. One left less after labor.
Two properties can take very different crew time. Comparing the recorded margin shows which one left less after labor and materials, and the next decision is a review of price, scope, crew or route.
Measuring a lawn from a satellite image does not, by itself, tell you the margin improved. The software shows the gap. It does not reprice an account from it.
2242 Shropshire Ave
57%
15 visits, $63 per person-hour, $469 of margin
2225 Shropshire Ave
−1%
4 visits, $27 per person-hour, −$2 of margin
Before you have records
The worksheet is for assumptions. The report is for what happened.
The crew-profit guide is a worksheet for numbers a visitor types. The job-cost report is the product view of recorded work. Illustrative numbers in either place are not your results.
What it does
- Compares revenue with recorded time, loaded labor, travel and materials
- Shows property, crew, service and week, worst first
- Shares drive and shop time across the day’s visits, and shows it as travel
- Shows the gap when records are incomplete
What stays with your team
- Net profit. Overhead you did not record stays outside it
- A benchmark. There is no published one
- Repricing. The software never changes a price for you
- Time nobody clocked. It shows as a gap, not a guess
Before you buy
What has to be agreed first
This page describes the capability. It does not put every module, unlimited texting, ad management or a custom software project into an unnamed price. Your package names what is included, what we set up with you, and which provider or usage charges sit outside it.
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Your package names
- What is included
- The modules and support your package lists
- What we set up with you
- Agreed with you before you buy
- What sits outside
- Provider and usage charges, such as payment processing, texting and email
Questions
Questions owners ask
Short answers to what owners ask before they send a request. Anything missing goes in your request, and we reply by email.
What has to be recorded before a margin exists?
Revenue on the job, crew time on the clock, the loaded wage or labor burden you configured, and a materials cost on each service. A visit nobody clocked shows as a gap, not a cost.
Is gross margin the same as profit?
No. Gross job margin is revenue minus those recorded costs. It is not net profit and it is not a full profit-and-loss statement. Overhead you did not record on the job is still outside it.
How does travel get in?
Paid drive and shop time on a crew member’s clock that day is shared across the visits they worked, in proportion to their time at each, at the same loaded rate. Time on a day with no visit to carry it is shown separately, outside the margin.
Where do materials come from?
Each service can carry a materials cost per visit, set in your services. A service without one is listed, so a missing figure is never counted as zero cost by mistake.
Can we compare crews?
Yes, from the time and cost recorded for each crew. The comparison is only as complete as those entries.
What if the records are incomplete?
The report shows the gap instead of filling it. Incomplete time or a missing material does not become a trustworthy margin, and the software will not reprice the account from it.
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