What is the Best Flat Rate System
The three most critical things are that
- a flat rate system is easy
to use for the technician,
- can be customized so it can be used to conform to
how you want to run your contracting company and lastly
- the best purchase
value.
Lets look at being easy to use
first. Technician’s time is so valuable that you want them to be able to look
up a repair task in their price book and show it to the customer in less than
sixty seconds. Can you imagine the frustration of the technician having to look
through a 4” thick price book with 10 or 20,000 tasks to find one repair task?
If a technician takes 15 minutes to look up a task instead of 1 minute the
contractor loses 14 minutes in money on each repair! Most contractors only do
about 500 different repair tasks in the course of a year. The
price book
should have an index and labeled dividers so that a technician can find the
repair quickly. Having an organized price book that is easy for technicians to
use is also very important from the contractor’s point of view. Good
technicians are hard to find and retain. It is best to keep them happy.
The Second most critical thing to
consider when choosing which flat rate system is best is to make sure you can
customize it for your business. Some flat rate systems have very little
customizationfeatures available. A contractor
should not have to change the way they run their business to conform to how
their flat rate pricing software works.
The third critical thing is purchase
value. If you had to choose between three different flat rate pricingsystems what is
the value of each one? Which onewill
work best
for your business at the lowest cost? The most popular question this author
hears is how come Accu-Pricing™ is so much better than the competing pricing systems and why does it
cost so much less. The author has had the unique
opportunity to own many contracting companies in many cities across the USA over the
last thirty years. That has allowed him to better understand how to best design a
great flat rate pricing system. As for the low
cost of Accu-Pricing™; a decision was made to sell a lot of flat rate pricing systems at the lowest
price rather than just a few at a much higher price. The author makes the same amount
annual profit while helping as many contractors as possible improve their
business with Accu-Pricing™.
