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1.36. What are the shop workload and margin sliders for?
What are the shop workload and margin sliders for?
Most of the time the shop workload slider will stay at 50% and be a constant throughout your estimating. Above 50% it will add to profit and below 50% it will subtract. Use this slider only if you are busy or hungry respectively. One use for this slider is if a customer needs a rush job and is willing to pay extra for it; you could put it up to 100% to add to the profit side of the equation and cover yourself for the extra workload that your shop will have because of the need for the quick turn-around and extra personnel hours.
The margin slider will also nearly always remain constant and at 100% where its effect on the estimate is null. Not to be confused with profit margin, the margin slider is only to be used when there is a difficult customer (i.e. a jerk or other type person who causes you unnessary stress. This could also be used for a customer who is difficult to collect from. When moving the slider down it looks like you are decreasing your profit, but are actually raising the price! :-)
The margin slider is AKA 'The Flake Factor' and 'The Deadbeat Factor'.
Got the Estimate package this afternoon, Loaded like a dream, Cannot believe the depth of the program. Have been trying to get the owners to buy it since shortly after my arrival at company primarily from info gathered in th 4Edgetalk forum. They will be kicking themselves for weeks to come. It quickly revealed some very serious errors in their "off the cuff" pricing practices. This system will be a very serious profit builder for Gemini Signs. Congrats on a very good program. -- 2 months later -- The program does eveything you say it does in your advertising/web site. I only wish I had something similar when I was in the Burglar/Fire Alarm business. Took me close to a year of prodding to get the owners to "get with the program." They are now in the progress of buying all the add ons with the exception of the silk screen add on. Again a big Thank You to you for the obvious time and effort put into it's developement. Maybe over the next year they will migrate from 20 years of working for good wages to a company with a heavey +income at spread around.
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